[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration

[Bill Ott]

On 04/17/2014 04:40 PM, Holly Brennan wrote:
>
> >>I think the only do's/don'ts came down to making sure that staff 
> asked patrons if they had already pre-registered.  Initially we ended 
> up with a fair number of users in the staging tables and the live user 
> tables, until it became something staff were more familiar with using.
>
> That’s a great point, Bill. We will have to remember to add that 
> question to the list in our brains.
>
> I’ve been looking at your pre-registration page. (I love the addition 
> of the PRE). I see that you added the ID fields. I might follow-up 
> with you later if I decide to add custom fields, too.
>


That particular addition required us to add the ident_value column into 
the staging.user_stage table, but staff like not having to re-key those 
values.


> Can you customize the message that appears after registration saying 
> “Registration successful! Please see library staff to complete your 
> registration.” ? I don’t like that it says success, since the patron 
> isn’t done yet. I want something that says “Almost done!”
>


That string is in the following template file: /templates/opac/register.tt2



> -Holly
>
> *From:*open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org 
> [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On Behalf 
> Of *Bill Ott
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:33 PM
> *To:* open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration
>
> Beyond a custom form gathering a few extra bits of information, today 
> we're using most of the stock self-reg code.
>
> We do run a query from cron to clean up leftover users after 30 days, 
> but that's about it.
>
> I think the only do's/don'ts came down to making sure that staff asked 
> patrons if they had already pre-registered. Initially we ended up with 
> a fair number of users in the staging tables and the live user tables, 
> until it became something staff were more familiar with using.
>
>
> On 04/17/2014 04:21 PM, Holly Brennan wrote:
>
>     Ahh, Bill. He gets to do all the full stuff! (I remember his
>     patron signature scrambler at Evergreen 2013!)
>
>     -Holly
>
>     *From:*open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org
>     <mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org>
>     [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] *On
>     Behalf Of *Ruth Frasur
>     *Sent:* Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:14 PM
>     *To:* Evergreen Discussion Group
>     *Subject:* Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] patron self-registration
>
>     Holly,
>
>     You might talk to Bill Ott about this.  GRPL did some pretty cool
>     stuff with patron self-registration.
>
>     On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Holly Brennan
>     <haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us <mailto:haderhold at ci.homer.ak.us>> wrote:
>
>     I’m getting ready to set this up for our library (single branch,
>     no consortium). We are running 2.5.2.
>
>     The instructions are pretty clear on where all the settings are
>     (thanks to the doc. author!)… I really just wanted to get feedback
>     from libraries who have implemented this, to see if there were
>     problems that occurred during set up or after going live. Dos and
>     Don’ts, lessons learned, how long you keep pending registrations, etc.
>
>     It’s a procedure that appears straight-forward, which makes me
>     suspicious! Thanks in advance for your comments!
>
>     -Holly
>
>     Holly Brennan
>
>     Library Technology Specialist
>
>     Homer Public Library
>
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>
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>
>
>
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