[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What does the "Holds Expire Alert Interval" library setting do?

[Diane Disbro]

Good morning -

This is interesting. Patrons at my branch usually pick up holds before they expire but I know that isn't true everywhere. An email or text reminder would be helpful.

Thank you.

Diane Disbro
Circulation Coordinator/Branch Manager
Union Branch
Scenic Regional Library
308 Hawthorne Drive
Union, MO     63084
636-583-3224
ddisbro at scenicregional.org
www.scenicregional.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2017 9:47 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] What does the "Holds Expire Alert Interval" library setting do?

Hi,

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Morgan, Michele <mmorgan at noblenet.org> wrote:
> But I can't see that the circ.hold_expire_alert_interval ou setting is 
> actually used anywhere. Maybe someone with better eyes than mine can 
> shed some light?

I did some digging, and that setting is indeed not currently used.
However, it was used back in the JSPac days, where it specified at what point in time to apply a CSS style to the My Account holds list to highlight hold requests that are about to expire. It wasn't carried over into TPAC.

I'll leave it to others to file a bug in LP to either remove the setting or to reimplement it in TPAC.

As a side note, I tracked this down by using the following Git command to identify commits that included the setting's code:

  git log -S "circ.hold_expire_alert_interval" --source

Regards,

Galen
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