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

[Bill Erickson]

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 11:57 AM, Diane Disbro <ddisbro at scenicregional.org>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
Hi Diane,

I believe the setting in question relates to holds that were never
captured.  There is an email notification in EG called "Hold Expires from
Shelf Soon" that alerts patrons when their captured holds have been sitting
on the shelf too long.

-b




> Thank you.
>
> Diane Disbro
> Circulation Coordinator/Branch Manager
> Union Branch
> Scenic Regional Library
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> Union, MO     63084
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>
>
> -----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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