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

[Jane Sandberg]

Thanks for your help, everyone.  I threw a bug into launchpad [1] --
currently mainly consisting of Galen's research -- but please feel
free to build on that bug.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1688356

On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Bill Erickson <berickxx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>> 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
>> --
>> Galen Charlton
>> Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Open Library Initiative
>> phone:  1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>> email:  gmc at equinoxInitiative.org
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>>
>



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