[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 3.3 and copy/item alerts - mixed client use

[Driscoll, Martha]

Hi Josh,
When we upgraded to 3.1 we were not ready to implement the web client.  We
commented out the part of the 3.0.6-3.1.0 upgrade script that clears the
legacy copy alerts so XUL still had access to the copy alerts.  We did
training on the web client on 3.1 but nobody did production cataloging.

When we upgraded to 3.2 six months later we went exclusively to the web
client.  We deleted the new copy alerts (which were created during the 3.1
upgrade) and then re-ran the part of the script from 3.0.6-3.1.0 that
converts the legacy copy alerts in asset.copy to asset.copy_alert and
deletes the old alerts.

You could probably do something similar on a library-by-library basis, but
I don't think you can have circulation staff and tech services staff on two
different clients in the same library.  Our 26 libraries came up on the web
client all at once after a few months of training and access to the web
client.  It went smoothly and our support staff were not overwhelmed with
calls.

Martha Driscoll, Systems Manager
North of Boston Library Exchange
www.noblenet.org




On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 11:58 AM Josh Stompro <stomproj at gsuite.larl.org>
wrote:

> Hello, we are upgrading to 3.3 from an older version.  And were planning
> on a phased change over to using the web client after the upgrade.
>
> I just noticed that the xul client cannot use the new item alerts, and all
> existing item alerts are migrated from asset.copy to the new
> asset.copy_alert during the database upgrade.
>
> So I'm wondering what others have done to re-add all the alerts back to
> the asset.copy alerts field so xul client users can still be alerted, and
> how you have dealt with synchronizing the alerts between the two locations
> during your transition period.
>
> Thanks
> Josh
>
> --
> Josh Stompro - IT Director
> Lake Agassiz Regional Library
> Desk: 218-233-3757 Ext 139
> Cell: 218-790-2110
>
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