[Koha-devel] updates to patron messaging (bug 2176)

[Andrew Moore]

I have submitted essentially these same patches. I made a new syspref
"EnhancedMessagingPreferences" to turn them off. It defaults to off.
I'm hopeful that once this feature becomes a little more complete and
stable I can eliminate that.

Thanks,
-Andy

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:10 PM, Andrew Moore <andrew.moore at liblime.com> wrote:
> Hi Koha contributors -
>
> I've prepared a few patches to start reworking the patron messaging
> stuff that we have that's not quite working as we hoped in 3.0. The
> patches still have some parts that still need to be cleaned up or
> improved in them, and I don't expect them to be applied as is, but I
> want to get some feedback on the implementation.
>
> http://arwen.metavore.com/~acm/PatronMessaging/
>
> I added a tab to the opac and to the patron management part of the
> staff interface. These allow users to edit preferences about how to
> receive the different types of messages sent to patrons.
>
> There is a new cronjob advance_notices.pl that prepares messages to be
> sent to patrons to let them know of items that are soon due or have
> just become due. I expect to eventually mimic this implementation in
> the overdues scripts as I outlined previously.
> <http://doiop.com/PatronMessaging>
>
> There is also a new cronjob, process_message_queue.pl, that is
> designed to actually send out messages of all kinds through SMS,
> email, or RSS and can be extended. I hope to be able to use this for
> other messaging besides just these.
>
> In order to send SMS messages, there is a new C4::SMS module that
> makes use of the SMS::Send module on CPAN. I'm hopeful that this will
> help us consolidate all of the different ways to send SMS messages.
>
> I'm hoping to get this polished up a bunch next week so that it can be
> applied, but I wanted to send this out today to make sure that it's
> not a surprise when it comes. Please let me know what suggestions or
> questions you have.
>
> Thanks!
> -Andy
>
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