[Koha-devel] Status values in message_queue table

[Graham, Stephen]

Hi All - doing:

select status from message_queue group by status

gives me 3 values:

sent
pending
failed

Are these 3 values the only value "allowed" in this field? Or, putting it another way, if messages are added to the table with a different status value would it cause problems in Koha?

The reason I'm asking is: as soon a book with a reservation is returned on our selfcheck machines an email is added to the message_queue table with the status of pending.  A lot can happen to this book before it actually gets on the reserve shelf, and may never actually get to the reserve shelf.  If the book does go missing, gets hidden etc, the user with the reservation still gets an email telling them that the book is ready to collect (when it's not). To avoid this we are wondering if could stop this email from being sent (we only send out email notices once a day). We could delete the email from the message_queue table - I don't really like deleting stuff - or we could change the status. I guess I could change to "failed", but "cancelled"  sounds better.  I thinking of writing a bit of code to allow library staff to do this easily from the staff client - could I change the status to "cancelled" or is it better to stay with one of the original three?

Cheers, Stephen

Stephen Graham
Library Technology Consultant
Academic Resources
Library and Computing Services
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield  AL10 9AB
UK
Tel. 01707 286111 Ext: 77751
Email s.graham4 at herts.ac.uk

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