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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 > _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha.org/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel
