Book checkout notifications?

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    (@extant)


    7 years, 10 months ago

    Okay, I have 2 questions:

    1) Is there any way to be notified (preferably by email) when a user places a hold request for a book? Right now it seems that the only way to know about any hold requests is to login to the librarian dashboard and click on the section with the book holds.

    2) In terms of registration, it seems that I have to be a librarian or admin and make the account first (i.e. the patron), then the user has to come to my site, register, activate their account, login to the dashboard, then link their account to a patron id that I created earlier. Is there any way I can make this into one seamless process? Would it be possible for the user to just register for my site, fill in all the necessary patron info, and be automatically added to the system?

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  • Plugin Author Robert Heller

    (@robertpheller)

    At present the answer to both of your questions is no.

    The plugin was originally designed for use by a small town library where most of the activity would be in person at the library, so the need for hold notifications by E-Mail and remote registration were not really useful. *Most* patrons might not ever use the web interface at all.

    Both options could be added easily enough, but I don’t have any plans of adding such features. The code is open source, so you are free to add these features (or to hire a programmer to add them).

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