Hello Is there an option to create an email alert for Koha catalog search results? Thank you Kazım ŞENTÜRK Kütüphane Müdür V. Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanlığı Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Merkez Kütüphanesi Görükle Yerleşkesi Nilüfer / Bursa
Hi. As far as I can know, there is not an easy out-of-the-box feature in the OPAC for patrons to: 1. Create a search 2. Register/subscribe to an alert for that search 3. Receive an email when new/changed items are added Hopefully, that is what you are asking about! The Koha OPAC has RSS feeds (see the icon after the search results title - "Your search returned XX results."). So patrons could use a feed reader and subscribe to the RSS feeds. There may also be services available that let patrons receive RSS feed changes as an email - I haven't looked.... In addition, if you are using a discovery layer (such as Aspen, Vufind, Bokeh), then they may have this feature. There are probably other solutions out there... hopefully someone else more knowledgeable may be able to comment. David Nind New Zealand On Sat, 28 Oct 2023 at 01:44, Kazım ŞENTÜRK <ksenturk@uludag.edu.tr> wrote:
Hello
Is there an option to create an email alert for Koha catalog search results?
Thank you
Kazım ŞENTÜRK Kütüphane Müdür V.
Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Kütüphane ve Dokümantasyon Daire Başkanlığı Prof. Dr. Fuat Sezgin Merkez Kütüphanesi Görükle Yerleşkesi Nilüfer / Bursa
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Hi!
The Koha OPAC has RSS feeds (see the icon after the search results title - "Your search returned XX results."). So patrons could use a feed reader and subscribe to the RSS feeds. There may also be services available that let patrons receive RSS feed changes as an email - I haven't looked....
Actually, quite a few mail readers can consume RSS feeds and display them "as if" they were emails. (Webmailers, Thunderbird etc.) Sometimes it is hidden a bit. E.g. in Zimbra (webmail) I have to `Create New Folder` and from there I am able to check `Subscribe RSS/Atom Feed` and past the URL as the folder source. Maybe this could help the patron(s) in question to get the desired result. -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron DESY Library and Documentation Building 01d Room OG1.444 Notkestr. 85 22607 Hamburg phone: +49-40-8998-1758 e-mail: alexander.wagner@desy.de
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