Thanks Liz, I followed your guidance and it works. I also add my voice to yours in saying the the koha development team should consider enabling the librarian to be able to subscibe patrons from the staff cleint. In addition, I met another problem, I edited the routing list notice from Tools to include the volume number/issue number, but unfortunately the email alert received only includes the serial title without the Volume/Issue numbers. Is they any way around this problem? Thanks again Liz Anselm On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 10:47 PM, Liz Rea <liz@catalyst.net.nz> wrote:

Hi there,

I came across this just the other day. :)

The way it works is as follows:

First, configure your subscription to have an entry in the Patron Notification drop down (See screenshot 1 I have attached)

Then, log in as a user of the opac, search for that serial, then click "More details" at the bottom of the record. You should then see a link "Subscribe to email notification on new issues"

Staff can then see who has subscribed in the serials interface - by clicking on Subscribers next to Patron notification (see screenshots 2 and 3 I have attached).

This functionality of patrons receiving email when a serial is received is actually independent of the routing lists, and patrons cannot actually be added to the subscriptions by a librarian from the staff interface (a severe limitation of the feature, in my opinion).

Nicole - It would be cool if this were in the manual, I think this feature is currently undocumented.

I hope this helps,

Liz Rea

On 09/01/13 23:35, Anselm Olweny wrote:

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Dear Colleagues,

I am using koha version 3.08. I have correctly added a serial subscription and created a routing list. However, when I receive a new issue of the serial, an email alert is not sent to/received by the members I have added in the routing list for the serial. Could anyone kindly guide me on why this may be happening and what I need to do so that email alerts are sent to the members in the routing list.

Thanks

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