[Koha] Making AUTO_RENEWALS a digest email. Funding issues.

[Raymund Delahunty]

University of the Arts London is also interested in having AUTO_RENEWALS made (optionally?) a digest notice, and we have contacted Bywater Solutions suggesting this development proposal be added to their Crowd Sourcing page in the hope the idea will attract additional funding contributors. If this problem were to be solved the only remaining problem preventing us from using auto-renewals (without our workaround) would be the "spamming" email problem described in 19014<https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=19014>. We will be testing the patches held in that bug report to see their effect in the coming days.

Ray Delahunty
University of the Arts London
r.delahunty at arts.ac.uk<mailto:r.delahunty at arts.ac.uk>


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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2019 20:01:12 +0000

From: "Johnson, Barbara" <Barbara.Johnson at bedfordtx.gov<mailto:Barbara.Johnson at bedfordtx.gov>>

To: "koha at lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>" <koha at lists.katipo.co.nz<mailto:koha at lists.katipo.co.nz>>

Subject: [Koha] Development idea - Create digest option for auto renewal notices



Hi everyone,





Bedford is considering a development that would create a digest option for auto renewal notices in order to send only one digest notice instead of a separate renewal notices for every single title.  ByWater provided a quote of $5,000.  The development would be based on bug #18532  (https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=18532) which would create auto renewal notices as a patron messaging preference that would include a digest option.  We'd love to hear from other libraries that could help fund this development, even if it is only a small amount.







Thanks,



Barbara



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Barbara Johnson

Library Technical Services Manager

Bedford Public Library

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