[Koha] An enhancement to messaging preferences?

[Robin Sheat]

Op maandag 18 april 2011 23:46:28 schreef Nicole Engard:
> You are right that the lists now look like the search results, but
> they do not have the RSS feed by default. There are however custom RSS
> feeds that you can create for any types of content

RSS feeds are great, but most people don't know about them or what they are.

A cron job that runs weekly, bi-weekly & monthly, looks up the people who have 
mentioned that they want to receive new items at that frequency of a set of 
types, takes the output similar to that made by the RSS generator, and fires 
it off to them would a) be worthwhile and b) a fun project to implement, I 
think.

You could also roll other things into it, e.g. news that's been published to 
the OPAC within the selected timespan, or have a special notice section for 
emails to make it really easy for libraries to set up newsletter-style things 
with news and new items, customised to what that user wants to see. 

Bonus points if there is also added the feature to do librarian reviews and 
have these included with the items if they're available (as STDC does here:
http://libraryplus.blogspot.com/ but actually attached to the record.)

Of course, now it's becoming less of a medium-sized project and more of a big 
one :)

As much as I wish everyone would just use RSS, I don't see it happening (hell, 
I have an RSS reader open pretty much all the time, and forget to check it 
more than once every week or two.) However, everyone (almost) understands 
email and knows how to work it.

-- 
Robin Sheat
Catalyst IT Ltd.
✆ +64 4 803 2204
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