Bug 12709 - Send a custom email to some or all patrons
Summary: Send a custom email to some or all patrons
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: Koha
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Patrons (show other bugs)
Version: Main
Hardware: All All
: P5 - low new feature (vote)
Assignee: Bugs List
QA Contact: Testopia
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Reported: 2014-08-04 10:22 UTC by Vitor Fernandes
Modified: 2023-08-10 16:17 UTC (History)
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Description Vitor Fernandes 2014-08-04 10:22:21 UTC
Add the possibility to send a custom email to some or all patrons.
Can be a new feature for patrons lists.
This will allow the librarians send emails to a patrons group, like christmas email, an email holidays bussiness hours, etc.
Comment 1 David Cook 2020-07-29 03:07:02 UTC
You might want to consider using this plugin https://github.com/bywatersolutions/koha-plugin-patron-emailer

I haven't reviewed it or used it in any way, so I'm not endorsing it, but it might be a solution.
Comment 2 Martin Renvoize 2021-02-09 15:43:55 UTC
Perhaps a 'bulk action' available after a report run if borrowernumber is available in the report output?
Comment 3 Martin Renvoize 2021-02-09 17:07:51 UTC
We should certainly bring that plugin into core in my opinion.
Comment 4 David Cook 2021-02-09 23:51:06 UTC
(In reply to Martin Renvoize from comment #3)
> We should certainly bring that plugin into core in my opinion.

I think core could certainly use an emailer option. It's a feature that I've had a number of people ask for over the years.
Comment 5 Ray Delahunty 2021-12-22 08:02:45 UTC
Isn't this a duplicate of Bug 16149 which added the ability to combine report results with a custom notice to generate emails? I've been testing out the new feature that came in 19.05 but as it doesn't support html in the message we probably wont be able to use it. (Enhancement request being worked on right now.)
Comment 6 Katrin Fischer 2022-10-05 15:55:23 UTC
(In reply to Ray Delahunty from comment #5)
> Isn't this a duplicate of Bug 16149 which added the ability to combine
> report results with a custom notice to generate emails? I've been testing
> out the new feature that came in 19.05 but as it doesn't support html in the
> message we probably wont be able to use it. (Enhancement request being
> worked on right now.)

Bug 16149 relies on a plugin, I think this would be good to have in 'core'.
Comment 7 Nick Clemens 2022-10-05 17:11:41 UTC
(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #6)
> (In reply to Ray Delahunty from comment #5)
> > Isn't this a duplicate of Bug 16149 which added the ability to combine
> > report results with a custom notice to generate emails? I've been testing
> > out the new feature that came in 19.05 but as it doesn't support html in the
> > message we probably wont be able to use it. (Enhancement request being
> > worked on right now.)
> 
> Bug 16149 relies on a plugin, I think this would be good to have in 'core'.

To clarify, 16149 is a command line script, there is also a plugin, but they are separate
Comment 8 Katrin Fischer 2022-10-24 22:04:04 UTC
Maybe we should rename this "Move patron-emailer functionality into core"?

Then one could manually send custom notices manually and next step could be to implement scheduling in the GUI maybe.