Summary: | Display library email on OPAC Libraries page | ||
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Product: | Koha | Reporter: | Aude Charillon <aude.charillon> |
Component: | OPAC | Assignee: | Owen Leonard <oleonard> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Testopia <testopia> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | P5 - low | CC: | kch-tr.lhl-consortium |
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
GIT URL: | Change sponsored?: | --- | |
Patch complexity: | --- | Documentation contact: | |
Documentation submission: | Text to go in the release notes: | ||
Version(s) released in: | Circulation function: |
Description
Aude Charillon
2024-05-15 12:40:53 UTC
The Email field in Administration > Libraries is used to send emails from Koha. Some libraries use specific configuration for this, which means their "real" email address is not the one found in the Email field. In this case, another field specifically for the email address to be displayed on the OPAC will perhaps be needed. We discussed that when the page was added but didn't come up with a great solution. Picking the right email would not be too hard as we could use the "outbound email" method we use to pick the right one when sending notices, but the other problem discussed was if the email should be made unreadable to bots in a way to prevent spamming. I know some websites are switching back to contact forms back here because of that. Maybe that could be another idea? (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #2) > We discussed that when the page was added but didn't come up with a great > solution. Picking the right email would not be too hard as we could use the > "outbound email" method we use to pick the right one when sending notices, > but the other problem discussed was if the email should be made unreadable > to bots in a way to prevent spamming. > > I know some websites are switching back to contact forms back here because > of that. Maybe that could be another idea? The display of email on the OPAC libraries page (opac-library.pl) is something that we'd definitely want to see. I'm not familiar with how contact forms work, but I'd just want to flag that for us most of our users use NHSmail, which has very tight restrictions on email spoofing as well as strict junk mail filtering, so we'd prefer something that allowed the user to either see the email address or, if hyperlinked, then which would launch and allow users to compile and send email via their email client, if that makes sense. |