Bug 9181

Summary: Add patron messaging preferences to batch patron modification tool
Product: Koha Reporter: Cab Vinton <bibliwho>
Component: ToolsAssignee: Galen Charlton <gmcharlt>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P5 - low CC: andrew, benjamin.r.philbrook, fabreupeixoto, george, kkrueger, mahsandu, marjorie.barry-vila, rcoert, sally.healey, severine.queune, verolencinas, veron
Version: Main   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=16681
GIT URL: Change sponsored?: Seeking developer
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Description Cab Vinton 2012-11-30 15:29:09 UTC
We're planning to send out a survey to identify their preferences with respect to Advance Notice about item due dates.

With several hundred potential patrons to update, it would be extremely helpful to be able to update their preferences as part of a batch process.

And why not add OPAC notes as well?

Cheers,

Cab Vinton
Comment 1 Francisco Peixoto 2016-03-21 04:00:52 UTC
Hello Everyone!

This feature will be quite useful for us also. Is there any development on this?

Thank you very much

Kind regards
Comment 2 Katrin Fischer 2016-03-21 06:20:36 UTC
Hi Francisco, to my knowledge there is no development on this yet. The "Change sponsored?" is empty and the Assignee here is the 'default' - so in this case not indicating someone actively working on it.
Comment 3 Marjorie Barry-Vila 2019-02-15 16:41:51 UTC
+1
Comment 4 Andrew Fuerste-Henry 2020-08-17 13:54:54 UTC
+1 - this would be super-useful!
Comment 5 Katrin Fischer 2022-03-06 14:00:53 UTC
*** Bug 30219 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 Rebecca Coert 2023-02-24 20:17:44 UTC
This would be very helpful.  

Use case - an entire category of patrons is being moved to "Books By Mail" service, which receive no notifications. However, their current patron category receives ALL the notices.  The options to adjust the Notifications are either for staff to do it (very time consuming) or a request for the Data Team to correct it (if supported by a vendor).  It would save time for everyone if the sysadmins could just update it in Batch.
Comment 7 Kristi 2024-04-04 19:46:12 UTC
This would be really nice.
Comment 8 Benjamin R. Philbrook 2025-05-06 16:05:49 UTC
This option would have been really useful when we updated the messaging preferences of a couple of our patron groups, since it did not go back to update existing patrons with the new preferences.
Comment 9 Katrin Fischer 2025-05-06 16:11:18 UTC
(In reply to Benjamin R. Philbrook from comment #8)
> This option would have been really useful when we updated the messaging
> preferences of a couple of our patron groups, since it did not go back to
> update existing patrons with the new preferences.

I agree it would be really helpful, but if you want to change settings for a whole patron category or reset to default, there is a command-line script to do that.