RE: My Millennium Preferred Searches Email

["Mark Stoffan" <mstoffan at wncln dot lib dot unca dot edu>]

Hi Eeva,

We only activated this feature last week. So far only a few people
(staff) are using it. I had the help desk turn on email notification and
it worked as described. 

The following is mostly taken from the manual:

You need to have EMAILOP configured in wwwoptions. See Page # 102173 in
the manual. You also need to include the PREF_SEARCHES wwwoption and add
the "emailopt" "|y" for the system to offer patrons the "Mark for Email"
box. See Page # 102171. 

In the Alert Options, the login specified in the #FROM field has to have
email enabled (MAIL set to Y in the Login Manager).

The "comment" symbols in the file are actually part of the fields
according to the manual. They need to be included. It's too bad III
didn't use a different symbol than a universally-recognized comment
indicator.

Here's our alert options file. It needs tweaking of the CATDATE but it's
what we currently use:

#SUBJECT=Library notification of new arrival
#FROM=exporter
#CATDATE=2-9
#EMAILHEAD=The following new titles matching your preferred searches are
now available.
#EMAILBODY=
%a
%T

Let me know if you would like more detail. Good luck!

Thanks,
Mark

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Mark A. Stoffan
Network Librarian, Western North Carolina Library Network
1 University Heights, CPO 1500
Asheville, NC  28804                        (828) 232-5095 (office)
mstoffan at wncln dot lib dot unca dot edu        (828) 231-6285 (cell)
wncln.lib.unca.edu                            (828) 232-5137 (fax)
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eeva Stierwalt [mailto:eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca] 
Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 10:24 AM
To: innopac at innopacusers dot org
Subject: My Millennium Preferred Searches Email

Good morning!  HELP!  We've had problems for "months" or more now
getting the Preferred Searches email/notification to work!  I've played
around with Millennium Alert Options and consulted with III re: setting
up the "From" field (we've got it in there as 'exporter').  We're
"stumped"!  Do any of you have any suggestions as to how to set this
up???  I noticed before that the lines in the options file are commented
out (preceded with "#").  I thought that maybe this is what caused the
problem, but when I took this out, it still didn't work...  I was
wondering if anyone out there who does have this working would be
willing to email me (off list) a copy of your email alert options file
so that I can compare it with ours.  Thanks so much!  Any advice you can
offer is MOST WELCOME!  Kind regards, Eeva

Eeva Stierwalt
Information Systems Specialist
Automated Collection Management
London Public Library
251 Dundas St.
London, ON  Canada  N6A 6H9
t 519.661.5100 ex 5156
f 519.663.9013
e eeva dot stierwalt at lpl dot london dot on dot ca


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