Change alert text

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To change the text of an alert:

From the Module Menu select Maintenance, Circulation and then Alerts.
Select the alert you want from the list.
Set the text you want.
- Alert text for OPAC users. If you leave this null then the Alert text for staff will be used for OPAC users too.
- Alert text for self service terminals. If you leave this null then the Alert text for OPAC will be used and if this null then the Alert text for staff will be used.
- Alert text for staff.
Press Tab or click anywhere on the screen to enable the Save options.
Click Save or Save & Close.

There are four alerts where you might typically specify the Alert text for self service terminals. This is because the Alert text for staff includes a borrower’s name and we don’t want this to appear at self service terminals. The four alerts are BRWNOPIN, ONLOTHER, RSVISSA and RSVISSQ.

More about alert text

The ID of the alert is shown after the text for staff. In the example below you can see that the ID of this alert is AGELIMIT.

Age limit (18) exceeded, moved to Adult category [AGELIMIT]

You’ll see that some alerts have variables. Our AGELIMIT alert is a good example of this. The text for this alert is:

Age limit (%s) exceeded, moved to %s category

where %s shows the variables. The first variable is the age limit for the current borrower category, and the second variable is the new borrower category.

Some of the alerts include a brief description of the variable in their Description (to help you determine what the variable is). Let’s take a look at the alert ITMSTATUSNOISSUE. The description for this issue is:

Item’s status prevents it from being issued (status and note,date set)

The text in parentheses is the description of the variables. In this example there are two: the first is for the status and note, and the second is for the date when the status was set. The description for each variable is separated by a comma. The text for this alert is:

Item status '%s' set %s blocking issue/renewal

We’ve included quotation marks around the first variable so that quotation marks will appear around this text in the actual alert. So, for example, the actual alert might look like this:

Item status 'Catalogue maintenance required - Example note'. set 17 February 2016 blocking issue/renewal

where “Catalogue maintenance required” is the item status, “Example note” is the note, and “17 February 2016” is the date set.