Setting up Email Alerts for Routed Serials

To email a patron on the routing list when a serial is checked in, your library must be configured to use patron records for serials routing.

When a serial is checked in, Sierra can automatically send an email message to alert a patron on the routing list. For example:

[Title, issue] has been received by the library.

To receive the message, the patron record must contain a valid email address.

If the checkin record for the issue has an address in its URL field, the title and issue display in the email message as a weblink. (The URL address is entered and viewed in the record by retrieving the checkin card and choosing Tools | Box Menu | Modify Boxes Individually.)

To set up automatic email notification to a patron on the routing list:

  1. Choose Routing from the Function list.
  2. Retrieve the patron record. To edit the patron's email address, choose Edit.
  3. Select the serials for which email notification is desired by checking the appropriate boxes in the Notify by Email column. To check all the boxes, click the column header.