Put Yourself on Notice (Automatically) with Millennium Notices

Introduction

Millennium Circulation Notices first appeared in 2002 with Release 2002, Phase 2.
Many new circulation and notice features added with Millennium Silver released in July 2004.
With release of Millennium Silver, Circulation notices now fully "millennium-ized".
Also with Silver, there is now unique functionality ONLY in Millennium Circulation that is not available in the text-based INNOPAC system.
- Courtesy Notices
- Auto-Notices
- Variable Subject fields for email notices

Innovative must change the notice mode for you which can be accomplished by opening a call or using a Service Committment from the CSDirect website.
In Manual mode the user is presented with a configuration screen which is the same one used in the other two modes, but with no ability to save "jobs" or schedule Auto Notices.

In Saved Parameters mode the user can configure and save notice criteria, but is not able to configure/schedule Auto Notice jobs.
A user can only view the saved jobs for their location.
In order to see all saved parameters, the site must have III enable the Notices Administrator which can also be done with a Service Committment. Notices Admin is an Option Group that is configured at the login level.

Auto Notices only send notices via email to patrons.
Auto Notices are sent ONLY once a day in the early AM (setup by III) after the automatic processes that create most circulation notices are run. The user can only configure what days the notices run, not at what time they are run nor can the user have them run multiple times a day.
Notices for patrons without email addresses can be sent to an email or file save. When setting up an Auto Notices job, the printer you are required to select is used for the notices for patrons without an email, not for the notices as a whole.
Auto Notices can still be prepared manually when in Auto Notices mode by selecting an entry from the Saved Notices table and choosing the Prepare icon. Manually prepared Auto Notices ignore all of their auto notice settings.

Courtesy notices are a type of circulation notice that is sent to the patron (via email) a specified number of days before an item is due.
Courtesy notices are a "special" kind of notice in that they are generated once a day by the system and if they are not sent, they are lost for that day. For this reason it is best to setup Courtesy Notices as an Auto Notices job so that patrons can receive them even when the library is not open and/or manually preparing notices.
When a Courtesy Notice is sent, the ODUE DATE field of the item record is populated with the date the notice was sent. The # OVERDUE field remains 0 until the item is overdue at which time the ODUE DATE and # OVERDUE fields are updated.

Request that Innovative setup Courtesy Notices for your site.
In each loan rule, configure the "# OF DAYS BEFORE OVERDUE" element.
Create the text of the Courtesy Notice.
In each loan rule, add the notice text number to the "COURTESY NOTICE TEXT #" element.
Create and save Auto Notice job(s) for courtesy notices.

The best addition to the Millennium system since...well EVER!
Accessed via the Admin menu, Parameters, Circulation
Extremely useful to be able to sort Loan Rule and Loan Rule Determiner table by column headers.
Additional EMAIL SUBJECT entries can be added here, but are not available for use until after a re-start.
Text of Circulation Notices - Significantly easier to edit and create the text of notices.