by We also allow for the creation of surveys, which can be setup to be visible in the OPAC, in the staff client, or both. Required surveys show up in the patron summary pane, and we’re using one to provide for the recording of Voter Registration, as seen in an earlier screenshot. As with stat cats, you will be able to run local reports on the data contained within your surveys.
We’ve showed a lot with the circulation module so far, but we haven’t seen an actual circulation yet. Let’s remedy this by going to the Check Out interface. We may do this from a patron summary pane, or we could press Function 1 or do Circulation -> Check Out. If you do the latter, enter this barcode into the textbox in the Scan Patron area.
21099000006723
Now enter the barcode 50723010105784 into the textbox in the Scan Item area.
This should fail (lower your computer’s volume!) as that barcode is actually invalid according to PINES’ barcode checkdigit algorithm.
Hello – this is looking great! Good job. Teresa
How do we find the barcode number for items so we can check them out? I don’t see where item id appears.
Also: I would like to be able to search for title=_________ AND author=________ AND keyword=_____________ (not just one of these at one time). Is that going to be available.
I would like to press the “enter” key after information has been entered without having to use the mouse.
I know you are addressing these items, but it never hurts to mention them again. Thanks, Jim Cooper
Hi Jim,
In the Search Catalog interface, when you see a title record, right-click on that record and you should see options for MARC editing and Copy Browsing. It’s the Open Copy Browser option that you want. In the future, we’ll add some more visible/obvious ways to do this and make it accessible without need of the mouse.
For the multiple search criteria in the OPAC, I believe the intention is to allow that sort of functionality, and to even let catalogers specify what tags and subfields they wish to search (ie. 245a: Harry Potter). The ability to do this is available to us now, we just haven’t integrated it with the OPAC yet.
We’ll definately make the enter key do something useful like submit a search request.
Thanks for pointing these out!
— Jason
This looks good. I have a couple of questions. Will the patron ID number print on the receipt or will that be option? And, when you do a search for a patron and get multiple results, you look at one record and that is not the one you want, how do you get back to the results list?
Hi Dawn,
Everything on the receipt will be customizable, including whether or not the patron ID number is displayed. “Easy” customization may be limited to choosing between prebuilt templates, but more flexible customization will be possible.
For the patron search result screen, right now if you make it dissappear (by say, using the Edit button on the Patron Summary Pane), you can’t get it back. However, in the future, we’ll let you spawn the patron interface into another tab, We could do this by overriding the behavior of the existing “quick command” buttons, or by adding new interface options such as a right-click menu on any given patron row in the result list. Another possibility is to just remember the search, so if you pull up the search screen, it does not reset; however, I’d prefer to find alternatives to that option.
Thanks!
— Jason
I have only looked around for a bit, but like the general functionality. Navigation is kind of “clunky” as I miss the back buttons, etc. I’m anxious to see how the MARC fields will display in the editor. And if I didn’t know how to access the MARC from the PINES meeting demo – right clicking on the title text – I would never have figured out even viewing it. So more instructions on navigation on screen are needed or have the MARC editor be a tab or pulldown. In the search area I do like the display showing formats and numbers of titles and items. And I like the hot linked subject lists on the screen with the item display. So lots of good things, we just of course want more!
I have a comment about receipts. In the demo info I read, it said that receipts would be totally customizable and that you can set the system to print receipts automatically or not. Does this mean we’ll also be able to print receipts after the fact, in case a patron changes his/her mind about not wanting a receipt for payments, renewals, etc? If so, that would be great.
Mandy,
Yes, you will be able to print receipts after the fact. I think in the long run you’ll also be able to email receipts, save receipts to files, etc. And most if not all of the data that is presentable in the staff client will be printable, especially anything that resembles a list.
Thanks!
Jason
Jason, are you (and the gang) still taking “requests” for development of Evergreen? One of our libraries has made such a request, and I wasn’t sure who to forward it to. Thanks – Roberta Wilder, ECGRL
Absolutely! We have two mailing lists with which you can correspond with us and other interested parties ( http://open-ils.org/listserv.html ), or you can e-mail us directly at feedback@open-ils.org