* Coehoorn, Joel (jcoehoorn@york.edu) wrote:
We're a small college library in the process of migrating to Koha from an old Winnebago Spectrum system. The plan is that students should be able to use their Active Directory credentials when access Koha. I have the connection working, but there are some things I'm not clear on.
For many students, their first and only account interaction with Koha will be when they bring an item to the circulation desk. At this point, if the attendant scans their card and they have never logged in, my understanding is that Koha will have no idea who they are and will reject the transaction, because it doesn't create the account until someone tries to authenticate. Is there any way to have Koha pro-actively pull this information? I'd rather avoid the extra step of batching users into Koha each term.
Not in current Koha code no, but you could write (or get someone to write) a feature that would talk to LDAP (or Active Directory) when it sees a borrower it doesn't know about to create that borrower in Koha. So when they scan their card at the circulation desk it creates the borrower by pulling the info from LDAP. It will need to be a system preference so only libraries wanting it have it on of course. This wouldn't actually be a huge amount of work, and I think would be something many libraries would like. You would definitely get a nice credit for getting this done. Chris
Also, for anyone else using Active Directory, are you storing the Card Number in Active Directory? If so, what field are you using?
Joel Coehoorn Director of Information Technology York College, Nebraska 402.363.5603 jcoehoorn@york.edu
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