Regarding 5 - Why would anyone checkout items they don't have in their hands? Checking out from the cart seems like a good way to confuse everyone if the item can't be found. ___________________________ Christopher Brannon IT Coordinator 702 E Front Ave Coeur d'Alene, ID 83814 (208)769-2315 Ext. 456 cbrannon@cdalibrary.org www.cdalibrary.org Keep tabs on us at:    Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2016 09:26:04 -0700 (MST) From: Aparrish <cspsyntech@gmail.com> To: koha@lists.katipo.co.nz Subject: [Koha] Notes on Self Checkout Message-ID: <1457454364078-5877806.post@n5.nabble.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Hello all, Offering some hopefully constructive criticism of the self-checkout module et cetera. Details: I've just finished upgrading to Koha 3.22.04, with Perl 5.02. The following are enabled: AllowSelfCheckReturns AutoSelfCheckAllowed AutoSelfCheckID AutoSelfCheckPass (with the info of a staff user who had first circulate, and later superlibrarian permissions) WebBasedSelfCheck 1. First off, the information in the Koha manual in section 5.12 has been unchanged since version 3.8. I believe the code snippet that's meant to be pasted into IntranetUserJS is incorrectly formatted. I can't get it to work, after having removed the line breaks and fiddling with various things. To access the SCO, therefore, I've used a plain HTML hyperlink which is inserted in "opacheader". This works fine. 2. It turns out that users must be assigned a card number in order to use either the barcode OR the username/password logins to the SCO. This was probably a dumb error on my part, but it's not a totally obvious dependency either as far as the u/p login is concerned. Anyway, after that the SCO allows a patron with no permissions to log in, either with barcode or with u/p, and check out books by barcode. The SCO correctly displays a blue message with the right username. 3. In 3.22 the bug where one would return to opac-main logged in as the checkout staff user has been fixed; however it now redirects to a log-in screen rather than the catalog main page, which I don't really like. I'll toy with this. The most seamless Apple Inc. solution would be to return someone to the main screen still logged into their patron account, but perhaps the recent SCO bugfixes have ruled this out. 4. In the SCO files by default the "koha" header in the top left corner is pointed to /opac/sco/sco-main.pl. This is useless. I fix this by editing /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/en/includes/masthead-sco.inc, and replacing the link in line 7 with /cgi-bin/koha/opac-main.pl so that someone can click "Koha" to escape the SCO. This seems much more intuitive to me. (Adding a "home" link would serve the same purpose, but this is easier.) 5. Very ambitious - I would really like the capacity to dump the contents of the cart into the self-checkout so that it is a one-click process (barring the login), but I think I lack the programming knowledge for this. Some sort of simple script which saved the contents of the cart and then injected barcodes one by one into the self-checkout, automatically, is what I'm envisioning. Most of the parts required seem to be already there. I will experiment and probably open this as its own question at some later point. Any pro bono contribution to this would be very much appreciated. At this point the only actual PROBLEM is that SCO users are unable to return books through the SCO. I click the return button on an active checkout and nothing happens - the page reloads and the item is still checked-out. It seems like all the right preferences are on. If I figure this out I'll post; if anyone else has resolved please let me know. Thanks, Andrew -- View this message in context: http://koha.1045719.n5.nabble.com/Notes-on-Self-Checkout-tp5877806.html Sent from the Koha-general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz https://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha ------------------------------ End of Koha Digest, Vol 125, Issue 14 *************************************