[Koha] Adding pages to Koha OPAC - Koha as a CMS

Mon Mar 6 21:42:08 NZDT 2023

Hello Aleisha and Katrin, 

Thanks for replying! I was able to create a couple of pages before the weekend and they are visible in the librarian interface, but I couldn't get them to show up on the OPAC. I checked the instructions link Katrin posted, and found out I've skipped the final step, where I was supposed to ad the *link* to the existing page in one of the HTML customizations. Now I can choose whether to add it to OpacMoreSearches or one of the OpacNav fields. Another issue solved, thank you!  

I would very much like to handle these customizations before I tackle importing any data. Aleisha, thank you for the link: I will bookmark your page and go back to it for more tutorials. It is really helpful to have both examples of various code snippets and people to ask when you get stuck because it gets confusing for Koha (and Linux) first-timers. Thankfully both the UNIMARC installation on the work server space provided for me and the MARC21 on my personal laptop are for testing and I can try out various things without worrying about wiping my collection. 

Best regards

Aida Đikić

-----Original Message-----
From: Aleisha Amohia <aleisha at catalyst.net.nz> 
Sent: Sunday, March 5, 2023 11:25 PM
To: koha at lists.katipo.co.nz
Subject: Re: [Koha] Adding pages to Koha OPAC - Koha as a CMS

Hello,

Just adding to Katrin's helpful link to the manual, we also wrote a blog post tutorial about how to use the Pages feature: 
https://www.catalyst.net.nz/blog/koha-cms-add-content-pages

We'll work on strengthening the manual documentation for this too.

Aleisha

On 4/03/23 04:39, Katrin Fischer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the "Koha as a CMS" was replaced by the nee "Pages" feature in 22.11.
> That's why the old instructions have been removed from the manual and 
> should no longer be used. Have a look here:
>
> See here: 
> https://koha-community.org/manual/22.11/en/html/tools.html#pages
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Katrin
>
> On 03.03.23 09:40, library at ssst.edu.ba wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I need some help with adding new pages to Koha. From what I gathered, 
>> we can use additional pages available through the Administration > 
>> System preferences > OPAC to add information about the library, 
>> libguides, etc. However, when I tried adding pages, I got the error
>> 404 when I tried opening the newly added page in OPAC (both default 
>> and current language), but the page is visible in the Librarian 
>> interface.
>>
>> I googled Koha pages, found instructions on using Koha as a CMS on 
>> "KohaGeek" https://kohageek.blogspot.com/2016/09/koha-as-cms.html and 
>> on "Solution For Library Management" blogs 
>> https://atulhbch.wordpress.com/2019/05/24/koha-as-a-web-page-koha-as-
>> cms/, followed those but I still get an error message.
>>
>> [The reason I used those blogs instead of say, 
>> https://koha-community.org/manual/21.11/en/html/extending_koha.html#u
>> sing-koha-as-a-content-management-system-cms
>> is because they list what commands to use instead of just saying copy 
>> this file to here. I then have to google which command is used to 
>> copy something using the terminal, which makes it *very frustrating* 
>> to follow any instructions on the official pages. I think there's a 
>> lot of users such as myself who have no Linux or programming 
>> experience and no support. It would be useful to already have the 
>> commands listed in the instructions.]
>>
>> Also, I just realized that Koha as a CMS instructions are missing 
>> from the manual for 22.11, which is the version I'm testing (Koha
>> 22.11.01 on my work server, and Koha 22.11.02 on my personal laptop). 
>> Is there a reason this was removed, and how do I get pages to show up 
>> in the OPAC? Thank you in advance!
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Aida Đikić
>>
>>
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