[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media cases

[Josh Stompro]

Joe, I have a fix for keeping the cursor focus always on the scan box.  We also use touch screens for our self checks and we were having trouble with the fact that it was easy to move the focus, which would cause the next scan to silently fail, and sometimes switch screens.
I have a bug report on it, but haven’t actually posted the code there yet.  I’ll try and do that soon.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1560601

We have also had trouble with the print list button that exists on the checkout screen.  Some significant portion of users would press that when they were done, get a printout and then walk away.  I guess they thought that was the logout and print a receipt button.  Then the next users would walk up and sometime check out items on the first person’s account.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/1555791

I would love to collaborate with you on making the self check more touch screen friendly.  I can share the css changes I’ve made just to enlarge everything to make it easier to see and to make the buttons easier to press.

Josh Stompro - LARL IT Director

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Joe Knueven
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 10:58 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media cases

While we’re on the subject of user-friendliness of the built in self-checkout, does anyone have any .tt2 modifications that they are pleased with and would be willing to share?

I’ve had tweaking the scripting to make the navigation links more button like (ie touch screen friendly) on my to-do list, but it’s taken me an especially long time to get around to the first step of teaching myself a basic amount of tt2 scripting.

Have a good day.

Joe


Joseph Knueven, Director
Germantown Public Library
51 North Plum Street
Germantown, OH 45327
937-855-4001

From: Open-ils-general [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Terran McCanna
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2017 11:16 AM
To: Evergreen Discussion Group <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org<mailto:open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>>
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Evergreen Self-Check and locking media cases

>>Renewal seems to work fine.  You just scan an item that's
already checked out and it figures out that a renewal is in order and
available.<<
Interesting. There's nothing in the interface that tells the patron that they can do that, or that tells them how. Patrons typically don't have books in hand when they wish to renew, so they'd need to understand that they could go to the Items out screen and copy and paste the barcodes. Online instructions would help, but it still wouldn't as user friendly as the method of renewal in My Account.


Terran McCanna
PINES Program Manager
Georgia Public Library Service
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, GA 30345
404-235-7138
tmccanna at georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:26 AM, Mike Rylander <mrylander at gmail.com<mailto:mrylander at gmail.com>> wrote:
Terran,

Hrm... Renewal seems to work fine.  You just scan an item that's
already checked out and it figures out that a renewal is in order and
available.

Also, just as a note, the UI got a nice update about a year ago to add
the ability to email receipts, including using patron defaults for
that.

HTH,

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On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Terran McCanna
<tmccanna at georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>> wrote:
> Hi Jesse,
>
> I just wanted to chime in that I'm not aware of anyone who is working on
> developing functionality like that. The self-check interface hasn't gotten a
> lot of attention in the past few years, possibly because not a lot of
> libraries are using it. (Only 2 or 3 libraries out of our 285 total
> libraries that have opted to use it.) There are a number of things that
> could be done to improve it which would encourage more people to adopt it,
> like adding the ability to pay fines through the same functionality that the
> OPAC uses, and to allow patrons to renew books through it.
>
>
>
> Terran McCanna
> PINES Program Manager
> Georgia Public Library Service
> 1800 Century Place, Suite 150
> Atlanta, GA 30345
> 404-235-7138<tel:404-235-7138>
> tmccanna at georgialibraries.org<mailto:tmccanna at georgialibraries.org>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 4:16 PM, Jesse McCarty <jessem at burlingtonwa.gov<mailto:jessem at burlingtonwa.gov>>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently we are running an ITG self-check system that utilizes magnetic
>> locking cases for DVDs and CDs. I know the documentation references no
>> security mechanisms in Evergreen self-check, but I was wondering if there is
>> a way for the Evergreen self-check to interact/activate the magnetic
>> unlockers for security cases? Is this a sought after feature/planned
>> possibility? Or is the built in self-check designed to be nothing more than
>> its current basic form?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>>
>>
>> Jesse McCarty
>>
>> City of Burlington
>>
>> IT Technical Assistant
>>
>>
>
>

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