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From YouTube: Leveling Up with Plugins

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Presenter:
- Kelly McElligott (ByWater Solutions)

Slides:
- https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XPajosrO8Lz9hvD_NmPCj0bbdmNhLVlE/view?usp=sharing

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Well, welcome. Welcome, welcome, I'm super excited to be here. Unfortunately, my colleague my partner in crime Donna is homesick, so she decided not to share all her bad germs and she is taking some rest. So remember, rest up is important, so sadly, she's not here and I will be doing this solo.

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um For all of you who don't know who I am my name is Kelly mcelligott I work for Bywater I've been working for Bywater for over five years. Prior to that, I was a public librarian who also used koha and Bywater was my sport company, um so I've officially I was doing the math last night. It was hard math after a night with the Brits.

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um How and no you shouldn't try to compete with them.

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I've officially been using cohoff for 10 years, so I started. I know, that's pretty impressive. I was in the threes back in the day um when I moved so I was a a public librarian I started as tech services, all those catalogers out there and then I moved into systems and, um unfortunately my library is way smaller than most of yours, a town of 4 000. So a little bit different issues there than um you know, 64 branches or whatever that you all have, but I do want to.

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First of all before I get into my presentation, I want to say congratulations to everyone. This is your first koha conference. This is a huge step for anyone who's coming for the first time, because it's a great opportunity to see what Copa can do. I mean Jason just showed us. This amazing thing to say: look what I can do, because it's so customizable when I learned, Cohan I, wasn't told hey by the way.

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Did you know this is open source because I think open source was scary to people, so you didn't talk about it, but we should be super excited to use open source because we're seeing how everyone can use it differently. Small libraries, big libraries, academics, um multi-branch Consortium, so great job for becoming. If this is your first time and for all those presenting. Thank you thank you for giving your time to do that, because I think we all need to learn every day. So here we are we're learning.

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um So when I first went to buy water, I was an educator and I'm sad to say there is not one person in this room that I actually trained in the four years. I was an educator right. Nobody right um and that's sad to me. I was like oh I, don't know anybody, but as an educator and still to this day, I feel like my mission and responsibility is to share everything. I can about koha Monday minutes we're at weekly.

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We, you know, make it a mission to get that out to you all, because we think it's important for people to continue to learn. This presentation is going to cover plugins. Now, when I worked in my public library did I know what a plug-in was did I understand anything about those weird words, plug-in I mean who knew I actually didn't even know what koha meant back then it's sad I know, but the more you know the better you're going to be at something.

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So even if this is something you're never going to do you now know what is available out there or some of the things that are available.

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I know boring, boring, boring, Kelly get onto the presentation, but you know I think another purpose for this presentation and I promise I'll get to, but I have a whole hour with y'all. So let me tell you you're here.

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um Another purpose for this presentation is to you know, give everybody the opportunity and encourage you all to like explore. The system. You're using you know just play around um I know that koha us has a test site. Bywater has a test site. Anyone can go in there and just play around and try what Jason did with the um course reserves just play around with it.

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So you know and and give the opportunity, maybe for the colleagues that didn't weren't able to come to help them or encourage them or share what you learned at this conference.

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I'm super privileged to work with koha to work for Bywater, because we love working with libraries and um I hope you enjoy this and I'm. Really sad I don't have Donna, it's really sad, okay, so there's Donna, um oh and I came all the way from Maine, but I guess: I didn't win the prize right.

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um And there I am so today we're going to cover plugins, but they are. Where do you find them and how to use them upload them? Yada yada super super exciting.

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So what the heck is a plug-in now Barbara and somebody else talked about plugins already today, oh Jason and I'm, like man, they're stealing, my thunder so Barbara talked all about the cover flow plug-in. So you know that Jason talked about a plug and I had no idea existed. So that's really awesome, but it's an opportunity.

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It's an opportunity to expand Kohan a different way. So it's not built into the code. It's something you're going to install in your system and I'll show you that I'm actually going to go live into koha.

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But before we talk about it, Nick my colleague over there. He doesn't remember writing this blog post, but there is a blog post out there. That said, you know to plug or not to plug. I think was the title um about plugins and the pros and cons. So I want to talk to you just a little bit about that, because it's important to know um the pros and cons a pro to a plug-in rapid development, so they can constantly change it and upgrade it like. It doesn't have to wait till the next release.

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It's going to be able to be fixed and in think about the pandemic.

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Curbside plug-in I mean that happened overnight. I feel like I. Don't did anyone work on that in this room, wow? Well, anyways it was off. It was awesome for a lot of libraries to be able to like get that functionality into coha without waiting for a release without waiting for an upgrade. They just got it in there. So rapid development, it's customizable, so we can certainly customize it to a specific library's needs or specific vendors. So is anybody? Do you know if anybody here is using a plugin at your library?

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Yes, yes, yes, Shout It,.

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Out shout it out.

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What are you using cover flow yeah Michael? What is it hoopla Overdrive PayPal see. Well, you guys know this and you're awake. Yes. um So PayPal is a great example. So it's a vendor specific plugin, because PayPal is a specific vendor, uh hoopla different same thing, so we customize it and create it. We not me I'm, using the I'm using the Royal, Wii, I, guess um and then expandable there are I'm gonna use words, I, don't know I'm just gonna use next words plug-in hooks found throughout koha.

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That will allow these plugins to activate During certain workflows. So it's expandable there's lots of hooks in koha and we can hook it in super fun.

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I, don't even know what that meant, but that's what he wrote: pons maintenance. We have to keep up with it. So with every upgrade we have to make sure it's still working.

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And that means the developers usually are the one responsible for that plug-in.

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Usually we're tackling problems that are specific to a library and they are narrow, sometimes in scope, they're, not really seeing the whole picture of what maybe other libraries need.

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And then reliability. This is a sad one they're. You know there could be bad code out there, bad plugins or plugins that don't work in the current versions. So reliability is kind of important to think about where you're getting your plugins, how you feel about the plugins, but then this is where I'm going to get back on my soapbox talk to the community. You know reach out on the list server or go to a a Sig meeting and just say: hey I saw this plug-in Has anyone used it or try it on the test site.

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You know that's a great opportunity again to use a test site or dead box or whatever you've got to try it out. So just just know that.

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So we're gonna go real in a minute, but a lot of the plugins are found on GitHub I'm gonna, put a I put a few up here. Buy water has some there's other places like ptfs Europe who's here, um T TK I can't remember how to pronounce IT Tech a Solutions and then um in Libro Caroline's in the back. So she also is um some of the plugins we're going to talk about today and that little Cat's super cute. You know.

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Doesn't it relate to everybody here so the first step, once you find these plugins that you are like hey? This sounds really interesting and we're going to talk about Lots. Today, um of course you gotta upload it so you're gonna grab that file. It's usually a kpz file and download it to your computer and then upload it into your coha system. Has anyone done that I'm sure, gentlemen? Over here yep somebody was nodding, yup, good, good, good, great job, great job, I think some people are nervous about doing something like that.

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If you have permissions in koha to be able to see the plugins, they are going to live in your Administration.

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So here's a here's, a nice screenshot, which you probably can't see in the back, um where you can see the plugins that are on your system, once they're um uploaded the most important pieces of this kind of screenshot or the enabled and disabled. What's what's actually turned on in your system, so you can see I have this uh scan barcode, prefixer, that's disabled! It's not really currently running or configured on my site, the other really important part. Well, there are two. The other really important part is the action.

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That's where you're going to run it or configure it, and we'll talk about that and then, of course, the author of The plugin is nicely proudly put on there too, which I like.

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Oh, let's pause here for a second I hope: I, don't go too deep, I'm! Really sorry! um You know. If, if you decide to put in a plug-in and then you don't touch it for a while and you get upgraded a hundred times or three times or one time and you're like oh I, don't know if it's working, you can see the version of the plugin. You have and then see what the newest version is because remember we talked about. One of the pros is rapid development, so they're constantly changing.

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If PayPal decides to do something different, that plug-in will have to be adjusted and a new release will go out everyone's following me: right awesome.

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So I'm gonna I'm gonna talk about a few and then we're going to go in, but I'm not going to talk too long about this one, because Barbara did a great presentation on the cover flow plug-in.

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um So if anyone's not using that, please please please go to Barbara's site, it's beautiful or lots of sites opacs and and see what you can do. It's pretty cool, pretty cool.

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Galadriel, does anyone do you know if anyone is using Galadriel plug-in in your library? Yes, yes, good good! This is a way to customize your OPAC and it's fantastic, because you can tweak colors and fonts and hide things really easily and we'll go into that one today.

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When Donna and I brainstormed for this presentation um I'm sending her good thoughts right now, okay, you know we talked about what are the most popular ones as well as we're going to talk about some of the other obscure ones, but this is fun to talk about the ones that a lot of people use, or maybe people would really like to know, exist out there, um the patron emailer, anyone using the patron emailer, yes, good, good, good good.

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This will allow you to customize emails and send them from your koha system, so outside of the notices and slip set currently live in koha. You can create your own notices and send them out to a group of patrons, like hey, welcome to the library.

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The label maker anyone use the label maker. This is outside the tools module.

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This is this is a plug-in um y'all do spine labels all so differently than what quaho created their spine labels to be so this was created to further customize spine labels or any type of labels, you're you're, using and for those libraries I think, there's a law library out there, yep, um where you get a sheet of labels and there's like a spine label on two columns and then address one so that helps too so another way you can create labels and print them from kohas through this label maker.

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This is um from one of the other TK I, think um I didn't even know. This existed, add URLs to Mark. So if you wanted to throw in a bunch of URLs to your existing records that aren't there or you have to change them, this is one of those cool ones. Maybe you didn't know existed and we'll look at this one in Libro. This is a stat chart really fun. It has like I, think pre-populated 10 reports and you can run those reports and they'll give it to you visually as a chart.

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Yes, koha does those already any report you have. You can create a chart, but these are already built. So super easy.

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I touched on this briefly, but there are third-party specific plugins, so they're they're, designed because everyone does things differently: Road art um for EDI, ordering, I'm, sure, there's people out there use EDI ordering. You know broad art, Midwest tape, Baker and Taylor. They all do a little differently, so those plugins can be super specific to the needs of that um connection.

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So one of those third-party specific vendor plugins would be for e-commerce. So we have a PayPal plug-in. We have a pay, gov plug-in in voice cloud and a Nelnet.

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And then EDI ordering Road, Arts I, don't even think they're. All here, Road art find a way Ingram Midwest.

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So these again are vendor-specific plugins that you could use and configure anyone using EDI, yeah, okay, good.

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How can we get plugins to be created or enhanced or improved, or we got a great idea like I? Don't know like a display plug-in, maybe um is you know, we're a part of a community and that's that's the beauty of koha is we can make a difference? We can add things. We can improve those. If you just said. Wouldn't it be great, wouldn't it be great- and you know Jesse and I and Nick have a presentation on Friday.

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So please don't leave um at 9am that we want to talk more about Community, but it's important to know that you have a voice. Everybody here has a voice in Kohan and you can file a ticket um for plugins. It's more like an issue, it's kind of an outside system. If you have a if you're supported by a vendor, reach out to that vendor again or go on IRC you're part of um the buy water, slack slack us talk to or email the developer directly, um no one's hiding, they love.

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They love to make Cohan better.

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um I have the resources here. You can also scan the QR code if you wanted to at any point, that's going to bring you to a blog post that has all this information, like I've, put all the blog posts that we've created and buy water for plugins, specifically and um and- and all this is here too so pretty cool. If you want to grab that or these will will go out before I jump in live, does anyone have any questions at this point.

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um So I was wondering um back on the patron email or do you know on that? Does that go through kohas email system or is it go through a local email system.

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Liz says the koha email, server and she'll talk about it to you privately later. Okay,.

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And also, do you know, are there video demos or tutorials of each of these plugins.

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So this this QR code is going to link you to all the blog posts that I could find that Bywater has created. If there is documentation on um in libros, their documentation is right on their website, so that website um their in Libro website is actually really good. That plug-in directly link will bring you to all of them. You don't have to go to GitHub and there are resources for those plugins as well.

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It it's unfortunate because sometimes I think the developers create this um as I talked about. um You know it's customizable to a specific Library. They create this plugin.

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They upload this plugin and it's for a specific library, but it's all there and they might have done documentation for somebody specific but not shared it, which happens because they're ready to try something and develop something new, um but you know please reach out to them, or um you know play around with it and I'm sure they would be happy if you shared documentation once you used it too.

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Any other questions. Thank you. Crispy.

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um If I want to go to a browser, I just hit.

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Escape, okay, thank you.

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Pause for one second.

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We need some like Jeopardy, music.

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Thank you exactly what I wanted.

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I'm gonna make it.

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I am not a PC user, but how do I zoom in.

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I want to make this nice and big for y'all okay, so this is just. This is just a test site of ours, we'll look at the plus plus up there talked about where they live, and the plugins live in the koha administration and since I'm really large. It's going to look really funny and there's your plugins.

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Can I like scroll up yeah there we go okay, so we're not going to go through the uh cover flow because Barbara did a fantastic one. Oh before we go any further, you have a search option here. You can search for existing plugins outside in GitHub and I. Believe it's going to go to look for bywater's, ptfs, Europe and one more place when you search, so you might not necessarily find it if it's if it's something other than those three places. But if you search for.

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One you can see now my my screen is slightly changed and I can actually see any of the plugins that are existing outside in GitHub and I. Have that button that says, install and it'll be bringing it right into my system.

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You can also see the version, so that's nice I mean I. Think I have this installed, but let's go ahead and run it again. Just so we can watch it happen. Okay,.

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Kelly quick question: yeah: can you can you use that to also update the plugin.

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Yes, okay, absolutely one of the the challenges for me in this page is that we haven't and I'm going to file a bug today, I've thought about it all week. It's kept me up at night is my list is quite long here see so for me to find something: there's no search, your own plugins.

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You have to scroll the page, don't you think that's a good bug like why do I have to scroll right, yeah, look at Lucas right there, so I want to pop into the galadra OPAC theme, because if you all haven't done this or looked at it, you should really um take a look. Do some tweaking um my action button has three options. Sometimes you'll have four options like a run one if you actually are running making a a thing happen in this case, I'm just I just have configure uninstall and delete.

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There are oh, let me scroll up a bit. Sorry, look at all the options up at the top, so I can alter the entire OPAC. Like that main area. Add a logo give it height, then I can adjust the top navigation bar the search bar, this more searches, the login box, the breadcrumbs, oh, my Lord. How awesome is this like? Really you can make all these changes yourself?

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I love it. This is my favorite, the search results. You know what do you want to? What do you want to hide? What do you want to change? My favorite when I go down here is facets. Sometimes those facets. Don't make sense to folks when they're searching and those facets are on the left on the OPAC. What, if you just hit one that you're like? Does this even make sense? Does this help my patrons? Because it's all about them, so you could go in there and say well.

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I'm gonna just go ahead and hide the topics facet because I know my you know some of things aren't cataloged as great as I'd like them to and then, when you hit the bottom go, keep on going. Save you go to your OPAC, it's done boom. Should we try it?

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Kelly Kelly just kidding just kidding you all have to like understand. It's been a it's been a day: okay, but I, wonder I'm, not a good one-hander typer.

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I think I got it right.

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So here I am in the OPAC.

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Go ahead and search I want to get some facets up on the left and then we're going to hide one, because that's how easy it is. So those are your facets. If you weren't sure what I was talking about and you thought I looked crazy there, they are. There's your topics. There's your places.

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You can see I'm a multi-tabber.

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And this mouse is just as bad as the trackpad okay scroll down.

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What do you say? Topics there? We go click that now I want to just pause for a second look at this unwanted things. I, don't want to see awesome, moving on save and exit save and continue if I want to make more changes. I don't want to pop out of the plug-in same and exit I'm going to pop out of the plug-in, save and continue.

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Dunsy Doodles here we go.

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What do you think refresh that page, the power, the power we all have just by this amazing amazing plugin there it is it's gone, that's how you can do it I know, I, see shocked, looks everyone is so impressed.

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I know so again, probably not best to like just make a lot of changes on your OPAC and one go. Maybe write them down or do one at a time or maybe on a test site just in case, because that's what I would do or give it a shot. Ask a question reach out in you know the lists of. If you have any questions, this one I, don't think is as well documented Christopher because it's constantly being changed by Lucas he's making it like he'll get a ticket.

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Hey can I do this on the OPEC and he's like wow. Everyone probably wants to be able to do this and then I add to it. So this used to be like three options in the gladrow Plug-In or maybe like three of these things and now look at this there's so many one other thing: if you're not using this one. I really like this, is he added this like custom link text that will show up when you have online resources? So that's that's really awesome too again, making it very clear. It's an online resource.

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Any questions about the Galadriel plug-in you're, loving it right, oh yeah! This is interactive today, y'all I wish we had some chocolate, though yeah I just had to get up and move around a little.

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Bit yeah anyway,.

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um So is that on right now in my thing, I can actually go in and do that right. Right now, oh I mean if it's installed on your I saw it I, just I logged in right. Now it's there and.

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It's configurable.

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I'm gonna have so much fun with my boss, when I get home.

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The power look at the power.

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Oh good, we got.

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um There is one comment online that says: we need a t-shirt that says koha, dunsy doodles and the response. uh One of the responses is the buy water marketing team can make that t-shirt happen really fast.

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It on it on it, that's awesome, it's awesome! Well, I know. Liz, probably doesn't want me to show you the patron emailer, okay, I'm, moving on because I listen to my systems team, but there is a patron email. I'm just saying: um oh I'm gonna use my I'm going to use my breadcrumbs I'm gonna pop back over to the plugins page.

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Another one I wanted you guys to see or y'all. Sorry is the label one. So let me scroll down again. Wouldn't it be great if we had that um search button actions again, we just have. Oh, we just have run uninstall or delete.

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Say what disable just say? Oh did I disable. Thank you. There are some templates already created, which a is super nice B. You can kind of figure out what to change. If you need to change it, because it's kind of a little bit more apparent than if you just had one big blank box and you're like what do you want me to put in here, but just like in the label Creator in um regular tools, you got templates and late and layouts and printer profiles.

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So it's the same process which I really like that we've kept the same terminology, the same functionality- and you know muscle memory is also here, so they didn't recreate the wheel at all.

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You've got your templates and your layouts, so you can see all this pretty.

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If you know what is this, is this HTML?

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What is this considered.

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If I go ahead, just like you know your regular batch you're going to get the same thing once you configure this and if anyone's ever configured labels in koha regularly, you know it's not fun right, but once it's done you set it and forget it same thing. You pick your batch. You pick your labels.

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Your layout printer profile, starting so it's pretty, it's pretty great I- think it's going to look exactly like it did before. Look at that I, don't know what I changed in this one. If it doesn't do this in regular koha I can't remember.

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I have a quick question and I'm, not even monitoring the ones online are those uh it said. Avery templates are those pre-loaded into the plug-in holy crap.

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Yeah, uh the I believe it's one of the ones that is pre-loaded and I. It's been a while is there's one that has the three sizes I think it's this one basic, but yeah, there's three loaded. If I scroll down sorry, you see yep holy.

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But then other other templates can be added and created exactly.

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um And is there a repository of of? Is there possibly a repository of templates and layouts that have already been.

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Created that would be really good, like a Wiki page to create, for somebody to say, like I created this or a Mana database for that yeah.

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Either of those would be would be excellent.

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Yep, so you know the layout, there's a lot done for you, like you, fill it out. Just like you did in the tools the label gutters with it's helping you through this process. You don't have to do it all by scratch or again, like I, would say you would do it from what I saw in the previous page.

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I know you you're all impressed right, super fun, good, okay, I gotta pop over to one other um site, so I apologize for my typing I'm gonna. Try to cheat the system here.

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I was in 2205.

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now I'm in the I think the current version.

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uh Jesse, could you uh unlock me from train one? Okay, we'll go on to the next one anyways until we come back to that one, we're gonna, go and add a check URL one. Does that sound interesting to everybody like throw some URLs into some bib records? Yes, awesome. Okay, I didn't find any documentation on this.

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One I feel like we talked about doing a Monday minutes a couple weeks ago, because we had Tomas the creator of the plug-in and then he time time just time all I have to say is just time add URLs to Mark records I'm going to scroll over.

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Oh I still don't have a configure. So what this? Oh bugger you have not on my computer. Okay, what this wants you to do is want you to give a CSV file. Bip number URL, I! Think that's all you needed in the CSV file and then you import that CSV. All you need is a bib number URL and get a report to do that.

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Get those bib numbers you need import, it run it and it's going to add that URL right to the 856u, pretty fantastic, sorry, I forgot, I didn't have my my computer, but it's really great am I all set.

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Back to plugins I'm, just in a different test site this one I really liked and again I was just poking around in GitHub sites in um in libro's website. There's this really cool I'm going to go to this stat chart which I talked about how it can visually show you results.

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Has anyone seen this no first time? First time any of these data sets are already created, so you just have to click any of them and it's going to create the chart for you patrons per category. Maybe let's go for that. One generate I mean how cool is that that's pretty pretty right, I know, thank you! Well, I! Guess we could thank and Libro back there thanks.

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And I think everyone should shout it from the rooftops the developers when they create these because, like they're just maybe, was created for one library and now everyone can use it because we're an open source world how exciting? Okay, um let's go to back to my other side, really sorry about the other one.

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Here we go, I will put my um contact slide up as well. If anybody wants to ask any questions, I'm I'm, happy to help anybody with this and I would say that this would be great to donate to the community. If you decide to try one of these and write some documentation up, you could be a guest star on Monday minutes. Think about that. How awesome would that be? Okay, we are going to I want to just pop into just like.

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If anyone knows you know or uses or thinks about using EDI or any vendor specific plugins, there's a configure one because we're not going to ever run it all. The information for these more vendor specific ones will pop into PayPal, probably as well I mean this is pretty complex to me.

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I, don't know about you all, but like all this is just needs to be got received from your vendor and you fill it out and, and you run it away, but every one of these EDI or e-commerce ones are going to be specific for information you're, getting from your from your other vendor and you're, going to import that and um Bob's your uncle where's Bob.

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Oh I found another one forgot, so please play around with these. It's really fun change the due date. Did you all know this one? This was a plug-in. Did you you've used it? You use it during coven, perfect, so another another plug-in. This was really great because you know we've been asked before. Like can I just once it's checked out can I change the due dates and you actually can't in koha.

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You have to renew it or check it in and check it back out with a different due date for this change the return date due date. You could have a couple different options. You could choose um the category, so you could say for all my faculty or all my audiobooks or borrow a number from this to this I even tried just one single borrower number, because I just needed to extend it for one person and I just put that borrower number in perfect and then new return date and Magic. It changes the due date.

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You know again use case scenario. Maybe this is not something you'd ever think you needed, but maybe we have a pandemic and we needed to do this.

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You know that kind of thing what I'm yeah? Well, we we know how to handle it now. Okay, um for those big libraries- maybe you all haven't known this. We have a batch Patron permission, modifier modifier.

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This allows you and it may be. The larger libraries are using this or for larger libraries. You didn't know this existed. You can create templates and say all my Circ patrons get these permissions and you create a Circ template or Patron, and then you assign those staff members to a patron list, and then you run it to say so. All my search stuff, I, throw it into a list and then I say use this template and that's how easy it is. If you had 50 employees, you needed to do permissions you'd be better off right.

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So here's your configure! These are my template patrons. So let's go ahead and open a new one. 893 I, really don't like that um track. Pads.

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This is my Circ template they're, not really a person at all, but they have those permissions.

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So anyone associated with this list and look at that so I can actually see the people that have this Circ permissions. This is my man Harry.

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If I go into Harry's permissions he's linked to that permission, template if I say: oh I want to change Harry's permissions, guess what I can't because he's attached to this whole other thing: that's really actually awesome. I! Think then I can pop over there. If I have the right permissions and change it, but then I'd be changing it for everybody. Has anyone seen this? Does this sound awesome you've seen it yeah good good and you Bob, you use it yeah! Perfect! Perfect!

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Are you? Oh that's, awesome, um I believe we have a blog post on that on that, if not, um we can create one for you. Okay, how many more minutes do I have okay, I'm gonna do I'm gonna do one more and then we can have questions because, like y'all are awesome but you're, probably like are sick of watching me, walk around okay, the last one I think we did a Monday minutes on this. One is um report Plus plugin.

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So what if you had like a set of barcodes or ISBN, no I can't do that one! Oh, you don't need it anymore, but could we pretend okay, we're gonna, pretend you need this, but I! Guess you don't need this? Why don't we need it anymore? Nick.

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Oh he's talking about like a parameter, Shucks, okay, let's go back to. Let's just go back to the plugins and see what else fits are fancy: okay, I'm! Don't like these tap like okay, you see how I made my screen, so big I can't get to my more menu.

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I hope you're learning something today.

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I hope you're all having a great day, because it's 100 super awesome we're here today, oh okay, oh, we can go into PayPal. It's kind of boring, though. Actually this is a pretty one.

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This one's like fancy kind of got rid of all my CSS PayPal again with the vendor specific plugins. You have things that PayPal wants you're going to give your PayPal user a password the charge description. This one is also documented Christopher, just in case you're, not using this or you are using this you're, going to sign a library now remember when you're using anything in koha, and it bothers you like that list that searching. Please submit a bug we'll be here Friday morning at 9am to talk about doing bugs.

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So don't worry, we'll be oh um Thursday! Oh there, tomorrow, okay, um let's see one more I cannot believe that one's obsolete now, I guess I should have talked to Nick before my presentation.

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I should have had Nick come with me on my presentation.

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Oh that's right. It wasn't registered.

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Anyways, okay. um Is that really all I have? Oh, let me just make check my notes.

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Oh actually, Jesse I wrote that tomorrow we are presenting my nose tomorrow we are presenting on how to get involved in the koha community. So this is just a teaser to what we'll talk about then, like filing a bug talking to people about these plugins documenting the plugins or using them, and sharing that information with your neighbor library or somebody else that you work with, because that's what it is, the power of Open Source and the community that we're in so I hope you all had a great time.

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Yes, if not you'll, see me again two more times so here we go any questions. Please please, please! Oh, oh! Don't no!.

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It is yes, there is a room reservation, plug-in.

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Oh sorry, I forgot, um yeah I, see notice the plugin that said room reservation, so I was asking if that was for like meeting rooms and stuff like that.

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Yes, absolutely it is, will.

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That allow us to put like our rules for using those rooms and likes sign ups or anything.

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Like that there is some customer customizability, that's a really hard word for me to say Obviously in the text above to say, like hey or you could link out on that page. To say here are our rules? Sorry I'm, not putting this close to I'm obsessed. There is a blog post on that and I can send it to you. If you get me your information, Nick, I guess Nick has a question.

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I just wanted to comment that um if you install a plug-in from the screen here and do that, you will still need, unfortunately, to have uh plaque and memcache reset just to pick up that new code same goes for if you update a plug-in this way, just to get that every that version everything you got to clear the cache out. So if you do that, please contact your vendor or your systems person to take care of it. That's all good.

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um Nick, if they went right to GitHub, they wouldn't have to do that right if they downloaded it from GitHub. Oh, you still have to okay. Whenever you install a new plugin, restart all the things thanks, Nick.

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um There's a comment online. Somebody was curious about the Eds plug-in yep and, while you're looking that up I'll mention to Jessica that I did exp just because of one of my libraries and she asked the question about the room, reservation, plug-in and the reason we're not using it is because uh the last time I looked at it. What there wasn't a way to configure it for 50 different libraries. It was uh one size fits all.

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There are KOA connects with EDS, so if anyone's using the ebsco discovery layer, that was what the question was right. Okay, um there are two ways to configure the ebsco discovery layer on koha. You can use their front facing catalog search and not use the koha OPAC. But if you choose to use the koha OPEC as the forward-facing search functionality, then you would use this plugin.

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It is uh let's again where's my search.

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You're going to just get a lot of information, throw it in there. There is also a tutorial video on this one. There is just how it works a lot again with these vendor specific most of the stuff you're not going to know you're going to ask your vendor they're, going to give you this information, and um you can go ahead and use this as your. If you have EDS or thinking about getting EDS, so it does integrate.

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