Koha-US Learn - Plugins, 6 Feb 2019

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From YouTube: Label Maker Plugin Koha Part 2

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How to adjust the templates and layouts in the Label Maker Plugin. Here is the blog post with steps and screenshots : https://bywatersolutions.com/education/using-the-label-plugin-in-koha-part-2

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Morning, good morning, how are you Jesse, hi.

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Kelly hi Lucas thanks for joining us this week, good.

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Good morning to you Lucas, thank you for joining us. This is early morning for you over there in Colorado.

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Well, for those of you who follow us last week we started our label plug in part one series where we walk through the basics of using the label. Plugin. This week we promised you we'd, go through a little more of a detailed view of the label plugin. So this week we're going to show you how to add a call number how to change the font and how to change some colors from the label plugin. So, let's start by going into the plugins first.

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So once that plugin is installed and again, you can watch label maker part 1 to go through those steps. We're gonna go into administration and we are gonna jump down to the bottom where we have our plugins, that's where we are going to manage plugins from our screens.

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A deep dive into label plugins so from here we're gonna jump in and we're gonna come over to actions. Now, when you click run tool, you might think. Oh, this is me preventing my labels. This is taking you in to customize. Your labels, Kelly and I- were talking about that earlier, so section where you're gonna have your templates, your layouts and your printer profiles.

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Now the label creator comes set up with two existing templates in the system, so you'll have one for every standard labels and one for basic basic is going to give you those three layouts. Where most libraries are. You know, generally printing, a spine label and then two additional labels, whether it's for barcodes or perhaps the inside of a book cover or the back cover of a DVD.

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So today, what we're going to do is we're gonna go in and we're gonna just adjust these and show you a little more advanced options that you have. So let's come down to the bottom and going to start with our our template. First now remember: if you watched us last week, template is the opposite of what it is in. The label creator so in the template.

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This is where we're going to control the information that populates on the label itself, so I'm gonna come down here to my basic we've made a copy which we suggest if, if you're starting out, you know make a copy first, don't.

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Mess up the original, yes,.

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You can see there's an option there to copy it, so we've already made a copy. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna come in here and we're gonna edit this. So the first thing we're gonna do is for that spine label. Let's say instead of having a title, we're gonna actually make it a spine label, so we're gonna come in and we're going to actually add the option. To add in the item call number now from here you'll see that the first option we have is the item biblio title now.

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What we're gonna do is we're just gonna swap that out. So this works just like a template toolkit. So here you can see we have our Open bracket, the percentage sign and then the item dot, biblio title so we're gonna change that to item dot, item call number and these work just the same as in your schema. When you're writing a report- and you would go to the schema to look at the items table, it's gonna be that same structure that you're using here.

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So we're gonna put that item call number right into that field, so we're gonna come down to the bottom and hit save so now, we've adjusted it so we've got that call number there. So now, when we go to let's say print a batch.

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Remember that batch is coming from your label pools created. We.

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Got it so now we're going to use that copy and we're going to come and we're going to use that same basic copy, we're gonna print our batch, whichever.

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Plan our labels.

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And there we go, we have our phone call number over here on the left and we have our two barcodes here now. What about splitting call numbers Kelley splitting.

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It onto another lines- potentially: yes, yes, I've done that in the past and I've used JavaScript to do so. Okay, but it can be configured right into the label plug-in on the template page there. By adding their tags to the bottom, you can add. Javascript ifan, tonic I can find that code too. Perfect.

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We well I have Lucas talking about splitting call numbers. The label. Creator depends on the classification schema or how it splits the labels. Do. You know.

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I'm, not the schema the classification scheme, or does it go straight out what.

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Javascript could do is pick a special character like like a period, that's in the call, number and split it on that or any other or a blank space and split it on that. Okay,.

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We could put that code in the blog post and then that way anyone that wants to add that can copy and paste that in.

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Excellent or you know, Jessie, we we at Bywater love tickets, so submit a ticket. We can get it set.

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Up for you all right, so now, let's go in and let's make some changes to our layouts. Now the layout we're gonna scroll down to the bottom. We made a copy of our basic as well. A lot of people would like to use a different font, because the label creator itself only comes populated with three different fonts. So now, if you want to use a different font, you have that option, and this is where we're gonna call on Lucas's expertise.

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Again, Lucas tell us what fonts are safe to use and how should our users think about using fonts.

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You're gonna also include a link to some w3 pages, all the what they call web safe, fonts, meaning that they should work in every modern browser. So you could be fairly confident that they will look right in any browser. When you go to breath, though perfect.

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So why don't we make a few changes here? So you saw when we did that first, printing, the first column was red and then we had a blue column and a green column. So maybe we're feeling confident that we got that spine label looking the way we wanted. Now we can come down- and let's say right here where it says, background color red. Why don't we erase that and what we'll do is now when we print it out, it won't be red any longer and let's get zealous and let's change the font.

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Change it to veranda or bird and uh I'm.

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Not sure that the jury is out on that one I'm not not sure how to pronounce it. So, let's ask our listeners if.

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So we're gonna want to change and add any type of font in the body, so up top where we have currently are with listed we're going to come down and we're gonna add in the font family that we want to use. So today we're gonna go with the verbena aka veranda and we're gonna make sure that we have that in there. So you can see it says: font, family, colon, space, Rodina and you're gonna want to make sure we have that semicolon in there followed by a closed bracket.

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So now we've updated the font and we've also removed a color. So we're gonna come down to the bottom. We're gonna save that and let's try printing one more time to see how that looks and those.

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Websites will include in the blog post, show you exactly how it should be written. What Jessie added to that body perfect.

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Let's try this again so now we're going to do a printing of our template and our layout and let's print those labels. Look at that.

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You can see that the font has also changed.

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Must be for Dana, it's really old.

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Excellent well Kelly Lucas. Thank you for joining us for our second session of the label. Creator we'll have a blog post to follow with the links that we mentioned. So if some of you are ready to take on some changes for the label maker plug-in we're.

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What you can do all.

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Right. Thank you. Thank you. Look forward to see you guys next week.