How to use the Offline Circulation Version 16 Yoel Kortick
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How to use the offline circulation 3 Offline Circulation The purpose of “Offline Circulation” is to allow the library to continue to perform circulation transactions even when connection to the server does not exist. The circulation transactions which may be performed via “Offline Circulation” are Loan and Return.
How to use the offline circulation 4 Offline Circulation In this PowerPoint presentation we will: Create a situation where there is no connection to server Loan and return items in “offline” mode Reconnect to server and load data which was done “offline” Confirm that the transactions were completed
How to use the offline circulation 5 Before Communication falls Patron ID has item barcode on loan:
How to use the offline circulation 6 Before Communication falls Patron ID has item barcode on loan:
How to use the offline circulation 7 Before Communication falls Patron ID has no items on loan:
How to use the offline circulation 8 Communication falls There is no connection to the server:
How to use the offline circulation 9 Offline Circulation is activated From the “circulation” menu of the circulation module:
How to use the offline circulation 10 Offline Circulation - Return Patron ID comes to circulation desk and returns barcode : When “return” is checked then only fields “Library” and “Item Barcode” appear. Click “Return” after entering barcode Library name from AL500/circ/tab/per_lib
How to use the offline circulation 11 Offline Circulation - Return After clicking “Return” the item barcode field again becomes empty
How to use the offline circulation 12 Offline Circulation - Return Patron ID comes to circulation desk and returns barcode : When “return” is checked then only fields “Library” and “Item Barcode” appear. Click “Return” after entering barcode Library name from AL500/circ/tab/per_lib
How to use the offline circulation 13 Offline Circulation - Loan After Patron ID comes to circulation desk and returns barcode he wants to loan item barcode : When “Loan” is checked then fields “Library”, “Patron ID” and “Item Barcode” appear. Click “Loan” after entering Patron ID and barcode
How to use the offline circulation 14 Offline Circulation - Loan Patron ID comes to circulation desk to loan item barcode : When “Loan” is checked then fields “Library”, “Patron ID” and “Item Barcode” appear. Click “Loan” after entering Patron ID and barcode
How to use the offline circulation 15 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server On the PC a file is created with all loan and return transactions There is no need to “go to” this file, this is merely general information
How to use the offline circulation 16 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Communication returns:
How to use the offline circulation 17 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Offline circulation is again activated:
How to use the offline circulation 18 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server And the circulation transaction file is sent to the server:
How to use the offline circulation 19 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Patron ID no longer has item barcode on loan. It was returned via offline circulation
How to use the offline circulation 20 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Patron ID no longer has item barcode on loan. It was returned via offline circulation. Patron ID loaned item barcode during offline circulation
How to use the offline circulation 21 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Patron ID loaned item barcode during offline circulation
How to use the offline circulation 22 Offline Circulation – Sending file to server Note: If you close and reopen offline circulation before sending the transaction file to the server you will get the following message If you do not want to lose all of the transactions that you did then choose “no”. After sending the file to the server it is “cleared” and thus the message will not appear.
How to use the offline circulation 23 Offline Circulation – Checking the transactions Circulation transactions may be checked after the file is sent to the server via the “Check report” tab. Only transactions for which there was an error will appear. These are examples of non existent items which were entered in offline circulation.