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Discover the Koha OPAC

How patrons can intuitively navigate through the Koha OPAC, access their account information, and browse all materials.

Favicon for Staff Client and OPAC

Favicon stands for Favorite Icon. It can display on the website tab. Favicon is a small icon and acts as a website identity. Koha users can display favicon on Staff Client and OPAC. The favicon file extension is .ico.

How it works

Prepare a favicon file with the extension .ico. Many ways we can convert an image to .ico. Either using image processing software like GIMP / Photoshop or using favicon online generators.

Copy to /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs.

sudo cp fav.ico /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs

Here is the URL of favicon copied to /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs.

http://127.0.1.1/fav.ico

The favicon can be store in a remote server and give the URL.

Visit the search box at Administration > Global System Preferences

Search for the term, favicon.

Give the URL of the favicon to each box and save.

Open Staff Client and OPAC. See the favicon on the browser tabs.

Display logo on Koha staff client login page

Displaying institution logo on Koha staff client is part of beautification. Even though library staff who log in the staff client sees the logo, everybody believes that it enhances the branding.

A system preference, stafflogininstructions available for this purpose. This feature available since the release of Koha version 18.04.

How it works

Copy the logo to htdocs

Prepare the logo image and put it in an internal folder or in an external server. You can place the image in the folder, /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs to save in the Koha server. Apply the following command to copy the logo image from the home folder to htdocs.

sudo cp mgu-logo.jpg /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs

Replace the file name (mgu-logo.jpg) match with the logo name with you.

Add image details in stafflogininstructions

Open Koha Staff Client, visit and find Administration > Global System Preference > Staff Interface > StaffLoginInstructions.

Otherwise, find the specific option by using the search feature in Administration > Global System Preferences. Put the term, StaffLoginInstructions in search box and find.

HTML tag to display logo

<center> <img src="http://127.0.1.1/mgu-logo.jpg" style="width:45%; height:45%;"> </center>

Change the IP (http://127.0.1.1/mgu-logo.jpg) match with yours. Save the settings. Sign out from Koha Staff Client and check the login page.

Google Input Tool: an alternative for Google Indic Transliteration in OPAC

Koha made use Google Indic Transliteration (Global System Preferences > OPAC > GoolgeIndicTransliteration) addon in OPAC with the search box. It was useful for search bibliographic details in regional languages. This service not available with Koha now. The reason is that the service seized by Google. But an alternative not added with Koha yet. Anyhow, libraries with bibliographical details in regional languages can make use of Google Input Tools extension with Chrome browser. Koha OPAC needs to load with Chrome browser to make avail this service.

Configuration of OPAC header has moved to Tools > News section since the release of Koha version 20.05. Earlier the configuration was at Administration > Global System Preferences > OPAC > opacheader. Follow the steps mentioned below to display a banner with Koha version 20.05.

Add library location on OPAC using Google map

The location of the institute/library can be embedded on OPAC interface. Users strange to the campus can find the location of the library using Google Maps app in mobile. Follow the steps below to add the location on OPAC interface.

Find the location from Google Maps

Visit https://www.google.com/maps

Search your institution/library name,

Click on the share button.

I tried this feature on Koha version 18.11.x.

Goto Koha > Administration > Additional Parameters > Configure columns > OPAC > Item_barcode

Uncheck it and Save.

Information courtesy: Richard Vargas

Show nothing when cover images are not found

"No cover image available" plate on OPAC result reduce the beauty of OPAC interface. We can hide it using JQuery.

Goto Administration › System preferences Search OPACUserJS

Copy and paste the following script into the box.

$(document).ready(function(){
$('.no-image').remove();
});

Save.

See the result.

Reference
https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/JQuery_Library#Show_nothing_when_cover_images_are_not_found

Google Analytics with Koha

Koha OPAC Usage statistics on Google Analytics control panel.

Many ways a library can track Koha OPAC usage. One method is that use any web analytics software like Matamo. Another method is that use any web analytics service like Google Analytics. Google Analytics can configure with Koha and get OPAC usage statistics. Configure Google Analytics with Koha is easy compared with other tools. This works with only OPAC available on the Internet.

1. First login with Google Analytics using a Google account.

2. Start to create an account by filling the details of your OPAC available on the Internet.

3. Get the site tag

4. Copy the site tag and paste into Koha > Administration > System Preferences > OPAC > opaccredits and Save.

5. Check Google analytics next day see the usage statistics.

Enable barcode/accession number search in OPAC

Add following query in
Koha> Administration › System preferences › OPACUserJS

$("select[name='idx']").append("<option value='bc'>Accession No.</option>");

Save.
Refresh OPAC page and see the change.

Information courtesy:
L2C2 Technologies
http://blog.l2c2.co.in/index.php/2016/09/10/quick-tip-add-barcode-lookup-to-your-opacs-search-index-selection-downdown/

Beautify Quote of the day in OPAC

1. Add CSS

Koha > Administration > Global System Preferences > OPAC > OPACUserCSS

Add following CSS query.

#daily-quote {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
border:1px solid #000000;
border-radius:15px 15px 15px 15px;
margin:0 0px 0px;
text-align:center;
width:740px;
}

#daily-quote-text{
color: black;
}

#daily-quote-source {
color: black;
}

Save it.

2. Enable Quote of the Day feature

Koha > Administration > Global System Preferences > OPAC > QuoteOfTheDay > Enable

3. Add some quotes

Koha > Tools > Edit quotes for QOTD feature

4. Open Koha OPAC interface and check the quote.

Information courtesy
1. Subeesh Gopinathan
2. http://bywatersolutions.com/2013/02/28/qotd-in-koha-310/

Create web pages in Koha (Koha as a CMS)

Users can publish pages on Koha OPAC and OPAC can act as a tiny library web site. I have tried this feature on Koha 3.22.10 version. Very detailed documentation available at Koha Wiki. Here is Koha OPAC with few pages; http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in

A page in OPAC to describe library collection.

Enable Google Indic Transliteration in OPAC search box

Google Indic Transliteration is a useful to enter search queries in regional languages. Here is the step to enable Transliteration option in Koha OPAC search box.

Administration > Global System Preferences > OPAC > GoolgeIndicTransliteration > Show

You can check how Google Indic Transliteration works with Koha OPAC from following link,

http://mgucat.mgu.ac.in

Place a banner on OPAC header

This solution will not work since Koha version 20.05. Try this method for place banner on OPAC header on the latest version of Koha.

You can create a banner for Koha OPAC easily with the help of an online service, http://www.bannerfans.com/banner_maker.php

Using this tool you can create a banner from existing picture or start from scratch. Lot of beautiful fonts are available. You can also adjust the size of the banner.

How to add banner?

Put the image in /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs ,
apply following commands in a terminal.

sudo su

mv header.jpg /usr/share/koha/opac/htdocs

Get the link of the image.

Open Koha and go to System Preferences > OPAC > opacheader

Apply the HTML code to display header image,

<img src="header.jpg" style="width:100%;height:100%;">

Save the changes.

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