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WYLD TECHNOTE 102: Creating a "Self check" logon

One of our members has asked about creating a sort of "Patron self check" logon. Here are the suggestions on how this might be done.

• Create a patron record with the "New user registration" wizard.
• For the "User ID" use something like "XXXXSELF", where XXXX is your library's code, e.g. LARM, LCCC.
• For the patron profile type in "SELFCHECK", this profile allows only the basic circ check out and nothing more, not even a workflows shutdown
• In the "last name, first name" field you will want to user something like "LARM self check logon"
• The choice of password is up to you, you can even choose to have no password, its up to you and how you will be using this
• To create this separate logon on a workstation, first logon with the any other account, not the new one
• Select the "Getgoing" toolbar, right click on the "Help" wizard and delete it.
• Right click on the now blank toolbar and click "Add button"
• Type "C" repeatedly until you find the "CHECKOUT" wizard, click ok
• On the menu bar click "preference/desktop/windows", in the "Opening wizard" field select "CHECKOUT", click "ok"
• On the menu bar click "preference/desktop/toolbar/save as",answer yes to the question "Toolbar has been changed, save changes"
• Give the new tool bar a name like "SELFCK", only 8 characters are saved.
• Make a copy of workflows: right click the "Start" button and click "explore", click "local disk", click "program files"
• Click on the "Sirsi" folder and right click on the "Workflows" directory and click "copy"
• Right click again and click "paste"
• Right click on the "Copy of workflows" folder and click "rename", call it "Selfcheck"
• Double click on the "Selfcheck" folder to open it, double click on the "Toolbar" folder and delete all files here
• Click the "Explorer" back button, and double click on the "Toolcust" folder, delete all toolbars but the "selfck"
• Using standard windows techniques, create your workflows short cut to the new "c:/program files/sirsi/selfcheck" folder, be sure to select the workflows application usually called, "wf020000", and not on the icon named "workflow"
• You are now on your own as to how this might be used within your library, I would do some serious testing to make sure you understand the full impact of how this will work for your patrons