Monday Minutes: New Logs are Added

by Kelly McElligott on Sep 20, 2021

In this Monday Minutes, Jessie and Kelly talk about the added logging ability within the News, Notices, and Acquisitions Module. By default, these logs will not be turned on, a library would need to activate these logs within the System Preferences.

Acquisition Logging

The system preference to turn on logging for the Acquisitions module is called, AcquisitionLog once this has been turned on, the library will be able to see:

Basket Creation: including who created the basket, when the basket was created, basket name and number, and the vendor the basket is associated with.

Basket Editing: including basket number, basket name, who edited the basket, and when.

Basket Closure: including basket name, basket number, who closed the basket, closed date, and the vendor.

Basket Reopening: including basket name, basket number, who reopened the basket, when this occurred, and the vendor.

The logging will also so EDI order information as well.

Notice Logging

The system preference to turn on logging for the Acquisitions module is called, NoticesLog once this has been turned on, the library will be able to see, newly created notices, changes to existing notices, and deletion of notices. In addition, Koha will provide a side-by-side comparsion of what changed in the notice.

To do a side-by-side comparison, the notices would be selected and then the option to 'Compare Selected' will be an option.

Here is a sample of that comparison:

News Logging

The system preference to turn on logging for the Acquisitions module is called, NewsLog once this has been turned on, the library will be able to see, newly created news items, changes to existing news items, and deletion of news items. Within the info section in the Log Viewer, the Display Location will show.

KohaUS Conference

Don't forget the KohaUS conference is next week, September 21-24th! This is an in-person and virtual event- all presentations will be available virtually for free!

For more information and to see the schedule- click here!

Jessie and Kelly will be presenting on Wednesday: "Using Koha to Improve the Patron Experience".