https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10060 --- Comment #12 from Oliver Behnke <oliver.behnke@aei.mpg.de> --- (In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #11)

- The prefs are not mandatory for use with the self check, you only need them for the automatic login to work. Before they were added, staff would log in the right user at the 'self check station'.

Ok, good to know but kind of awkward since the whole point of those self-service terminals is to run unattended. Users would have to notify a librarian (in our case not even physically present) if that session expired for some reason.

- Prefs can be overwritten with Apache by branch for some use cases. I think the feature started out here: https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=10325 (we should document this better)

Hm, I don't see how that should help either since there is only one Koha instance (server and thus self-service web interface).

I think the use case the web based self check was developed for was a self check station at the library, that would only be used for self checkouts.

That's exactly our use case but we have two branches (read: locations), served by the same central Koha instance. Both sites/branches use self-service terminals and thus need independent location handling for the items checked. I don't see why the current system was implemented in such a way that a checked item's location gets derived from the self-service auto-login account, not the patron who does the self-service action... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.