Carousel Instructions

Description

This handy extension is designed to promote your OPAC’s collections. In just a few clicks you can generate multiple cover image carousels from lists, reports or collection codes (952 $8 code – of items) to increase their visibility.

This extension also offers several configurations:

• • • carousel display styles
    • carousel appearance order
    • title, text and background color
    • autorotation
    • single display per library
    • external URLs that allow redirection to an
    • external source contained in the 856 $ u of records.
    • URL suffixes used for integration of statistical analysis tools.

Carousel Configurations

 To access the configurations page, click on the ‘Action > Configure’ button of the Carousel extension in the Koha plugin page.

Add carousels

First, choose a carousel source:

– Lists: select one or more lists.

– Reports: Check one or more reports.

Important notes:
—> The report must have a ‘biblionumber’ column (without AS ‘…’) and no drop-down menu at runtime. If these criteria are not met, the report will not appear in the report choices.

– Collection code (952$ 8 in the item record): Check one or more codes.

Once these options have been selected, choose your carousel preferences at the top of the page…

Carousel options

Title:

Text to be displayed as the carousel title. If this field is left empty, the list name will be used instead.

Carousel display style

Carousel mode

Carousel – scrolling mode

Carousel – scrolling with title mode

Carousel Generation

To generate your new carousels, click on the ‘Action > Execute’ button of the carousel in the Koha plugins table. Then, click on ‘Generate’. This should add your carousels to your OPAC.