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Barcodes

BarcodeSeparators

Asks: Split barcodes on the following separator chars ___ in batch item modification and inventory.

Default: \s\r\n

Description:

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You must use the regular expression codes for the characters.

  • \s is used for a whitespace

  • \r is used for a carriage return

  • \n is used for a new line

  • \t is used for a tab

Make sure you escape the other characters you put in there by preceding them with a backslash

  • \. instead of a dot

  • \\ instead of a backslash

  • \- instead of a hyphen

Batch item

These preferences are in reference to the Batch item modification and Batch item deletion tools.

MaxItemsToDisplayForBatchDel

Asks: Display up to ___ items in a single item deletion batch.

Default: 1000

Description:

  • In the batch item delete tool this will prevent the display of more than the items you entered in this preference, but you will be able to delete more than the number you enter here.

Nota

Displaying a large number of items may slow down the display.

MaxItemsToDisplayForBatchMod

Asks: Display up to ___ items in a single item modification batch.

Default: 1000

Description:

Nota

Displaying a large number of items may slow down the display.

MaxItemsToProcessForBatchMod

Asks: Process up to ___ items in a single modification batch.

Default: 1000

Description:

Nota

Processing a large number of items may slow down the process and it may even time out.

News

AdditionalContentsEditor

Asks: By default edit additional contents and news items with

Default: a WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE)

Values:

  • a text editor (CodeMirror)

  • a WYSIWYG editor (TinyMCE)

Description:

  • This system preference allows you to choose which editor to use in the news tool and the HTML customizations tool.

  • A text editor will let you write HTML directly. Use this if you want more control over how your content will be displayed.

Nota

You can use CSS id’s and classes in your HTML and format them with the OPACUserCSS or IntranetUserCSS system preferences.

  • A WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editor is a user-friendly editor with functions similar to word processing software. Use this if you are unfamiliar with HTML.

NewsAuthorDisplay

Asks: Show the author for news items: ___

Default: not at all

Values:

  • Both OPAC and staff interface

  • Not at all

  • OPAC only

  • Staff interface only

Description:

  • This system preference lets you choose whether or not the name of the author of the news item is displayed and where.

Patron cards

These preferences are in reference to the Patron card creator tool.

ImageLimit

Asks: Limit the number of creator images stored in the database to ___ images.

Default: 5

Description:

Nota

A large number of images may take a lot of storage space.

Reports

These preferences are in reference to the reports module.

NumSavedReports

Asks: By default, show ___ reports on the saved reports page.

Default: 20

Description:

  • This system preference lets you determine the number of reports that should be displayed per page in the saved reports page.

Nota

Displaying a large number of reports may slow down the display.

Upload

UploadPurgeTemporaryFilesDays

Asks: Automatically delete temporary uploads older than ___ days in cleanup_database cron job.

Default: blank

Description:

  • This system preference lets you determine how long temporary uploaded files (files uploaded through the upload tool without any category) are kept

Nota

If you leave this field empty, the cron job will not delete any files.

On the other hand, a value of 0 means “delete all temporary files”.

  • This value can be overridden with the –temp-uploads-days option of the cleanup_database script.