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Evergreen’s Offline Circulation Module is designed to log transactions during network outage, which can be uploaded and processed once network operations are restored.
By default, offline transactions are saved as browser cookies on workstations. It is optional to keep them outside the browser by using Evergreen’s storage management tool Hatch.
Do not delete browser cookies when you have pending offline transactions, if you do not use Hatch to store them.
In order to do offline circulation, you need to make your workstations ready when you have network access. Some information required by the Offline Circulation program needs to be downloaded to your computers. You need to access Evergreen server to get it.
Prior to using Offline Circulation, you need to do the following, which requires network access:
Download Offline Block List. The list contains patrons with blocks at the time of the download. Offline Circulation will check patrons against this list and prompt staff if a patron is found on the list when you try to check out or renew items.
To download the block list, navigate to Circulation → Offline Circulation. Click Download Block List button.
This procedure should be repeated on a regular basis (daily, weekly etc.). Downloading the block list can take a couple minutes to complete.
Offline transactions are kept in the browser as cookies. Clearing the browser’s cookies may delete them.