Robert Heller

About the 100 items showing up as 50 items — there might be duplicate barcodes and the later elements are *replacing* the earlier elements. That is, your 100 items have only 50 *unique* barcodes, so only 50 new items are added.

You will need to manually enter the SQL commands. If you are not confortable with that, you could go to the collection page, set the items per page to a high value (using the Screen Options tab) and then click on the checkbox next to the barcode heading and use the ‘Delete’ bulk action, deleting a screen full at a time.

There isn’t an *easy* way to delete the whole collection. I figured it was probably too ‘dangerious’ to do that, since *most* of the time nobody would want to (inadvertently) delete a whole collection my mistake.

Yeah, the manual is a little out of date.

From the FAQ:

Where are the admin menus?

You’ve successfully installed the Web Librarian, but none of the admin menus (Patrons, Collection, Circulation Types, Circulation Desk, or Circulation Stats) show up. Why is this? This is because you are probably logged in as the web site administrator (your user role is Administrator). You need to create at least a user with a user role of Librarian and then log in as this user. Optionally, you can also create users with roles of Senior Aid or Volunteer, who have lesser privileges — these latter users make sense if you are a large enough library that has additional staff (“Senior Aid”) or uses additional workers (“Volunteer”) who man the circulation desk(s). It is important to read the subsection titled “User Role Setup” in the “Installation and basic setup” section carefully and to be sure you understand it fully.

Books are supposed to be arranged by *call number* (for non-fiction, this is generally either the Library Of Congress or the Dewey Decimal number, for fiction, commonly the author’s name+title). Barcodes are not generally useful for shelf ordering. The *call number* (if not empty) is displayed.

The barcode is not displayed. You would have to change the short codes (edit the PHP code) to display the barcode.

I’m guessing that even though you have ‘hacked’ the button to have the patron id, the PHP code that the AJAX code calls discovers that no one is actually logged in and crashes.

Unless you make a somewhat non-trivial change to the code (at various levels: the JavaScript, the PHP, and the database structure, modifying just the short codes is not going to be enough by itself), you are probably stuck with requiring your club members to really log in as either your Web Request user or as themselves.

It might be *easiest* to just provide a way for your club members to register themselves and then map their WP user id to their patron ID — this is doable as a self-serve feature. Providing a register option is a matter of either enabling the ‘allow anyone to register’ option in the WP settings and/or providing the proper meta widget (with the login/register buttons). There is a plugin that provides a simplified set of meta buttons/links that might be better than the builtin WP widget.