Circulation Documentation - Needs

Circulation Documentation - Needs

Don't worry about 

  • whether documentation already exists

  • whether a function is built out in FOLIO

  • duplicating a documentation need if it overlaps in different categories

We can figure that out as we go from the list. Just put down what comes to mind where you think it might fit!


App-Specific Documentation

Users

  1. Create a User

  2. Delete a User

  3. Change a user's barcode

  4. Renew an item on loan to a user

  5. Add / Delete Blocks

  6. How to change passwords for staff

  7. How Patron expiration dates work

  8. How to add service points to users

  9. How to add permissions to users

  10. How Inactive / Active Statuses work, what they do

  11. How do Custom Fields work - for statistical purposes

    1. examples from adopting institutions - what they've added and how they're used

  12. Waiving a fee/fine (full/partial) - RA will write

  13. Refunding a fee/fine (full/partial)- RA will write

  14. Accepting payment for a fee/fine (full/partial) - RA will write

  15. Setting up a proxy relationship between two users

  16. How to anonymize loans in users - the manual commands

  17. In-App reports - what's available, when you might run them, what's required


Users - RA SIG will write


Workflow Name

Existing Documentation or link to FOLIO DOCS

Needs a writer

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow Name

Existing Documentation or link to FOLIO DOCS

Needs a writer

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Viewing a patron's fee/fine history

https://iris.docs.folio.org/docs/users/#feesfines

 

 

 

Waiving a fee/fine - full waive, partial waive

 

 

 

 

Refunding a fee/fine - full waive, partial waive

 

 

 

 

Accepting payment for a fee/fine - full/partial

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory (sent list to Jesse Lambertson 3-16-2021)

  1. How item statuses work

    1. Outline of the three part model so people know what's coming

      1. Item State in FOLIO

  2. How to change an item to ____ status

    1. Protections on item statuses

    2. Missing item statuses - adding notes

  3. How to record item damage

  4. How to search in inventory

    1. How to do CQL queries in Inventory - esp. examples of searches.

  5. How to find item histories

    1. When you might go to Inventory vs Circ Log vs. LDP

  6. How to edit / update item notes

  7. How to edit / update check in and check out notes

  8. How you can find an item in Inventory and then request it for a patron

  9. Change an item barcode

  10. In-App reports - what's available, when you might run them, what's required

  11. Handling long missing items 

Courses

Workflow

Existing documentation or DOCS Jira link

Apps Involved

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow

Existing documentation or DOCS Jira link

Apps Involved

Could this be a flowchart?

Intro to Courses

  • How people use the app for different needs

  • Examples of use of the app from adopters

 

Courses

 

How to create a course

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/courses/courses/#creating-a-course

Courses

 

Create a course with cross-listings

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/courses/courses/#adding-a-cross-listed-course

 

 

Find a list of items on reserve for a course

https://iris.docs.folio.org/docs/access/courses/courses/#searching-for-reserves

 

 

How do temporary locations work on courses items

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/courses/courses/#adding-a-reserve-item-to-a-course

Courses, Inventory

 

How do temporary loan types work on courses items

 

 

 

Integrations with outside systems - LTI

LTI: Course Reserves - LTI connectivity

 

 

Integrations with outside systems - ARES

 

 

 

Reserve items - using processing statuses

  • how to set up values

  • tips for using, examples from adopters

https://docs.folio.org/docs/administration/settings/settings_courses/#settings--courses--processing-statuses

 

 

Copyright information in Courses

  • how to set up copyright status dropdown

  • what fields do or don't do

https://iris.docs.folio.org/docs/settings/settings_courses/settings_courses/#settings--courses--copyright-statuses

 

 

In-app reports: what's available, when you might run them, what's required to do so

There are no in-app reports for Courses and none are planned. 

 

 

 

 

Requests

 

Workflow

Existing documentation or Docs Jira

Apps

Could this be represented in a flowchart?

Workflow

Existing documentation or Docs Jira

Apps

Could this be represented in a flowchart?

How to request an item (place/process holds, pages, recalls)

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#creating-a-request

Requests

 

How requests work for on-campus versus remote storage

https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/DOCS-154

Requests, Inventory?

 

How to run a page report

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#generating-a-page-requests-csv-export

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#printing-pick-slips

Requests

 

How to change a request pickup location (including restrictions based on request status)

https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/DOCS-20

Requests

No

How to run a daily unfilled requests report

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#exporting-your-search-results-to-csv

Requests

 

How to cancel a request

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#canceling-a-request

Requests

 

How to reorder a request queue

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#reordering-the-request-queue-for-an-item

Requests

 

In-App reports - what's available, when you might run them, what's required

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/requests/requests/#exporting-a-hold-shelf-clearance-report

Requests

 

 

Check-In

Workflow

Existing documentation or DOCS jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow

Existing documentation or DOCS jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

How anonymizing loans works if you do it in check in

https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/DOCS-23

 

 

How checking in works for items with multiple pieces

https://iris.docs.folio.org/docs/access/check-in/checkin/#pop-ups-that-can-occur-when-checking-in-an-item

 

 

How to backdate a check-in

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/check-in/checkin/#checking-in-and-backdating-an-item

 

 

In-App reports - what's available, when you might run them, what's required

There are no in-app reports for the Check-in app and none are planned.

 

 

Check-Out

Workflow

Existing Documentation or DOCS jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow

Existing Documentation or DOCS jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

How to loan to someone who is borrowing as a proxy for another patron

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/check-out/checkout/#checking-out-to-a-proxy-borrower

Checkout, Users

 

How checkout works for items with multiple pieces

 

 

 

How to change a loan due date

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/check-out/checkout/#changing-the-due-date-of-an-item

 

 

How to override patron blocks

 

 

 

How to override item blocks

 

 

 

In-App reports - what's available, when you might run them, what's required

 

 

 

 

Circulation Log

Workflow

Existing Documentation or DOCS Jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow

Existing Documentation or DOCS Jira

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Why you would use the circulation log vs. other FOLIO features

  1. troubleshooting scenarios where the circ log would be used

  2. what data is in the circ log and what data isn't

https://docs.folio.org/docs/access/circulation-log/circ_log/

Could maybe add these two extra things to the top under overview

 

 

How to look up item histories (and what you might find here that isn't in Inventory)

 

 

 

How to interpret circ log records that have proxy relationships

 

 

 

How anonymized data looks in the circ log

 

 

 

How to look for notice information

 

 

 

How to look at fee/fine information 

 

 

 

 

Cross-App Workflows

Workflow name

Existing Documentation or DOCS Jira?

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Workflow name

Existing Documentation or DOCS Jira?

Apps

Could this be a flowchart?

Handling items that have been in transit for too long

 

Inventory, Requests

 

Patron claims that they returned an item but it's still on their account (claim returned)

 

Users, Inventory

 

On-the-fly / Fast Add record creation, loaning items, considerations for use (Inventory vs. Courses vs. Check Out)

 

Inventory, Courses, Check Out

 

Handling fines - declared lost, aged to lost

 

Users, Export Manager, Inventory

 

Handling lost and paid items

 

Users, Inventory

 

Managing Patron Blocks - how to set them up on users, how to override

 

Users, Check Out

 

Remote Storage

 

Settings, Inventory, Check In, Check Out

 

 

Settings and Circulation Rules

Workflow name/description

Existing documentation or DOCS Jira

Needs a writer?

Apps

Could this be represented graphically / through flowchart?

Workflow name/description

Existing documentation or DOCS Jira

Needs a writer?

Apps

Could this be represented graphically / through flowchart?

Tags - how they work, plans for future development, suggestions for scenarios where they would be helpful

 

 

Settings, any app that has installed tags (many)

 

How to create permission sets

Done - on docs.folio.org site

 

Settings

 

Calendars - how to set up dates / times, how exceptions work

Google Doc - Settings > Calendar

 

 

Settings

 

Configuring Settings for Remote Storage

 

 

Settings

 

Things to consider when deciding how to write circulation rules

  1. How the fallback policy works

  2. How prioritization works

  3. Special characters and indentations

  4. Sample circulation rule sets from adopters

 

 

 

 

What happens w/circulation rules and policies if you change item information after an item is loaned (e.g., change a loan type for an item that is checked out)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-X4nnInZ26WlG6O6jiTp2aM5-US0rjM9X7tHTpQrkLQ/edit?usp=sharing

Yes

 

 

What happens if/when you delete a circulation rule?

https://docs.google.com/document/d/195f5vHKtbDS2-WqPK0us5li8V7CMsGCRE_T-CZiO2lI/edit?usp=sharing

Yes

 

 

What happens if/when you delete a policy - loan, request, notice, lost items, overdue policies? 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/195f5vHKtbDS2-WqPK0us5li8V7CMsGCRE_T-CZiO2lI/edit?usp=sharing

Yes

 

 

What areas in Settings should RA SMEs care about? E.g., material types and loan types in inventory, patron groups in Users, fee/fines in Users

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g1-RcVYu2WFmxCn0AMPxFQdXRJE4H6rEM3y7W1iai-Q/edit?usp=sharing

Yes

Settings

 

Is there a recommended sequence in configuring circulation in FOLIO? E.g., what goes first? Examples from institutions on how they did their configurations

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HhKi-r01KYwCNLrPgmCGwVTEbwu7a0J8oqBbACcmOVQ/edit?usp=sharing

Yes

Settings

 

Configuring settings for Fees and Fines - owners, manual charges, waive reasons, refund reasons, comment required, transfer accounts

 

Settings - Users - Fee/Fine Comment Required

Settings - Users - Fee/fine Manual Charges

Settings - Users - Fee/fine owners

Settings - Users - Fee/fine Waive Reasons

Settings - Users - Payment Methods

Settings - Users - Refund reasons