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As it is now, the Evergreen web client for 3.1 stores some of your settings and customizations temporarily in the web browser’s “cache.” This is sort of like the short term memory of your web browser. Occasionally, you may need to clear the cache (like when you clear your cookies or browsing history), which results in your customizations for the Evergreen web client disappearing. When you clear the cache, you’ll need to re-register your workstation, your receipt printer customizations will revert to stock and any column configurations you’ve changed (order, sorting, size, etc.) will go back to their default settings.
Hatch is a browser plug in that is designed to allow you to save your settings for things like workstation setting, receipt templates and column configurations on your local machine and restore them if needed.
Ensure that you have the up to date Java Runtime Environment. Hatch requires the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version 1.8 or higher. If you are unsure which version you have, view your computer's list of programs. You can download the latest version at: https://www.java.com/en/download/help/windows_manual_download.xml
Download and Install the Hatch browser plug in. https://evergreen-ils.org/egdownloads/ Look for: Web Staff Client Extension (“Hatch”)
When you open Chrome, it should recognize that you have the new Hatch Extension installed and prompt you to enable it, but if it does not, you may need to manually enable it:
When the Hatch extension is enabled for your browser, you will see a small yellow icon in the top-right corner of the browser.
Enable Hatch in Evergreen: Administration > Work Station > Print / Storage Service ("Hatch")
Use Hatch For Printing
When you use Hatch for printing, it allows you to save your configurations for how you want receipt printing handled.
Store Local Settings in Hatch
Copy Local Storage Settings to Hatch:
Copy Hatch Settings to Local Storage: Once you have your receipt printers configured and columns adjusted, you can click this button to save these settings to your local machine.
Store Offline Transaction Data in Hatch
(For more details on setting up your receipt printers, see: http://nccardinalsupport.org/index.php?pg=kb.page&id=329 )
Go to Administration > Workstation > Printer Settings…
Default Tab
Receipt Tab
Label Tab
(Most staff will not have a label printer, so this step can be skipped.)
Mail Tab
Offline Tab
If your receipts appear to be printing to the default printer even though you have the receipt printer configured, you may need to do this step as well.
If you export your print templates, the export will contain these printer context settings as well.
If you clear your browser cookies without having Hatch installed, any local settings you have stored will be lost. However, if you have Hatch installed, you should be able to reconnect to Hatch using these steps and retrieve your settings.
Hatch isn’t expected to be necessary when we upgrade to Evergreen 3.2. Rather than these sorts of settings being stored in the local cache, they’ll be stored on the server and available to you when you login.
Print Templates in the Web Client by Terran McCanna
What’s HATCH-ing? by Bill Erickson, Jason Boyer, Blake Graham-Henderson, and Chris Sharp
This document incorporates elements of documentation from Georgia Pines: https://pines.georgialibraries.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=circ:workstations:hatch shared under Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode) and is available to share under the same license.