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Last Updated 10/19/2023
| Color | Description |
| Optional setting. | |
| Setting has Cardinal default value but systems can choose differently. | |
| There is a Cardinal default value and there should be no other value chosen for this setting. |
| Label | Description | Recommendations / Comments | Acceptable Values | Counts in Cardinal as of January 2022 (value then count) | NC Cardinal |
| Allow others to use patron account (privacy waiver) | Add a note to a user account indicating that specified people are allowed to place holds, pick up holds, check out items, or view borrowing history for that user account | True/False | True (1) | ||
| Audio Alerts | Use audio alerts for selfcheck events | True/False | True (2) | ||
| Pop-up alert for errors | If true, checkout/renewal errors will cause a pop-up window in addition to the on-screen message | True/False | True (5) | ||
| Paging shortcut links for OPAC Browse | The characters in this string, in order, will be used as shortcut links for quick paging in the OPAC browse interface. Any sequence surrounded by asterisks will be taken as a whole label, not split into individual labels at the character level, but only the first character will serve as the basis of the search. | Example: 0-9*ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ | |||
| Use fully compressed serial holdings | Show fully compressed serial holdings for all libraries at and below the current context unit | True/False | True (4) False (2) |
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| Disable auth requirement for texting call numbers. | Disable authentication requirement for sending call number information via SMS from the OPAC. | True/False | False (1) | ||
| Disable Automatic Print Attempt Type List | Disable automatic print attempts from staff client interfaces for the receipt types in this list. Possible values: "Checkout", "Bill Pay", "Hold Slip", "Transit Slip", and "Hold/Transit Slip". This is different from the Auto-Print checkbox in the pertinent interfaces in that it disables automatic print attempts altogether, rather than encouraging silent printing by suppressing the print dialog. The Auto-Print checkbox in these interfaces have no effect on the behavior for this setting. In the case of the Hold, Transit, and Hold/Transit slips, this also suppresses the alert dialogs that precede the print dialog (the ones that offer Print and Do Not Print as options). | ["Checkout","Bill Pay"] (2) | 0 | ||
| Sending email address for patron notices | If you would like your patrons to be able to reply to their email notices, you should supply a value. If you do not supply a value, their responses will be dumped into an unmonitored email address "do-not-reply@nccardinal.net" | (email address) | |||
| Offline: Patron Usernames Allowed | During offline circulations, allow patrons to identify themselves with usernames in addition to barcode. For this setting to work, a barcode format must also be defined | True/False | FALSE | ||
| OPAC Inactivity Timeout (in seconds) | The most commonly used setting is "300 seconds", or 5 minutes. | number | 300 (10) 900 (5) 2000 (1) |
300 | |
| Example for day_phone field on patron registration | The Example for validation on the day_phone field in patron registration. | xxx-xxx-xxxx (1) | |||
| Idle timeout | If you want staff client windows to be minimized after a certain amount of system idle time, set this to the number of seconds of idle time that you want to allow before minimizing (requires staff client restart). | Number of seconds - most commonly used setting is "500,000" seconds, or over 8,000 hours. | 500000 | 500000 (4) 100000 (2) 9000 (2) 300000 (1) 3600 (1) |