Monday Minutes: Translating Notices

by Jessie Zairo on Mar 22, 2020

In this session of Monday Minutes, Kelly and Jessie will show you how to set up multi-language notices for your patrons. Within your tools module in Koha, you can add notice templates and translate them into different languages. There is a 'preferred language' setting available in the patron user account, that controls which template will be used when generating notices.

System Preferences

Go to Administration --> Global System Preferences

language: Enable the following languages on the staff interface (make sure you have installed the language packs you want to have available)

TranslateNotices: when set to allow, notices to be translated. If set, notices will be translatable from the “Notices and Slips” interface. The language used to send a notice to a patron will be the one defined for the patron.

Notices and Slips

Go to Tools --> Notices and Slips

Select the notice you want to edit. Now you will see multiple tabs after Default.

The system preference TranslateNotices (listed above) will add tabs for each installed language to the notices editor.

Reminder: The notice defined in the ‘Default’ tab will be used if there is no preferred language set for a patron.

Patrons Record

When you are creating/editing a patron account, you will now see a dropdown menu under Library Management for Preferred language for notices. This will allow you to set the preferred language for your patron.

Patrons can also adjust their preferred language in the OPAC once this is set.