Our Company provides self service software and related products for libraries.  
 We are working with a customer where an unusual situation has occurred and 
need to understand whether the environment is representative of Koha typical 
behavior, a problem with a particular release or unique to this customer 
because it is not something we have seen with other systems nor have any of our 
Koha users reported problems.  We are attempting to help this Koha customer 
solve a problem.

The protocol document describes the use of the screen message (AF) field as 
text for display to a borrower, typically informative information related to 
blocks or other reasons why a patron cannot circulate an item.   We use AF 
information to set rules for access to computers and of course for self check 
out and we display the contents of the AF field to the borrower.  Often the 
text in AF is consistent for given conditions so that the contents are 
predictable.   

In this customer's environment there are unique, manually created one-off 
messages that are obviously intended to be seen only by staff (circulation type 
information that is not appropriate for a patron to see)  embedded in some very 
lengthy AF fields in the SIP response.  It appears that the field is 
continuously appended with patron-facing and staff-facing text, making the 
strings quite long and unpredictable.  

Any insight into this will be appreciated.

Thanks

Mike Monk
EnvisionWare, Inc.


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