The Check Out out app allows you to check out items to patrons. To check out an item, first locate a patron in the system and then scan/enter an item to borrow.
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Permissions
The permissions listed below allow you FOLIO community documentation for Check out includes the permissions required to interact with the Check out app, and that determine what you can or cannot do within the app.
You can assign permissions to users in the Users app. If none of these permissions are assigned to a user, then they will be unable to see the Check out app or any related information.
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Check out: All permissions. This permission allows the user to check out items to patrons (create new loans) and view open loans and loan details. However, this permission does not include seeing the entirety of the user record.
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Locating a patron in the system
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Note: A patron must first be assigned as a proxy for the borrower in their user record in the Users app.
In the Who are you acting as? dialog, select the name of the user they will be acting as a proxy for and click Continue. The Who are you acting as? dialog closes and patron and proxy details are displayed.
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By default, the Check out session is configured to end automatically after a 3 minute period of inactivity. You can turn this setting off or edit the number of minutes of inactivity the session will end after in the Settings app.
See the FOLIO community documentation here.