NGL Touch

 

NGL Touch is a self service tool for your library users. Using this application your users can
  • Self Check-out
  • Self Check-in
  • Self Renew
  • View list of items over due
  • View important messages from the library. For example: Recall notices, Reserved items at circulation desk and so on
NGL Touch has been designed with larger buttons which can easily facilitate finger touches from touch screen kiosks. 
 

Pre-requisities

Make sure that you are running NGL Version 3.0.4 Release 1 Update 3 or above on your server.
 
On the client machine where you intend to run NGL Touch you must install JRE (Java Runtime Environment) 1.6.0. You can download this from http://www.java.com
 

Installation

Conduct these installation steps on the client machine where you intend to run NGL Touch
 
Step 1: Download NGLTouch from here
 
Step 2: Extract the downloaded NGLTouch.zip into any location except directly into C:. You will now see a directory called NGLTouch. This directory has 2 more directories. One is NGLTouchFiles and the other is NGLTouch
 
Step 3: Copy the NGLTouchFiles and NGLTouch directory mentioned in Step 2 into C: drive
 
Step 4: Open config.properties using Wordpad or any text editor. This file is in C:/NGLTouchFiles
 
The following properties must be defined
 
# IP address of the server on which your NGL Server is running
#If your server IP address is 192.168.1.4 then, 
#NGLIPAddress=192.168.1.4
 
NGLIPAddress=localhost
 
#Port on which your NGL Server is running. In most of the cases it is 8080
NGLPort=7070
#Leave the below property as it is
LibraryId=1
#This is session time in seconds. When ever the user logins in, the session will be valid till 180 secs.
#After 180 seconds the Login  screen will appear. You can edit the session time here
Auto.Logout.Time=180
 
Step 5:
 
Double click on C:/NGLTouch/RunNGLTouch.bat to run the application