Sometimes you and your team just need a bit of extra information in the Koha staff interface, at the point of need. It could be a list of tasks, a link to a policy guide, some reports to run… You can customise the module homepages to add this content.

In this video, Aude walks you through how to do this and discusses how Koha has been enhanced for the 23.11 release, with the ability to add content to more pages and in different languages.

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Prior to Koha 23.11, you can already add content to the Koha home page and the Circulation and Reports modules’ home pages. Use the following system preferences:

• Homepage IntranetmainUserblock
• Circulation IntranetCirculationHomeHTML
• Reports IntranetReportsHomeHTML

Note: you have to enter your content in HTML format.

Examples we used in this video

• On the homepage

• On the Circulation homepage

• On the Reports homepage

From 23.11

From 23.11 (thanks to bug 6419), use the Tools > HTML customizations for:

• Acquisitions StaffAcquisitionsHome
• Authorities StaffAuthoritiesHome
• Cataloguing StaffCataloguingHome
• Lists StaffListsHome
• Patrons StaffPatronsHome
• Point of sale StaffPOSHome
• Serials StaffSerialsHome

Watch out for the three system preferences being moved to HTML customizations in future Koha versions:

• Bug 35153 – Convert IntranetmainUserblock system preference to additional contents
• Bug 34563 – Move IntranetCirculationHomeHTML to HTML customizations
• Bug 34561 – Move IntranetReportsHomeHTML to HTML customizations