WebPAC Pro: From RightResult to Community Reviews

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WebPAC ProFrom RightResult to Community
Reviews whats coming in Release 2007!

• Dinah Sanders, Product Manager

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WebPAC Pro

• The next generation in public catalogs
• Free! (Just a service commitment to request)
• The internet has changed a lot since we
  introduced Web OPAC over a decade ago. It was
  time for a new platform on which we can build for
  the innovations of today tomorrow.

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2006 WebPAC Pro-only features

• 50 results per page
• Customizable record display
• Automatic login to My Millennium
• Default use of highly-flexible brief citation for
  all keyword results
• Better default look feel thats easier to
  change with CSS

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Add-on Products

• Spell Check
• Community Reviews
• Feed Builder
• My Record Feeds
• Courseware Integration - Blackboard
• Single Sign-On

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RightResult relevance grouping for keyword search
results
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The Pro Enhancement
Easy toggle to see sort by date or title
Why is result 2 showing up?Note Reprint.
Originally published New York McGraw-Hill,
1958.
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The Pro Enhancement also!

• Improved display controls for Community Reviews
• Switch between behaviors with the change of a
  token
• Brief, inline, click headline to reveal
• Full, inline, body already displayed
• Static, box comes up below headline
• Overlay, box comes up in center of screen

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Useful resources

• WebPAC Pro FAQ
• http//csdirect.iii.com/faq/webpacpro.shtml
• Going Pro tour
• http//csdirect.iii.com/documentation/references/g
  oing_pro.shtml

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Example Sets classic Web OPAC WebPAC Pro

• Two versions, one with Pro features and many
  design improvements
• Updated between releases
• Change Notes
• Please report errors or issues!

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Coming in Release 2007

• New features for both Web OPAC and WebPAC Pro
• Pro is free, though, so why miss out?Get it all!
  Go Pro!

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R2007 Nearby On Shelf
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R2007 better messages

• On Order messages (now in messages.conf)
• No Copies Available (new web option) bring in
  sync with AVAILLIM_STATS definition of
  available suppress message from programs and
  resources
• Checkin box status labels (new web option)
  improved CSS control of display (phases out old
  web options)

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R2007 Forgot your password?
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R2007 Link into a scoped session

• Get to WebPAC from anywhere
• Use a link like sohttp//library.example.org/S3
• and retain that scope on subsequent searches

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R2007 improved support for the MARC21 standard
for cross-references

• Sexy version
• Mmm, baby, subfield w, byte 3
• Factual version
• 4xx and 5xx fields with a value in w/3 indicating
  a complex cross-reference may cause 6xx field to
  display and/or suppress display of 4xx/5xx field
  as appropriate.

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R2007 My List
From the bookcart
From the patron record
(also)
a bonus!
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R2007 codename BOOKEND

• Improved handling of multi-item self-bookings
  ending time!
• change "Maximum Booking Period" wording to
  "Available for "
• no end time selected when page first loads
• once a user selects an item, we will set the end
  time to the maximum bookable time for that item
• new token to choose Hourly calendar as default

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R2007 Programs Resources better integrated in
RightResult
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Also coming in R2007

• A new option for numeric-only values for patrons'
  PIN
• A warning will be provided above the list of
  checked out material as well as by the individual
  affected records when a renewal fails. IUG
  ballot

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Also coming in Release 2007

• Enable only strong Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
  encryption cyphers in the secure (HTTPS)
  interface to the WebPAC
• Support Blackboard server running in SSL mode for
  Courseware Integration - Blackboard
  pre-authenticated passthrough

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Also coming in R2007

• A new token for the indexed title will be
  available for use in brief citation.
• It will be possible to add book covers to Feed
  Builder feeds.
• Link to INN-Reach next to Your entry would be
  here in no hits browse

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• Questions?

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See Innovative _at_ IUG 15!

• Encore Booth / Millennium Self Check Exhibits
• CC/Exhibit Hall 1 Open During Exhibit Hours
• Innovative Help Desk Annex / Customer Sales
  Center
• CC/Room B Tuesday 11 a.m. 530 p.m.Wednesday
  8 11 a.m., 130 530 p.m.Thursday 8 a.m. 3
  p.m.