Progress on Spanish Opac 6/29/10

Worked a little this morning before LLT meeting.

• Mostly worked on "patronview_spi.html" which is the information screen you get when you want to view your account.

Created the page which is mostly tokens. Noticed that I needed to create the following buttons:

• pat_sortbydue (note: will need to add to wwwoptions for _spi activation)
  
• pat_renewmark (note: these two must already be in wwwoptions because they display)
  
• pat_renewall

• The message at the top of the screen is system generated and I see no place to change to Spanish. Will need to investigate further.

• Also noticed that when logged in that the log out link and logout button return the user to the English language catalog.

the code for both of those is /logout?

Changed to /logout?*spi and that seems to work

• Began to work on "pverify3_web.html" which is the verification screen you get when you want to request an item. There are some repeating elements so I need to start from scratch on this one.

Progress on Spanish Opac 6/28/10

Worked on srchhelp pages today:

• Changed the search tool to a standard using the color green (#D1EFD8)
• Changed the form focus on all the pages because it sent the cursor to the second entry box on all the forms. The setting was changed from elements[1] to [[body onLoad="document.forms[0].elements[0].focus();]] Note I changed the angle bracket to square brackets to see it here.
• Cleaned up link errors on several pages.

Images:

• Cancelar
• Limitar/Ordenar

Changes to other files to make the searchtool green:

• briefcit / _resources / _auth
  
• added a style at the top for the browseSearchtool
  
• added a style to AVS advancedSearchtool
• need to work on other results pages to figure out how to style the search tool on those pages (for example, the bib display page)

Need to work on the pverify_web files.

Progress on Spanish Opac 6/25/10

6/25/10

Revised:

• pverify_web_spi.htm to make it work
• wwwoptions to add button referrals
• viewsaves_web_spi.html (new)
  
• request_result_spi.html (new)
  

Created buttons:

• clear_form_spi.gif
• clear_all_spi.gif
• delete_selected_spi.gif
• savemarked_spi.gif
• save_all_spi.gif
• ret2prec_spi.gif

Need to work on the following next:

Requesting and Exporting Forms

WebPAC File Name	Command Link	HTML File Name
Legend:
Done		To Do
Book Cart Form	NONE	viewsaves_web_spi.html
Request Verification Form	NONE	pverify3_web_spi.html
Batch Requesting Form	NONE	pverify4_web_spi.html
Pickup Location Selection Form	NONE	pickuploc_select.html
Request Results Form	NONE	request_result_spi.html
Single Request Item Selection Form	NONE	item_select.html
Course Reserves	NONE	pverify6_web.html

Spanish Opac

UPDATE: The link to the draft catalog is on this page:
http://library.austincc.edu/SpanOpac-draft.htm
Note: The draft catalog is viewable only on campus.

Thanks to Teresa's translation* of the search help pages, we are ahead of the game.

• Updated the wwwoptions file for _spi entries and button_spi names.
• Modified and created _spi buttons and graphics.
• Loaded Teresa's files*.
• Done the preliminary toplogo_spi file. [Note: needs diacritics fix.]

There are still several files to be created or fixed, e.g.,

• opacmenu_spi/mainmenu_spi
• toplogo_loggedin_spi
• webpub_spi.def
• possible other pverify pages
• view saves pages
• e-resources page
  
• possible buttons to be done (Clear Form, Other Resources ???, ...)
  

Teresa's files:

• pverify_web_spi.html
• srchhelp_a_spi.html
• srchhelp_c_spi.html
• srchhelp_d_spi.html {Fix Palabra link to *spi}
• srchhelp_i_spi.html
• srchhelp_j_spi.html {Fix Palabra link to *spi}
• srchhelp_m_spi.html
• srchhelp_p_spi.html
• srchhelp_q_spi.html
• srchhelp_r_spi.html
• srchhelp_s_spi.html
• srchhelp_t_spi.html
• srchhelp_X_spi.html
• srchhelp_Y_spi.html

Proposed Changes to Home Page

Adding Search Boxes to the Home Page

Prompted by the Integrated Article Search Box from Ebsco on the E-Resources page, the Web Committee explored adding it to the Home Page. This necessitated revising the search box to the Library Catalog so that they would look somewhat alike. (Note: the search box is a widget from EbscoHost and is really an image so we had to do something similar for the catalog search box.) Sylvia Owens, Reference Facilitator, was consulted and her input incorporated into the draft page.

http://library.austincc.edu/index-libhomeboxes-Owens.php

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Resolution of links to the E-Resources Page

After much discussion and getting input from librarians and students, the Web Committee is proposing one (1) link from the sidebar menu heading (Articles & Research) to replace the current two (2) links: A-Z List of E-Resources and E-Resources by Subject.

We've played around with lots of wording and tentatively propose Articles & Reference.

The wording can be seen through the link above to the page with search boxes.

Solving the E-Resources links problem

During the break, I was asked to make the destination of the links to the A-Z list a little clearer (among some other things). Here's what I attempted to do:

• Highlight the A-Z area on the e-res page when the A-Z link is clicked and
• Highlight the Browse Databases area when the E-resources by Subject is clicked.
• I felt the other suggestions were not significant or not feasible and decided to stick with the two suggestions above.

This actually worked wonderfully well and the areas were highlighted with one of the cyan colors and stood out modestly but visibly on my desktop and Eddie's desktop on both Firefox and Internet Explorer 8. HOWEVER...

When we tested on the PACS, the highlighting did not show up unless you were directly in front of the screen. If you were even a little to the side, you could not see the highlighting. Aargh! (Imagine my chagrin. Fortunately, the EVC staff were amused by my tantrum.)

While I think that this is the better solution, we cannot implement if the highlighting isn't visible on our PACs. So, I made the head of each section Red and Large when the appropriate link is clicked. I may try something different this week if I can think of something.