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Newsletter - April 2007
Latest Andornot News
Recent announcements from Inmagic have created some new opportunities. Are you looking for a web based solution that helps you manage a variety of different types of information?
Inmagic® Presto version 2.0, has just been released with many exciting new features. Please ask us for a demo or sign up for an Inmagic webinar to explore possibilities.
Secondly, Inmagic has now officially stopped selling the Library Module (also called DB/Text for Libraries)
which has not been updated for 4 years (Inmagic Kbase article 2960).
Andornot will continue to support clients who are still using the Library Module, and can also provide advice on upgrade alternatives or enhancements.
Many of you will want to jump straight to Inmagic Genie, and for those who do not need a completely web-based solution, we have developed the Andornot Library Kit.
- Andornot Library Kit
Do you want to hit the ground running with a Windows-based system that encompasses as many typical library functions as possible,
and with the flexibility to add even more? Andornot has developed many custom designed library databases and we have now incorporated the best of these into our new kit. It includes a separate textbase for Orders and Subscriptions which allows you to choose whether to add items to the catalogue or not. With one record per order, it is easy to keep track of multiple copies charged to different departments, personal or office copies and items ordered on approval and then returned.
Andornot is selling two versions of the kit, one with just a desktop interface, and one with a web search and display interface to the catalogue.
This might be all you need to get started. We are offering special pricing when both the
desktop and web interfaces are purchased together.
- Andornot Search Cannery updates
What is the fastest way to get your users familiar with your web-based textbase content? What if you wanted your users to see the latest additions to your textbase? The answer is to give them a few predefined topic searches or links that search for just new additions. So just what is behind those links? Is it some complex coding?
These are called "canned searches" and in the interest of saving you time, we have revamped our popular web page for generating them by adding even more functionality . You can now use this for creating Inmagic Genie canned searches and for using saved sets rather than constructing query strings. We have also increased the size of the query string box to allow you to paste in long and complex queries. Give the Cannery a try and see how easy this is!
Conferences
Conference season is here again and we look forward to seeing you at the following events:
We have allowed extra time in Ottawa for onsite visits. Please let us know if you would like to schedule some consulting or training.
Inmagic Notes
- Version 10
Are you using the latest version of the Inmagic software? Inmagic released version 10 of DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO in late December 2006.
The equivalent Content Server version 10 is slated for release this month.
Check out all the new features including a Google-type alternate search syntax and RSS feeds.
If you have a current Inmagic maintenance contract and are missing the download information for the latest version, send an email to advantage@inmagic.com with your company name and product serial number.
- Inmagic Announces Version 2.0 of Inmagic® Presto
Andornot is excited that we can now sell this new product to our clients. If you are the manager of multiple collections of diverse types of materials and want to share these through an easy to use interface that provides searching, directory tree style browsing, alerts, RSS feeds, etc., this may be the product for you. Check out the Press Release for more information.
To learn more about Presto, we recommend signing up for an Inmagic webinar and then contacting us for a private demo.
- @Inmagic Newsletter - March 2007
Here's a quick reminder to check out the latest @Inmagic newsletter. Read it online
or sign-up to receive future issues.
- Information Outlook cover story: Research Asset Management: 7 Ways to Improve Your Resource Bank
The February 2007 issue of Information Outlook features a cover
story "Research Asset Management: 7 Ways to Improve Your Resource Bank" by Mary Anne North, VP Marketing, Inmagic, Inc.
The article discusses best practices for research asset
management, i.e. how to handle the myriad information sources and content types used by organizations in their day to day operations.
Many examples are cited with case studies from various Inmagic clients.
We highly recommend this article to our
special library clients - please contact us to find out how we can help you put some
of these ideas into practice!
Click here to read the article which has been made available courtesy of SLA.
Tips & Hints
Save as Textbase File (Public)
Have you ever created a new form in your TextWorks program and found that you were in autopilot when you saved it?
At the very least you entered a Name for the form and ticked the Report Window button under Used For.
You probably skipped right over the Description box and sailed over the Save In options accepting the
default User File (Private) option
without even thinking. Now you go to add this form to your menu screen (Initial Elements) or you tell another user to
check it out, only to find that the form is no where to be found. You tell your colleague that you just made the form and to look again,
but alas it is not there – except on your machine. Why?
If you answered that you did not select the Textbase File (Public) option when you saved the form, you are right!
You will have to go back into the form and under Form Operations >> Save As select the Textbase File (Public) option to get this to
switch over. (While you are there enter something in the Description box).
Wouldn't it be nice if you did not have to
select that every time you save a form, a query screen or newly imported forms?
There is now a solution in TextWorks version 10. Under the Tools >> Options menu item on the TextWorks Menu bar, you
can tick the box for Save new forms, etc. in Textbase File (Public) by default and this will be the default for every form, etc. save.
This makes autopilot so much easier now.
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