Newsletter - November 2007

In this issue

Greetings,

This is a busy time of the year especially as many maintenance contracts are due for renewal or projects have to be completed before the year end. We know that sometimes clients have money left in their budgets, so we have come up with a special upgrade offer for clients with older versions (see Upgrade pricing below). Even if you don't qualify for this deal, please do contact us to check on upgrade pricing or using our services to add functionality to your textbases or websites.

Andornot Calendars ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Soon we will be mailing out our calendar plus a few other flyers and special offers. As we send virtually nothing else to clients via snail mail anymore, we may not have your up-to-date address. Please let us know if you have moved recently.

This is part of our ongoing process to review our client contact lists as people leave, email addresses change etc. Some of you may already have talked to Rita Nienaber who has been helping us with this project.

Latest Andornot News

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Here are some of the public websites we've been working on lately. If these give you ideas for enhancing or snazzying up your own site, we'd be happy to give you a quote!

Imagine Canada

Andornot has just completed a major redesign of the Imagine Canada Nonprofit Library Commons web interfaces to their Catalogue, Promising Practices, and Links databases all of which have completely bilingual interfaces. This site has great examples of what can be done with Inmagic software and features "My List" functionality (modification of ESP) and ever so "social" user ratings and comments. This site also features Special Collections which are subsets of the main catalogue database. A handy quick search box was set up from their site to their hosted catalogue database on an Andornot server. In addition, the site uses canned search links to the library catalogue throughout the site to support user guides and new acquisition lists. http://library.imaginecanada.ca

OneSearch at the Saskatoon Public Library

The Saskatoon Public Library has been a long time user of Inmagic software. They use Inmagic's WebPublisher PRO to publish a wide range of databases such as the Saskatoon Obituary Index, Saskatchewan Art Exhibition Catalogues, Novels in Sequence, Sheet Music at the Library etc. These In-House Databases, can be searched individually or all at the same time with Andornot's OneSearch add-on. Test out SPL's OneSearch and think about your OneSearch possibilities. Do you have multiple databases? Would they lend themselves to being searched all at once? Contact Andornot for pricing.

City of Burnaby

Andornot was recently awarded a contract by the City of Burnaby to create new systems for the Archives and the Burnaby Village Museum Artifacts Collection. Watch for their website early next year!

S.J. Mckee Archives and Special Collections
The archives at Brandon University have used Archives Online v2 for several years to describe their archival holdings. They recently upgraded to WebPublisher PRO and we helped them design their web search interfaces using our Archives Web Starter Kit. We prototyped the site on our servers first and then transferred the site to their server. http://bartok.brandonu.ca/mainarchives.aspx

BC Teachers' Federation
Andornot worked with BCTF to create web interfaces for their library catalogue (available to members only) and the Audio/Video catalogue (public), see: http://bctf.ca/videos.aspx

New Brunswick South-East Regional Health Authority

SERHA is a brand new Andornot hosted client who purchased Andornot's Library Kit for their local databases, plus the WebPublisher Cart Add-on for their catalogue database on their library intranet (linked to our server via an internal referring URL).

Inmagic Updates

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· DB/TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO version 11 - Read more about the release schedule and new features.

Inmagic Passes 200th Genie Milestone - Press Release

@Inmagic Newsletter - October 2007 - Here's a quick reminder to check out the latest @Inmagic newsletter. Read it online or sign-up to receive future issues.

Inmagic Partner Days - Inmagic hosted 3 days of meetings at their Woburn, MA headquaters in early October for resellers from around the world. As well as hearing about future development plans, this was a great opportunity to socialize with Inmagic partners and staff, and discuss projects and new ideas.

Upgrade pricing

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Andornot is offering an opportunity for clients with very old versions of DB/TextWorks - pre version 5 - to upgrade to the current version at 30% off the regular price. All orders must be received by January 23rd 2008 to qualify.

Older versions of Inmagic software cannot usually be installed on Windows XP or Windows Vista and upgrading now will ensure that you can continue to access your databases if you switch to a new computer or upgrade your operating system. A one year subscription to the maintenance program is included which will provide you with version 11 of DB/TextWorks with Vista compatibility. Contact Andornot now for pricing.

Training workshops

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Andornot will be offering regularly scheduled introductory web-based workshops starting in December 2007. These will be offered via Webex and cost $100 for 1 hour. We will limit the number of attendees to ensure that everyone has a chance to ask questions during the session.

The first workshop will be held on Wednesday, December 5th 2007 at 10am PST / 1pm EST and will cover searching and displaying records. Please contact us at info@andornot.com to register. We will post the dates for future sessions on our News Blog. Please feel free to suggest any other topics you would like to see offered.

Quick Tip

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Clients often contact us concerned that they cannot get the right form in TextWorks to always show up. There are three places where forms can be specified and there is an order of precedence, so changing it in one place may not be enough.

When opening a textbase from a menu screen, the form selected in the Initial Elements tab of the menu screen box properties will override both the forms set under Maintain > Change Textbase Defaults and the last used form as set in the Display > Select Forms box. Don't forget you can have multiple boxes on your menu screen all accessing the same textbase but each loading different forms, for example, starting directly in an edit screen or having a label format come up first in a report form. This saves time as you don't need to then switch forms when you open the textbase. (See sample menu screen screenshot from the Andornot Library Kit.)

Cool tools

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One of our favorite tools is SlickRun which allows you to type into a command line box that is always visible at the bottom of your screen. It can be set up to load programs or websites with your own shortcut keys. So for example, "A" can load the Andornot website in your browser, "dbt" could load DB/TextWorks etc. You can even combine shortcuts to start several programs and websites in one command. It's a real timesaver if you switch programs frequently!

Latest Posts from our Developer Blog

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Visit our Andornot Developer's Blog

New arrivals

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Hello Evvy and Calem!

Andornot Consulting had a great but "anticipating" Labour Day Week (Really!)

Peter and Rachelle Tyrrell are proud to introduce Evangeline Alice Merilee born at 8:30am on August 31st, 2007 (weighing 7 lbs. 10oz)

Ted and Angela Jardine are happy to introduce their third child, Calem Nathaniel born at 8:50pm on September 7th, 2007 (weighing 9lbs. 8oz)