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Sub-Tabs >  
At the bottom of that Sub-Tab Information screen, an HTML Help File:
choice is allowed for each of the search Sub-Tabs.  You should be able
to create your own help files and save them into the same directory as
the default iPac help files.

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Rex R. Helwig
Computer Network Services Manager
Finger Lakes Library System
119 E. Green St.
Ithaca, NY  14850
vox (607) 273-4074 x40
fax (607) 273-3618
http://www/flls.org
mailto:rhelwig at flls.org



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ipac-admin at lists.tblc.org 
> [mailto:ipac-admin at lists.tblc.org] On Behalf Of Healy, Ron
> Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 10:59 AM
> To: 'ipac at lists.tblc.org'
> Subject: [ipac] Customizing iPAC
> 
> 
> Hello.  I am new to this listserve.  My college, Oakland 
> Community College
> (OCC) is part of DALNET, Detroit Area Library Network, which 
> will soon implement version 2.01.  Without being aware of all 
> the implications, we at OCC proceeded to customize the search 
> screens.  There's customizing, and then there's CUStomizing.  
> Our CUStomizing involved relabeling two search screens, as 
> well as writing our own search guides.  So now our search 
> screens are like this:
> 
> iPAC basic=OCC advanced
> iPAC advanced=OCC browse
> iPAC power=OCC browse
> 
> One result is that the iPAC help screens don't match the OCC 
> search screens. I'm not enamoured of iPAC's search screens so 
> I resolved to write my own guide for the three search 
> screens.  I assumed that we could change the help link on 
> screens to make it link to our own page.  I just learned from 
> our library systems director, however, that we cannot change 
> the link but that we could suppress it.  (I do Web pages but 
> the L.S. director works with the admin. Module, so I'm not as 
> knowledgeable about this as most of you out
> there.)  Okay, so I put the link to my guide in the row with 
> links to the different search screens. But I realize that 
> users could get to iPAC's help screens, to their confusion, 
> by a back door.  That is, they could link from, say, a 
> results screen to iPAC help, and thence to the User's Guide.  
> This raises the possibility of suppressing links to the 
> User's Guide from all the help screens...
> 
> Have I created a whole lot of work for myself?  Is all this 
> CUStomization out the window with the next iPAC upgrade?  We 
> have only the systems director and me to work on this; she's 
> overworked and I'm pretty busy myself.  Should we just go 
> back to the out-of-the-box iPAC and maybe do minor 
> modifications of iPAC help screens?  Any other options?  Your 
> informed advice would be appreciated.
> 
> Ron Healy, Librarian                 248-522-3531
> Oakland Community College    
> 27055 Orchard Lake Road    
> Farmington Hills MI 48334
> <mailto:rehealy at oaklandcc.edu>
> 
> 
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