From libx.org at gmail.com Mon Dec 1 17:33:23 2008 From: libx.org at gmail.com (LibX Project) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 20:33:23 -0500 Subject: [LibX] code4lib voting reminder Message-ID: <719dced30812011733p6318371ax8991ec9e4a98c19f@mail.gmail.com> Hi, the voting for presentations for Code4Lib 2009 is currently open at http://code4lib.org/node/265 Voting will be open until Wed, Dec 3rd. We need your vote to be able to present at Code4Lib. We are planning to give an overview of the LibX 2.0 API that allows per-edition customization of cues and the creation of new ones. To vote, you needn't be registered for code4lib (registration isn't open anyway yet), but you need to have a code4lib account; instructions for how to get one are one the code4lib.org website. Thank you! - Godmar From aikhokar at cs.vt.edu Wed Dec 3 13:49:39 2008 From: aikhokar at cs.vt.edu (Arif Khokar) Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 16:49:39 -0500 Subject: [LibX] LibX extension for IE version 1.0 released Message-ID: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> We now have version 1.0 of the LibX extension for IE out. We've addressed the all users install issue, and added a first run dialog to allow users to enable or disable the toolbar component as needed. As always, please rebuild your edition to see these changes. -- Arif Khokar aikhokar at cs.vt.edu From schang at bridgew.edu Wed Dec 3 14:33:03 2008 From: schang at bridgew.edu (Chang, Sheau-Hwang) Date: Wed, 3 Dec 2008 17:33:03 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> Message-ID: Hello, I am posting this message for our IT staff. This fall, our IT installed my library's IE toolbar on the public computers on the entire campus through image deployment. As we made some changes lately to the library toolbar due to database changes, we need to replace the current toolbar with an updated version. In order not to recreate a new image and then deploy it to the campus computers, our IT staff would like to know if there's an efficient way to update the toolbars. Your help will be greatly appreciated! Best, Sheau-Hwang From godmar at gmail.com Thu Dec 4 14:58:51 2008 From: godmar at gmail.com (Godmar Back) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 17:58:51 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> Message-ID: <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> There's no way to force an update from the outside, but the toolbar can be updated on each given machine. You're raising a good point, though. For IE, we could have an option that triggers updates without user intervention. It could be an option in the edition builder. - Godmar On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Chang, Sheau-Hwang wrote: > Hello, > > I am posting this message for our IT staff. > > This fall, our IT installed my library's IE toolbar on the public > computers on the entire campus through image deployment. As we made > some changes lately to the library toolbar due to database changes, we > need to replace the current toolbar with an updated version. In order > not to recreate a new image and then deploy it to the campus computers, > our IT staff would like to know if there's an efficient way to update > the toolbars. Your help will be greatly appreciated! > > Best, > Sheau-Hwang > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > From schang at bridgew.edu Thu Dec 4 15:53:49 2008 From: schang at bridgew.edu (Chang, Sheau-Hwang) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 18:53:49 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: Godmar, It is a quite important to have this capability. Our IT only creates desktop images for the library and the labs on the campus and deploys them at the beginning of each semester. Unless something breaks, it is very difficult to ask them to re-create images. Please consider this situation in the future development. As to the option of triggering the updates, would you please let me know where I can find this information? Thanks, Sheau-Hwang ________________________________ From: Godmar Back [mailto:godmar at gmail.com] Sent: Thu 12/4/2008 5:58 PM To: Chang, Sheau-Hwang Cc: libx at mozdev.org Subject: Re: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment There's no way to force an update from the outside, but the toolbar can be updated on each given machine. You're raising a good point, though. For IE, we could have an option that triggers updates without user intervention. It could be an option in the edition builder. - Godmar On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Chang, Sheau-Hwang wrote: > Hello, > > I am posting this message for our IT staff. > > This fall, our IT installed my library's IE toolbar on the public > computers on the entire campus through image deployment. As we made > some changes lately to the library toolbar due to database changes, we > need to replace the current toolbar with an updated version. In order > not to recreate a new image and then deploy it to the campus computers, > our IT staff would like to know if there's an efficient way to update > the toolbars. Your help will be greatly appreciated! > > Best, > Sheau-Hwang > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > From aikhokar at cs.vt.edu Thu Dec 4 16:17:35 2008 From: aikhokar at cs.vt.edu (Arif Khokar) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 19:17:35 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <4938731F.9040303@cs.vt.edu> Chang, Sheau-Hwang wrote: > Godmar, > > It is a quite important to have this capability. Our IT only creates > desktop images for the library and the labs on the campus and deploys > them at the beginning of each semester. Unless something breaks, it > is very difficult to ask them to re-create images. Please consider > this situation in the future development. One option, which doesn't exist now, would be to implement an update for configuration files only. This way, computers running the extension can automatically retrieve updated files from our server. Ideally we would want to minimize the number of scenarios that require one to actually rebuild the program libraries that the extension depends on (the installation of those requires Administrative privileges). The problem with that is that with the current design, adding new catalog types, for instance, requires the sources for the extension to be rebuilt and uploaded to the server. > As to the option of triggering the updates, would you please let me > know where I can find this information? Right now, updates are triggered either automatically by querying our server to check whether a new version of the edition is available or manually through the preferences menu. In either case, IE must be running with Administrator rights in order to complete the update process. -- Arif Khokar aikhokar at cs.vt.edu From schang at bridgew.edu Thu Dec 4 16:43:26 2008 From: schang at bridgew.edu (Chang, Sheau-Hwang) Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 19:43:26 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> <4938731F.9040303@cs.vt.edu> Message-ID: I know about the manual update through the Preferences update page, but I am not clear about querying your server automatically. How to set it up and how to make it run automatically on every imaged computer? Sheau-Hwang ________________________________ From: Arif Khokar [mailto:aikhokar at cs.vt.edu] Sent: Thu 12/4/2008 7:17 PM To: Chang, Sheau-Hwang Cc: Godmar Back; libx at mozdev.org Subject: Re: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment Chang, Sheau-Hwang wrote: > Godmar, > > It is a quite important to have this capability. Our IT only creates > desktop images for the library and the labs on the campus and deploys > them at the beginning of each semester. Unless something breaks, it > is very difficult to ask them to re-create images. Please consider > this situation in the future development. One option, which doesn't exist now, would be to implement an update for configuration files only. This way, computers running the extension can automatically retrieve updated files from our server. Ideally we would want to minimize the number of scenarios that require one to actually rebuild the program libraries that the extension depends on (the installation of those requires Administrative privileges). The problem with that is that with the current design, adding new catalog types, for instance, requires the sources for the extension to be rebuilt and uploaded to the server. > As to the option of triggering the updates, would you please let me > know where I can find this information? Right now, updates are triggered either automatically by querying our server to check whether a new version of the edition is available or manually through the preferences menu. In either case, IE must be running with Administrator rights in order to complete the update process. -- Arif Khokar aikhokar at cs.vt.edu From aikhokar at cs.vt.edu Thu Dec 4 17:02:06 2008 From: aikhokar at cs.vt.edu (Arif Khokar) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:02:06 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> <4938731F.9040303@cs.vt.edu> Message-ID: <49387D8E.90501@cs.vt.edu> Chang, Sheau-Hwang wrote: > I know about the manual update through the Preferences update page, but I > am not clear about querying your server automatically. How to set it up > and how to make it run automatically on every imaged computer? The behavior is switched on by default. The only requirement for automatic updates is to leave Internet Explorer running under administrative privileges for several hours. Usually it checks for updates once every 24 hours, but the interval is (or should be) shortened each time IE is closed and restarted. -- Arif Khokar aikhokar at cs.vt.edu From aikhokar at cs.vt.edu Thu Dec 4 18:16:39 2008 From: aikhokar at cs.vt.edu (Arif Khokar) Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:16:39 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: <847E56CCF2682C41B52795B54701AEC67746B4B5D2@MAIL.admin.tc3.edu> References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> <4938731F.9040303@cs.vt.edu> <49387D8E.90501@cs.vt.edu> <847E56CCF2682C41B52795B54701AEC67746B4B5D2@MAIL.admin.tc3.edu> Message-ID: <49388F07.5020102@cs.vt.edu> Wilfred Drew wrote: > One problem with this kind of update is that I have admin access on > machines but in admin mode there is no connection to the internet only > to the campus network. The problem boils down to how Windows handles add-ons to Internet Explorer. In order to register an add-on, one needs to have Administrative privileges (mainly due to the fact that certain keys in the Windows registry that only the Administrator group has access to need to be written/modified). -- Arif Khokar aikhokar at cs.vt.edu From godmar at gmail.com Fri Dec 5 06:17:49 2008 From: godmar at gmail.com (Godmar Back) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:17:49 -0500 Subject: [LibX] update toolbar through image deployment In-Reply-To: <49388F07.5020102@cs.vt.edu> References: <4936FEF3.1070003@cs.vt.edu> <719dced30812041458r8745fcdrb8d06fc52083208b@mail.gmail.com> <4938731F.9040303@cs.vt.edu> <49387D8E.90501@cs.vt.edu> <847E56CCF2682C41B52795B54701AEC67746B4B5D2@MAIL.admin.tc3.edu> <49388F07.5020102@cs.vt.edu> Message-ID: <719dced30812050617j7df7d10if33091ca8d15b6f7@mail.gmail.com> The .exe install is self-contained if you check the "Include .DLL option" in the My Edition page. Then you can copy your libx-.....exe build to your intranet on a server there and install it from there. - Godmar On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Arif Khokar wrote: > Wilfred Drew wrote: > >> One problem with this kind of update is that I have admin access on >> machines but in admin mode there is no connection to the internet only to >> the campus network. > > The problem boils down to how Windows handles add-ons to Internet Explorer. > In order to register an add-on, one needs to have Administrative privileges > (mainly due to the fact that certain keys in the Windows registry that only > the Administrator group has access to need to be written/modified). > > -- > Arif Khokar > aikhokar at cs.vt.edu > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > From dansich at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 10:57:43 2008 From: dansich at gmail.com (Dan Sich) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:57:43 -0500 Subject: [LibX] loganalysis: # IPs accessing update.rdf ? Message-ID: <1118ef3d0812081057x516ddf53qdb950bcac19e42d7@mail.gmail.com> Hi Godmar, Re. the loganalysis, I'm seeing the following: Unique IPs accessing update.rdf within last 7 days: 0 Total accesses to update.rdf within last 7: 0 This seems to indicate that -- during the week prior to the last extract -- no one had our version of LibX installed on their machines. Am I interpreting these numbers correctly? It's my understanding that an IP accesses the update.rdf daily -- regardless of whether or not it has the most up-to-date version of LibX installed -- and that these accesses should show up in this part of the loganalysis. Thanks, Dan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From godmar at gmail.com Mon Dec 8 11:44:31 2008 From: godmar at gmail.com (Godmar Back) Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2008 14:44:31 -0500 Subject: [LibX] loganalysis: # IPs accessing update.rdf ? In-Reply-To: <1118ef3d0812081057x516ddf53qdb950bcac19e42d7@mail.gmail.com> References: <1118ef3d0812081057x516ddf53qdb950bcac19e42d7@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <719dced30812081144r4f343dd5lad50964aaa5d7106@mail.gmail.com> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Dan Sich wrote: > Hi Godmar, > Re. the loganalysis, I'm seeing the following: > > Unique IPs accessing update.rdf within last 7 days: 0 > Total accesses to update.rdf within last 7: 0 > > This seems to indicate that -- during the week prior to the last extract -- > no one had our version of LibX installed on their machines. Am I > interpreting these numbers correctly? Or, at least, no one had Firefox running. update.rdf isn't polled if Firefox hasn't been started. - Godmar > It's my understanding that an IP accesses the update.rdf daily -- regardless > of whether or not it has the most up-to-date version of LibX installed -- > and that these accesses should show up in this part of the loganalysis. > Thanks, > Dan > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > > From dansich at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 08:02:26 2008 From: dansich at gmail.com (Dan Sich) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:02:26 -0500 Subject: [LibX] cue icon Message-ID: <1118ef3d0812150802lcf39c2cn34e333b248e0a597@mail.gmail.com> Hi folks, My cue icon (which I have set to a local graphic) seems to be defaulting to my edition icon (which I haven't changed from the LibX "L")... such that when I look at a book in Amazon (for example) I see the LibX "L" rather than my chosen graphic. Is this a known problem? Thanks, Dan Sich University of Western Ontario -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From godmar at gmail.com Mon Dec 15 08:58:15 2008 From: godmar at gmail.com (Godmar Back) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:58:15 -0500 Subject: [LibX] cue icon In-Reply-To: <1118ef3d0812150802lcf39c2cn34e333b248e0a597@mail.gmail.com> References: <1118ef3d0812150802lcf39c2cn34e333b248e0a597@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <719dced30812150858u7598a6em2feb67f990ce6081@mail.gmail.com> No, it's not a known problem. It may be a problem with your edition configuration. Please send email to libx.editions at gmail.com and include which edition and revision you're using. LibX first checks if there is a per-catalog icon configured, then looks if a cue icon is configured, then falls back to the edition icon. - Godmar On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM, Dan Sich wrote: > Hi folks, > > My cue icon (which I have set to a local graphic) seems to be defaulting to > my edition icon (which I haven't changed from the LibX "L")... such that > when I look at a book in Amazon (for example) I see the LibX "L" rather than > my chosen graphic. Is this a known problem? > > Thanks, > Dan Sich > University of Western Ontario > > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > > From dansich at gmail.com Mon Dec 22 07:33:00 2008 From: dansich at gmail.com (Dan Sich) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:33:00 -0500 Subject: [LibX] LibX + WebFeat? Message-ID: <1118ef3d0812220733w293561bagaf11f80e2c445c3e@mail.gmail.com> Hi all, Has anyone been successful in adding WebFeat to their list of LibX-searchable catalogues? If so, what is the correct Bookmarklet URL Template? Thanks, Dan Sich University of Western Ontario -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From godmar at gmail.com Mon Dec 22 08:09:56 2008 From: godmar at gmail.com (Godmar Back) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:09:56 -0500 Subject: [LibX] LibX + WebFeat? In-Reply-To: <1118ef3d0812220733w293561bagaf11f80e2c445c3e@mail.gmail.com> References: <1118ef3d0812220733w293561bagaf11f80e2c445c3e@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <719dced30812220809p2b5e9646t2fc7a02f3bce7c0@mail.gmail.com> I believe it's not possible via URL bookmarklet templating as it requires special session handling. A custom javascript implementation (a custom catalog you can configured) is necessary. To my knowledge, no one has implemented it yet. - Godmar On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Dan Sich wrote: > Hi all, > Has anyone been successful in adding WebFeat to their list of > LibX-searchable catalogues? If so, what is the correct Bookmarklet URL > Template? > Thanks, > Dan Sich > University of Western Ontario > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > > From mark.mounts at dartmouth.edu Mon Dec 22 12:44:33 2008 From: mark.mounts at dartmouth.edu (Mark Mounts) Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:44:33 -0500 Subject: [LibX] Libx Digest, Vol 29, Issue 6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <494FFC31.8050105@dartmouth.edu> Here is what Dartmouth uses: http://wfxsearch.webfeat.org/wfsearch/search ?Command=Search &Client_ID= YOUR CLIENT ID &rtmpl=js &format=JS &wf_codeset=utf-8 &noserial=1 &wf_all_years=yes &useSessions=1 &wf_field1=wf_all &selectedCatName= CATEGORY NAME &Databases= DATABASE IDs IN THAT CATEGORY (separated by commas; an example would be wf_ebscoxml_bth,wf_wilson_humabs,wf_artfulltext,wf_ebscoxml_ahl,wf_pubmed) &wf_term1= LIBX VARIABLE FOR SEARCH TERMS you can use WebFeat's Quick Search Code Generator to create the search you want and then load the resulting URL of the SRC attribute of the SCRIPT tag into a browser to see the search form and figure out how to construct the appropriate URL for libx. Mark Mounts Dartmouth College Library libx-request at mozdev.org wrote: > Send Libx mailing list submissions to > libx at mozdev.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > libx-request at mozdev.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > libx-owner at mozdev.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Libx digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. LibX + WebFeat? (Dan Sich) > 2. Re: LibX + WebFeat? (Godmar Back) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:33:00 -0500 > From: "Dan Sich" > Subject: [LibX] LibX + WebFeat? > To: libx at mozdev.org > Message-ID: > <1118ef3d0812220733w293561bagaf11f80e2c445c3e at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi all, > Has anyone been successful in adding WebFeat to their list of > LibX-searchable catalogues? If so, what is the correct Bookmarklet URL > Template? > Thanks, > > Dan Sich > University of Western Ontario > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 11:09:56 -0500 > From: "Godmar Back" > Subject: Re: [LibX] LibX + WebFeat? > To: "Dan Sich" > Cc: libx at mozdev.org > Message-ID: > <719dced30812220809p2b5e9646t2fc7a02f3bce7c0 at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I believe it's not possible via URL bookmarklet templating as it > requires special session handling. > A custom javascript implementation (a custom catalog you can > configured) is necessary. To my knowledge, no one has implemented it > yet. > > - Godmar > > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Dan Sich wrote: >> Hi all, >> Has anyone been successful in adding WebFeat to their list of >> LibX-searchable catalogues? If so, what is the correct Bookmarklet URL >> Template? >> Thanks, >> Dan Sich >> University of Western Ontario >> _______________________________________________ >> Libx mailing list >> Libx at mozdev.org >> https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx >> >> > > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Libx mailing list > Libx at mozdev.org > https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/libx > > > End of Libx Digest, Vol 29, Issue 6 > ***********************************