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Sunday, June 22, 2008

Andornot and Inmagic at SLA in Seattle

We exhibited at the Special Libraries Association conference in Seattle last week and greatly enjoyed meeting many of our clients at the booth and at the Inmagic customer appreciation reception.

Inmagic released a flurry of announcements in conjunction with the conference:

The announcement that Genie will soon be available on the DB/Text platform is welcome news as it should mean a simpler install and upgrade path. Clients with non library related textbases will no longer have to convert these to the CS version.

Check out the new Inmagic blog and subscribe to their feed to keep up to date with news and announcements.   You can of course also contact us if you have any questions.

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Tuesday, June 10, 2008

BCTF Resource-Person Database updated

Andornot has recently completed a redesign of the resource-person database for the BC Teachers' Federation.  This is a comprehensive listing of session leaders and speakers on current education topics and issues. The database matches speakers/presenters and sessions to specific needs.

The original interface had been around for many years, and behind the scenes data was stored in multiple very old Access databases. Andornot converted the data, set up desktop interfaces to new CS/TextWorks textbases - one for workshops linked back to a secondary textbase for resource persons.  The web interface using CS/WebPublisher PRO outside the firewall is based on our Andornot Starter Kit.  We were able to use most of the the same external template files (set up in DB/TextWorks as seams or includes) as for a previous project for searching videos. The interface matches the rest of the BCTF web site, and any updates can be handled easily through edits to just a couple of files.

Contact us for more information.

Thursday, June 5, 2008

Andornot Newsletter - June 2008

Please check out the latest issue of our newsletter.

In this issue:

Latest Andornot News

  • SALIS conference presentation - Web 2.0 enhancements to your library catalog
  • Andornot releases selected Inmagic WebPublisher PRO enhancement scripts under an MIT Open Source license

Latest Andornot Projects

  • Heritage Burnaby
  • McGill Hospital Libraries

Inmagic Updates

  • Inmagic at SLA
  • @Inmagic Newsletter April 2008
  • New Versions of DB/TextWorks, DB/Text WebPublisher PRO and Genie Released

Quick Tip

Cool Tools

Latest Posts from our Developers' Blog

Inmagic WebPublisher PRO version 11 has been released

Inmagic, Inc. released DB/Text WebPublisher PRO version 11 last week.  All clients with current maintenance subscriptions should have received a download notification email. If your contact information has changed please email advantage@inmagic.com giving your serial number and ask Inmagic to re-send.

Check out the new features list on the Inmagic web site.

Contact Andornot if you need to book some consulting assistance to assist with the install or for training on the new features.

Monday, May 26, 2008

DB/TextWorks 11.0 Service Pack 1 now available

Inmagic, Inc. have announced that a service pack is now available for DB/TextWorks version 11.

This service pack includes fixes for the following issues.

  • Substitution lists where the code to the left of the colon is a single character do not perform the substitution
  • Several issues with Export Query Screen to HTML and Export Editing Form to HTML
  • A few issues with the HTML Preview feature in the Query Screen Designer
  • Added HTML Preview to available toolbar buttons for Query Screen Designer
  • Form Designer: addressed issue with "Large buttons on toolbars" option

The Service pack can be downloaded from the Inmagic Customer extranet at http://support.inmagic.com/downloads/extranet-files/service_packs.html

Monday, April 21, 2008

Andornot releases selected Inmagic WebPublisher PRO enhancement scripts under open source license

Andornot is pleased to announce that many of our scripts for use with Inmagic WebPublisher PRO are now available under an MIT open source license. Anyone is now free to use reuse, redistribute, modify etc. these scripts as long as the following license text is retained.

Copyright (c) 2003-2008, Peter Tyrrell and Andornot Consulting Inc.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Neither the name "Peter Tyrrell" nor "Andornot Consulting Inc."
may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software
without specific prior written permission.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Check out our demo site at http://ask.andornot.com and view source to get the path to these scripts for enhancing search and display pages. Calls to these scripts will need to be made from forms using either the Inmagic DB/Text or CS/Text Form Designer.

If you need assistance implementing these scripts, this can be arranged through a consulting contract with Andornot. Contact us for more information and pricing. Alternatively, many of our add-on products such as our Starter Kits include sample query screens and forms with the scripts already incorporated.


Tuesday, April 1, 2008

Inmagic releases DB/TextWorks version 11

Email download notifications are now being sent out by Inmagic, Inc. for DB/TextWorks version 11 to all clients on the Inmagic maintenance program.

DB/TextWorks version 11 features include:
  • Microsoft Vista compatibility
  • Limited Undo in the Form Designer
  • File Checker to verify that files referenced on the local directory or network still exist.
  • Ability to select form for Edit Secondary Record window
  • HTML report preview
  • Dead URL Link Checker enhanced to allow the contents of the status field to be replaced or appended.
Compatibility: Version 11 can be used with WebPublisher PRO version 10. DB/TextWorks version 11 may be compatible with earlier versions of WebPublisher PRO but these have not been tested and are not supported.

Version 11 of WebPublisher PRO is due out in the next few months. No date has yet been announced for CS/TextWorks or CS/WebPublisher PRO version 11. For more information please see the Inmagic website.

If you have a current subscription but have not received a notification email in the next week or so, please email advantage@inmagic.com with your serial number and email address so it can be resent.

Please contact us if you would like assistance implementing these new features or want to renew an expired maintenance subscription.