Utilising Millennium Ports to Restrict Discovery of the Library Collections via WebPac Search Renata...

Utilising Millennium Ports to Restrict Discovery of the Library Collections via WebPac Search

Renata DyerManager, Systems and Electronic ServicesHigh Court of Australia Library

AIUG Conference, 2010

Background•The HCA WebPac is made available

publicly•The Library Collections contain material

that has to be suppressed from the public view

•Prior to March 2010, a range of individual items were suppressed

•Library patrons were required to logon to Staff View in order to discover all material

Utilising Millennium Ports to Restrict Discovery of the Library Collections via WebPac SearchHigh Court of Australia Library


Searching in WebPac: Issues

•Home WebPac page on Intranet opened /patroninfo (logon page) forcing the patrons to logon prior to searching

•The records were displayed in Staff View – not user friendly

•External users did not have any issues



Purpose of the Project

•Enabling our users to seamlessly access WebPac without logging on and viewing records in the Staff Mode

•To restrict WebPac access to specific material held in the Library collections in more secured way



Investigating possible solutions

•Learning about scopes•Library purchased four scopes in the past

and only 2 have been used•Service Request submitted inquiring if

ports/scopes can be used to restrict what is displayed in public view without the suppression on item level

•Talking to III Senior Systems Librarian: Ports? Scopes? Network Access Logon?



Phases

1. Opening new port (III)2. Creating new scope. The purpose of the scope

was to nominate locations discoverable in public search (PublicOpac)(III)

3. Creating a new logon (Library)Two logons were used to ensure access is controlled for each port.

4. New wwwoptions2080 added to Mil Admin – Settings – Web Options tab (III)

5. Lockscope configured in Mil Admin - Web Options; F for 2080 and T for 80 (Library)



Telnet configuration

•New port 2080 created by III•The port is configured in the Network

Access Administration Table; Telnet path A-A-L-N



Telnet configuration - cont•Two distinctive logons are applied: hcweb

and web•Web logon is associated with ‘old’ port 80 –

locked to PublicOpac scopeA-A-L-L

•Hcweb logon is associated with new 2080 port – scope not locked



Logons

Millennium Ports Administered via TelnetAdministered via Mill Admin wwwoptions files

80208

0208

2

hcweb

no scope

WebPublicOpa

c scope

hcweb

Scopes

Ports, Logons and Scopes

Classic OPAC: shared screens files

Lockscope=F Lockscope=T



toplogo_s3.htmltoplogo_s3.html

toplogo.htmltoplogo.htmlWebPac Pro

/ =mainmenu.html /search =opacmenu.html

Further Customisation of the ScreensIssue: screens files were shared; two OPAC

views looked exactly the same.•But….the scopes displayed in the menu on

port 80 did not function….Initial (and partial) Solution: •The “/search” returns opacmenu.html and

“/” returns mainmenu.html. The opacmenu.html changed (III) to hide

scopes but STARTOVER would still go to mainmenu.html and reveal scopes.



HTML changes in opacmenu.htmlThe "opacmenu.html" file was changed from:

<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=/search~/a?a>^M ^M

to this: <FORM METHOD=POST ACTION=/search/a?a> 

Two things are accomplished: by indenting the 'scope' token, it becomesdisabled, and the scope dropdown disappears from the page.

This work was done by Mark Welge, Senior Systems Librarian, III

Adjusting the WebPac view for External Users

WebPac Pro Opportunities•The wwwoptions.2080 file was edited so that

the STARTOVER returned to / instead of /search.

•WEBPAC allows separate toplogo files for separate scopes: toplogo_s3.html was edited so that the Library Home link returned to / instead of /search. The internal users are now returned to mainmenu.html instead of opacmenu.html.



Risk Management•Risks associated with upgrading or making

any changes in WebPac

Example: With recent WebPac Pro Refresher service we lost STARTOVER editing done in the wwwoptions.2080 and this had to be redone

Tip: - record your configuration and original Service Request Ref. No. and share it with III when needed



Questions? Comments?

Send an email to [email protected]

Thank you.



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