2.59 Fields: OPAC Words: Previous through E-Mail Sent


2.59.1 Field 1 Function Keys


2.59.2 Field 2 Function Previous:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To rename the function which returns the user to the Previous window of the same nature, but not to the parent or Main window. For example, in a listing of holdings, while displaying Page 2, selecting Previous returns to Page 1. Function Previous is not displayed on Page 1 since there is no similar page for the return.


Format: It is any reasonable word such as "Previous", "Back", " Prior". CyberTools recommends avoiding "Back" since "Back" might confuse the user with web browser "Back" behavior.


2.59.3 Field 3 Function Next:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To rename the function which returns the user to the Next window of the same nature. For example, in a listing of holdings, while displaying Page 2, selecting Next progresses to Page 3. Function Next is not displayed on the last page in a series.


Format: Any reasonable word such as "Next", "Forward", "Continue" . CyberTools recommends avoiding "Forward" since "Forward" might confuse the user with web browser "Forward" behavior.


2.59.4 Field 4 Function These:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function These marks all of the selectable objects as selected. Once used, the window is repainted with the items selected, and push button These is absent from the window.


Format: It is any reasonable word.


2.59.5 Field 5 Function All:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function All selects the entire Search Results. This function only appears if the Search Property Immediate is not selected.


Format: Any reasonable words, such as "All", "Entire", or "Caboodle".


2.59.6 Field 6 Function Details:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Details displays the selected Holdings in a detailed format, including all bibliographic data and notes, and copy, item, and volume information.


2.59.7 Field 7 Function Help:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Help invokes context-sensitive help on the window.


Format: It is any reasonable word. You may also optionally use the question mark punctuation character "?".


2.59.8 Field 8 Function Main:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Main returns to the OPAC's Main Search window.


Format: It is any reasonable word. Since "Main" terminates the current function, "Cancel", "Close", or "Quit" might achieve the same end.


2.59.9 Field 9 Function Print:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Print outputs the data in a window to the workstation's default printer. For character terminals, the printer must be a slave printer. For Netscape Navigator 3 and Internet Explorer 3, the data are generated as HTML and shunted to the browser.


2.59.10 Field 10 Function Holdings:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Holdings closes the Select Author or Select Subject windows, and displays all of the holdings associated with authority.


Format: It is any reasonable word. Try "Works", "References", etc.


2.59.11 Field 11 Functions Keywords:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: This term appears in the Search By table and on the Search Results window.


2.59.12 Field 12 Functions Authors:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Authors returns to the Author Selection window from the Bibliographic Search Results window with the same term that is dictated here. Authors also appears in the Search By table on the Main windows.


2.59.13 Field 13 Functions Titles:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To specify the term which appears in the Search By field representing searching by Titles.


2.59.14 Field 14 Functions Journal Titles:
31 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To specify the phrase to represent searching for Journal Titles. This search is equivalent to searching by Title and by Material Type Serial.


2.59.15 Field 15 Numbers:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To rename term Numbers that appears in the Search By table on the Main windows. This term also appears in the title bar of the Search Results window when a Number search is performed.


Format: This is free text.


2.59.16 Field 16 Functions Subjects:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Subjects returns to the Subject Selection window from the following windows:

     - Bibliographic Search Results window;  
     - Define window;  
     - Subject Qualifiers window;  
     - Tree window.  
  

This phrase is not the term in the Search By table on the Main windows.


2.59.17 Field 17 Subject Headings:
30 characters, mandatory, tab stop


Purpose: To rename the Search By table term for a Subject Headings search for terms with citations (in contrast to displaying all of the subject headings). This is not the Enhanced Subject Headings term.


This is not the Function Subject found elsewhere (e.g., window to select Qualifiers, or the Details window).


Format: It is any text.


2.59.18 Field 18 Enhanced Subject Headings:
30 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To rename the Enhanced Subject Headings term found in the Search By table on the Main windows. The Enhanced Subject Headings search for all terms, with or without citations counts. Enhanced Subject Headings includes the additional functions Define and Explode.


This is not the Function Subject found elsewhere.


Format: It can be composed of any characters.


2.59.19 Field 19 Saved Results:
30 characters, mandatory


Purpose: To specify the term for collected search results found on the Power Search and beyond.


Format: It is any text. The user documentation will not reflect your change.


2.59.20 Field 20 E-mail Sent:
30 characters, mandatory


Purpose: This phrase is displayed in the Saved Results field as an acknowledgement to the user that the attempt to send e-mail was successful.


Format: It can be composed of any characters.


2.59.21 Field 21 Function Search Results:
20 characters, mandatory, tab stop


Purpose: Function Search Results returns from the Details window to the Search Results window suite, allowing modifications to the selected holdings list.


2.59.22 Field 22 Function Browse Holdings:
20 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Browse Holdings shows the current holding in relationship to the collection, i.e., this is a shelf list display. This function displays holdings as though you are browsing books on a shelf.


Format: Any reasonable words, including "Browse", "Browse Holdings", "Browse Works", "Shelf List", "Similar Works", etc.


2.59.23 Field 23 Function All Sites:
20 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function All Sites only appears in Multiple Library Site (MLS) installations, and enables the user to redisplay the item data for all collections.


2.59.24 Field 24 Function Details Properties:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: This function determines the format of the Details window. Selecting this function results in a Properties window where the user may select between the catalog card display or the MARC bibliographic display. If MARC is chosen, then further MARC conditions may be selected.


Format: It is a push button selection.


2.59.25 Field 25 Function Link:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Link launches the default browser for the specified Link. Represents URLs and images. For example, a bib might have a URL to an online journal or the source site.


Format: The word must allow appending a "s" to represent more than one link. Try "Link", "URL", etc.


2.59.26 Field 26 Function Volumes:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Volume invokes an additional window for specifying detailed volume information.


2.59.27 Field 27 Function DDS:
20 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function DDS invokes a suite of child windows to operate the Document Delivery System.


2.59.28 Field 28 Function Review:
20 characters, mandatory, tab stop


Purpose: Function Review is identical to Select Holdings. It returns from the Details window to the Review Holdings window suite, allowing modifications to the selected Holdings list. The difference between Select Holdings and Review is simply the window's title for the selection window.


2.59.29 Field 29 Function Hold:
15 characters, mandatory


Purpose: Function Hold empowers the patron to place a Hold on an item based on the Hold rules.


2.59.30 Field 30 Title "Browse Holdings":
20 characters, mandatory, tab stop


Purpose: To rename the title display Select from "Browse Holdings" which appears on the Select from Browse Holdings function. The title should tie into Detail's function "Browse Holdings".


Format: Any reasonable words that reflect both the concept of browsing and what is being browsed, including "Browse Holdings", "Browse Works", "Browse Shelf List", "Browse Similar Works", etc.


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