Follett VERSION 6.00 Manuale Utente

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Searching your library in the visual interface

The visual interface is designed for the lessexperienced patron. Its windows

have abbreviated information, easytouse controls, and a more graphical

appearance than the text interface. It incorporates preconfigured searches, a

simplified typein window, and access to other applications and the Internet.
Unlike the text interface, where the patron must enter a search term and select an

index, in the visual interface, the patron merely clicks an action button to get

results. The visual interface comes with several preconfigured action button sets;

you can use these buttons and sets, change them, or create your own in Setup

(please see page 415 for more information).
To open the visual interface, you must first enable it in Setup by choosing Visual

OPAC Only or Let Patron Decide on the General OPAC Setup tab (see page 405).

If you chose Let Patron Decide, launch the visual interface by selecting Tools |

Go to Visual OPAC on the menu or by clicking the toolbar button. If you chose

Visual OPAC Only, you see the following image when you launch your OPAC.

This is the main window, populated with the default home button set:

Button for changing to the text

interface - visible only if you chose

Let Patron Decide in Setup

Toolbar

Open Bookbag

button

Reset button clears

the Navigation list

and Bookbag and

returns you to the

home button set in

the main window

Navigation list

Action buttons

Action button

set name

Getting around in Visual OPAC

At the top of the window is the toolbar. From left to right, depending on the

choices you made in Setup, the toolbar buttons are To Text OPAC, Open Bookbag,

and Reset. In other windows, the Add to Bookbag and Print buttons also appear.
To distinguish these and the action buttons from nonfunctioning icons, your

mouse pointer changes to a hand when it moves over a clickable button. In