To display the catalogue records for one or more items, the general format is:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=[insert your search term(s) here – use square brackets or quotes if spaces]{insert your MARC tag here – in curly brackets}&user_id=WEBSERVER
The above should be treated as one long line. Note that spacing and punctuation here is critical. Here are the rules:
• No spaces except between search terms if more than one
• Be careful of word-wrapping chopping off a URL if it is long
• No additional punctuation, except for quotation marks
• Quotation marks can only come after ?searchdata1= and seem to be optional
– though the little documentation I have says you should use them
• If you do use quotation marks they must be single or double inverted
commas or square brackets and they must be paired (i.e., the same mark must
occur before and after the search terms)
• If you use a single inverted comma as a quotation mark you will be performing
a precise word search for the word or phrase quoted
• If you use a double inverted comma or a square bracket as a quotation
mark you will be performing a keyword search for the words quoted, and the system
will strip out stop words and perform a Boolean AND search
• You must include the curly brackets if you are specifying
a MARC tag
• Do specify a MARC tag if you want your search to be more precise
• You can omit the MARC tag but then you will be performing a General
search (i.e. keyword on all fields)
• If your search yields more than one hit, you will get a brief display,
but if only one then a full display
• You can omit &user_id=WEBSERVER but the documentation
I have recommends that you keep it
For example, to display the catalogue records for an item where you know the ISBN, click on this:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=[1875860398]{020}&user_id=WEBSERVER
(This yields one hit, Building the future : a history of Holmesglen
Institute. The MARC tag for ISBN is 020)
To display the catalogue records for an item where you
know the precise words in the title, click on this:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=’building
the future’{245}&user_id=WEBSERVER
(The MARC tag for title is 245. Note that the system is doing an exact search
for “building the future” in the title, because a single inverted
comma is used as the quotation mark. The result is one hit, and so a full record
is displayed)
To display the catalogue records resulting from title keyword search, click on this:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=[building
the future]{245}&user_id=WEBSERVER
(Note that the system is now doing a title keyword search for “building
the future”, because a square bracket is used as the quotation mark. The
system strips out the stop word “the” and does a Boolean title keyword
search BUILDING AND FUTURE. There are 6 hits and so a brief title list is displayed)
To display the catalogue records resulting from title
keyword search, by using other punctuation, click on these:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=”building
the future”{245}&user_id=WEBSERVER
(As above, but the system is now doing a title keyword search for “building
the future”, because a double inverted comma is used as the quotation
mark. Again, the system strips out the stop word “the” and does
a Boolean title keyword search BUILDING AND FUTURE. There are 6 hits and so
a brief title list is displayed)
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/5?searchdata1=building
the future{245}&user_id=WEBSERVER
(As above, but the system is now doing a title keyword search for “building
the future”, because there are no quotation marks. Again, the system strips
out the stop word “the” and does a Boolean title keyword search
BUILDING AND FUTURE. There are 6 hits and so a brief title list is displayed.
I do not recommend this method, even though it works here)
You can experiment with other MARC tags in the curly brackets – please ask Technical Services staff if you need to know any of the numbers
Note that, before users can display their records, they must login to the system using their WorkFlows ID number and their PIN number
To display items on loan to a user, so the user can
renew them:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/29/0/RENEW_MATERIALS/3
To display user information (items on loan, bookings made) – but
doesn’t lead to renewal:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/29/0/MY_ACCOUNT/1
An alternate way to display items on loan to a user,
so the user can renew them, using the heading “Review My Account”:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/29/0/REVIEW_MY_ACCOUNT/3
To enable a user to change their PIN number:
http://webcat.holmesglen.vic.edu.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/0/0/0/29/0/REVIEW_MY_ACCOUNT/2
When users have finished using the above functions, they should log out of iLink, by clicking on the white “Logout” button with a dark blue background, so that others cannot access their accounts.
Please contact Stephen and I will research these for you. I think anything
is possible!