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Search Results
The search results are displayed in an Internet search engine format. All
available citation details are provided, along with a link to either the
native interface or a link resolver (e.g., GODOT – see
http://researcher.sfu.ca/ for details).
Note the Search History box on the left of the screen. This displays the
number of hits that were found for each resource searched. It can also be
used to quickly return to the results of a previous search (Search 1: KW
stanley park is a link).
All of a user’s searches will display along the left side of the screen until
they log out.
Clicking on the find more from Proquest - CBCA Reference link will take
you to the native search interface for that resource.
Clicking on the title of the record will take you to the article or citation
when it is available. This is an example from CBCA Reference:
Sorting
http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/DBWIZ_config/config.cgi
Search Profiles
• To edit your new category, select the Edit icon from the Sandbox
column for the category.
Figure 10:
10 Editing a category
• From the Edit screen, you can decide whether or not to display the
category in the public list of searchable categories. Course or
assignment categories are often excluded from the main dbWiz list.
You can give the category a unique name if you wish, and provide a
description of the category.
• As you add resources, you can rank each one, adjusting their
position using the green arrows. Higher ranked items will appear
before lower ranked ones.
Figure 12:
12 Ranking resources
Figure 13:
13 Activating a category
Search Resources
Selecting the Search Resources configuration group link will provide a list
of all the resources currently searched by dbWiz for your library.
Figure 14:
14 Search resources
Figure 15:
15 Resource details
Use the Submit button to save any changes you make to the resource
details.
Search Options
Selecting the Search Options configuration group link will allow you to
designate how many results should be returned from each resource
during a dbWiz search. Remember, the larger the number, the longer the
search will take. We recommend 10 – 20, to avoid resource timeouts. Use
the Submit button to save your changes.
Figure 16:
16 Setting the returns per resource
Display Options
Selecting the Display Options configuration group link will allow you to
configure elements of the dbWiz display.
Display
Display basic search by default will determine whether your users
encounter the basic or advanced search screen first.
Default number of records to display per page will determine how much
scrolling is required by your users – more results will create longer pages.
Default record sort order will determine what kind of sorting will be used
for the initial results display, including by database (alphabetical), by rank
(as set in the search profile above), or by year (with more recent results
appearing at the top). Users will be able to change the sort order from the
result list.
Authorization IDs
Figure 18:
18 Authorization IDs
Contact your vendor to find out your Z39.50 username and password.
Figure 20:
20 Editing a template
Note that the characters [%# and %] enclose comment text and can be
changed, removed, or ignored without affecting the template.
To add a new header to the template in the example above, remove the
existing line of HTML:
<img src=”libraryHeaderImage.jpg”>
You can now preview your changes in the dbWiz Sandbox. When you are
satisfied with your changes, use the Transfer arrow to make your updates
active.
Figure 21:
21 dbWiz Style sheet
In the CSS Editing page, you can make any style changes you wish. For
example, changing the font size from 12 to 10 in the example below
would reduce the fonts throughout dbWiz.
Figure 22:
22 Editing the dbWiz Style sheet
Use the Submit button to save your changes to the Sandbox. When you
are satisfied with your updates, use the Transfer
Transfer arrow to activate the
new styles.
Figure 23:
23 Search
table.tabular td.header {
background: #B0C4DE;
color: #050550;
font-variant: small-caps;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 90%;
padding-left: 5px;
padding-right: 5px;
}
table.tabular {
background: #FFFFFF;
border-collapse: collapse;
table-layout: auto;
width: 100%;
}
The rounded tabs, buttons, and some of the borders used on the dbWiz
user interface are controlled by template elements known as Splash
Wrappers. These instructions will show you how to change the colours for
these, to better match your library’s colour scheme.
At this time, the available colours are limited to those on this page:
http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/tt2/templates/html/rgb
[% WRAPPER splash/button
align = 'left'
-%]
Add the following line:
[% WRAPPER splash/button
col = ‘navy’
align = 'left'
-%]
In some cases, your colour choice may be too dark for the text to show
up. To change the font colour to white, add this line to your style sheet:
.page-footer a {
color: #FFFFFF;
}
You can also change the colour of the selected search tab. This would be
the ‘Basic Search’ tab when you are on the Basic Search screen, or the
‘Advanced Search’ tab when you are on the Advanced Search screen. To
do this, go to the splash_config template. Change this template coding
(found a little over half way down the screen):
select = {
name = "Selected"
col = {
fore = 'navy'
edge = 'mauve'
fill = 'grey75'
text = 'white'
}
font = {
bold = 1
}
Figure 24:
24 Selected Search Tab
style = {
default = {
name = "Default"
# border/space/pad widths
border = 2
space = 2
pad = 2
col = {
page => 'lilac' # page border
back => 'white' # background
fore => 'grey75' # foreground (e.g. button)
edge => 'lilac' # edging strip
fill => 'white' # fill (e.g. panels)
text => 'black' # text
icon => 'black' # icons
}
font = {
# face = 'Helvetica, Arial, Sans-Serif'
# size = '+1'
# bold = 1
}
Figure 25:
25 Changing tab colours
To change the colour of the border around the result list, use the same
splash_config template, change this coding:
style = {
default = {
name = "Default"
# border/space/pad widths
border = 2
space = 2
pad = 2
col = {
page => 'lilac' # page border
back => 'white' # background
fore => 'grey75' # foreground (e.g. button)
edge => 'navy' # edging strip
fill => 'white' # fill (e.g. panels)
text => 'black' # text
icon => 'black' # icons
To do this, add the following code to your existing web page (although
use your own proxy prefix information in the URL):
<form method="post"
action="http://proxy.lib.sfu.ca/form?qurl=http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/cgi-
bin/dbwiz/dbwiz2.pl">
<input name="site" value="BVAS" type="hidden">
<input name="search_profile" value="14" type="hidden">
<input name="search_string" size=35 maxlength=100 type="text"
id="search_string" nowrap=1>
<INPUT name="state" value="run_search" type="hidden" id="state">
<input name="state" value="search" type="submit">
</form>
Note the VALUE="14" refers to the subject category you will have
previously created (in this case, the Biology category).
You can find out the correct value number for your category from the
Search Profile configuration screen. Click the View icon in the Active
column for the desired category.