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DB/TextWorks ®
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Version 11
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• Vista compatibility.
• File checker: similar to the existing link checker, but it will verify UNC referenced network files as well as URLs.
• Undo command in form designer: an undo action command for specific action types.
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• HTML report preview: from within the form designer, this feature shows what a report will look like when displayed in the web environment using WebPublisher PRO.
• Ability to select the form used in the Edit Secondary Record window.
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Version 10 |
• Ability to see paths of the EXE and INI files without opening a textbase.
• Toolbar button for the Browse Files command.
• Support for putting a PDF file name into an image field when extracting text on import.
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• List of public elements included in the Textbase Information listing.
• An Inmagic digital signature for increased security.
• Valid digital signatures.
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Version 9 |
• Support for PDF files as a standard image type has been added.
• GIF images can now be viewed and manipulated just like any other image format supported by DB/TextWorks.
• Data entry for documents and images has been simplified: use Shift+F3 to browse and select a file name (similar to Windows Explorer).
• You now have an option to save forms, query screens, etc., as Public by default.
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• Installation has been simplified by providing the ability to run Setup Workstation using SMS (Systems Management Server).
• Batch Modify is made more powerful via the addition of the following:
• Support for special characters such as line breaks and the entry delimiter;
• The ability to add text to the beginning or end of an entry.
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Version 8 |
• Dead URL Link Checker that verifies the status of a link and provides a summary of links checked
• Compatible with Windows Server 2003
• New image annotation functionality
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• Support for long file names
• Improved viewing of the textbase log file
• Improved Recover Textbase function
• Amended toolbar button appearance
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Version 7 |
• Standard document import using IFilters
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• Support in the form designers for many of the new WebPublisher PRO features
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Version 6.1
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• Custom colours are stored for later use
• New feature: "Sort textbase field lists alphabetically"
• New form design option: "Export edit form to HTML"
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• Size of toolbar buttons can be set using the Options menu facility
• Three new scripting properties
• Export in XML format now uses the new format for WebPublisher PRO and WebPublisher 6.1
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Version 6.0
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• Use a thesaurus as a validation list
• Browse Thesaurus function is now combined with Browse Choices
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• Share a thesaurus/validation list across fields and textbases
• Generate barcodes from DB/TextWorks
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Version 5.2
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• Record-level security
• Ability to import/export XML file formats
• Enhanced log file features
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• Next Highlighted Term superior functionality
• INI options provide awareness of who has textbase open
• Inmagic tagged format line length increased from 1024 to 65500 characters
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Version 5.1 |
• URL Cataloguing in Inmagic.NET
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• More scripting capability
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Version 5.0
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• Relevance ranking in reports
• Attachments can be included when using "Send Report as Mail"
• New scripting function for emails |
• Rebuild Indexes while checking a textbase
• Expand the text entry window in the Form Designer |
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Version 4.2 |
• "Script input" boxes in forms |
• Ability to skip N labels when printing |
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Version 4.1 |
• Thesaurus facility
• Live hyperlinks in reports |
• Improved scripting capabilities
• SMTP support for "Send Report As Mail" |
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Version 4.0 |
• Ability to mail a report from within DB/TextWorks
• Pictures/logos in manu screens, query screens, and display, report and edit forms
• Images in reports |
• Improved form designer interface
• Ability to add Script buttons and functions for forms, query screens and menu screens
• Cascading menus (a menu screen can open another menu screen) |
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Version 3.0 |
• Spell checker
• More exact searching options
• Copy, Rename and Delete Textbase commands |
• Window size and position retained for all windows
• Automatic window synchronisation
• Last-used Import/Export and Batch Modify options are retained |
Content Server
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Version 10 |
CS/TextWorks 10 features are identical to DB/TextWorks 10 features.
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CS/WebPublisher PRO 10 features are identical to DB/Text WebPublisher PRO 10 features.
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Version 9(moved from v.1.3 to v.9.0 for continuity with DB/Text platform) |
CS/TextWorks 9 features are identical to DB/TextWorks 9 features.
CS/WebPublisher PRO 9 features are identical to DB/Text WebPublisher PRO 9 features. |
Additionally, the following new features are specific to Content Server v9:
• Content Server v9 Workgroup now comes bundled with SQL Server Express, which supports up to 4GB databases
• Content Server v9 Workgroup can run with either the MSDE or SQL Server Express as its underlying datastore
• Enhanced functionality in the Content Server Administration program, including the capacity to restore multiple textbases at once
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Version 1.3 |
• Seamless migration for customers moving from DB/Text to Content Server – version 1.3 includes an automated migration and utility tool for moving DB/Text databases to the Content Server backend
• Product re-naming and packaging: Content Server for Windows and Content Server for Web have been changed to CS/TextWorks and CS/WebPublisher PRO respectively
• Support for Windows 2003 and MS SQL Server replication as well as intranet, extranet and firewall configurations
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• Delete Textbase command on the Content Server Administration window can now delete both DB/Text and CS textbases (once you have moved your textbases from DB/Text to CS you can delete the old DB/Text textbases)
• CS/Importer service can now import XML files
• CS/WebPublisher PRO supports basic authentication when referencing XSL style sheets in XML input
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Version 1.2 |
• Enhanced performance: significantly faster processing when dealing with large sets of records:
• Sorting: faster sorting speeds for primary textbases, especially for multiple entry fields.
• Batch operations: faster Batch Modify and/or Batch Delete speeds over large sets of records.
• Report formatting: faster formatting of searches that result in large sets of records.
• Searching: complex searches that retrieve large numbers of records now process faster.
• Importing records: faster importing of records into a textbase.
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• Multiple-users access improvements: operations that multiple users may access at the same time now have improved performance (e.g. Batch Modify).
• Ability to create SOAP interfaces for Web services interaction: the Inmagic.net menu can now be used to create SOAP interfaces. This enables developers to use Content Server for Web as a Web service in conjunction with Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003. This SOAP interface supports the standard database functions of query, update, insert, and delete, as well as additional functions.
• New toolbar button appearance: toolbar buttons in Content Server for Windows have a flat appearance. When a user moves the mouse pointer over a button, its appearance becomes three-dimensional.
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Version 1.1 |
• Windows authentication
• Content Server Importer: load records into textbases while automatically and continually processing imports in the background
• Web editing links: Edit record link; New record link; Delete record link |
• Index browsing on the web: browse and paste entries from field indexes
• Use XML with SOAP: you can specify that XML emitted from Content Server for Web be in a format that is compatible with Simple Object Access Protocol
• Validation lists: if a field has a validation list, web edit forms turn the box label into a hypertext link
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DB/Text ® WebPublisher PRO
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Version 11 |
• Windows Server 2008 compatibility.
• XHTML compliance: provides improved standards compliance for web publishing.
• Next/Previous Highlight navigation: hightlights the query hits within the record in a search result.
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• Query logging: provides the administrator with a log of WebPublisher PRO queries, including the query, number of records returned, time & date, and IP address from which the query originated.
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Version 10 |
• Alternative search syntax – this feature provides the option of a "Google™-style" syntax for searching.
• Ability to provide RSS publishing.
• InmagicBrowse enhancements.
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• Support for multiple folders for images on the web.
• An Inmagic digital signature for increased security.
• Valid digital signatures.
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Version 9 |
• Browsing long validation lists is now much faster: version 9 incorporates support for paging the validation list.
• Web-based data entry is enhanced with the ability to browse the link field (in a secondary textbase) while editing.
• Exploded sorts are now supported by WebPublisher PRO.
• You now have the ability to change the text caption on the Browse Choices button.
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• The XML interface can handle certain characters that are normally unacceptable to XML.
• The Inmagic XML tutorial has been updated, providing improved documentation for using this standards-based interface.
• XML capability has been enhanced in several ways to make it easier for XML-based web developers.
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Version 8 |
• Compatible with Windows Server 2003
• Additional Browse Index method which does not require Java (an alternative to Word Wheels)
• Support for the SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) interface
• XML returns the hit count, notifying users if a results set is empty or too large
• Ability to specify the number of records to appear in the results set
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• Ability to import XML automatically
• When using the web editing screen, information is retained even if any field has a data entry error; after attempting to save, you only need to correct the field in error and re-submit the record
• With the release of TextWorks and WebPublisher PRO version 8, the features and functionality will be synchronised and independent of the backend used - DB/Text or Content Server
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Version 7
(moved from version 1.0 to 7.0 for continuity with DB/TextWorks) |
• Edit over the Web using an edit screen designed in DB/TextWorks for use in a browser
• Links to add, edit or delete records on a web report
• Duplicate records in a web edit window
• Create record templates using default information
• Expanding edit boxes simplify data entry
• Validation lists provided in a "word wheel" list (non-Java)
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• User password retained for the duration of browser session
• Use font and colour when exporting query and edit screens
• Optional back [<] and rewind [<<] navigation buttons
• Alternative text for URL, email and image links
• Additional import options for modifying existing records
• Term and word index lists
• Ability to sort without specifying a textbase report name
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Version 1.0 |
• Interactivity over the web
(searching, editing records, adding records) |
• Compliant with XML, SOAP and ODBC
• Incorporates PowerPack and ODBC Driver |
DB/Text WebPublisher
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Version 6.1 |
• Significant performance improvement in displaying record information
• The INI files may now reside in the installation directory |
• You can now submit requests to WebPublisher using XML.
(Note: to modify records using XML you need WebPublisher PRO)
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Version 6.0
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• Search results can be returned in XML format
• A new parameter enables the use of Command Queries |
• The total number of records displayed by WebPublisher can now be limited
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Version 5.2 |
• Supports record level security |
• Ability to see who has the textbase open
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Version 5.1 |
• Complies with US standards for access by people with disabilities
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Version 5.0 |
• Relevance ranking in reports
• "New Query" buttons on report screens |
• Expanded record displays appear in a new browser window
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Inmagic Genie
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Version 3.2 |
• Edit screens can now have NEXT/PREV buttons
• Checkout pages now automatically display information about the borrower and items when you move off the field
• OPAC self-checkout functionality
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• In Search screens the initial state of the AND/OR/NOT drop-down list can be specified
• In the Catalog Full Display page Item and Serial Information can be sorted
• Printed labels can now be sorted
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Version 3.1 |
• Support on query screens for hidden query boxes and default values for query boxes
• Presto integration
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• Ability to specify the width of the menu bar
• BookWhere transform enhancements - to support Windows XML output
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Version 3.0 |
• A configurable "dashboard" for librarians that delivers an up-to-date view of critical items such as overdue loans, routed serials and active reservations
• A "My Genie" feature that lets your end-users be more self-sufficient by showing them their own acitivities such as loans, overdues and routed serials
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• A simplified capability to load MARC records via direct integration with BookWhere
• Full configurability of edit screens
• Ability to duplicate existing records
• Even faster processing speeds
• Ability to upload and circulate images of tables of contents from serials
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Version 2.1 |
• Increased search flexibility
• Improved serials workflow
• Enhanced report configurability
• Increased data flexibility in Items and Reserves
• Advanced label printing functionality
• Improved handling of multiple currencies
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• Enhanced international date and number formatting
• Improved loans workflow
• Enhanced InfoCart capabilities
• Improved routing function
• Enhanced support for multi-branch libraries in call number handling
• Improved handling for multi-branch libraries in book label printing
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Version 2.0 |
• Significantly enhanced support for multi-branch libraries.
• The ability to manage specific items (e.g. multiple copies) with a high level of efficiency.
• All modules are now available through the Web (Catalogue, Borrowers, Loans, Serials, Suppliers, Orders, Interlibrary Loans).
• Efficient Acquisitions workflow, allowing staff to receive orders very quickly. |
• Improved system configurability. Configuration of the system and many core components now provides unprecedented flexibility. Your customisations will carry into future versions automatically.
• Images and documents can now be added to the system, catalogued and full text indexed - all through the Web interface.
• Many reports have been added to the system including printer-friendly web reports, and book and spine label printing from the web.
• New security and login module, providing more roles and integration with Windows authentication.
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Version 1.2 |
End-user features:• Searching and browsing the catalogue - search keyword, author, title and subject - browse the same using the Inmagic "index browse" technology
• InfoCart feature allows an individual user to search, review results and select items of interest to be stored in their InfoCart for later retrieval and ordering or requesting. With the InfoCart you (and your end users) can:
• Make a request to the library regarding a particular item without having to cut and paste information into a separate e-mail
• Send information to a colleague in an email as text or with a link to a Genie report page
• Download the information in .CSV (Comma-Separated Values) or .XML (eXtensible markup Language) files
• Print Catalogue records
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Administrator features:
• Cataloguing - creating, editing and deleting catalogue records, also creating serials records related to a given catalogue record
• Checking out and checking in library materials - including Waitlist alert capabilities
• Creating, editing, and deleting borrower records
• Loans management - tracking and querying loans information
• Serials management that allows you to append volume and issue information to an expected, received, or skipped Serial issue
• Send batch overdue loan notices using email
• Vendor or supplier information is available through the Genie Web interface
• MARC Transformer for Inmagic Content Server is now bundled with Genie
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