Presto features list

Version 3.8

Event reports

• Query logging and reporting. A new Event type added to log queries. The Event Log Report tracks the query itself, which Content Types were queried, how many records found and the searcher.
• Event log reports can now be filtered by a date range.  

Reporting

• Ability to Export (all, or by id/name) and Import (new or Replace Property) report definitions using normal export request XML files.
• Enhanced report writer now available.

Roles

• New Profile Filters feature to allow you to restrict user access to specific field values.
• DOWNLOAD (save as PDF or HTML) and DOWNLOAD XML are now separate permissions.
• Roles are now sorted alphabetically by Name on the Configure Roles page and Add Roles pop-up window.

Content Type settings

• A new Application Setting that permits automatically populating new records in a specific Content Type with field values from the Profile record of the user who adds the record.
• Edit Screens now support the ability to add Comments, so that if you are editing a record you do not need to return to the Detail Screen to comment on the record.
• Content Relations – You can now relate a content type to itself (for example, to implement “see also” functionality).

Version 3.7

• Connector Framework. Presto now provides a plug-and-play infrastructure to connect to third-party repositories. For example, information might reside in SharePoint. Presto can connect to SharePoint and index the information, so users can search it in Presto while it remains managed by SharePoint.
• Network Drive Connector. An out-of-the-box connector enables Presto to retrieve and index files stored on a network drive. The connector pipeline enables automated metadata extraction from hundreds of file formats, including audio, video, image, graphic, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, Postscript, and HTML.
• Sort Browse Collections. Users can now browse taxonomies and sort items under any taxonomy entry by rating, date created, title, etc.

• Pre-built Content Types. Pre-built Content Types, complete with screens and views, now ship with Presto. They include Document, Image, Photograph, Audio, Video, Multimedia, URL, FAQ, and News. These help to speed new installations and make it easier to modify an existing Presto application.
• Section 508 compliance. Presto 3.7 contains several enhancements that support compliance with the Section 508 Amendment to the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. This amendment requires US federal agencies to make their electronic and information technology accessible to people with disabilities, and defines requirements for accessibility.
• Quick Search. The Quick Search box now appears on the menu bar and is accessible from every page in Presto.

Home Page: Implemented a new 'Create A Topic' Web Part to enable adding topics to Forums from the Home Page.

Searching: Improved performance with additional caching, new indexes, and so on.

Browse Collection: Improved performance displaying the Category list, including loading category information on demand.

Plus a number of feature updates.

Discussion forums: Ability to configure and participate in forums. A forum is an online discussion site, where allowed users can read and respond to topics on a particular subject.

Content Relationships: Create One-to-Many, Many-to-Many, and One-to-One relationships between Content Types. This allows screens to be configured to edit and display data from the related Content Type. For example, a Book can have a relationship with both an Author and a Publisher. The Author and Publisher can then appear on the Book Detail screen, for example.

Web Reports: Create Web reports from within Presto. Copy or filter a report. A new option, Report on Content, displays search results in a report.

Improved overall performance optimisation for large enterprise organisations.

Extended Single Sign-On (SSO): Allows third-party authentication; that is, allows another site to authenticate the user, then redirect to Presto and have Presto accept the other program's authentication.

Enhanced Active Directory integration: Ability to import Active Directory User Profiles and ability to specify the Locale and Time Zone (if required).

Import File including document property extraction: Ability to set up a folder so you can drag and drop files into it, which are then automatically imported into a Presto Content Type, including extracting various document properties (for example, Title, Author, Date Created).

WCF Services API: Implemented a method to retrieve the binaries (images, PDF files, etc.) associated with a record by using the WCF Services API.

• RSS Feed Web Part enhanced to allow two-column display, include short descriptions with images, and adjust mouseover size.
• Presto Blog RSS Feeds now allows display of profile images of users who wrote the posts.

Home Page: Ability to export Presto home pages for backup, and ability to import an existing Presto home page for a new role.

Importing: Ability to import content from comma-separated value (CSV) files making it easier to load data into Presto.

Security: Password reset feature implemented which makes use of Security Questions and Security Answer fields.

Sharepoint plug-in: You can now search Sharepoint from within Presto (Federated search) and search results will be displayed on a Sharepoint-specific tab. You can also search Presto directly from Sharepoint and Presto search results displayed in Sharepoint.

• Ability to add fields to a Profile content type and to modify the profile Add/Edit screens which are used for Configure Users and Update My Profile.
• Ability to include Profile records in Collections, so they can be categorised for browsing. All Content Collection features are supported for Profile records.
• Ability to specify default Time Zone and Locale for new users.
• Ability to create personal Alerts or Global Alerts for Content-related events for Profiles (eg. Content viewed, Tags modified, Rating modified).
• Ability to create custom search links that search another content type for items associated with that user. For example, you could have a link that searches for all books that user has borrowed, and another link that searches for all documents that a user has written.

• Federated Search: The Search Results page can be configured with additional tabs for providers such as Google, Bing, or Wikepedia, to display results after a Quick Search.
• SharePoint Web Parts: The following Presto Web Parts can be integrated with Microsoft SharePoint: Quick Search, Featured Collection, Presto Reports.
• Report Localisation: Text in SQL Reports (View Reports, View Event Log, Monitor Jobs, and custom reports) can be localised or customised.

• Presto now uses SQL Full Text indexes for searching.
• Automatic stemming and plurals available (on by default).
• Support for synonym searches (so a search for cat also retrieves feline), once the appropriate SQL Server thesaurus has been configured.
• Ability to search for records where a field is empty.
• Proximity searching is no longer available, but NEAR searches have been implemented.

• There is a new menu, Reports, which includes options to View Reports and View Event Log. If the menu does not appear, choose Configure>Menus and Menu Bars, click Re- Order Menu Bar, and add the Reports menu.
• SQL Reports can be added to the View Reports page. A report for Navigation Information (User Name, Presto URL visited, and Date/Time) is provided.
• "Presto Reports" is a new Web Part, which can be added to a Home Page and/or integrated with SharePoint. In Configure Home Page, the list of available Web Parts includes a check box for Presto Reports.

• You can search for and display User Profiles like you can other records.
• You can configure Views and certain Screens for user profiles. Scroll to the bottom of the Configure Content Types page, and click the appropriate links. Note that you can only configure the Advanced Search Screen, Detail Screen, Print-Friendly Screen, and E-mail Screen.
• Configuring a user provides additional fields for defining an account. Note that the Security Question and Answer fields are intended to support a feature that will allow end-users to obtain forgotten passwords. This feature will be fully implemented in a future release.
• You can specify a profile image, which will appear on Blog Posts and Comments and wherever user profiles are displayed.

• The Uncategorized folder has been eliminated. Instead, an Add To Category button appears on the Search Results, Detail Screen, and InfoCart pages, permitting you to select one or more content items, then select a category to which to add them.
• The counts (shown in parentheses after category names) can now be cumulative, so they will include the number of content items in the current category and all subcategories.

• Create Account at Login allows any user to create their own account, with limited rights provided by the built-in Guest account.
• OPAC logins now bypass the Login screen for the first system access. This provides support for URLs that drill down directly to a specific Search Results page or Detail Screen.
• Presto now accepts multiple OPAC logins. Each OPAC login is directed to an appropriate Home Page.
• If Presto is set up to use Active Directory: After authenticating the user, if Presto determines that the account does not already exist in Presto, it will automatically create a user account corresponding to the AD user name.

• Blogs. You can now configure Views and certain Screens (Advanced Search Screen, Print-Friendly Screen, E-mail Screen) specifically for blogs.
• Events. Individual events are either on or off for all content types or all collections. Previously, you turned each event on or off for one content type or collection at a time. For example, if the "Content viewed" event is checked, events are logged when any record in any content type is viewed using the Detail Screen. Events for Blog posts can now be tracked as well.
• Alerts. The View My Alerts page, which displayed the 50 most recent alerts e-mailed to the logged-in user, has been removed.
• Improved Paging Behavior. Paging on the Search Results page no longer limits paging on the Detail Screen. You can use the Next and Previous buttons on the Detail screen to navigate through the entire set of records found.

• Blogs Create Blogs with one or more authors
• Ratings Rate individual content items with 1-5 stars
• Tags Add tags to content items or blog posts. The tags can either be displayed in a tag cloud or in a list. Clicking a tag in a tag cloud retrieves all items with that tag. A My Tags/All Tags toggle permits users to choose whether to see all tags assigned to a content item, or just their own tags for that content item. A View My Tags option permits users to view a tag cloud of all of the tags they have specified anywhere in the Presto catalog.
• Comments Add comments to content items or blog posts.

• Specify Content Type Order. The Configure Content Types screen now includes a Set Listing Order button, which permits you to specify the order in which Content Types and Blog posts will appear on the Search Results screen after a Quick Search, and elsewhere.
• Improved Page Navigation. The Page control on the Search Results page and other pages now permits you to easily select the first or last page of records, or type a specific page number.
• Copy Record. A new Copy Record button on the Detail Screen duplicates the current record and opens the copy in the Edit screen.

• Implement term searching
• Support ability to search Category fields

• An Edit button is available under Act on Content for the Search Results, Browse Collection, and InfoCart pages.
• A "Quick summary" view can be specified as the default view after a Quick Search.
• When sorting by a Text field, ignore leading articles (e.g., a/an/the).

• Record Level Security implemented
• Access to the Email option and the 3 Download options (HTML, PDF, XML) controlled by Role

• Content Types - New Required field are added to the Edit Screen automatically.
• Configure Screens - Implement Value Separator for Multi-Value fields.
• Views - The Default Alert View now includes only first field in Content Type; you can add additional fields as desired.

Events : Record which document was viewed in

Presto Services : New Document Capture service, which imports documents placed in specific folders.

Customizing Presto Support overriding the menu bar color/style in CustomBaseStyles.css.

• Menu bar -– Now shows how many items are in the Cart.
• Value Lists - Option to specify the number of entries displayed on Select Value(s) pop-ups.
• Configure Views - Easier to change the order of boxes in screens.
• XML export reports can specify which fields to export and sort criteria.
• ContentLoader - new DeleteContent option to delete all content items in specified Content Type.

• Import Content - Match options now accept advanced Lucene query syntax.
   
• Detail Screen - Option available to specify the size of an image in the Body section.
   
• Archiving facility implemented which deletes or deactivates content items, jobs, or events older than a specified number of days.
   
• Ability to add Previous 5 Years And Forward to Date Search options on Advanced Search Screen.

• The Browse and Organize menus have been consolidated into a single Browse menu. (The functionality of Browse and Organize collections functionality has been consolidated into a single page)
• Presto can be configured to search an existing Genie catalog.
• Presto supports accented characters in searching and sorting.
• All Alert types can be scheduled.

• Automatic guest role sign-on is configurable.
• In Configure Screens and Configure Views, one can specify content type and property class attributes in controls and view items can be specified.
• RSS Feeds have been changed to accommodate best-of-breed RSS readers.
• Presto supports adding customized plug-ins to the Act on Content list on Search Results and Detail screens.

• Quick Search Box Menu. A “Quick Search” box is available on every page via the “Search” menu. The text box always appears as the first item in the menu.
• All fields, screens, and views are configurable via the user interface.
• Searchable Category Names. Category names are searchable from the “Quick Search” text box (on the homepage and menu) and “Words Anywhere” text box (on the Advanced/Fielded Search Pages). If the “Category” field is configured to be displayed in either a view or a screen, it is displayed as a direct link to category on the “Browse” page.
• Events and Alerts. Content, collection, login/logout, user profile, and system events are logged, and alerts can be sent on an “as it happens” or scheduled basis via e-mail or to the alert portlet on the homepage.

• RSS feeds. Alerts and search results can be subscribed to as RSS feeds.
• Download as XML. End users can download search results in XML format.
• Proximity Searches. Use the proximity operator, a tilde (~) followed by a number, after a quoted phrase to find one word within a certain distance of another word. For example: "government municipal"~3
• Grid Views. This additional view type (ie. table) can be created for each content type.
• Print Current Page. This button on the Search Results page permits you to print the information in the viewing pane.