WebPAC Pro Catalogues

d means using the default WebPAC Pro tabbed style

e means using an earlier III style

loc means local design style.

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UK

US (a selection)  
Worldwide (a selection)  

III

Encore Libraries

9 Responses to “WebPAC Pro Catalogues”

  1. Alan Brown Says:
    February 15, 2007 at 12:43 pm | Reply

    Hi our catalogue is now using the default tabbed style. How do you updated this info (and the mouseover preview

  2. Graeme Says:
    February 15, 2007 at 3:18 pm | Reply

    Alan: I have changed the ‘e’ to ‘d’ for Bury to indicate default tabbed WebPAC Pro style.
    Message from Snap about mouseover preview: I’ve added http://library.bury.gov.uk to a queue to be updated. The update should happen within about 24 hours. Best, Brad. Snap Customer Service.

  3. Dinah Sanders Says:
    February 16, 2007 at 1:33 am | Reply

    Hello everyone, I hope you have a great day of sharing experiences!

    As the product manager for WebPAC Pro, I want to share one clarification which I’ve received some questions about:

    Moving to WebPAC Pro does not automatically result in changes to your look & feel. There are a couple essential files which need to be present (e.g. briefcit.html and webpub.def), but otherwise you can “go Pro” with your existing screens.

    Thus, I tend to use “2006 Pro example set” rather than “default” to describe the new set of screens which makes greater use of tabs, CSS visibility swaps, etc.

    Given that a few folks have expressed worry to me or the help desk that going Pro will overwrite their screens, i thought I ought to provide a few words of comfort.

    Cheers,
    Dinah

  4. Mieko Yamaguchi Says:
    February 16, 2007 at 3:34 pm | Reply

    Thanks, Dinah, for the information you posted above. I had not realised that there were comments on this page as well as the blog’s homepage where I posted my earlier message (my excuse!).

    I’m glad to learn that “going Pro” does not change the look & feel (as well as functionality I assume?) of our existing WebPAC overnight. I’ve been inundated by comments from my library colleagues that they don’t want two changes to our WebPAC in one academic year after we finally moved away from our circa. 1997 WebPAC to the version using Innovative’s sample set. It’s good to know that we can “go Pro” and do our development work in the staging directory at leisure.

    Mieko

  5. Catherine O'Sullivan Says:
    February 19, 2007 at 9:50 am | Reply

    We’ve just gone live with the default tabbed style – http://libsys.smuc.ac.uk.

    Question: in Internet Explorer a gap is randomly appearing under the tabs which mostly appears the first time you open the catalogue but sometimes on changing between tabs. Has anyone else found this or worked out how to solve it?

    See you Wednesday

    Catherine

  6. Alan Brown Says:
    February 19, 2007 at 3:14 pm | Reply

    Catherine,

    Yes I found a solution to this a while ago and posted it to the main IUG list. The culprit is .mainSpacer {margin: 0 1em 1em 1em;} which effectively gives this div a bottom-margin, and as this div surrounds your tabs this bottom margin occasionally moves the tabs away from the tab body. If you remove this bottom margin ie. .mainSpacer{margin: 0 1em;}, this problem goes away.

    I do not think that the css is faulty – but that IE incorrectly renders it occassionally.

  7. Dinah Sanders Says:
    March 6, 2007 at 9:52 pm | Reply

    Yes, I fear that IE 7 was not all one might hope in terms of CSS standards compliance. Closer, definitely closer… but still not at the Firefox or Opera level.

  8. Alan Brown Says:
    March 8, 2007 at 9:24 am | Reply

    The problem that Catherine describes and the .mainSpacer tweak was to fix an IE6 rendering problem not IE 7. As far as I can tell, this still exists in the latest download of the webpac pro example set screens_2006pro_20061121.zip. Which is the one that I used for my presentation. It seems to be more apparent when viewed from a ‘distance’. i.e. When I loaded the example set on my staging server and viewed through IE 6 in Bury, I had to click quite a few tabs to get the gap, viewing it from Warwick the gap appeared consistently and was difficult to clear with a refresh. Most of the new look Web pac Pro catalogues appear to have changed their .mainSpacer settings accordingly.

    IE 7 is better but is still not there yet, and I now have an IE7 styles sheet as well as IE styles.

  9. Dinah Sanders Says:
    March 9, 2007 at 12:48 am | Reply

    Hi,

    We’re working now on an update to the 2006 WebPAC Pro example set and will be watching for these reported issues in IE 6 and/or 7. There have been a variety of suggestions, so we’re combing through them and will test in both.

    Look for the new set going up probably around the end of the month. If anyone’s eager to test drive it the week before it goes up on CSDirect and report any problems, drop me an email and I’ll send you a copy.

    cheers,
    Dinah

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