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June 26, 2006
Normal Diamond Searching Restored
The unfortunate situation in which default searches from various points in Diamond were returning results only for the Law Library has been resolved. The quickest and cleanest way to address the situation was to proceed immediately to changes previously described by Byron in his e-mail of 6/22, and originally scheduled for July 1st, in which "the default search in the catalog for most users will be 'View entire collection'" and would "replace the current default 'All locations except Law' for all locations except Law and Rome." Subsequent to these changes, which derive from IP-range determined opac logins, a number of individual Diamond screens had to edited to completely remedy the situation. Should the previous behavior be discovered when using a particular screen or search in Diamond, please notify Systems immediately.
The problem derived from the addition of a new scope for "library depository" to our existing scope table. It is standard practice for Innovative to add new scopes to the end of this table, giving the new scope the next unused scope number in the table (this is different from where, or if, a scope displays in listings on a webopac screen, which is determined elsewhere). For reasons as yet undetermined, Innovative placed the scope at position 20, in the *middle* of the existing table. As a result, the previous scope 20, "Law Library," moved down to position 21, previously held by our default scope, "All Locations except Law." Even after clearing the default scope from most opac logins, there were still some Diamond search pages, such as the Video/DVD search, that were hard-coding the scope as number 21 and these also had to be identified and corrected.
Innovative later reviewed the details attached to our request to add the depositary scope and at this point its placement at position 20 appears to simply be a mistake on their part.
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June 06, 2006
VRLplus upgrade is complete
VRLplus server upgrade is complete.
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VRLplus upgrade
The VRLplus server upgrade is being conducted now 07:35 06/06/06 ( don’t let the date scare you) until completion. Expect intermittent service until the upgrade is complete.
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