Notes:
We are very please to announce a new release of Library a la Carte. The new
release involves some under-the- hood changes, new librarian requested
features and some existing features made better. There are also some design
and layout changes to the tool and work continues on making the public pages
meet section 508 requirements and to improve the usability of the tool.
New and Improved features:
Multi-discipline course pages
You can now create course pages for multiple subjects, i.e. BA/EC 100.
The multi-subject course pages will be listed under each subject on the
portal pages making it easy for students to fine. The page will be listed in
the tool once, alphabetized by subjects.
Improved Dashboard
The dashboard has been improved to help you get started quicker by letting
you browse or create guides, pages, and modules right from the dashboard. It
will also help you keep track of your work by listing your most recent
activity. And you can still edit your account and set your default contact
module from the dashboard too.
Sortable Tabs
You can now drag-and-drop a subject guide's tabs to rearrange them in a new
order.
Edit Left-hand side of Guides
Related Guides
This feature gives your control over the related subject guides that are
listed on the public view of course pages. You can either let the tool
control the related guides as it has been doing or you can edit the related
guides to remove or add guides as you see fit. You can edit the relateds
from a pages edit view.
Contact Module
Set your default contact module from your dashboard or select an individual
contact for a guide/page from it's edit view.
Improved RSS Module
The RSS module is now using Google Reader to serve up RSS feeds making the
module quicker to load and to help Librarians find RSS feeds to add to their
guides. The RSS module now lets a librarian choose between adding a RSS URL
or letting Google find RSS feeds based on a topic or website and then
customize how the RSS feeds will display and even let student find feeds by
choosing to show a Google RSS search box that returns RSS feeds right to the
guide.
Guide RSS Syndication
The course pages and subject guides now syndicate a RSS feed that students or
instructors can subscribe to and get alerts when new content is added to the
guides.
Look and Feel Changes:
Module name changes
Some of the module content types (Librarian Profile, RSS Feeds, ...) have
been renamed to reflect changes to the tool or the module:
Course Attachments -> Attachments
This module allows to upload and embed images or upload and link to
documents.
Course Widgets -> Multi-media Widgets
Embed third party widgets in this module.
Layout
Tool: Small changes to tool interface layout and color
Public Pages: Section 508 alterations
Under-the-Hood
Bug Fixes: Sorting, user account alteration and registration bugs
Speed: Code changes to speed up page load.
Section 508: Changes to images and chat to validate 508
As always if you have any questions, suggestions or feedback let us know.
-- the Library à la Carte Team
Changes:
***Dods.sql***
List of free databases to use in database module. Import sql file into Dods table for use.
***Bug Fix*****
This has been fixed in the updated .zip folder 7/1/09
You only need to apply this fix if you downloaded an older .zip folder
Replace /app/helpers/application_helper.rb
Fixes ruby-recaptcha bug
**************Release 1.3*********************
Datbase changes
-New feeds table
-altered RSSResource table
-altered Pages table
Bugs
-fixed Admin user update bug
-fixed tab sort
-fixed guide one col module sort order
-fixed admin register bug
-fixed created by bug
-fixed
Added edit relateds
-- alter page db table
-- added edit relateds subject guides
-- changed layout of edit view
Altered Edit Contact
-- moved edit contact from update to edit
Changed RSS module to use Google API
--new DB table
--alter rss module table
--requires google API
--changed look and feel of rss module
Added RSS to pages
-added new method to all models to generate rss feeds
Added drag and drop sort to tabs on Guides
- sort tabs with drag n drop
Changed Module names
-changed course widgets -> multi-media widgets
- removed course from names
Alter Dashboard
-added overview
- recent activity
- legend
- create new modules/guides/pages
- browse items
Pages/Guides
- added new create method w/o sidebar for dashboard
- added multiple subjects to pages
Layouts
-Removed multiple layouts.
-Consolidated portal and guides and pages into one layout.
-altered colors
CSS and JS
Consolidated css files and js files
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