Configuring Syndetics enriched content
After the SirsiDynix e-Library server has been configured for enriched content, you need to set up the display of each type of enriched content.
To configure Syndetics enriched content
| 1 | Your policy files must first be configured to display the types of content you want. You can set this for each separate library configuration. |
For details on setting up these policy files, see step 8 in Configuring e-Library for enriched content.
| 2 | Open your system environment file (system.env), or open a specific environment file to configure the enriched content only for a certain environment. |
| 3 | Change the USE_SYNDETIC_ENHANCED_CONTENT variable to 1 and type your Syndetics client code for the SYNDETICS_CLIENT_CODE variable. |
USE_SYNDETIC_ENHANCED_CONTENT|1|
SYNDETICS_CLIENT_CODE|abcdefg|
| 4 | If necessary, change the value for the SYNDETICS_BASE_URL. Typically, this would be something like http://www.syndetics.com/index.aspx? |
| 5 | Add the SYN_REL_PATH variable and set it to SYN_REL_PATH|/sdc/?| |
| 6 | Set the display flag for the following content to display: |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_COVER_GIF - for displaying the thumbnail cover image. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_COVER_FULL - for displaying the mid-sized cover image. |
To set the display flag, you set the value of the variable to 1. For example:
DDISP_CONTENT_COVER_GIF|1|
Note: The content will only display if it has been set in the policy files as well. (For more information, see step 8 inConfiguring e-Library for enriched content.)
| 7 | If you are using SSL and the Syndetics widget, you need to change the default values for the SYNDETICS_WIDGET_BASE_URL and the SYNDETICS_WIDGET_CSS_URL variables. |
SYNDETICS_WIDGET_BASE_URL|https://secure.syndetics.com/widget.php|
SYNDETICS_WIDGET_CSS_URL|https://secure.syndetics.com/css/widget/default.css|
Note: If these variables are not in your environment file and you want the Syndetics widget to work, you need to add them.
If you are not using SSL, you should change the value to start with “http://” instead of “https://”.
| 8 | If you are not using the Syndetics widget, set the display flag for each type of content to display. |
You can set the flag for the following variables:
| • | DISP_CONTENT_AUTHOR_BIO - for displaying the author bibliography. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_REVIEW - for displaying the Publisher’s Weekly review. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_BLREVIEW - for displaying the Book List review. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_CHREVIEW - for displaying the Choice review. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_LJREVIEW - for displaying the Library Journal review. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_SLJREVIEW - for displaying the School Library Journal review. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_SUMMARY - for displaying the item’s summary or abstract. |
| • | DISP_CONTENT_TOC - for displaying the item’s table of contents information. |
To set the display flag, you set the value of the variable to 1. For example:
DISP_CONTENT_AUTHOR_BIO|1|
Note: The content will only display if it has been set in the policy files as well. (For more information, see step 8 inConfiguring e-Library for enriched content.)
| 9 | To turn off the display of brief summary text on the hit list page, you need to add the following variable and value to your system.env or environment file. |
USE_SYNDETICS_HITLIST_SUMMARY|0|
You can also set the variable to a value of 1 (or remove the variable completely) to turn the summaries back on.
| 10 | Save the changes to the file. |
The system uses the new settings with the next browser session.
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Configuring e-Library for enriched content
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Configuring Apache for enriched content
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