KineticaWeb

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KineticaWeb

• What users are asking for

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Record displays

• Edit holdings button on Short View
• Holdings on Short View
• No holdings on Extended View
• Holdings button on all views to make display of
  holdings a separate request
• ISBN in Short View

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Navigating the screens

• More reliable tabbing between boxes
• Default cursor placement, e.g. for login
• Default radio buttons, e.g. to select NBD
• Enter to invoke a mouse click, especially at
  login
• Faster path to edit query after viewing search
  results

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and more navigation

• Edit holdings - put buttons higher on screen to
  reduce scrolling
• Emailing records - put email button below the
  email address box - so you dont forget to type
  the address before clicking the email button
• Stored records - want a Select All button so
  user can quickly select all records for emailing
  or saving to disk

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Browse problems

• Subject browse takes you to wrong place in the
  index
• Clicking on an index term - term loses its syntax
  when copied into the search box
• Title browse is unreliable when launching a
  search from a title browse screen - must edit
  search statement

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Searching

• Kinetica authorities - want to search via web
• Some unexplained search results, e.g. find it on
  the second try
• Should ignore initial non-filing articles in
  search statements
• e.g. The red and the black should be searched
  as Red and the black

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Kinetica Cataloguing Client

• What users are asking for

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Shortcuts

• More tabbing
• More keyboard shortcuts for buttons
• More button shortcuts for menu items
• Function keys for SCAN SAVE
• Keyboard shortcuts indicated in the drop down
  menus

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and more shortcuts

• Enter key should have a default function on most
  screens
• Scan indexes with scroll bar (instead of UP and
  DOWN buttons)
• By-pass row saves one-at-a-time
• Edit record from Active Query Log

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Cataloguing screens

• Font size too small
• Character spacing is difficult to see
• Difficult to distinguish l and 1
• Some screens disappears while waiting for system
  response
• Highlighting of selected text is difficult to see

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and more about screens

• Buttons which do not apply should be greyed out
  or removed

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Authority control

• Lots of bugs, but most have work arounds
• Non USMARC features within Kinetica
• Name/Title heading
• w in reference fields
• What is the strategic future of online
  centralised authority control?

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Security

• Passwords - system should prompt regular password
  changes

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Questions and comments on Kinetica product
development
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Searching in the Client

• Would it be possible to edit a record from the
  Active Query Log instead of having to repeat
  searches, thereby incurring a further search
  charge?
• (NSW Users Group Cataloguing SIG)

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KineticaWeb Short View

• Would it be possible to display the main entry in
  the brief record display? Would be extremely
  helpful with non distinctive titles without an
  author statement e.g. Annual report.
• (NSW Users Group Cataloguing SIG)

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Cataloguing Client spacing

• Is it possible to remove the excess spacing in
  the 300 field in the cataloguing template on the
  Client?
• (NSW Users Group Cataloguing SIG)

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KineticaWeb searching

• If I want to edit my search statement, it takes
  me two clicks following my search results to get
  to the Edit Query screen. I would like to be
  able to edit the search statement on the same
  screen as the search results.
• (Wendy Pang, Agriculture, Fisheries Forestry -
  Australia)

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Cataloguing Client error messages

• We would like a list of error messages with
  definitions and solutions, and/or a hot link from
  the error message to the definition and the
  solution.
• (ACT Users Group)

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Cataloguing Client screen design

• We would like improved screen design, e.g. font
  size, etc.
• (ACT Users Group)

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Cataloguing Client buttons

• Non functional buttons should always be greyed
  out.
• (ACT Users Group)

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Mouse work

• Concern has been expressed as to the amount of
  mouse work. This is also an issue in
  KineticaWeb. Could alternatives such as the use
  of the Tab key be devised and promoted.
• (ACT Users Group)

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