#Instructions for Creating Searchbar entries for Mozilla and Firefox web browsers. #Adapted from work by Thomas Dowling, OhioLINK #This is a process of adding a search plugin for your INNOPAC/Millennium Catalog #into Mozilla or Firefox Broswers. #For more information, go to: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/quickstart.html #Steps to complete to get the plugins working in Firefox. # #1. Create Web Directory for files that patrons will download onto their machine. #2. Create icon file. #3. Create parameters (.src) file. #4. Create Webpage with Javascript downloads to allow patrons to install these files. # #1. Create Web Directory for files that patrons will download onto their machine. #It might be best to have this on a basic web server and not your INNOPAC/Millennium #System. #For the University of Toledo, we created http://library.utoledo.edu/downloads/plugin/ #2. Create icon file. #The icon needs to be small (16x16 pixels). It can be a GIF, JPEG or PNG file. #3. Create parameters (.src) file. #OVERVIEW #The .src file is how Mozilla or Firefox knows where to send the search. As I learn more #I will update this section. #This file can be created and edited in Notepad or another text editor. It must be saved with #a .src file extention. I am not sure that this is required, but it makes sense that the icon #file (#2 above) and the .src file have the same name. #During the install, it gets placed in the \searchplugins\ directory of the program. #On my computer, that is C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins #You can manually delete files here to remove plugins after they are added. #FULL EXAMPLE #-----------Full Example--------- #----------End Example--------------- #SECTIONS EXPLAINED (as best as I can) #SEARCH #The Search settings is where you put the URL and other information for your #INNOPAC/Millennium Server #name is what appears in the Searchbar. Keep this brief #action is for the URL of your INNOPAC/Millennium followed by "/search/~" #search if for the URL of your INNOPAC/Millennium #INPUT #This is where you put the information on the type of search #The Index tag goes in the top line. #The value "X" is for Advanced Keyword Search. #The SORT Value of "D" is for date (newest material sorts first) #You can add or subtract data here as needed. #If you want, you can setup different .src files/icons for different #searches in the same database by adding values here #INTERPRET #I will try to developed this code in time. This is primarily used by #Mozilla when creating the search sidebar. Right now, what this is ideally supposed #to do is to give value and meaning to the PREVIOUS and NEXT buttons in the sidebar to #Move through the result set. This does not have an impact (I think) for Firefox. #BROWSER #This is where you can put the URL for the .src and icon file for self-updating #as the files change and are updated. This way, if something changes or improves #over time, the patron does not need to return to the download page. #Inlcude the links to the .src file, icon file, and how many days should it check #for updates. #4. Create Webpage with Javascript downloads to allow patrons to install these files #This is the full file. #It can be found at http://library.utoledo.edu/downloads/plugin/ut.html #There is little that you need to change. The webpage installs the plugin files #to the correct directory on the computer. To ensure that it installs properly, change #the URLs in the Javascript section starting "function addEngine(name,cat)". This needs #to point to your web directory for storing the icons and .src files. If you use JPEG or #PNG files, then change the last part of this line: #"http://library.utoledo.edu/downloads/plugin/"+name+".gif" #For the plugins, enter this Javascript code for each plugin offered: #

Install the UTMOST Catalog Search Plugin

#Giving the .src and icon file the same name will make this easier to maintain. #-----------Full Example--------- Mozilla Plugin

Mozilla/Firefox Search Plugins 

University of Toledo Library Catalog (Innovative Interfaces, Inc.)

Install the UTMOST Catalog Search Plugin

Install the OhioLINK Central Catalog Search Plugin

#FULL EXAMPLE #-----------End Example--------- ##Written by Corey Seeman, University of Toledo, December 8, 2004 ##corey.seeman@utoledo.edu