Warning Due to server maintainance, the jOPAC widget will be down for the next few weeks. We hope to bring back this service in a refreshed version soon and will keep you informed.

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Current Version: 0.9
Status: Beta

What is it about?

The jOPAC is an integrated OPAC widget. It eases searching the library catalogue by integrating it into various platforms, and it introduces some nice extras. A list of all platforms with installation links can be found below.

If you don't use any of these platforms yet, we recommend iGoogle since it has received most development efforts so far. For this, simply click on this link to add the jOPAC widget to your personalized google page.

Feedback

For bug reports or comments on jOPAC, please use the jOPAC feedback site.

Installation

For installation, click on the following links according to your chosen platform, and follow the standard installation:

• iGoogle

• Netvibes

• Windows Live

• Windows Vista Sidebar Widgets

• Macintosh Dashboard Widgets

• Opera Dashboard Widgets (currently not working)

• Yahoo Sidebar Widgets (Alpha - not officially supported)

For Google Desktop, simply copy and paste this url into the top-right gadget search field: http://dev.public.jacobs-university.de/live/iGoogle.xml. We recommend using the Widget docked-off the sidebar, allowing easy&fast double-shift access to the OPAC!

Demo

Two platform - independent demos can be found below. You can include this widget in any Web Page as long as you got <inline> or <script>-writing permission. For a live demo, test the inbuilt widgets below. The left is realised with the a BlogWidget Javascript - allowing you to set some preferences, the right is realised with an inline frame.

To make the left work, simply add the following to your web page:

<script type="text/javascript"
  src="http://www.netvibes.com/js/UWA/load.js.php?env=BlogWidget"></script>

<div id="UWAjOPACWidget" style="height:600px">Loading the jOPAC Widget</div>

<script type="text/javascript">

var BW = new UWA.BlogWidget( {
  container: document.getElementById('UWAjOPACWidget'),
  moduleUrl: 'http://dev.public.jacobs-university.de/live/jOPAC.html' } );

BW.setConfiguration(
  { 'title':'jOPAC', 'height':'500', 'borderWidth':'1', 'color':'#aaaaaa',
    'displayTitle':true, 'displayFooter':true });
BW.setPreferencesValues(
  { 'limit':'10', 'display':'compact', 'language':'auto' } );
</script>

or for the right inline frame:

<iframe
src="http://nvmodules.netvibes.com/api/uwa/frame/uwa_standalone.php?moduleUrl=
http://dev.public.jacobs-university.de/live/jOPAC.html frameborder="0" height="500"
scrolling="AUTO" width="500" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Source code

The source code for jOPAC can be found here. If you happen to work on jOPAC, I would appreciate a short notice - so I can guide you through the installation and coordinate further development.

External Libraries

More information on this settings file will be provided soon. Alternatively you can also download the Source Code and run your own jOPAC instance.

Acknowledgement

Many thanks to Skaldrom Y. Sarg for his nice tutorial on uwa widgets.
Special thanks to Mark Jordan - without his yaz-based php-OPAC the data model would have been severely more complicated.