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Issue # 3 June 17, 1997 ContentsInSite is intended to create discussion about the use and implementation of Open SiteSearch software and explore the technology used by its components. The newsletter will be distributed to the SiteSearch list on a regular basis and is designed as an informational resource for SiteSearch system administrators. It is brought to you by the SiteSearch support team. Any suggestions or comments are appreciated. Top StorySiteSearch Meetings and Festivities at ALAHere at OCLC, we are closing out a banner year for the Open SiteSearch software! Highlights include two new software releases and 43 new libraries. It’s become a tradition to share the celebration of our success with the SiteSearch user community at ALA Annual. This year we are hosting an after dinner dessert buffet on Sunday, June 29, from 9:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m. in the OCLC Suite. We invite you and your colleagues to come by and sample some special California desserts and dessert wines. Invitations to this special event were sent to your institution’s administrative contact. If you are able to attend and require an invitation, please let us know. If possible, please RSVP by June 20. In addition, to this social event, you have three opportunities for finding out what’s in the works for SiteSearch:
For all of the above events, please RSVP to Becky Hawk () to reserve a seat. We hope you will be able to attend many of these events and look forward to seeing you in San Francisco! For those of you who will not be attending the conference, we will be giving you an update of the activities that take place in the next issue of InSite. FAQsIn each issue of InSite, we will highlight some questions frequently asked of the support team. As a reminder, be sure to send all SiteSearch problem reports to for tracking and assignment. Displaying Subfields in the correct orderQ: Using a full record fcl I created, how do you display the subfields $x, $y, and $z of 650 and 651 subject fields in the correct order? A: To keep these in the proper order, set up a "conditional_field" using the desired tags, place the "data_ordered" keyword inside the conditional_field, and finally add the line "field(<desired tags>)". Thus, to keep 24, 25, and 26 in order, add a section like this to your full record Marc fcl: conditional_field(24,25,26)
{
data_ordered
field(24,25,26)
{
label="[ ... ]"
trailer="[ ...]"
separator="[ ... ]"
[ ... ]
}
}
Substringing with OverciteQ: Is there a way to do substringing in Overcite or in the WebZ entity language? I need to pull individual elements out of the MARC 008 field, which is a fixed- length field with fixed-length elements at fixed positions within the field. I need to test the value in byte 6 of this field and conditionally print one of the dates from bytes 7-10 or 11-14. Any suggestions on how to do this? A: There is a substr functionality within the WebZ entity language. You can store things in entities and test on them. Add the following to the .fcl within WebZ entity language section (<oclc-app ... ): ....
field(8)
{
substr_offset=5
substr_len=1
label="byte6=$q"
trailer="$q;"
}
field(8)
{
substr_offset=6
substr_len=4
label="date1=$q"
trailer="$q;"
}
field(8)
{
substr_offset=10
substr_len=4
label="date2=$q"
trailer="$q;"
}
....
Software Fixes for Release 3.1As SiteSearch users report bugs or ask for enhancement requests, our development staff make changes to the executables for SiteSearch. Patch releases replace the executables of your SiteSearch software package and are available from SiteSearch Support. The following section describes patch releases for Version 3.1: Patch release: ss-3.1.0.1
Patch release: ss-3.1.0.2
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