HELP: Medianet Web New Features

New for Medianet V8.8:

• New Look and Feel to Web Pages

  Depending upon the level of site-customization in place, this Medianet Web site will have a new look which will include new colors, fonts, buttons, etc.

• My List -- Build Your Own List of Favorite Titles

  Keep a peraonal list of titles for future ordering/reference. Use the new button on the full title display to add this title to you list.

  • Add a comment
  • Set a priority
  • Create/add categories

  Access your My List anytime using the tab or link in the bottom button bar.

  • Click the title and go the full title display to order
  • Sort your titles by any column...just click the column header
  • Click Edit to change your comments, category or priority
  • Cliek Remove to drop a title from your My List

• Play Digital Videos in the Embedded Window or Launch the Player

  For digital video, you can choose to play in the embedded window on the screen or you can click the Launch Player radio button and that will use the player appropriate for the video being streamed.

• Images Available in a Slide Show

  You may notice a new slide show of images for a title. Click the arrows to scroll through these images. Click any of the thumbnails to see the full image.

  Medianet V8.7m:

  • Web Order Form:

    The Showdate and Endshow column headers on the order form have been changed to You Receive and Return.

    Likewise, similar column headers in other displays have also changed:

    • Show time and Endshow time are now Receive time and Return time
    • on Booking display pages, Show and End are now You Receive and Return
    • on the Order Extend/Renew page, New Endshow is now New Return

  • Search page improvements: Finding Images as Resources

    The multi-media drop down menu on the web search page now distinguishes between an Image linked to a title as a resource (e.g. a picture of Kit contents or of Equipment) vs an image auto-displayed as part of the title synopsis (e.g. picture of DVD case or Book cover). Selecting Image from the drop down will find titles with a resource linked. The automatically displayed images are categorized as Image(auto-shown) in the drop down.

    The multi-media drop down menu is now sorted alphabetically so finding the desired multi-media filter is easier.

  • Search page improvements: Display of multiple Formats and Audience Levels

    When the button is used from the search page, the formats and audience levels are now displayed in a more efficient 3 column layout (previously it was 2 columns).

  • Titles with Image resources

    The full display of a title that has an image as a resource (e.g. a picture of Kit contents or of Equipment) the icon has been replaced by a thumbnail of the full image.

  Medianet V8.7:

  • Improved speed for web catalog searching

    Many searches now display results up to 90% faster than before.

  • Improved accuracy for web catalog searching

    Searching by Keyword is now more accurate as all automatic filtering has been removed. Previously any 1 or 2 character search text was dropped and so were a collection of noise words (e.g. and, was, etc.). Now with the much improved speed of web catalog searching, this filtering is no longer necessary so all search text is included.

  • Improved searching for Learn360 digital content

    You can now find Learn360 digital content more easily in Medianet as you can now search by series name.

    You may also notice the new More terms displayed for Learn360 titles. These search terms will help you find Learn360 content in the Medianet web catalog.

  • New chapter titles for DE streaming content

    You can now search for and display chapters of streaming video titles. These chapters will be live links from the full video display page.

    Subject searching is possible for DE streaming content.

  • Simpler booking display for Cancel and Extend/Renew

    The bookings displayed for Cancel and Extend/Renew actions will no longer be cluttered with orders associated with the Routing System which is used for journal subscriptions, rotating boxes of classroom books, etc.

    If you wish to cancel your participation in the routing system, please use the signup page to un-subscribe.

    If you wish to keep an item from this routing system longer, please contact staff to make that request.

  Medianet V8.6M:

  • Subject browse from search results page

    The text you use for a web catalog search is now displayed as a new link to do a Subject Browse.

    The new link appears at the top of the search results page as part of the hint:
    (hint: search may be revised at bottom of page or do subject search on: math):
    

    The new link will do a subject browse using the same text and from there you can follow subject links or related term links (i.e. See and See also terms) to their titles.

  • Re-book option

    Once you have cancelled an order, the Re-Book option is available on the cancellation confirmation page. This makes it much easier to cancel and immediately re-book an order.

  • Learn360 content

    If your media library is licensed for Learn360 access, note that language is now available as a filter on the search page and will also be a part of the full title display.

  • Login page

    The Forgot your password is now more prominent on the login page to encourage its use as you'll receive immediate help logging into the web. A new account should only ever be requested is you don't already have one.

  • Internet Explorer 8

    The issue of IE8 not properly displaying the full title page has been resolved. The expanded title display page will display properly using this browser. It was only IE8 that had this issue.