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Main Menu Page
Your WebPAC comes with default HTML pages that are fully customizable. As discussed previously, the WebPAC is customizable using a combination of command links, style sheets, forms, and tokens.
It is important to know that WebPAC Pro requires the existence of the mainmenu.html page, this page can be redesigned, and many libraries use it as the entry web page for their library. You can use the Main Menu page to display your library's information, such as hours, services, programs, calendar of events, and link to other pages relevant to your organization. The only requirement of the Main Menu page is that it should contain a link to the organization's OPAC Menu page, opacmenu.html.
When a user selects the link to your WebPAC the resulting URL is http://yourlibraryIP/
This mainmenu.html screenshot displays some of the elements of the page.
The Main Menu page comes with default HTML links that you can edit to reflect services provided by your library. You can remove or comment out links to products that your library may not have acquired such as Course reserves and/or remove the link to Other Resources . You can also change the text of My Record to a different text such as My Patron Record, My Library Account, View your Patron Record, etc. Furthermore, on this page you can add links to other resources such as Interlibrary Loan, Other Library Catalogs, etc.
It is important to note that this page also supports other languages if your organization acquired this product. For example, to set up your WebPAC in Spanish you must create another Main Menu page; the naming convention will include the three-character code for the language, for example, mainmenu_spi.html.
WebPAC Pro requires the existence of the mainmenu.html page. You can redesign this page or make it an exact copy of opacmenu.html but you should not remove it.
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For additional information, refer to the Innovative Guide & Reference, Page # 106942: The Main Menu Page.
OPAC Menu Page
The OPAC Menu is the page that offers search options to access the catalog, and it is designed to be the main search screen. The direct URL for the OPAC Menu page is http://yourlibraryIP/search or, as shown in the example below, http://www.xtrain.com/search. In the default setup of the WebPAC, this page is identical to the default Main Menu page. Both pages can be customized together and kept the same, or can be customized separately to have very different content and presentation.
If they are made to look different, a user would get an entry page each time they enter your catalog via mainmenu.html, and would get a page with different options each time they started a new search via opacmenu.html. If these pages are kept the same, then the entry page and search page will be seamlessly integrated and users will not be able to notice that they are being directed to different pages. The opacmenu.html supports both languages and scopes: opacmenu_lang.html ; opacmenu_s#.html (# is the number as given in the Scope Menu).
The OPAC Menu has been designed to be the main search screen. Therefore, by default the New Search link and the  will take users to this page. However this behavior is customizable via the WWWOPTIONS.
The OPAC Menu is fully customizable to reflect the needs of your organization. Index search options are available from this screen and can be changed to reflect your library's choice of indexes to search. For example, if your library offers a search by journal title, a tab can be added to allow searching the journal title index. If your library does not offer one or more of the default index searches, you can deactivate them by commenting them out. You can also change the default sorting offerings to reflect your organization's preferences.
Other Searches can be customized removing unwanted features and adding other search options that you may want to offer to your library users.
For example, libraries without government documents collections will not have a need for a search link to the index that searches government documents call numbers, or those libraries that are not using Course Reserves will want the Course Reserves link removed.
For additional information, refer to the Innovative Guide & Reference, Page # 106949: The OPAC Menu Page.
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