• Collections & Technical Services
• June 2006
• Issue: 203

Get Ready for Connexion Client 1.60

Connexion client version 1.60 is coming in June 2006! OCLC will discontinue client 1.50 on October 1, 2006. You will not be able to log on with client 1.50 as of October 1, 2006.

Changes to System Requirements:

• Connexion client 1.60 will require Microsoft .NET Framework version 2.0 to be installed on your workstation. Previous versions of the client required .NET 1.1.
• OCLC will include .NET 2.0 software when you install the client 1.60 software. However, you may want to consider installing .NET 2.0 ahead of time to make the client 1.60 installation faster.
• NET 1.1 and 2.0 can both be installed on the same workstation. Client 1.50 works specifically with .NET 1.1 and client 1.60 works specifically with .NET 2.0, even if both versions of .NET are installed on your workstation.
• To verify the version(s) of .NET installed on your workstation, in Windows, go to Start, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs. Look for Microsoft .NET Framework in the list of installed programs and verify the version number(s) listed.
• See more about system requirements for Microsoft .NET Framework on the Microsoft web site at http://msdn.microsoft.com/netframework/technologyinfo/.
• Windows ME will no longer be supported:
  • Connexion client 1.60 requires Windows 2000 or Windows XP.
  • OCLC will no longer support Windows Millennium (ME), starting with the release of client 1.60.
  • OCLC will not block the client from working with Windows ME; however, no testing will be completed and no user support will be available for use of the client with Windows ME.

Client 1.60 Enhancements to creating and editing records:

• Cataloging of electronic resources from a URL or directory path:
  • You will be able to enter a URL or directory path for digital resources to have Connexion extract metadata associated with the resource and start building a bibliographic workform.
  • To support this functionality, OCLC will introduce a new menu item "Cataloging, Create, Extract Metadata."
  • Supported file types will be HTML (*.htm, *.html), word processing (*.doc), and Adobe portable document format (*.pdf).
• For web sites, you will be able to create multiple records from sites linked to the parent URL.
  • You may select a setting from the Extract Metadata dialog to specify whether records should be automatically saved to the online or local save file, to apply default constant data, and to define a My Status value for each record created.
• Paste data into a single field in a bibliographic record using new menu item Edit, Paste Unformatted.
  • When data is copied from web sites, a line break is very often included at the end of each line, causing the data to be pasted into multiple fields in the Connexion client.
  • Paste Unformatted automatically removes line breaks in copied data and pastes all copied data in one field.

OCLC-MARC Format Update 2006 functionality

• Some OCLC-MARC Format Update functionality will be available to Connexion client 1.50 users, and some will be available only in client 1.60. See Technical Bulletin 252 for detailed information.
• Some key changes in Connexion client 1.60 related to this update include:
  • Implementation of integrating resources (bibliographic level "i") -- The Serials workform has been renamed Continuing Resources (menu Cataloging, Create Record, Single Record, Continuing Resources) and is used to create both textual serials and textual integrating resources. In addition to limiting WorldCat searches by serials, limit by integrating resources or limit by continuing resources (which is a combination of serials and integrating resources).
  • New special characters and diacritics- New characters, which were previously available in Connexion client 1.50 but were not yet valid, can now be used: degree sign, phonogram copyright mark, copyright mark, musical sharp, inverted question mark, inverted exclamation point, eszett, Euro sign, left and right curly brackets, spacing circumflex, spacing underscore, spacing grave, and spacing tilde.

Specify fields to delete in exported records

• Under Tools, Options, Export, specify one or more fields to delete automatically in exported records, defining different settings for authority and bibliographic records.
  
  For example, enter 938 in the bibliographic option to automatically delete the 938 field from exported WorldCat records.

Move between fixed field elements using shift arrows

• With fixed field drop-down lists displayed, move vertically between fixed field elements using <Shift><Up Arrow> and <Shift><Down Arrow>.
• Previously, the drop-down list option (Tools, Options, Record Display, Use dropdowns for fixed fields) had to be turned off to use the keyboard to move vertically between fixed field elements.