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Tab as titles for drop down menus

Hi Dan - I ran this past our tech team, and they let me know that this isn't currently possible in LibGuides, either through custom CSS or other means. Sorry about that; they've added it to the list…

Replied 9 hours ago

Tab as titles for drop down menus

Hi Dan - I'll run this past our support team to see if they have any suggestions. In the past, I've wanted to do something similar and have compromised by making the top-level tab page essentially a…

Replied 1 day ago

Add meebo widget globally?

Hi Tatiana - You are correct; there isn't currently a global way to insert a chat widget in each librarian's profile. Each librarian needs to go to their profile and paste in their chat widget code.…

Replied Mar 5

Link Checker Errors?

Hi Nicole - I ran your question past our support guru JC, and here's what he had to say: 1. We have at least one live, working guide that is always listed as a dead link (the guide itself is listed…

Replied Mar 1

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Sarah Pawlek replied to Daniel Kiely's discussion 'Tab as titles for drop down menus'

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Sarah Pawlek replied to Daniel Kiely's discussion 'Tab as titles for drop down menus'

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Sarah Pawlek replied to Jocelyn McKeogh's discussion 'Add meebo widget globally?'

March 5

Sarah Pawlek replied to Nicole Allensworth's discussion 'Link Checker Errors?'

March 1

Sarah Pawlek replied to Nicole Allensworth's discussion 'Link Checker Errors?'

Hi Nicole - Thanks very much for this report. I'm going to run your questions past our support team to see if they have any answers, but before I do, could you post a couple of specific URLs so I could take a look? Offhand, when I've seen this in th…

March 1

Sarah Pawlek replied to Michele Hampshire's discussion 'edit the API CSS?'

Hi Michelle - I ran your question past JC, who had this to say: Actually, it is possible – still not ideal as you can’t switch out the stylesheet – but you should be able override the styles. In the case below you can suppress the rss icon and chan…

February 25

Sarah Pawlek replied to Nicole Robinson's discussion 'Links to Guides Box by tags'

Hi Nicole - Thanks very much for your suggestion, I can definitely see the usefulness of what you're suggesting. I'm going to put it up for discussion with the development team. As an aside, there are a couple of workarounds to do what you're sugg…

February 15

Sarah Pawlek replied to Aimee Walker's discussion 'Assets Export?'

Hi Aimee - thanks for your detailed response, I'll get back to you as soon as I hear from the development folks. Thanks again, -Sarah

February 9

Sarah Pawlek replied to Aimee Walker's discussion 'Assets Export?'

Hi Aimee - Thanks for your note - great question! I'm going to run this past our development team to determine what the best solution for this might be. Before I do, could you tell me a little more about how you see librarians using this feature? In…

February 8

Sarah Pawlek replied to Felicia Palsson's discussion 'Image Placeholders in "books from the catalog" box?'

Hi again, Felicia - just an update, we'll have a fix in place for this by the end of the week. We'll be adding urls for generic "no image available" images to the "Books from the Catalog" box, which you can then paste into the "Cover Art" field. You…

February 3

Sarah Pawlek replied to Klas Blomberg's discussion 'Google customized search engine'

Hi Klas - yes indeed, that one should be easy. In the link you provided, I scrolled to the bottom and found a link marked "Add this search engine to your blog or webpage". On the following page, there's a widget creator which allows you to customize…

February 3

Sarah Pawlek replied to Felicia Palsson's discussion 'Image Placeholders in "books from the catalog" box?'

Hi Felicia. :) Yeah, unfortunately it is a lot of steps to follow... at least the first time. :) For now, if you don't mind, save that URL somewhere for future pasting purposes. :) We're still talking about how to make this more efficient in the fut…

February 2

Sarah Pawlek replied to Felicia Palsson's discussion 'Image Placeholders in "books from the catalog" box?'

Hi again, Felicia - I had a chance to talk with our support team about this feature request, and they were able to come up with a workaround for this. The "cover art" field on the "Add books from the catalog" form can be filled with pretty much any…

February 2

Sarah Pawlek replied to Felicia Palsson's discussion 'Image Placeholders in "books from the catalog" box?'

Hi Felicia - Thanks for the suggestion! I'm going to pass on this idea to our support team as a future development request. I know exactly what you mean, aesthetically it looks much nicer to have entries in a vertical list (like the "Books from the…

January 29

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Great "Getting Started" Guide

Here's another great example of a "Getting Started with LibGuides" guide, courtesy of the folks over at Georgia Tech:http://libguides.gatech.edu/startguideIn particular, this gives a great mix of practical "how-to" with institution-specific style

January 28

Sarah Pawlek replied to Daniel Kiely's discussion 'importing data from Serials Solutions'

Hi Daniel - Hm, that's not good! Here's the information from Serials Solutions on finding your Client ID: "If you know the URL for your Serials Solutions E-Journal Portal, the Client ID is the 10-character string at the beginning of the URL. To fi…

January 28