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Friday, March 28th, 2008

ReadsinMa updates!

The 2008 summer templates are loaded into your web sites. Justin Harris from Evanced offers these steps:
There are templates available for this years’ theme. To apply them to one of your programs please do the following:
1. log in as an administrator.
2. click ‘system maintenance’
3. click ‘style sheet settings’
4. select your desired program
5. click the […]

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Evanced Tip - Classification

You can add/edit the patron classification list to customize to a specific library’s need but when setting the age/grade type to ‘patron classification’, patrons can only register for the program with whichever classification is set in the program’s setup.
You can only select one type in the list, like “adult”.

Friday, June 22nd, 2007

Evanced Tip - Daily goals

Daily Goals tracks the # of days the patrons meet his/her daily goal and awards prizes based on that.
Setting the Prize Thresholds to 7, 14, 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, 63, 70 (70 days = 10 weeks) and the min to 10 minutes and the max to 120 minutes would yield a prize to […]

Wednesday, June 20th, 2007

Evanced Tip - Name of Library at top

This tip comes by way of Nancy Sheehan at the Beebe Library in Wakefield:
If you enter your library’s name in System Maintenance\System Settings\Set Library Name, the name of your library streams like a banner across the top of the page. Nice.

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Evanced Tip - School Lists

To have two different lists for two programs, set up a “master” list through ‘Drop List Maintenance’, create their groups and assign the schools to the groups.  Create all schools and all groups in this area. After doing that,  go into a program’s Registration Setup and click on the ‘Modify Group List’. Make sure to […]

Thursday, June 7th, 2007

Evanced Tip - Customized Prize Message

Go to System Maintenance
Then to Prize Message Maintenance
Select ‘Default’
This is where you configure custom prize messages!

Wednesday, June 6th, 2007

Evanced Tip - Managing prizes

This probably is getting the most questions! I hope I can explain clearly here.
You have first the option to turn on or off prizes.
If you turn on prizes, then you have several choices to make.
Intervals - In this choice you are determining if participant can, for example, get a prize for every 3 books read. […]

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Evanced Tip - Cool links

Burlington Public Library has found a lot of Cool Links: Burlington
The Gleason Library in Carlisle links to the Teen blog: Carlisle
Peabody Institute Library in Danvers has added the patron coupon page to their cool links! take a look: Danvers
Essex Agricultural High School links to their summer reading home page
Topsfield’s page gives a definite identity! A […]

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Evanced Tip - Fixing typo in registration form

In the question on the registration form asking how patrons heard about the online program, you will note a spelling error. It says “here” instead of “hear”.
To fix:
Go to System maintenance
Under Setup Maintenance, select last item System Settings
On that page click on “edit” to the right of “Enable Custom Registration Entry 1″
In the field question […]

Friday, May 25th, 2007

Evanced Tip - Scrolling Prize message!

To enable a scrolling prize message, you need to make sure you have clicked on “yes” for prize management in program setup.
Once it is enabled, go to System Maintenance.
Under Setup Maintenance, click on the last item System Settings.
Click “yes” to enable prize popup
Click “no” to Turn Off Prize Scrolling on Home Page
Save!