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Simpson Library Technical Services

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Atlas & ILLiad

Edit Atlas Hosted Web Pages 

GitHub hosts our ILLiad login and request pages.
GitHub: https://github.com/AtlasSystems/hosting-illiad-maryw

Making changes to our ILLiad pages:

You must have a username and password issued by Atlas.

Important notes about the pages in GitHub:

  • All edits should be duplicated on the corresponding Edit page in order for the changes to be consistent when a patron submits their request. ex. If you are editing LoanRequest.html, you also need to make same changes to EditLoanRequest.html 
  • Don't forget to make changes to the note area in the html if your change warrants this. 
  • Do not change the names of any pages 

Request pages:
Periodical Article Request = ArticleRequest
Book Chapter Request = BookChapterRequest
Book Request = LoanRequest
ERIC Document Request = ReportRequest
Logon page:
Edit logon.html and logon2.html 
Footer:
include_footer.html 

Always test changes by logging into your ILLiad login page.
ILLiad login page:
https://ill.umw.edu/ILLiad/

 

Example: I need to make ISBN or ISSN a mandatory field. 
For this, you need to find the lending pages where this field exists.  ISBN and/or ISSN appears on the Book, Book Chapter and Periodical Request pages. 
*All edits should be duplicated on the corresponding Edit page in order for the changes to be consistent when a patron submits their request. ex. Book Request = LoanRequest.html so we also need to make the same edits to EditLoanRequest.html. 

Open the ILLiad folder in GitHub

  1. Open the page to edit.  (Click on the pencil icon to begin editing the page.)
  2. Find the area where ISSN or ISBN is mentioned: 
  3. Insert <span class="req">*</span> after the <span class="field"> 
  4. Make notes in the comments field 
  5. Make sure that Commit directly to the master branch Is selected 
  6. Hit the Commit Changes button 
  7. Repeat the same edits for the EditArticleRequest.html page. 

Open the ILLiad Customization Manager 

  1. Select UMW in the upper left hand corner icon 
  2. Search webv in the search box 
  3. Filter the Formname to the pages you are looking for  
  4. We will select ArticleRequest and EditArticleRequest checkboxes 
  5. Select one of the fieldnames and hit the Copy Record Icon 
  6. Edit the Row 
  7. Change the FieldName to ISSN 
  8. Check the box next to required field 
  9. Validation .+ means that anything can be typed in the box without causing an error 
  10. Edit the Error Message, for this one, we need to change Pages is a required field to ISSN is a required field. 
  11. Edit the Error Tag to match the field in the html document. 
  12. Click the Save button. 
  13. Now you can just copy the field that you just edited and change the Formname to EditArticleRequest and click the Save button. 
  14. Check to make sure your pages updated in the form.  You can place a TEST request in the Article Form to see if the changes were saved to the EditArticleRequest page.  You can delete the request afterwards.