Library Catalog Firefox Search Plugin for Horizon Information Portal

I got to wondering how hard (or easy) it might be to create a Firefox search plugin for our library catalog.

I found some instructions Seminole Co. Library posted a while back.

They included the sample code to start with (and Blogger isn't letting me paste it here, visit them for the code)

Change the italicized parts to match your site's catalog URL.

My first attempt was unsuccessful. When I ran my edited code through the error checking link also on their instructions, it said it could not find the index "BTW"

After a quick general keyword search in HIP, I scrolled through the address bar to find that our GenKW index is ".GW"
Edited that in the code, and it worked!

The error checker also advised changing the last line of code to updateCheckDays="7"

Thanks Seminole Co. for posting this code!
Programming experience=none.

I'll be placing some links on the library website this week, and I'll add the link here then.

Update:
For the search plugin and links to all the other L2 things we're doing, visit our user tools & resources page.

HUGE thanks to Chris at Clam Chowder for debugging the problems with the download script!

Tags:

• Horizon


• HIP


• Dynix


• Firefox