Wise Community settings
Wise Community
Customers can create their own profiles to share information about book titles, movie titles, audio titles with other library users across the country.
The condition is that the customer's membership allows the use of Wise Community and the customer has no outstanding financial obligations.
Wise Community features
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| Profile | Create a profile, change your nickname, personal settings, and avatar. For more information, see Wise Community profile. |
| Rating |
Provide a rating in stars for titles (1-5 stars). The average number can be seen in each participating library system. For more information, see Title reviews and ratings. |
| Reviews | Leave a review to let others know what you think of a title. Reviews can be seen at each participating library. For more information, see Title reviews and ratings. |
| Tags | Give a title its own tag. A tag is a label (e.g. a subject) that allows you to easily find all titles with the same tag later on. All tags can be seen in any participating library. The maximum size of a tag is 80 characters. For more information, see Tags. |
| Lists | Create your own title lists, either for your own use or publicly. For more information, see Wise Community title lists. |
System Settings
Certain features require activation before they can be configured. Please contact OCLC Support to make changes to your Wise Community settings.
Community membership settings
The ability to use community functions must be enabled per branch:
- Within the Wise configuration manager, navigate to Products and services > Memberships > Card Configuration > My Menu configuration.
- Select the appropriate branch and click Open.
- Click Detail to open the My Menu configuration.
- Check the box Community participation allowed.
- Click OK to save.
Internal notes
Community components
The following components can be customized:
| Community Global: Global setting Variables for Community components | |
|---|---|
| Location | Home/web/XSL/globals.xsl |
| Value | True or False (on/off) |
| Usage/Callout |
Copy the variables from /web/rsrc/portal/xsl/globals.xsl If these variables are not included in the /Web/xsl/globals.xsl then the corresponding component is out. |
| Variable | Description | Page where variable appears |
|---|---|---|
| Community | Default "True" in the portal. | |
| Inbox_friends | Allows customers to make friends and send messages. |
Title Detail > TIP a friend
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Social Networks |
Enabled sharing via social networks. You share a deep link to the current title in the current system. | Title detail |
| Avatars |
Allow the use of avatars. A user can select an avatar. It can also see avatars of other users. |
On every page where Community elements prevent a nickname |
| Community Search | Allows searching on profile and tags. | Every page |
| Scores |
Allows viewing of popular users, active Users and popular titles possible |
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Community Home page settings
The following home page settings can be configured:
| Community Start: Home page settings | |
|---|---|
| Location | /Web/portal/xsl/main.xsl |
| Usage/Callout | Copy from /rsrc/portal/xsl/main.xsl only the 'form_body' template and record it in /Web/portal/xsl/main.xsl. Slide there with the various call template parts in the 'Form_body' template to influence the order of the items on the start page. This only affects if it has been selected to turn on the components with the above global variables. |
| Variable | Description |
|---|---|
| Carousel | Contains acquisitions, but if enabled in global variables, also displays in the popular titles |
| Activities | Includes, by default, the last five activities of all community users. |
| Score users | Contains the most active and popular users. |
| Recently used tags | Contains the most recently used tags by users in the community. Additional option: Choose 'Right' or 'Middle' (default). The container is located in the right or middle column. |
Add the Community landing page to Joomla
To add the Wise Community landing page to a Joomla site:
- Within Joomla configuration, select the menu where the link to the landing page will appear.
- Create a new menu item of type > System Links > URL (external or internal url)
- In the Link field, insert the shortcode: _BX_WISE_COMMUNITY_
- Save the menu item. The link to Community now appears in the selected menu.
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Wise Community data model
Each OCLC Wise system exchanges data with OCLC's Wise4all server. This is where all Wise Community data is stored. It also matches titles from the various Wise library systems.
Syncing new titles with the Wise4all server
New titles are synchronized to the Wise4all for each Wise system daily, except on Saturdays. If a title is entered into Wise before 5 p.m., it will be available for use in Wise Community the next day.
The first library to submit a title for synchronization is the “owner” of the title in Wise4all.