What's new in the EMu Help

A language switcher has been added to the toolbar in every page in the Help, allowing switching between English and French.

Minor changes to the Solr installation notes for FreeBSD and Linux.

Minor changes made to the Login box and login steps as a result of improvements to the OpenID Connect (OIDC) process for authentication.

New Registry entry for Axiell Sapphire users.

Sapphire is supplied with forms and various scripts for processing those forms. Some forms include a barcode field, and the scripts associate a field in EMu with the Sapphire barcode field: when a value is entered in the barcode field in a Sapphire form, the hard-coded EMu field is searched for the value.

If the EMu field hard-coded in a script does not suit your needs (you would prefer to search a different field for the barcode value), this Registry entry allows you to specify a different EMu field.

Previously, two English language versions of the EMu help were produced, one for the US and the one for other English speakers (this was a broadly International English (IE) variant); this was achieved by marking up the source documentation with language variables and condition statements, and duplicating screen captures of the EMu client whenever labels were different for different regions (Catalogue / Catalog; colour / color, etc.).

Accommodating English language variants introduces a degree of complexity that affects maintenance of the English documentation, as well as its translation; translators work with the underlying xml and the more mark-up in the code to accommodate language variants, the more complex the code is to work with. To simplify the maintenance and translation of the EMu Help, it has been decided to produce a single English version of the EMu Help based on the Oxford English Dictionary. As a result, users familiar with either of the previous versions of the EMu Help will notice changes to the spelling. While the IE version was broadly British English, it adopted ise verb endings (organise rather than organize, for example); as verb endings in British English can be either ize or ise, we have adopted the former as a concession to our users in the US, where ize is preferred.

Two English language variants are available in the EMu client: English and English US. There are minor differences in the spelling of some module names in the English and English US clients (notably, Catalogue / Catalog), and tab and field names (Organisation / Organization; Colour / Color, etc.); when the EMu Help indicates that you should open the Catalogue module, it implies the Catalog module, and a request to select Organization from the Party Type drop list should be understood as a request to select Organisation if that is how it is spelt in your EMu client.

While this change means a loss of English language localization of content based on region, it will simplify the maintenance and enhance the accuracy of the content for users in all regions.

Tip: When following examples in the Help, be sure to update values to reflect spelling in your environment: for example, if the Party Type drop list in your Parties module has an Organisation Party Type, specify Organisation when building an import file that updates Parties records.

Note added about maximum size of Static groups (130,000 records) and warning that the larger the Static group, the longer it will take to retrieve.

EMu 6.3 includes improvements to managing archives and the Integrated Pest Management facility. Other minor improvements and fixes are also included.

New features and other improvements introduced with EMu 6.2 include:

• Filtering and sorting of items listed in dialogue boxes
• Expanded gender identities
• Removal of a default mandatory field background colour; addition of a Reset button to return colours set in the Options dialogue box to system defaults
• Windows regional number formats available to EMu
• Notes tabs available in the Registry module

Updated. New screenshots and some changes to labels.

Update to details about range searches in Date fields where dates may be incomplete.

By default, records in the Archives hierarchy are sorted alphabetically. With the Archive|View Ordering Registry entry it is possible to sort them alphanumerically.

Operations Registry entry privileges have been added for the Condition Update, Re-identification, Relocation and Revaluation tools. Previously access to these tools required that users were given the Global Replace (daReplace) Operations privilege. While users with the daReplace privilege will still be able to use these tools, it is now possible to give users access to each of these tools without also providing them with the Global Replace privilege. The new privilege values are:

Release Notes for EMu 6.1 added.

Explanation and solutions for this error message.

Axiell Go provides web-based access to EMu. Standard EMu Registry entries are used to specify access permissions and more in Axiell Go, but Axiell Go also has a small number of application specific Registry entries:

• Multimedia|Preset Registry entry
• Search Alias Registry entry

EMu Help updated with Axiell's new look.

Details about Registry entries for configuring the GEOLocate facility available in the Sites module.

Details about setting up a Remote Desktop connection to a hosted EMu service (PC and Mac).

The GEOLocate tab connects to the GEOLocate web service and identifies possible geolocations for a site on a world map.

Details about two Registry entries affecting how attachments are handled during a Custom import:

• Attachments Exclude Empty Fields Registry entry
• Attachments Only Search Batch Registry entry