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| * Fast access for readers to login from a remote location (e.g. their home), but only to perform a limited range of functions without the need to remember usernames, passwords and library license codes. | * Fast access for readers to login from a remote location (e.g. their home), but only to perform a limited range of functions without the need to remember usernames, passwords and library license codes. | ||
| - | ===== The Basics - How does Mystic Work? ===== | + | ===== The Basics - How does MysticAIR Work? ===== |
| The heart of MysticAIR revolves around the use of a cookie placed onto a trusted computer, containing a key encrypted with strong, military grade encryption. This key in isolation, even if it could be decrypted, is useless as it is just a reference to more important information stored in the central MysticAIR servers, and therefore poses no security risk. | The heart of MysticAIR revolves around the use of a cookie placed onto a trusted computer, containing a key encrypted with strong, military grade encryption. This key in isolation, even if it could be decrypted, is useless as it is just a reference to more important information stored in the central MysticAIR servers, and therefore poses no security risk. | ||
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| - | ===== Starting to use MysticAIR ===== | + | ====== Using MysticAIR - Staff ====== |
| To use MysticAIR, it first needs to be turned on. While the [Login Using MysticAIR] button is always available on the main screen, this is because at this point Mystic has no idea which library or user account is going to be used. Everybody, all over the world, is presented with this same screen. Selecting this login without a valid Registration cookie simply provides a means for the end-user to register their 1st invitation. | To use MysticAIR, it first needs to be turned on. While the [Login Using MysticAIR] button is always available on the main screen, this is because at this point Mystic has no idea which library or user account is going to be used. Everybody, all over the world, is presented with this same screen. Selecting this login without a valid Registration cookie simply provides a means for the end-user to register their 1st invitation. | ||
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| Workstation invitations are ideally issued for computers within the library, or elsewhere in the school / organisation. Essentially, issue Workstation Invitations only to computers that you trust, and where the functions presented are appropriate to the location - e.g. Self-issuing a book in the library, where the reader actually has possession of the book. | Workstation invitations are ideally issued for computers within the library, or elsewhere in the school / organisation. Essentially, issue Workstation Invitations only to computers that you trust, and where the functions presented are appropriate to the location - e.g. Self-issuing a book in the library, where the reader actually has possession of the book. | ||
| - | Once registered, Workstations level invitations login as a purely anonymous user and present all authorised functions to any user who clicks the [Login Using MysticAIR] button. If at any time Mystic needs to know who the user is (such as for issuing said book), Mystic will present the opportunity to enter their Reader ID. | + | Once registered, Workstation level invitations login as a purely anonymous user and present all authorised functions to any user who clicks the [Login Using MysticAIR] button. If at any time Mystic needs to know who the user is (such as for issuing said book), Mystic will present the opportunity to enter their Reader ID. |
| ==== Reader Invitations ==== | ==== Reader Invitations ==== | ||
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| **Special Note**: Changing the setting of a checkbox, or removing the invitation entirely is **immediate** and does not require selecting the [Save] button. | **Special Note**: Changing the setting of a checkbox, or removing the invitation entirely is **immediate** and does not require selecting the [Save] button. | ||
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| + | ====== Using MysticAIR - Readers ====== | ||
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| + | Once MysticAIR is turned on and an invitation is created, the reader (or staff member, if the invitation is for a trusted workstation) should be given the invite code. This is a four-part number with the only distinction between Reader and Workstation invitations is that one part of the invite will contain the characters 'WS'. | ||
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| + | A report is available from the Mystic Report menu which can print these invitations off in bulk, in a similar way to the [Readers Barcodes] report. | ||
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| + | ===== Registering the computer ===== | ||
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| + | Navigate to the Pergamon Mystic online library management system. Here you will see two means to login - the normal mechanism using the Username, Password and Library Code; but also a simple button marked [Login Using MysticAIR]. | ||
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| + | Click this MysticAIR button. If the computer has not been used before, a registration dialog is displayed with a text box - simply type the invitation code into the text box and click [Register]. If you have multiple invitations, type one code at a time, clicking [Register] between each one until all invitations are successfully registered. When finished, click [Close] to leave the registration dialog. | ||
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| + | ===== Using MysticAIR ===== | ||
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| + | Select the MysticAIR button again. This time, Mystic recognises that the computer is registered and displays the MysticAIR webpage. This is deliberately very simple - in fact, the initial display should only have a pull-out menu button displayed in the top-right hand corner. Click this to display the menu. | ||
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| + | A typical MysticAIR menu will display the following reader options: | ||
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| + | * [Anonymous] (only if a trusted workstation) | ||
| + | * One or more readers who are attached to the invitations | ||
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| + | Choose one of the reader options to change who is the active reader. On initial login, the 1st reader in the list is always automatically selected. For a trusted workstation, this list will usually only be [Anonymous]. For a home computer, this list may only be a single name. | ||
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| + | Additionally, the menu will also display: | ||
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| + | * **Search** - the standard catalogue search function. | ||
| + | * **Issue & Return** - the standard Issue & Return function. | ||
| + | * **What is MysticAIR?** - a link to an information page for end-users. | ||
| + | * **Add another Invite** - a means to register additional invitations after the original registration dialog. | ||
| + | * **Logout** - to return to the main Mystic login web page. | ||
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| + | Further menu options will be added after consultation with end-users regarding what will be useful on the MysticAIR system. | ||
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