Fields: Edit Tab

The tab is displayed on the home screen at all times, regardless of whether the user is logged in or not.

Note: If the app is not connected to an ILS that provides authentication service, you should set the Visibility for all tabs to “Always”.

The tab shows on the home screen prior to the user logging in. Once the user has logged in, this item disappears until the user logs out again.

The tab shows on the home screen after the user has logged in. When the user logs out again, the button disappears.

The tab shows on the home screen only when the user has logged in with a library staff account.

Links to a content item previously created in the admin system. Typically, these content items are web pages for online resources, videos, PowerPoint presentations, and so forth.

Creates a button to a single channel under your control, which can be used to display a variety of content. As well as containing a schedule of content, a channel can have location information attached to it (that is, to specify a real world location such as a branch or facility).

The list of libraries that power the “Find my nearest branch” section of the app. In addition, this type is used for tabs that contain sub-tabs. For example, an Online Resources tab that contains subcategories, which then contains an individual tab for each online resource. Each of those tabs can then be a “Content item” type linking to a URL content item.

The List option has these options:

• Order By—Specifies how the list is sorted. Title sorts the libraries alphabetically. Proximity sorts the list by distance from the current location of the device with the nearest library first in the list.

  Note: When Proximity is selected, the BLUEcloud Mobile app prompts the user to turn on the location services if they are off.

• Show Search Filter—Displays a Search box at the top of the library list to allow users to easily find a library by name.

Provides a space to write your own free form HTML content to be displayed when the user selects this tab.

Note: You can add a link in the text that opens in the app's browser by clicking Insert/edit link, then selecting Current window in the Open link in drop-down list. The New window option opens the link in the device's default browser.

Sets the tab to display the Login/Logout options along with connecting to other log-in providers (such as Facebook).

Displays the ILS search page so patrons can perform catalog queries of the ILS instance.

When you select this Tab type, you have these options:

• Institution list—Displays a list of the BLUEcloud institutions in your organization. When you select an institution, the Library Search options for that institution display below the institution name.
• Default Search Limit—Specifies the BLUEcloud Search Limit, if any, to apply to the library search.
• Expanded Search Limit—Specifies the BLUEcloud Search Limit, if any, to include as an alternate to the Default Search Limit. Typically, this search limit provides the user a wider search. When you specify an Expanded Search Limit, the app displays an ellipses icon ( "..." ) next to the search limit. When you select to provide no Expanded Search Limit, a cancel icon ( "x" ) is displayed next to the search limit in the app to allow users to clear the Default Search Limit (if one is enabled).
• Search Target—Specifies the BLUEcloud Search Target, if any, to search against.
• Include ISBN Scanner—Specifies whether to display the ISBN Scanner option on the tab.
• Include Result Indicators—Specifies whether to display numbers on the thumbnails of each item in the search results, indicating their position in the search results.

Displays the user's own account information. In a library context this will include loans, reservations and charges.

Displays a page for either scanning the barcode or RFID tag of an item in order to check it out to the user.

When you select this tab you have these options:

• Select Locations—Specifies the channel in which you have set up the self-check options for the library.
• Enforce Location check—Specifies that the patron's devices is in range of the GPS coordinates associated with the library in order to check out or check in the item. For more information about designating library locations, see Fields: Edit Channels: Location.

Presents the authentication fields for logging in to the library.

Allows the patron to select which language is used in the app.

Displays a QR scanner screen to let users scan QR codes that are posted in the library. When a user scans a QR code, the URL referenced by the code opens in the app's browser.