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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 11:03:00 EDT
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- Subject: Re: Phone Books w/ departmental listings
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- In response to Mr. Wiggins' inquiry about departmental searches within a CWIS,
- I think we have what he suggested. We use Digital's VideoText. Each faculty
- and staff entry in our directory has included as a keyword the person's
- department. This allows a keyword search for HISTORY for example, to
- create a dynamic menu of all directory entries with HISTORY as a keyword. We
- constructed the dynamic menu title for each page to include the persons full
- name and campus phone number, thus the dynamic menu on a name search (or
- partial name search) results in everyone in the particular department being
- presented along with their full name and local phone number. We find this
- feature very useful and it was an easily accommodated byproduct.
-
- Steve Hopper, Appalachian State University, Boone, NC
- HOPPERSD@APPSTATE
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