The documentation for the newly released Athenaeum Pro web templates is now available. If you are exploring your web publishing options and would like to know more, please send an e-mail to support@sumware.co.nz requesting same and we will send by return e-mail.

We recently added a feature making it even easier to import images into Athenaeum Pro 8. You can bring in a set of images that are related to catalogue items by ISBN through the MARC utility. A folder of images whose file names match the ISBNs of catalogue items with a .jpg or .gif extension can […]

If you are accessing Athenaeum Pro via Instant Web Publishing on your FileMaker Server Advanced computer, you can have your administrator configure your web browser by-pass the log in page, if that’s what you would like to do. Refer your administrator to the following web page by Mikhail Edoshin - a very clever FileMaker programmer: How to […]

Here is a quick silent screen cast on how to enable instant web publishing in Athenaeum Express. In this example, FileMaker Pro Advanced version 9 is used to open Athenaeum Express, however FileMaker Pro 8.5 or 9.0 will work in the same way. Before opening the web publishing options, we navigate to one of the audit layouts […]

For schools who can’t download certain types of files, such as the QuickTime movie referenced in Book Cover Images in Athenaeum Pro, this page embeds the file directly. {29 June 2008 Note copying the image into the container has been simplified in Athenaeum Pro 8 (out soon) as a simple drag and drop} If you still can’t […]

Assuming that you have the correct URL formula for the images, check your Firewall settings. You may have to restart Athenaeum after changing your FireWall settings to see the images.

With a number of publishers and web based services supplying images of book covers, there has been increasing interest how to get these images into Athenaeum. Manual scanning of book cover images is a slow and rather tedious process. In Athenaeum Pro 7.5 and 7.6 you could, if you knew how, store a web address for each […]

One school using FileMaker Pro to share Athenaeum via instant web publishing had problems after a restore of their operating system software. FileMaker was returning an error stating “Instant Web Publishing could not be started”. It turns out the problem is a very simple fix, if a little obscure. Windows XP’s regional settings had been set to […]

Instant Web Publishing A quick way to stop guests accessing Athenaeum Pro 7.5 and 7.6 via the web accounts is to simply change the passwords for those accounts and don’t tell anyone the new passwords! go to the Administration screen click the Accounts and passwords tab click the Reset Web account or Reset Guest Account buttons and enter the […]

When networking Athenaeum, you need to open Athenaeum using FileMaker Pro. Download this short document describing how to do it: Using Atheneaum with FileMaker