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LibraryH3lp Webchat Client
The LibraryH3lp webchat client
The LibraryH3lp librarians' webchat client integrates tightly with LibraryH3lp's special features. It conveniently places transfer, send file, and e-mail transcript features in the chat window. It also displays the patron's IP address, referring URL, and any optional queue avatars, which can link to profile pages. Please test it thoroughly in your network environment before committing to it, and be sure to read about things that will cause it to have problems.
Desktop Notifications provide excellent visual alerting, even if the webchat client's browser is minimized or buried in the background underneath many other application windows. Chrome has built-in support for desktop notifications, and there is a desktop notifications plugin for Firefox. Desktop notifications are enabled in the webchat client's Actions menu.
Sound alerts: New message sound alerts are available in all tested desktop web browsers. Internet Explorer versions 7 and 8 require a Flash plugin. Chrome, Firefox, and IE9 will play the sound alert either with or without Flash. The patron's first message results in a sound alert that loops for all receiving librarians until the chat is answered by someone. Subsequent messages from the patron result in one sound alert per message.
Activity tab: Use the integrated Activity tab to review system activity or locate an earlier chat from a returning patron. Use the internal refresh arrows to load chats that arrived after webchat login time. Pop out a relevant transcript and then return to the Chat tab, to conveniently consult an earlier transcript while carrying on with an active chat at the same time; the popped-out transcript will stay on top for ease of use.
Contacts (Buddy List): You can directly IM your colleages from the Contacts list. Use Manage Contacts in the admin site to easily populate the Contacts list for all of your users. Users can also buddy anyone on an XMPP (Jabber) based service, such as Google Talk (username@gmail.com).
Third-Party Web Clients
You can use any web chat client that supports the XMPP (Jabber) protocol. When answering chats from these external web-based clients, you won't be able to use clickable queue avatars to access profile pages, and you will follow a link sent at the beginning of the chat in into libraryh3lp.com to do specialized LibraryH3lp things such as transfer and send files.
To sign in with your LibraryH3lp account, look for the Jabber option, with the lightbulb logo. You might be prompted for a JID (Jabber ID). Your JID or username is username@libraryh3lp.com.
Document URL: https://docs.libraryh3lp.com/clients-web.html