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A Few Upgrade Wrinkles--Alert Sounds
December 08, 2008 03:10 PM | Automation, ILS, NewsDonovan Lambright, Automation Librarian
As Online Libraries start using Horizon again, a new wrinkle has emerged. The new version of Horizon uses Windows to manage alert sounds like the beeps you hear when checking in an overdue item. This has several advantages to the old method of using the built-in PC speaker. Unfortunately, not every Horizon PC in the region has external speakers, which are required to hear Windows sounds. Therefore, I've made a snap decision to roll this feature back and have Horizon resume using the PC speaker, just like before the upgrade. Since we are running Horizon on a few Citrix servers, this was fairly easy to change. Online Libraries using the client locally installed will be unaffected by this rollback. If you are using Horizon locally and wish to go back to using the built-in PC speaker for alert sounds, please contact the SELCO Help Desk. After the dust settles a bit, we'll survey the Online Libraries to determine if there are enough PCs without external speakers to justify leaving this new feature deactivated.
