Archives for October 2017

You may have noticed some disruption to eHive. Hopefully, you didn’t. In the background, it has been a very busy time as we moved the entire eHive environment to the Amazon web services infrastructure.

What does this mean for you? To put it simply, we have improved our infrastructure so that you can continue to catalogue and manage your collection without ever needing to worry about how it works behind the scenes. No IT department. NO problems.

Speed

Now you will find noticeably faster performance over all parts of eHive. Your pages will load quicker. Images and documents will upload quicker. What will you do with the saved microseconds?

Reliability

The service runs within Amazon’s proven network infrastructure and data centres with a commitment of 99.95% server availability. Now there is even less chance of finding eHive unavailable due to maintenance.

Security

We are very serious about keeping your collection data as safe as possible. In this, we have found a partner in Amazon, as they have maintained a focus on security from the ground up. We are following their best practice web security processes so that you can be assured that your collection data is safe.

Make it easier for your audience to find your content.

Now you can include your social media accounts on your eHive page. With the success of so many eHive accounts linking to websites, we wanted to offer more ways for your audience to learn about your collection. We have updated the public profile options so that it is easier to link to your social media accounts.

Now you can include the following contact details in your public profile

• Postal Address
• Physical Address
• Phone Number
• Email Address
• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter

Here are step-by-step instructions to update your public preferences.

1. Log into your eHive account and navigate to account settings.

2. Select Public Profile and then choose edit next to Account profile details.

3. Scroll down to the social media fields and enter your account details. Here we are updating our eHive Twitter account. https://twitter.com/ehive

4. When you have updated your account details scroll down and save. This will return you to your public profile were you can test the links. A “Changes to account profile public details have been saved.” banner will confirm that your public profile has been updated.

Extend the information that you make available through your eHive record by adding an external link. It could be a link to a video, a Wikipedia page or a research source.

eHive allows you to add external links to a record by simply adding the following line of code in the Public Description field.

<a href=”Website URL” target=”_blank”>Display Text</a>

… where the Website URL is the address of the webpage you would like to link to.

Here we will show you how to do it yourself, by adding a link to an existing record.

STEP 1: With the record open, select the Edit Record link.

STEP 2: In the Detail Fields window scroll down to the Public Description field.

STEP 3: This is where you insert the Code.

<a href=”https://ehive.com/” target=”_blank”>Click here to go to the eHive home page</a>

Remember to replace Website URL with the address of the page that you are linking to and Display Text with the text that you wish to see on your object record. (HINT: It is a good idea to announce that the text is a link.)

STEP 4: Scroll down to the bottom of the page and select Save, followed by OK on the Publishing Options window.

STEP 5: This will return you to the object record. Scroll down to the Public Description and you will see your display text as a link.