ChiliFresh Enriched Data

ChiliFresh.com provides patron reviews and ratings in Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC. You can choose to display reviews written only by your own patrons, by patrons in a specific region, or by patrons at multiple locations. You can also choose to screen reviews before they are made available for viewing. The patron logs in with a user name (e-mail address) and password to write a review. The ChiliFresh Review Engine consists of a database of reviews that reside on a ChiliFresh remote server, so your servers are not burdened with storing and processing the reviews. The illustration is an example of ChiliFresh reviews in Polaris PowerPAC.

ChiliFresh.com also offers cover images. If you subscribe to ChiliFresh Connections, a readers’ social networking tool available in Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC, you can receive ChiliFresh cover images at no cost. These images are displayed in the PAC and work with the ChiliFresh drag-and-drop feature to add covers to reader recommendations and virtual Connections bookshelves.

Tip:
The PAC product page for a title displays a “drawer” for a large cover image when the large image is available from ChiliFresh. If the large image is not available, the drawer is not displayed.

Notes:
For ChiliFresh port access requirements, see Enriched Data Domains Requiring Port 80/443 Access.

Polaris Social, a separately licensed product, offers ChiliFresh Connections features integrated in Polaris PowerPAC. See Polaris Social with ChiliFresh Connections.

For more information about ChiliFresh.com products, go to www.chilifresh.com.

To set up Polaris PowerPAC to use patron ratings and reviews from ChiliFresh.com:

Note:

You can enable and receive enriched data from more than one vendor, except cover images. These must be enabled for one vendor only.

  1. Contact your vendor’s customer support department for help in obtaining your library’s connection and authentication information for this enriched data provider.
  2. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and click the PAC tab in the details view.
  3. Double-click Enriched Data. The Enriched Data dialog box opens.
  4. Click the ChiliFresh tab.
  5. To set up patron reviews and ratings, follow these steps:
  1. Click the Other Features sub-tab.
  2. Select (check) Enable.
  3. In the Service URL box, type your ChiliFresh service URL as in the following example:
    http://chilifresh.com/on-site/js/polaris4.1-R2a.js

Obtain your specific URL from ChiliFresh.

Note:

ChiliFresh supports SSL (Secure Socket Layer). If you use SSL to secure the entire PowerPAC site, change the beginning of the ChiliFresh URL setting from http://chilifresh.com to https://secure.chilifresh.com.

  1. In the Account ID box, type your account identification code. Obtain your specific account code from ChiliFresh.
  2. In the API Key box, type your API key. Obtain your specific API key from ChiliFresh. The key is unique for your account ID.
  1. To set up cover images, follow these steps:
  1. Click the Cover Images sub-tab.
  2. Select (check) Enable.
  3. Type the URL prefix and suffix for your ChiliFresh cover images account in the appropriate fields.

Note:

Mobile PAC also uses ChiliFresh cover images when these are enabled.

  1. Click OK.

Related Information

ChiliFresh Connections integration - Polaris Social, a separately licensed product, offers ChiliFresh Connections features integrated in Polaris PowerPAC. See Polaris Social with ChiliFresh Connections.