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EDIT PROFILE

You can use the Dialog Online Editor with the EDIT PROFILE command to create and store SET commands in your personal Dialog profile. The PROFILE feature allows you to customize the Dialog service to best suit your needs. With the exception of SET PASSWORD, any of the SET commands can be stored indefinitely in your PROFILE.

Once a SET command is stored in your profile, it will execute automatically each time you log on, and will remain in effect for the duration of your search session, unless you turn it OFF for the session.

Creating Your Dialog Profile

Use the following steps to create your Dialog profile:

1. Enter the EDIT command alone to enter Input mode.
2. Enter your first SET command and press enter; Dialog will prompt you to input the next line of your profile at the INPUT: prompt.
3. Enter additional SET commands at each INPUT: prompt. If you are entering a SET SUBACCT command, it must appear as the last line of your profile. When you are finished entering your SET commands, press <ENTER> at the INPUT: prompt to return to EDIT mode.
4. Enter SAVE PROFILE at the EDIT: prompt. Your Dialog profile is stored and will be automatically executed each time you log on.

Important: To invoke the profile, you must log off and back on.

Once a SET command is stored in your profile, it will execute automatically each time you log on, and will remain in effect for the duration of your search session, unless you enter a different option for that SET command during the session. (For example, if SET COST SHORT is in your profile, you can enter SET COST LONG during a search session to see detailed cost displays until you enter another SET COST command or until you log off and log on again, re-activating your profile.)

Note: Commands stored in your Dialog profile are also stored in SAVE, SAVE ALERT, and SAVE TEMP strategies. For example, if you create user-defined formats in SET commands in your profile, you may use them in your Alerts.

• To create your Dialog profile:

?edit
 Editor entered
 Name:  *NEW*
 Total lines:  0
 Line increment: 10
 Last line:  0
 INPUT:  10
?set alias choose select
 INPUT:  20
?set alias biblio ti,au,so
 INPUT: 30
?set alias pqad print query active detail
 INPUT: 40
?set u1 ti,de
 INPUT: 50
?set subacct ?
 INPUT: 60
?<enter>
 Returning to EDIT mode
 EDIT:
?save profile
 PROFILE stored
 Exit from editor

Usage Notes

DialogClassic Web: A Profile is created using the Preferences tab at the top of the DialogClassic Web screen and checking off the boxes and radio buttons for desired options.

DialogLink 5: Use Configuration > Settings > Edit > Preferences to create a profile.

(Commands to Use with Your Profile) 

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