Note: OCLC recommends backing up your existing profiles and macros before installing the new version.
Connexion client is a Windows desktop application. The system requirements are:
Caution: Connexion client 3.1 is not compatible with versions of Microsoft Office that are no longer supported by Microsoft. If you are using an older, 32-bit version of Microsoft Office that is out of support, we suggest that you either upgrade your Microsoft Office to a newer, supported version; or, that you do not upgrade to Connexion client 3.1, but instead continue to use version 2.63.
Logon with local administrator-level privileges is either required or highly recommended for installing the client as noted in the following list of circumstances:
Note: If you have Windows 10, after you save the download file, right-click the *.exe installation file, and click Run as administrator to help prevent possible problems with installing.
For detailed instructions on downloading and installing Connexion client 3.1, see Install Connexion client.
Connexion client is a Windows desktop application. The system requirements are:
Logon with local administrator-level privileges is either required or highly recommended for installing the client
as noted in the following list of circumstances:
Note: If you have Windows Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, or 10, after you save the download file, right-click the *.exe
installation file, and click Run as administrator to help prevent possible problems with installing.
This program may be run on Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8/ 8.1 and Windows 10 (x86 and x64).
You may want to install this program if your Connexion client is experiencing any of the following problems.
A new OCLC Macrobook (OCLC.mbk) for the Connexion Client is available for download. It contains 1 revised macro for 2023 and from 2019 2 revised macros and 2 new macros. The content of the other macros in the macrobook remains the same.
2023: GenerateERecord has been updated with the following changes:
2019: Generate043 has been revised to generate 043 codes for new or changed names of countries including Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), North Macedonia (formerly Macedonia (Republic)), and Cabo Verde (formerly Cape Verde).
2019: GenerateAuthorityRecord has been revised to:
2019: PunctuationAdd is a new macro that adds punctuation to fields in either a single record or all records in a local or online save file. This macro could be used to locally add punctuation before exporting records that lack punctuation in accord with the new Program for Cooperative Cataloging (PCC) Optional punctuation policy. It adjusts the coding in Leader/18 (Desc) and in field 040 as needed. Do not use it to add or restore punctuation permanently to a WorldCat record that is correctly coded with Leader/18 c and does not contain punctuation.
2019: PunctuationDelete is a new macro that removes punctuation from fields in a single record or all records in a local or online save file. It is based on the PCC Optional punctuation policy and may be used by PCC catalogers who are authenticating a bibliographic record as pcc in accordance with the policy. It may also be used for local editing to remove punctuation from any record prior to export if desired. The macro adjusts coding in Leader/18 (Desc) and in field 040 as needed.
Requirements for Windows according to Microsoft:
Minimum processor | Minimum memory | Minimum available hard disk space | |
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Windows Vista Home Basic | 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) processor | 512 MB | 15 GB |
Windows Vista Home Premium/Business/Ultimate | 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) processor | 1 GB | 15 GB |
Windows 7/8/8.1 | 1 GHz 32-bit (x86) ro 64-bit (x64) processor | 1 GB (32-bit) or 2 GB (64-bit) | 16 GB (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit) |
Additional available hard disk space required for the OCLC Cataloging Label program: 20 MB.
Caution for Windows Vista and Windows 7 users: Although the Label Program is compatible with Vista, the Label Program Help file is not compatible. Microsoft discontinued support for some legacy Help files (file extension *.hlp) with its Vista release. See more information on the Microsoft Web site. To continue using the Labels Help in Vista, you can download the legacy Help viewer from Microsoft.
You need local administrator privileges when you install to allow the Label Program to update the necessary system files.
You must be a Power User to retain and modify settings and other program files system-wide.
If you use the Windows-based client interface to OCLC Connexion, you do not need to install the Label Program. The Connexion client provides the same functions as the Label Program for viewing, editing, and printing labels, but as part of the software itself (go to the View menu and click Label or go to the File menu and click Print Label(s)). See Print Labels in Connexion client documentation for instructions.
OCLC Permissions is an administrative tool for Windows 10 and is provided for users of the OCLC Cataloging Label Program.
The Windows-based Cataloging Label Program requires Windows 10 users to be in the Power Users group to run because of the way the application writes to the Windows registry. Many system administrators are concerned about the security issues with users working in the Power Users group. OCLC Permissions resets permissions to allow the OCLC Cataloging Label Program to run in the Standard User (Non-Administrator) account.
See Install the Label Program for further instructions on installing, upgrading, or reinstalling.
Note: For Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK), you must use Windows Input Method Editors (IMEs). For scripts outside the MARC-8 characters, use Windows keyboards.
Note:
To install a keyboard: