Keeping users on PWB

[danm]

Our genealogy computer has a home page with genealogy links. I want to limit patrons to home page and links. Recently, we had patrons get on Youtube with this machines.

I thought of the following commands to confirm/activate:

DisableContextMenu=True, Disables context (right click) menu.

AddressBarReadOnly=True, Makes address bar read only.

DisableNewWindow=True, Disable new windows.

Any other recommended settings? I held back on disabling tabs in case genealogy links open in new tabs.

Thanks,
Dan Moenning
Library Technology Specialist
Keene Memorial Library

[danm]

UPDATE: 8/19/2024 at 2:45 PM.

I tested out navigating away from the home page and genealogy links. I was successful doing the following:

• I opened a genealogy link.

• In the new window, I right-clicked a random link

• From the right-click menu, I selected "Save Target As."

• I saved the link as HTML on the Desktop

• From the Desktop, I opened the HTML icon.

• The page that opened was a regular webpage. I was able to surf the Internet.

Is there a setting to prevent this scenario? Any insight is appreciated.

Thanks,
Dan

[Scott]

If you have the following set in your INI file it should not be possible to right click a link and get the context menu.

[Security]
DisableContextMenu=True

If you need some of the context menu, but not the Save As set the following.

[Security]
UseCustomContextMenu=True

[ContextMenu]
SaveTarget=False

To keep the patron on a web site you can use the PWB URL filters.
viewtopic.php?t=13

If you still have problems please send an email to support with your INI file attached.

--Scott

[Scott]

In the soon to be released PWB v3.2 Edge you can set the following to prevent the Open and Save dialogs.

[Security]
DisableFileOpen=True
DisableFileSave=True

--Scott