Information Portal lets users search your library catalog using a web browser. Information Portal sets up this capability during installation using information you imported from your Horizon database. The settings that you imported became one Information Portal Library with separate Information Portal profiles for each location. Depending on how you define your Horizon locations, your Information Portal profiles can include main facilities, branches, or even collections.
During installation, you chose defaults for Information Portal, such as the indexes that users can use to search from specific Information Portal searching pages. You can use this default Information Portal with no changes, or you can change these default settings, as well as a number of other things about Information Portal. For example, you can choose to change these things:
• | The information that displays on search results pages. |
• | How long a user’s browser remains connected to Information Portal before it times out. |
• | The types of hold requests that users can place in Information Portal. |
• | The look and feel of the Information Portal user interface. |
When you make changes to Information Portal, such as deleting indexes or removing profiles, your changes do not affect your Horizon database. The changes affect only the Information Portal database.
If you want to let users search remote locations, you can set up separate Z39.50 library connections. For each Z39.50 library, you can determine how the results of a search display in Information Portal.
Information Portal Administration also lets you view and print statistics so that you can keep track of how well Information Portal is performing and how users are using Information Portal.
This section explains these topics:
• | Overview of the Information Portal Software |
• | Basic Administration Tasks |
• | Overview of Information Portal Administration |
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