Verifying the Search Options Used by a PAC Flavor

Horizon automatically assigns or links a search option to specific flavor when you assign a search name to a search option. (You enter the search name in the Search field on the Edit List Search Lists window. For more information, see Creating Search Options.) The search name that you give a search option must be the same name as the flavor you want that search option to display in. In other words, you do not assign each search option to a specific PAC flavor directly—Horizon does it for you.

Each workstation that accesses a different PAC flavor can contain different sets of search options. (For example, search options available at workstations used by borrowers might include Title Keyword, Title Alphabetical, Subject Keyword, and Author Alphabetical, while search options that are available at staff workstations might include ISSN, ISBN, LCCN, Call Number, Item Barcode, in addition to options that are available at public workstations.) Non-bibliographic search options (for example, PO line number) display the window code in the Search field. (For a list of these codes, see Table 3-1.)

If you want, you can verify that your search names for each search option correspond to the flavor where you want those search options to appear.

“borrreq” search options appear automatically in any flavor of staff searching when users choose Requests. You do not need to enter the name of the flavor in the Search field.

To verify the search options used by a PAC Flavor

1 Open the search view in the Table Editor.

Horizon displays the List Lister Search Lists window.

2 Choose the search option you want the PAC flavor to use.

Horizon displays the Edit Lister Search Lists window.

3 Make sure the name of the flavor you want to assign the search option to appears in the Search field.

This should match the Search Code field in the Edit Public Access Flavor window. (For more information, see Creating a PAC Flavor.)

Note: If the search option displays non-bibliographic information, such as borrower information, the Search field displays a code and not a PAC flavor.

 


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