Horizon Information Portal Administration Guide

Welcome to Horizon Information Portal, part of the Horizon Application Suite of products from SirsiDynix. Information Portal provides your library users with a World Wide Web-based interface for searching your library catalog system. This lets you offer your library and its services to the users by means of a web connection.

Information Portal offers a variety of searching options. If you choose to allow it, Information Portal also lets your users view the status of their account, create book lists that they can send using e-mail, and place hold requests from home or office using the convenience of the web.

This Information Portal System Administrator’s Guide helps you run your Information Portal service smoothly, with as much or as little customization as you choose to apply. This guide explains all the tasks necessary to administer Information Portal—from adding a connection to a new library catalog to configuring Z39.50 connections.

The Information Portal System Administrator’s Guide is for system administrators who manage the configuration of your library’s web and database servers. This guide assumes that you have completed the tasks in the Horizon Application Suite Installation and Upgrade Directory, and that you are familiar with the concepts and tasks in that guide. Some tasks in this guide make reference to the Installation and Upgrade Directory, so you should keep your copy of the directory available, or plan to access it online.

This guide helps you make changes to the Information Portal configuration that you created when you completed the Information Portal Setup Wizard. (For more information, see the Horizon Application Suite Installation and Upgrade Directory.) If you like the default that you created with the Setup Wizard, you can let your users access Information Portal immediately. You can do a few tasks as needed to add libraries and connections to your system. You can also completely customize the look and feel of your Information Portal system.

This guide contains these major sections:

Getting started briefly explains the purpose of the Information Portal System Administrator’s Guide. It explains the conventions of this guide, tells you where you can get additional help, and explains Windows, web, and Horizon basics. It also gives an overview of Information Portal searching and administration.
Checking Information Portal status explains how to create reports for Information Portal usage and system statistics. It also explains how to view current version information about Information Portal software.
Changing the setup explains how to change and add to the existing default settings for Information Portal. Tasks include such options as adding new searchable Information Portal profiles, changing the indexes used to search, and changing sort options for user interface pages.
Customizing Information Portal explains how to make more in-depth and detailed changes to your Information Portal system. Tasks include such options as setting up quick searches, setting up broadcast searching, and changing the general appearance of the Information Portal interface.
Glossary gives definitions of terms specific to Information Portal.
Technical topics explains how XSL templates and universal IDs are used in Information Portal. This appendix also lists the instructions for starting and stopping the various processes for Information Portal.
Add-on products explains some tasks related to Add-On products. You can purchase additional products to enhance Information Portal, such as Consolidated Searching and Enriched Content. The documentation for these products goes behind this tab.

 


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