The preferences in Preference Groups work together in levels. Horizon has three preference group levels:
• | Site. This is the highest preference group level where your library can make changes. The Site Preferences group lets you assign preferences that can affect all users at your site. At installation, it is assigned as the default preference group for all Horizon users. Horizon uses the preferences in this group after it has checked for preferences in groups below this level. |
• | Local. If you want to use specific settings for some of your users, you can create new preference groups at the local level. These groups can be specific to a smaller group of users within the library itself, such as Circulation. Horizon uses the preferences in the group at this level after it has checked for preferences that the user may have set up. |
You can use preferences in the groups on the higher levels to complement specific choices in the groups on lower levels.
Each user is assigned to the Site Preferences group at the Site level. You cannot delete this group. However, you can make changes in this group. If you do not change these preferences at a local level, they will apply to all users.
You can let users make changes to their own environment and workflow. Preference changes on a user level override all other group preferences. If you let a user modify the local group preferences, then whenever that user logs into Horizon their personalized preferences are used. You cannot change or modify those individual changes at the local or site level.
No matter which way you decide to set up your preference groups, remember that Horizon uses the preferences in this order: users, local, site, and Dynix. Horizon will only use settings in a higher level if there are no preferences specified at a lower level.
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