Making a Profile Available to Users or Staff

If you want to, you can make an alternate profile (or searching environment) available to your staff or users. You can have a variety of different profiles available for a single library. These profiles can be used to create a searching environment in another language, or for different groups of users. (For example, you can have a “kids” profile with bright colors and more generic indexes, or a “teens” profile with a Resources tab that contains current events of interest to teenagers.)

You can have multiple profiles, representing one or more Horizon locations, for your Library.

To make a profile available to users or staff

1 Open your Information Portal Administration tool web site.
2 Click the Setup tab.
3 Click the Libraries sub-tab.
4 Click the name of your Library.
5 Click the Profiles option.

The Administration tool displays the profiles for Information Portal:

6 Highlight and copy the profile URL for the profile you want.
7 Use your HTML editor to create a hyperlink on the page from which you want your users to have access. (For more information, see your HTML editor’s online help or user’s guide.)

For example, if you want to create a link on your home page for teenagers, you can create a link called “Young Adults.”

8 Enter or paste the profile URL into the URL field for this hyperlink.

For example, if you do not copy and paste, enter “/ipac20/ipac.jsp?profile=teens” into the URL for the hyperlink.

9 If you want to, click the hyperlink to check that it works.

Information Portal opens the Young Adults profile for you from the page where the hyperlink is located.

10 When you finish making changes in Information Portal, restart the Application Server process (JBoss).

 


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