System Administration Guide

Welcome to the Horizon System Administration Guide. This guide gives you the information you need to effectively access and manage your library’s databases with the Horizon system.

Before you can manage your library’s databases, you must have a thorough understanding of the Table Editor, the Horizon application that directly accesses your library’s database or databases. Once you understand how the Table Editor works, you need to set up Horizon to accommodate all the different functions of your library.

The System Administration Guide is for administrators of the Horizon system. It explains general, system-wide tasks for setting up and maintaining Horizon. For information about setting up specific functions within Horizon (such as Cataloging, Circulation, or Acquisitions), see the Setup guide for that function. For setup and administration-related tasks for add-on products (such as Inventory or Community Resources), see the user’s and administrator’s guide for that product.

This guide contains these major sections:

Getting started provides you with the basic information you need to begin using Horizon’s administration tools. It gives you an overview of this guide and explains basic Horizon and system administration tasks. It also explains how to view and change information in your database using the Horizon Table Editor.
General setup explains the system parameters and defaults you must set up for your Horizon system to work. You may need to set up some parameters and defaults in this chapter only once; others you may need to change periodically.
Setting up searching explains how to set up staff searching. You can define the functionality and appearance of searching for your staff users.
Setting up indexing explains how your Horizon system uses indexes to help you search for and display search results. It also explains how to create indexes from scratch.
Security and preferences explains how to set up security and preference groups for users on your Horizon system.
Configuring Self-Check explains how to set up self-check in Horizon to work with your self-check system.
Maintenance and Day End explains the tasks you should do to properly maintain your Horizon system and when they should be done. It also explains how to use Day End processing, how to create statistical reports, and how to get help for problems that arise while using Horizon.
Introduction to Horizon views explains how to work with Horizon views (or windows) including displaying list and edit views, reconfiguring views, adding columns and groups to views, and creating alternate views.
Horizon Views contains a list of Horizon views and the windows those views configure.

 


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