Adding the Selection List Search to a PAC Flavor

Before you can track and review items using selection lists, you must add the “Selection list” search to the PAC flavor you want. You may want to add the “Selection list” search to just your staff PAC flavor. This way, only your staff can see the items your library wants to review and perhaps buy. However, you may have reasons for letting borrowers search for your selection lists, such as letting borrowers use the “Selection list” search to create purchase requests.

Effects

You can search for the selection lists that you create.

To add the Selection list search to a PAC flavor

1 Start the Search Option Table process.

The default location of this process is the PAC Control Menu folder on the navigation bar.

2 Create a new selection list search, or copy an existing search to create a “Selection list” search.

Note: You may want to choose a search that is not based on an mq_index. This is because the “Selection list” search is not based on an mq_index. (For more information, see “Creating a Search Option not Based on an Index” in the “Searching Setup” chapter of the System Administration Guide.)

Horizon displays the Edit Lister Search Lists window:

3 Complete or update these fields:
Search. Enter the PAC flavor in which you want the Selection search placed. (For example, enter “stafpac.”)
Index No. Enter the number for the order in which you want Horizon to display the Selection search in the list of searches. (For example, enter “4” if you want the Selection search to appear fourth in the list of searches.)
Label. Enter the description of the search that Horizon will display in the list of searches. (For example, enter “Selection List.”)
-or- [Table. Enter “bib_control” as the table from which Horizon will get the selection list information.
Column. Enter “selection” as the column from which Horizon will get the selection list information.
Foreign Key]. Enter “bib#” as the foreign key.
Entry Aid Label. Enter “Selections” for the entry aid label.
Entry Aid View. Enter “selection” to use the “Acquisitions Selections” code.
4 Complete the rest of the fields on the Edit Lister Search List window as necessary.

(For more information on these fields, see “Creating a Search Option not Based on an Index” in the “Searching Setup” chapter of the System Administration Guide.)

5 Save the file.

You can now search for and use any selection lists you create.

 


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