Horizon Basics User Guide

Welcome to the Horizon Basics Guide. This guide explains basic information about Horizon library automation software. It gives you a brief overview of the software, and explains how to work in the Launcher environment and in Horizon windows. It also explains basic tasks you may need to do as you work in Horizon, and how to search for information using Horizon’s staff searching interface.

This guide is for library staff. It may also be helpful to new Horizon system administrators. All of the user’s, setup, and administrator’s guides for Horizon assume that you are familiar with the information in this guide.

This guide contains these major sections:

Getting started explains the basic information you need to begin using this guide. It gives you an overview of this guide and lists the Microsoft Windows tasks you should know how to do before using Horizon. It also gives a brief overview of the main categories of Horizon processes, and explains how to log in and out of Horizon.
Horizon user interface explains the basic features of the Horizon staff user interface. It gives an overview of the Launcher interface (the framework that lets you open Horizon processes). It also gives an overview of the different types of windows you use in Horizon, including grids and forms.
Basic tasks explains basic Horizon tasks that apply to many different Horizon processes. It explains how to activate a Horizon process and work in the windows within a process. It also explains how to change information for a group of items and how to enter special characters (diacritics) in Horizon records.
Searching explains how to find istems in your library catalog using basic and advanced searching methods. It also explains how to use searching features to customize your search, work with your search results, or do special types of searches.

 


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