Start and Log on to the Polaris Staff Client

 To log on:

1. Turn on the Polaris staff client computer.

The Windows desktop appears.

2. Double-click the Polaris shortcut icon on the desktop .

The Polaris Shortcut Bar and the Polaris Log On dialog box appear.

3.  If your staff client is configured to log on to Polaris using Windows credentials, select Use Windows Authentication; Name, Password, and Domain fields will be unavailable.

Tip:
If you do not want to log on at this time, click Cancel. When you want to log on, select File > Log On.

4.  If your user name is not automatically entered in the Name box, type your user name in the box.
5.  Type your password in the Password box.
6.  If the domain name is not automatically entered in the Domain box, type the library’s domain name in the box.

Note:
Your system may be set up so that you do not need to specify a network domain.

7.  If you are logging on to Polaris offline, such as from a bookmobile, select the Work off-line check box.
8. Click OK.

Note:
If your library provides the ability to log on as a rotating staff member, the Polaris Log On Branch dialog box appears. Select the branch at which you are working. (The options are determined by Polaris Administration settings. See Permission Strategies

9.  If the Polaris log on branch dialog box appears, select the branch.

The menu and toolbar options are available on the Polaris Shortcut Bar. Your user name is displayed in the title bar to indicate that you have logged on.

Related Information

After you log on, you can use the Shortcut Bar to do the following tasks:

• Start a subsystem task (see Using the Polaris Shortcut Bar)
• Create a record(see Creating and Using Record Sets)
• Find a record (see Finding Polaris Records)
• Get help with Polaris (see Using Online Help)

Alerts for users logging on to training server - Your system administrator can use the system-level Staff Client profile Client visual alert configuration to set an alert message and/or custom title bar colors, so that users can quickly identify whether they are logging on to a training or production server.

Overriding permission blocks - Occasionally you may need to ask a supervisor (or anyone with the appropriate override profiles set to Yes) to override a Polaris block and allow the operation to continue.