PAC Profiles Reference

Active directory logon

System

Enables log-on to PowerPAC and Mobile PAC using network credentials instead of the Polaris barcode/username and password. See Set Up PAC Active Directory Log On.

Branch list order

System

Library

Branch

For Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC, sets the display order of branches in the Switch to another branch list if you allow patrons to switch connection branches. This profile also controls the display order of branches on the PowerPAC search options page, the self-registration page, and the donations page. The setting for the current connection branch is used. The profile also controls the display order of the list of pick-up libraries for requests, but in this case the setting for the patron’s registered branch is used. Set the profile to Yes to display the branch names in ascending alphabetical order by name. Set the profile to No to display the branch names in ascending numerical order by internal organization ID. In either case, the system organization is always first.

Default Polaris user in PAC

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Library

Branch

Specifies a user account for recording and reporting statistics. Leave this profile at the default setting.

Did you mean: Enabled

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether Did You Mean search suggestions are displayed in Polaris PowerPAC and Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition. See Setting Up Did You Mean Term Checking.

Email notification: Email address of sender

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Library

Branch

Specifies a standard sender address (required for most e-mail applications) for e-mail services from the public interfaces, such as e-mailing a title list. This address is also used for online payment receipts, telephony service error and warning messages, and the EDI e-mail log.

Type an email address (it must contain the @ symbol).

Email notification: Server running SMTP service

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Library

Branch

Specifies the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server to use for PAC e-mail features such as Ask Us or purchase requests from rotating book jacket titles. If each branch has its own SMTP server, patron e-mail messages from public stations can be routed through that server. This setting is also used for telephony service error and warning messages, and for e-mail notification.

Type the domain name of the e-mail SMTP server.

Enriched data

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Library

Branch

Specifies the settings to receive cover images, reviews, ratings, and other enriched data content from your enriched data provider or providers. Enabling Enriched Data.

Fines and Fees: Show history in detailed view

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Library

Branch

When set to Yes, displays a history section that includes date, type, amount, payment, and staff name for a selected fine or fee when a logged-in patron clicks the information icon for a fine or fee in the Fines & Fees page of the patron account in Polaris PowerPAC. The setting for the patron’s registered branch controls the display.

Google Maps

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Library

Branch

Enables the Map It! feature in PowerPAC and/or Mobile PAC search results for the connection organization and sets the initial map center and zoom level. Map It (Google Maps) in PAC.

Hours of operation: Display

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Library

Branch

(Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC) When set to Yes, the organization’s Hours page includes a formatted schedule derived from the settings for the Patron Services parameter Hours of operation. See Set Polaris PowerPAC features on the menu bar.

Hours of operation message

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Library

Branch

(Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC) Displays a message on the organization’s Hours page. See Set Polaris PowerPAC features on the menu bar.

Item availability: Display detailed item status

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether the Item Availability display includes item status information more detailed than Not Available. Set the profile to Yes to displays the detailed item status description.

Item availability: Display due date in detailed item status

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether the Item Availability detailed item status display includes the item’s due date.

Requirement: The PAC profile Item availability: Display detailed item status must also be set to Yes to display the due date

Item availability: Display shelf location

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether the Item Availability display includes the item shelf location (for example, New Arrivals or Children’s Center).

Item availability: Display type

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether the Item Availability display includes the material type (for example, books or audio cassettes) from the item record.

Item availability: Display status

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether the Item Availability display includes item availability status.

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Library

Branch

Login retries

System

Double-click to display the PAC Login Retries dialog box. Use this dialog box to enable a limit on the number of times a patron can attempt to log in before waiting 5 minutes to try again. See Limit log-in attempts.

Most popular sort settings

System

This profile is used if the Most Popular sort option is selected in the Search Settings Defaults profile. It is set by default to apply 50% relevance and 50% popularity when Most Popular is the selected sort option. You can adjust this setting to factor relevance either more or less than 50% when results are sorted by popularity. See Specify level of relevance applied to popularity sort.

Multiple language strings

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Library

Branch

Double-click to display the Language Strings dialog box. Use this dialog box to edit messages and news headings. If you have Polaris PowerPAC Multilingual Version, you can edit messages and headings in your choice of languages. See Editing Messages and Labels.

Patron access options

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Library

Branch

Double-click to display the Patron Access Options dialog box. Use this dialog box to set up patron account, self-registration features, suppress gender, send patrons a reset password link, and enforce phone number format validation. You can have different setup options for each organization.

Patron access: Display hold queue information

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Library

Branch

Determines whether the holds queue column is displayed in the online patron account, and whether the patron receives a message about the current number of active requests for the material when she places a hold. The system uses the profile setting for the patron’s registered branch.

Patron access: Policy statement hyper text link

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Library

Branch

Specifies the URL or network path to the Web page for the library privacy policy. The link is displayed on the patron self-registration pages and at all patron log-in points when Single Login is enabled and the patron has not yet logged in.

Type the complete path to the privacy policy page.

Requirement: Set Patron Access: policy statement hyper text link permitted to Yes.

Patron access: Policy statement hyper text link permitted

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Library

Branch

Indicates whether a link to the Web page of the library privacy policy is displayed from the patron self-registration pages, and at all patron log-in points when Single Login is enabled and the patron has not yet logged in.

If set to Yes, the privacy policy link For more information on our privacy policy, click here is displayed on the Select a home library page, and at all patron log-in points when Single Login is enabled and the patron has not yet logged in. If you set this profile to Yes, specify a URL for the privacy policy Web page using the profile Patron Access: policy statement hyper text link.

Patron access: Renewal

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Library

Branch

Indicates whether patrons can renew items from PAC. If this option is selected, you can also choose to allow renewals if the patron record will expire before the renewal due date. (You can also set up blocks that apply specifically to renewals from PAC. )

Patron eReceipts

Provides patrons the option of selecting e-mail renewal receipts, TXT message renewal receipts, or both, during patron self-registration and account updates. The patron’s registered branch must also enable eReceipts.

Patron library assigned and free text block default text

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Library

Branch

Specifies the text to display in the PAC patron account summary when a patron account has selected library-assigned blocks or free text blocks. The maximum number of characters is 255

Patrons can remove reading history

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Library

Branch

Determines whether patrons can remove individual items from their readings histories from the PAC patron account.

Purchase options

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Library

Branch

(Polaris PowerPAC) Specifies whether the Purchase link or Buy It Now link (Polaris Bookstore) is available in the results list, and contains the appropriate settings to set up the links. When a patron selects the link, an online bookstore Web site is displayed. See Enabling Online Book Purchases.

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Branch

Resource Groups: Search results settings

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Library

Branch

Sets conditions for the display of eContent in PAC search results.

Search agent: Enable

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Library

Branch

Provides patrons the ability to set up and save searches to run automatically at specified intervals. If the profile is set to Yes, the Search Agent option is available to patrons using Polaris PowerPAC and Mobile PAC. See Setting Public Access Profiles and Parameters.

Requirements:

Configure Search Agent Parameters (in Polaris Administration, PAC Parameters).

To allow logged-in patrons to view a list of their saved searches in the Polaris PowerPAC dashboard, set the PowerPAC profile Single Login: Enable to Yes.

Search settings defaults

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Library

Branch

Specifies the default settings for Search by, Limit by, Sort by, and Using for each PAC search type as applicable. See Specifying Default Search Settings.

Search: Sub-sort-by-title

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Library

Branch

Specifies whether search results for many types of searches and sort orders are automatically subsorted by title. See Specifying Default Search Settings.

Suppress availability and requests

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Library

Branch

Specifies the primary types of material (TOMs) for which availability and request options should be suppressed from PowerPAC and Mobile PAC search results displays. See Suppressing Request and Availability Options.

Suppress branches

System

Specifies branches to suppress from list displays. For Polaris PowerPAC, suppresses selected branches from the connection branch list (Switch to another branch), the list of branches on the Search Options scoping page, the list of branches on the Advanced Search scoping page, and the list of branches on the donations page. For Mobile PAC, suppresses selected branches from the drop list of organizations on the Library Hours page and the Mobile PAC Preferences page.