Encountering and Overriding Permission Blocks

If you encounter a message that says you do not have permission to do a certain task in Polaris, you can either cancel the task or ask a supervisor or another staff member to override the permission block. The staff member must have the override profile set to Yes for the subsystem and permission to do the task for which you were blocked. If the record has a specific owner, the supervisor or staff member doing the override must be the record’s owner or have permission to modify organizational-level records. See also Granting Permissions.

To override a permission block:

1. Click Override>> on the Polaris Permissions dialog box. The Polaris Permissions dialog box expands.
2. Ask someone with override ability to type her Polaris user name and password in the Name and Password boxes. If the domain is different from the domain that appears, type it in the Domain box.
3. Click OK to override the block. You can do the specific task.

Override Profiles

In the Staff Member workform, the following staff-level profiles determine a staff member’s ability to override permission blocks:

Acquisitions/Serials profiles -

• Override acquisitions blocks- If set to Yes, the staff member can override acquisitions permissions blocks
• Override serials blocks - If set to Yes, the staff member can override serials permission blocks.

Cataloging profile - Override cataloging blocks - If set to Yes, the staff member can override cataloging permission blocks.

Patron Services profile - Override patron services blocks - If set to Yes, the staff member can override patron services permission blocks.

Staff client profile - Find Tool: Override SQL search blocks - If set to Yes, the staff member can override Find Tool SQL search blocks.