Customizing Search By and Sort By Options

You can edit PowerPAC Search by and Sort by options as described below. If you choose to remove options, be sure to coordinate your default settings in the PAC profile Search settings defaults if appropriate. See Specifying Default Search Settings.

Search By Options

PowerPAC users can select a search access point in the Search by drop-down list. The values for the fields in the Search by drop-down lists are contained in a customizable XML configuration file. To edit the list of fields, copy /App_Data/SearchByOptions.xml and place your copy in /Custom/App_Data/SearchByOptions.xml.

You can delete nodes in the file, and you can change the order. Your custom file must contain at least one node. As this is a system-defined list of options, the addition of other search options is not supported.

Note:
Perform a PowerPAC reload or IISRESET after creating the custom version of this file.

You can edit and translate labels for Search by options using Polaris Language Editor (WebAdmin). Search by string IDs begin with PACML_SEARCHBARS. For more information, see WebAdmin online help.

Sort By Options

When PowerPAC search results are returned, the user can select a Sort option for the results. The values for the fields in the Sort drop-down lists are contained in a customizable XML configuration file. To edit the list of fields, copy /App_Data/SortByOptions.xml and place your copy in /Custom/App_Data/SortByOptions.xml.

Since sort options are different for searches containing results from the local database only and searches that include at least one remote database, separate nodes control these options: <LocalOnly> and <Remote>.

You can delete nodes in the file, and you can change the order. Your custom file must contain at least one node. As this is a system-defined list of options, the addition of other sort options is not supported.

Note:
Perform a PowerPAC reload or IISRESET after creating the custom version of this file.

You can edit and translate labels for Sort options using Polaris Language Editor (WebAdmin). Sort string IDs begin with PACML_SORT. For more information, see WebAdmin online help.