Set up Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition

To set basic operating features for Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition:

Set up the Polaris PowerPAC Web server in Polaris Administration. See Setting Up Server Records.
In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and select the Children’s PAC tab in the details view.
To allow remote connections to Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition, double-click Remote user: Enable, and select Yes. If you use Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition only in the library, and you do not offer remote access, set this profile to No.
To allow patrons to select a theme for the Children's PAC interface, double-click Select theme: Enable, and select Yes.

Note:
This setting displays theme options in the dashboard area of the Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages. If you want to display theme options, you must also set Dashboards: Enable to Yes. See step 5.

Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition includes several default themes, and you can define your own. For more information, see Managing Themes.

To display the dashboard on Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages, double-click Dashboards: Enable, and select Yes.

Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition includes automated Web parts for dashboards, and you can define your own. For more information, see Managing Children’s Dashboards.

To allow users to view an events page, double-click Navigation: Events, and select Yes.

This setting displays the Events link in the upper right portion of the Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages. When the user selects the link, the Events page is displayed. For information about editing this page, see Add text to the children’s Events page.

To allow users to get quick help with searches, double-click Navigation: Help, and select Yes.

This setting displays the Help bookworm link in the upper right portion of the Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages.

Note:
Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition uses Did You Mean search suggestions. See Setting Up Did You Mean Term Checking.

To display a link to Polaris PowerPAC on Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages, double-click Navigation: PowerPAC, and select Yes.

This setting displays the Go to Polaris link at the bottom left corner of the Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages. If the user selects this link on the home page, the Polaris PowerPAC home page is displayed. If the user selects this link on the search results page, the same search is launched in Polaris PowerPAC.

Select File > Save.

Related Information

Themes - You can offer default appearance themes for Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages, or create your own. See Managing Themes.
Searching - You can set search filters to focus search results for children. See Setting Children’s Search Limits. In addition, categories offer predefined searches or links. See Managing Search Categories.
Search performance - Searches with large results sets may decrease performance if your server capacity is limited. To improve performance, you can adjust the maximum number of records to return. The Children’s PAC profile Result set: Maximum number of records to return, available at the system, library, and branch levels, controls this limit.

Note:
If you lower the maximum number of records to return, relevancy ranking may be less effective.

Results Display - See Customizing the Children’s Results Display.
Requests - You set requests options (enable requests, specify whether item-level requests are offered, and select a default pickup branch) for Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition with the Request parameter Hold options. If the library charges fees for hold requests, patrons cannot request holds from Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition.
Editing text on Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages - You can edit most of the text on Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition pages, and preserve your changes from being overwritten if the application is updated and reinstalled. See Customizing Language Strings.