Set Up Quick Search with Search Option Buttons

By default, the Polaris PowerPAC portal page includes a quick search feature that allows the patron to select a search filter. You can choose instead to supply a quick search feature with search option buttons.

To set up the quick search feature with search option buttons:

Note:
You can set up the quick search with search option buttons at the system, library, or branch level. The settings for the organization to which the patron is connected determine whether this feature is available.

  1. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and select the PowerPAC tab in the details view.
  2. Double-click Quick search button configuration. The Quick Search Button Configuration dialog box opens.
  3. Select (check) Enable quick search buttons. The remaining options become available for selection.

Note:
If you select Enable quick search buttons but do not select any specific buttons, Polaris PowerPAC will use the default quick search feature instead of the quick search with buttons.

  1. Select (check) each button option that you want to display for quick search.
  2. Select the search type (Browse or Keyword) that each selected button should launch.

Notes:
Anywhere always launches a keyword search for the search text in any indexed field in the bibliographic records. This type of search is also launched if a patron presses ENTER without selecting a search option button.

Fiction and Nonfiction also launch keyword searches in any indexed field, but filtered by fiction or nonfiction as appropriate. The system determines whether a title is fiction or non-fiction by the following bibliographic record information:

Fiction - 008/33= 1, c, d, f, h, j, p

Nonfiction - 008/33 = 0, e, i, s

Selecting My Library searches only your library's database.

If your library subscribes to EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) and has integrated EDS with Polaris PowerPAC, selecting My Library plus Articles searches your library's database plus articles from EDS.

Keyword search results are presented as a list of titles that match the search criteria. The results are sorted by relevance. Brief information is presented about each title, and the patron can select various options to see more information. See Displaying PAC Search Results.

Browse search results initially present the portion of the index or title listings that begins with the search text. Patrons can browse through the index or title listings and select an entry to see the titles associated with the entry.

  1. Click OK.

Related Information

Default quick search settings - If you choose to use the default quick search instead of the quick search with search option buttons, you can set certain values that apply to every quick search. See Specifying Default Search Settings.