Filter children’s searches

To set filters on searches from Polaris PowerPAC Children’s Edition, and to allow subject searches scoped by fiction or non-fiction:

  1. In the Administration Explorer tree view, open the Profiles folder for the organization, and select the Children’s PAC tab in the details view.
  2. Double-click Default search limits. The Children’s PAC Default Search Limit dialog box opens.

  1. To filter searches with a free-text filter, type the Common Query Language command in the Default free text search limit box, beginning with the Boolean operator and.

The system constructs the full search command when the user launches a search. The first part of the command (before and) is determined by the user’s selection in the interface. Your filter determines the second part. The default filter is AND TA=j, which limits the results to titles with a juvenile target audience.

Note:
Structure multi-part filters in either of these two ways:
AND TA=j OR TA=a OR TA=b
AND TA={list}j, a, b {/list}
Not valid:
AND TA= j, a, b

  1. To limit search results to titles in certain collections, select the collections in the Collections list.

Tip:
If you have collections set up for children’s periodicals, this is a good way to include the periodicals in Children’s PAC search results, since serials records do not include target audience information. The results include titles from the collection OR the specified target audience filter.

Combining free-text and collections filters works best if you select only the collections intended for children. If all collections are selected, and you specify a free-text filter, the search applies the free-text filter but ignores the collections. If no free-text filter is specified, all the collections are searched, but records that do not specify a collection are ignored.

  1. Click OK on the dialog box.
  2. Select File | Save.