In-House Access Definitions Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles, PowerPAC, In-house access definitions: Setup.

Use this dialog box to control how a workstation’s in-house status is determined for PowerPAC patron actions (patron inactivity timeout and Recently Viewed Titles) and e-source access. The system uses the setting of the Polaris PowerPAC connection organization. You can set separate criteria for the patron actions and access to e-source targets.

If you select In-House IP Addresses Table only, a workstation’s IP address must be included in that table to be considered in-house. If you select In-House IP Addresses Table AND registered workstations, a workstation’s IP address can either be included in the In-House IP Addresses table or the workstation can be registered in Polaris to be considered in-house. This is the default setting for both patron actions and e-source target access.

Note:
Look-ups to determine whether a workstation is registered in Polaris can impact performance on slow or complicated networks. If you experience these problems, you can change the setting for patron actions, e-source access, or both, to In-House IP Addresses Table only. If you do not experience performance problems, the default settings are probably satisfactory.

For more information, see Set criteria for determining in-house location.