Resource Groups: Search Results Settings Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles, PAC, Resource Groups: Search results settings.

These settings control when the eContent title is displayed in PAC search results for bibliographic records with Resource Entities that have associated Resource Groups. (PAC searches return all bibliographic records with no Resource Entities or where all Resource Entities have no Resource Groups associated with them.) For more information about eContent in PAC, see EContent Vendors and Polaris.

•  Honor Resource Groups in PAC search results lists - Select to have the system consider Resource Groups when displaying search results.

Note:
If you leave this option unchecked, the system ignores Resource Groups and Resource Entities. That is, all eContent titles show everywhere, regardless of connection branch, patron’s logged-in status, or presence of Resource Entities. The remaining options are not available for selection.

When you check Honor Resource Groups, the remaining options become available for selection. You must select at least one option.

• Before login option - To restrict the results to those associated with the Resource Groups of which the connection organization is a member, select Before login show eContent available to connection branch.  If this option is checked and the patron searches at a branch that is not his or her registration branch, the patron may be restricted from checking out the title. If you leave this option unchecked and the patron is not logged in, no eContent titles appear in search results.

• After login options - Select an option to control the display of eContent titles after the patron is logged in:

• Connection branch - Select to display eContent titles that are associated with the Resource Groups of which the connection organization is a member. If this option is checked, but the Registration branch option is unchecked, and the patron is logged in but is searching at a branch that is not her registration branch, titles that are available at the connection branch appear in the search results list but are not available to check out.

• Registration branch - Select to display eContent titles that are associated with the Resource Groups of which the patron’s registered branch is a member. If you select this option and the Before login option is checked, but Connection branch is not checked, titles may drop off the search results list when the patron logs in.

Note:
Although the Before login option is independent of the After login options, if you check Before login but do not select either After login option, you receive the following warning message, because in this case no eContent will be displayed after the patron logs in: Once a patron logs in, eContent will no longer appear in the PAC display. Please correct this problem by checking the connection branch checkbox and/or the registration branch checkbox.