Portal Page Content Carousels Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles, PowerPAC, Portal page content carousels.

Use this dialog box to set up content carousels for the Polaris PowerPAC portal page. A content carousel is a rotating graphical representation of a list of materials in the local library catalog. The PowerPAC user can click any title in the carousel to launch a search for the title in the library catalog. See Content Carousels on the PowerPAC Portal Page.

• Enable - Select (check) to enable content carousels for this organization.

• Add a dashboard carousel - Select a dashboard (Web part) from the dashboard list and click Add New Dashboard Carousel. The selected dashboard appears in the Carousels list in the upper part of the dialog box.

• Add a record set - Click Find. The Find Tool for bibliographic record sets opens. Search for the record set and select one or more record sets in the results lists. Right-click and choose Select from the context menu. The records set or sets you selected are displayed in the record set list. To create the carousel, select the record set in the list and click Add New Record Set Carousel. The selected record set appears in the Carousels list in the upper part of the dialog box.

• Rename a carousel - By default, the carousel name is the name of the dashboard or record set. To assign a different display name for the PAC, select the carousel in the Carousels list. The name appears in the text box just below the list. Type the new name and click Rename.

• Set the display order - If you have set up multiple carousels, you can set their display order in PowerPAC.  Select a carousel and click the up arrow to move it closer to the top of the list, or click the down arrow to move it closer to the bottom. The order of the list represents the display order in PAC.

• Delete a carousel - Select the carousel in the carousels list and click the delete icon .

• Inherit settings from a parent organization - The top of the dialog box indicates the organization where the current carousel options have been set. To inherit the settings of the parent organization, click the up arrow at the top of the dialog box.