Quick Search Button Configuration Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles > PowerPAC > Quick search button configuration.

Use this dialog box to provide optional buttons with the quick search feature, instead of a search filter, on the Polaris PowerPAC portal page. The patron types the search text and selects a button to launch a particular type of search. You can offer the following search buttons:

• Anywhere

• Fiction

• Nonfiction
  

• My Library
  

• My Library plus Articles

• Subject

• Title

• Author

• Series 

For the Subject, Title, Author, and Series buttons, you can specify whether a keyword or browse search is launched. See Customizing Portal Page Features.

• Enable quick search buttons - Select this option to use quick search with search buttons. The remaining options become available for selection. If you select Enable quick search buttons but do not select any specific buttons, Polaris PowerPAC uses the default quick search feature instead of the quick search with options.

• Search button options - Select each button option that you want to display for quick search. For each button you activate, select the search type (Browse or Keyword) that the button launches.

  Notes:
  Selecting Anywhere, Fiction, Nonfiction, My Library, or My Library plus Articles always launches a keyword search.

  • Anywhere looks for the search term in any indexed field.
  • Fiction and Nonfiction limit the keyword search by these options.
  • My Library searches your library system's entire database, but excludes articles from outside sources, such as EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS).
  • If your library subscribes to EDS and has integrated EDS with Polaris PowerPAC, selecting My Library plus Articles searches your library's database plus articles from EDS.