Remote Databases: Categorization of Target Databases Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles, PowerPAC, Remote databases: Categorization of target databases.

Remote search targets can be searched simultaneously with the Polaris database. Use the Remote databases: Categorization of target databases dialog box to add search targets and organize the targets into display categories for the Polaris PowerPAC Select Databases lightbox. See Managing Federated Search Targets for details.

Note:
You establish connections to remote resources, and make them available to organizations for selection, through Polaris Administration server settings. See Registering Remote Resource Servers.

In this dialog box, folder icons  represent categories. Book icons  represent individual targets.

• Add a category - Select (highlight) the folder to which you want to add a category. If you are adding a new category to the root level, select Root. If you are adding a subcategory to an existing category, select the existing category folder. Click Add Category. A new folder icon appears in the Category tree view, with the cursor positioned to name the folder. Type a category heading, and press ENTER.

• Copy a category - Select the category in the Remote databases: Categorization of target databases dialog box, and click Copy. Then select the category where you want to place the copy, and click Paste. This procedure creates categories that are linked. When you copy categories, all subcategories and targets are copied, and all the copied subcategories and targets also become linked. Any change to one category is applied to all the linked categories. A linked category is indicated by a hand on the folder icon. To remove the link between categories, select the category you want to make independent, and click Unlink.

Note:
You cannot paste a copied category at the same level as the original category.

• Add a target  -  Select the category to which you want to add the target, and click Add Target. The Add/Modify Target dialog box appears. In the target list, select the search target you want to add to the PAC display.

• Copy a target - Select the target and click Copy. Then select the category where you want to place the copy of the target, and click Paste. You can use the Copy/Paste function to add a target to multiple categories. However, a single target cannot appear more than once at the same category level, unless the different instances of the target are in different subcategories.

• Delete a target - Select the target click Delete. (Deleting a target from a particular category, including Root, does not delete it from other categories.) The local Polaris database cannot be completely removed from the categorization dialog box.

• Set the display order in the PAC - Select a category or target and click Up or Down. Repeat until the categories or targets are in the display order you want.

Note:
In the PAC databases list, targets defined at the Root level are always displayed above any categories, and your local database is always displayed at the top of the list.