Remote Databases Usage Settings Dialog Box

To open this dialog box:
In Polaris Administration, select Profiles, PowerPAC, Remote databases: Usage settings.

Use this dialog box to select individual remote databases for configuration, and to enable follow-on searching in Polaris PowerPAC. For details, see Remote Database Usage Settings for PowerPAC.

• Database list - Select a database for which you want to set usage conditions, and click Configure Database.

• Enable follow-on search after zero hits in local database - Select (check) this option to enable follow-on searching in PowerPAC. When enabled, a prompt is displayed to the PowerPAC user for a follow-on search of databases pre-selected by the library, when a search of the local database returns no hits.

• Show total hits in follow-on search databases - Select (check) this option to display a message if there are results in follow-on databases. The message displays the search link and the total number of hits found.  If no hits are found, no message is displayed. If there are results in the follow-on databases. When Show total hits in follow-on search databases is not checked, a message is always displayed and the user must click the link to determine if there are results in the follow-on databases.