Before a search target can be assigned to a room, a system administrator must make the search target available to the profile.
Only an administrator with privileges to manage all profiles can make search targets available to a search profile. Any administrator with access to the profile can then choose which of the search targets available to the profile will be queried when a user in a particular room conducts a search.
You can select from the available Discovery and federated search targets which ones you want to make available to patrons when searching. You can also reorder the default order in which federated search targets are listed when an administrator enables search targets for a room. In addition, you can select which search fields are available to the patron in the fields drop-down list.
If you try to configure the search target display or delete the profile at the same time as another administrative user, the software displays an error message indicating that the search profile record has been updated or deleted by another user, and prevents you from saving any changes that you may have made to the profile. To continue making changes to this search profile, choose Cancel to reload the data and, if the profile is still available, re-enter your changes.
After you make changes to the room settings, refresh the cache to make the modifications available to patrons.
To configure the search box for a room
| 1 | Log in to the Admin Console. |
| 2 | Choose Manage Rooms from the navigation pane. |
| 3 | Select the profile in which you want to work. |
| 4 | Navigate to the room in which you want to select the search targets. |
| 5 | Choose Enable Search Targets. |
| 6 | Complete the fields, as necessary. (For details, see Fields: Search Box Options.) |
| 7 | Choose OK to save your changes, or choose Cancel to discard your changes and return to the Admin console. |
Related topics
Managing federated configuration
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