Button Bar/Toolbar

There is an optional toolbar with buttons providing quick access to commonly used staff client functions. When activated the toolbar appears below the menu bar.

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The look of the buttons can be customized. Use Mode, Label Position and Icon Size on the Toolbar menu shown on the screen below to select your preference.

A group of buttons can be selected or activated by default for all workstations at a particular library (see Library Settings for details). A different default group can be set up on individual workstations by the following steps.

  1. Go to Admin → Workstation Administration → Toolbars → Current.

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  2. Choose a group from the list.
  3. Go back to the above menu. Select Set Workstation Default to Current. The above selected toolbar group is set as default for this workstation.

To clear an existing setting click Clear Workstation Default.

Circulation and Cataloguing are the default toolbar groups. Local system administrators can create new groups for individual accounts, workstations or all in a particular library.

  1. Go to *Admin → Workstation Administration → Toolbars → Configure Toolbars.
  2. Click New Toolbar

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  3. In the prompt window type in a name for the new group, and then click OK.
  4. Choose the function buttons you want to add to the new group. Click -->(A) to add. You may select one in the Selected pane, and then click <--(R) to remove it.
  5. Check one of the radio buttons: Owning Org Unit, Owning Workstation, or Owning User to specify the new group should be available to everyone/workstation in your library, or this workstation or yourself only.
  6. If you chose Owning Workstation in the above step, click the down-pointed arrow at the end of the Permission Context box to select your library in the organization unit tree.
  7. Click Save Toolbar.
  8. The new toolbar group will be displayed together with Circulation and Cataloguing groups when you choose a toolbar group next time.