Site Configuration (Destiny Administrator)

Site Configuration allows you to customize and set up many of the features in Destiny.
As a Destiny administrator, you can push each group of settings to a single site, a site type, or the whole district.

Because these pages contain all the settings available in Destiny, the following list indicates the Destiny Resource Managers to which they apply. Please disregard the settings for any Managers you do not have.

Catalog Options

You can select several options to alter or enhance the appearance and function of Search pages in the Catalog. You can also select library inventory options.

• Library Inventory Options, for Library Manager only:
  You can configure the options for shelf-order checking.
• Language Support, for Library Manager only:
  In addition to English, you can allow patrons to view the Catalog in French or Spanish, or both, and set the default display language.
• Library Title Display Settings, for Library Manager only:
  You can select the order of information on the Title Details page, include a reviewer's name in library reviews and set the Visual Search results display format.
• Quiz/Level Based Searches, for Library Manager only:
  If your libraries use Scholastic Reading Counts!^®, Accelerated Reader™, Lexile measures, or Fountas and Pinnell levels, you can enable library patrons to limit their searches to books in one or more reading programs.
• Miscellaneous Settings:
  • Catalog Maintenance: Choose to automatically remove a title record when deleting its last copy, in Library Manager only
  • Destiny Quest Options: Select the default theme for Destiny Quest. Each theme consists of a set of background graphics and colors, in Library Manager only
  • Destiny Quest Options: Include the New Arrivals list in Destiny Quest, in Library Manager only
  • Search Settings: Set the number of months Destiny retains Basic Search term information, in Library Manager only
  • Search Settings: Allow Follett Destiny Quest® to display a list of suggestions when a patron enters a search term, in Library Manager only
  • Search Settings: Ignore leading articles in search terms
  • Search Results Settings: Sort search results, in Library Manager and Destiny Textbook Manager

Circulation Options

You can set up several circulation limits and policies, define your barcode symbologies, and change the sounds produced by Circulation transactions.

• Resource Options: For Destiny Resource Manager, you can choose to Allow Resources to Circulate to Any Patron/Department/Location in the District.
• Fines: You can choose to automatically calculate fines for overdue library copies and lost items. You can require library and resources staff to enter explanatory notes when waiving fines.
• Hold/Reserves: For Library Manager only, you can set the number of days required to ready reserves, determine the number of days after which Destiny automatically deletes expired holds, and select the default delivery method for interlibrary loans (ILL).
  

  Note: you cannot push Hold/Reserves policies.

• Patrons and Customize User-Defined Patron Field Names: For Destiny Resource Manager, you can determine the patron information that appears in Circulation:
  • Patron pictures by default
  • Homeroom and Grade Level
  • User Defined fields
• Preferred Barcode Symbologies: For Destiny Resource Manager , you can define the default barcode symbology settings for new sites.
  

  Note: you cannot push barcode symbologies.

• Circulation Sounds: You can change the default sound files that are played when certain events occur during circulation.