Library Favorites is a free subscription service. To sign up, contact your SirsiDynix SirsiDynix Customer Support representative.
You can customize the library favorite URLs that are included in patrons’ search results by adding or removing URLs. When you add a library favorite URL to the list, Portfolio crawls and indexes the content at that URL and then makes it available for patrons to search.
Library Favorites is a free subscription service. To sign up, contact your SirsiDynix SirsiDynix Customer Support representative.
Depending on the number of URLs that you want to use as library favorites and the amount of data associated with each URL, it may take up to two months for library favorites URLs to begin appearing in patrons’ search results.
When choosing which URLs to use as library favorites, be aware that the amount of data available on a website and the crawl mode that you choose will affect how long it takes for Portfolio to crawl the data at that URL, as well as the number of library favorite hits that appear in the search results. For example, if you choose a URL with a large amount of data (such as “www.wikipedia.com”) as a library favorite and then set the crawl mode to crawl all the data at the domain level, the amount of data from the library favorite URL would overwhelm the catalog results when search results are returned.
SirsiDynix recommends that you choose a limited number of library favorite URLs (such as your own library’s website) and choose to crawl the URLs at the “single page” or “folder” crawl mode. In cases where you want to specify a larger number of library favorite URLs, SirsiDynix recommends that you create a separate search profile dedicated to Library Favorites and then make that profile accessible for patrons to search.
To add a library favorite URL
| 1 | Log in to the Admin console. |
| 2 | Choose Library Favorites from the navigation pane. |
| 3 | Complete the fields, as necessary. (For details, see Fields: Library Favorites .) |
| 4 | Choose Add. |
| 5 | Choose OK to save your changes, or choose Cancel to discard your changes and return to Profiles. |
To remove a library favorite URL
| 1 | Log in to the Admin console. |
| 2 | Choose Library Favorites from the navigation pane. |
| 3 | Choose the URLs that you want to remove from the Seed URLs field. |
| 4 | Choose Remove. |
| 5 | Choose OK to save your changes, or choose Cancel to discard your changes and return to Profiles. |
Related topics
Setting up Library Favorites for a search profile
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