Security
Security Follett Software, LLC continues to invest in technologies to enhance product security and help identify potential security vulnerabilities. You can use several configuration options in Destinyto implement a tight password policy and help prevent denial-of-service attacks. User Login Policies Use Destiny’s Password Policies options to enforce a strict password policy, and temporarily disable a user account after a…
Rebuild keywords
Rebuild keywords If search results are not as you expect, you might need to rebuild one or more of the keyword indexes. Example: An Author search for “Rhodes” produces no search results, even though your database contains titles by Rhodes. Important: Contact Follett Technical Support before rebuilding the keyword indexes. Keyword rebuilding may take a long time….
Configure LDAP servers
Configure LDAP servers Instead of uploading and maintaining user passwords in your Destiny patron records, you can enable patrons to log in using the passwords stored in your district’s LDAP directory. LDAP, or Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, is an open standard to supply password and authentication services from a common database on the network. To configure Destiny to use…
Destiny Server Administration
Destiny Server Administration What do you want to do? If you want to … Then… Review security See Security Set up a consortium installation See Getting Started as a Super Administrator – Consortium Set up a distributed installation See Getting Started as a Super Administrator – Distributed Update district options See Update District Options Rebuild the keyword indexes See Rebuild…
Transition to Resource Manager
Transition to Resource Manager The transition utility performs a check to determine if your system is ready to transition from Destiny Textbook Manager to Destiny Resource Manager. Note: The transition requires changing barcodes for textbooks (T barcodes). Preview transition Run the transition Follett offers a Transition Service to help you transition from Destiny Textbook Manager to Destiny Resource Manager. The service includes support in running this utility…
Remove a barcode filter
Remove a barcode filter If you have a barcode filter in place and have already scanned all your copy barcodes, you are ready to remove the barcode filter. To remove a barcode filter: Important: Do not remove the filter prematurely. Remove it when either the Percentage Verified reaches 100.00%, or most of your circulating items have been updated.
Review barcode filters
Review barcode filters Because Destiny handles barcode numbers differently from other resource management software, you may need to reconstruct the barcode numbers for all your copies in Destiny. Destiny uses a barcode filter to reconstruct your barcode numbers. You may have filters for any combination of Library Manager, Media Manager and Textbook Manager. For each product, a site may have multiple…
Configure barcode symbologies
Configure barcode symbologies To let Destiny assign barcodes, you need to define the barcode symbology you plan to use. Barcode symbology options depend on the installed Destiny products. example: You have Resource Manager and Textbook Manager. You make a change to the Textbooks barcode symbology. Even though Resource Manager also has textbook resources, your change only applies to the textbooks that live in Textbook Manager. Or, you have…
Barcode symbologies overview
Barcode symbologies overview Typically, you only need to configure your barcode symbologies when setting up Destiny. You can set the preferred barcode symbologies for: Barcodes used for library materials, textbooks, and resources are usually composed of the following four pieces of information: Only the item number is required; the rest of the components are optional. The check digit…
Job Manager
Job Manager Depending on your role and permissions, Job Manager may list report jobs, custom report jobs, inventory jobs, and/or preventative maintenance jobs. The page shows the statuses of those jobs, until they are deleted. View Job Summaries Destiny Administrator Super Administrator District User For the Destiny Administrator, Job Manager shows all the jobs created in the district. It includes…