Limit task times
Limit task times You might want to prevent staff members from running reports or performing tasks that are resource-intensive between certain hours or on a specific day of the week. Doing so ensures sufficient performance of Destiny during normal circulation hours when staff is in the system, and minimizes the impact on their daily functions.
Textbook Loan Policies (Textbook Manager)
Textbook Loan Policies (Textbook Manager) You can set the maximum number of checkouts for textbooks, automatically change the status of overdue textbooks to lost, choose to block checkouts if a patron has fines or overdues, and enable autoconditioning of your textbooks. Circulation Limits and Automatic Conditioning By setting up circulation limits, if a patron exceeds…
Set up resource policies
Set up resource policies You might have different due dates for different resource types. For example, textbooks circulate for an entire school term, and laptops are checked out for a day. You can set up customized loan periods in Destiny Resource Manager. To create a loan period: To edit or delete a loan period: Notes: If you do…
Set up library policies
Set up library policies Library policies define the circulation rules for your library materials. You can customize the policies to monitor and control circulation events, such as checkouts, renewals, fine calculations, refunds, and holds. Destiny uses the following to define loan policies: The combination of Circulation Types and Patron Types creates a loan policies matrix. Examples of…
Push One Search database configuration
Push One Search database configuration If your district purchases subscriptions to online databases for the entire district, you can push One Search database configurations to multiple sites. This is a quick way to enter authentication information once, and apply it to other schools in the district. Important: Only the Destiny Administrator can push a One Search configuration to other sites. Only database…
Site Configuration
Site Configuration Site Configuration lets you customize and set up many of the features in Destiny. As a Destiny Administrator, you can apply the settings to new sites only, and/or push many of the settings to a single site, a site type, or the whole district. Because these pages contain all the settings available in Destiny, the options indicate…
Calendar / Hours
Calendar / Hours Destiny uses the Calendar to assign due dates, calculate fines (library and textbook only), and manage holds (libraries only). To ensure that Destiny’s calculations are accurate, it is important that you establish your site’s weekly schedule, and identify specific closed dates for the school year. Destiny Administrators can set up the calendar for the…
Update District Options
Update District Options The Destiny Administrator can use the Update District Options page (Setup > District Options) to configure various options for the entire district. These settings become the default for newly created sites, and some settings can be pushed to existing sites. Access Levels Manage Access Levels at the district level either by configuring…
Update district notifications
Update district notifications When you need to notify all of your users about important events, such as system downtime, you can send a notification. A notification is a message that appears on all Destiny pages. Set up a notification Remove a notification The notification is also cleared automatically when someone restarts the Destiny application server.
Resource Groups (Resource Manager)
Resource Groups (Resource Manager) Your entire district uses the same resource tree. But, not everyone needs access to the whole thing. And even users who need full access to one part of the tree may only need limited access to another part. For example, the textbook administrator needs all permissions for textbooks. And because the…