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 ====== Mystic Help ======
-==== Lookup Manager ====
+===== Lookup Manager =====
-This help file has not yet being released.
+{{ :pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:mystichelp_lookup_0001.jpg?200|}} The **[Lookup Manager]** is a dialog intended to perform two specific functions, and is accessible only to suitably authorised staff users:
-The Mystic Help Files are being re-written for the release of **Mystic v1.5, during the summer of 2021**.
+  * Manage system level, application wide configuration settings which affect all dialogs and all users
+  * Manage the various drop-down lists and foundation information which is used within other manager dialogs around the application
-For now, please use the Pergamon Help files by clicking the **Pergamon Wiki** Icon at the top of this page, or **Pergamon Wiki Home** below.
+In a quick overview, the **Layout Manager** sometimes fills users with trepidation, but in reality it follows the standard Mystic Manager Dialog process of:
+  * Select an entry to edit from the left hand list
+  * Edit the details when displayed on the right hand side
+  * Update the details
+So why does the **Lookup Manager** seem so complicated? The reason for this resides primarily in the //type// of data that the Lookup Manager is intended to maintain.
+----
+==== Types (or purposes) of Data ====
+There are really three different types, or purposes, of data being used by a normal user of Mystic, as shown in the following diagram:
+{{ :pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:mystichelp_lookup_0002.jpg?400 |}}
+A good example of how this data is used is in the combination of an **Item** record with a **Reader** record to perform a function, in this case a **Circulation** which generates its own record in the database recording that the circulation occurred.
+Feeding information into these three higher level records however, is the **Mystic Expanse** - essentially, a potentially vast amount of small **foundation** data records. These foundation data records provide everything from Keywords to Contributor names, Class names to reader circulation limits (Circulations Profile), to the very configuration of how Mystic should perform.
+----
+Lookup Manager help articles:
+  * [[:pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:lookup_overview|Full overview of Lookup Manager Foundation Data]]\\
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