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| * Manage the various drop-down lists and foundation information which is used within other manager dialogs around the application | * Manage the various drop-down lists and foundation information which is used within other manager dialogs around the application | ||
| - | ==== Categories ==== | + | In a quick overview, the **Layout Manager** sometimes fills users with trepidation, but in reality it follows the standard Mystic Manager Dialog process of: |
| - | Mystic divides the various foundation data into **Categories**, each of which is of a specific type (or usage). The **Category Types** are: | + | * Select an entry to edit from the left hand list |
| + | * Edit the details when displayed on the right hand side | ||
| + | * Update the details | ||
| - | * Item Indexing | + | 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. |
| - | * Item Popups | + | |
| - | * Item Qualifiers | + | |
| - | * Reader Indexing | + | |
| - | * Reader Popups | + | |
| - | * Reader Qualifiers | + | |
| - | * System | + | |
| - | If you do not see a particular category in the **Lookup Manager** which you wish to edit, it may simpyl be that their display is turned off. In order to make it visible, select the **[Options]** toolbar tab and toggle on the toolbar icons in the **[Reader Categories]**, **[Item Categories]** or **[System]** toolbar groups as required. | + | ---- |
| - | The **Indexing Category Types** represent foundation data which may appear in connection with a particular type of record (items, readers etc) any which may be used multiple times within the same record. Such foundation data may therefore include Keywords and Contributors (i.e. Authors) as several different values of each type may be attached to the record. | + | ==== Types (or purposes) of Data ==== |
| - | The **Popup Category Types** represent foundation data which would normally appear only //once// within a particular type of record and therefore typically is uses to populate drop-down lists where only a single selection can be made. Such foundation data may therefore include Publishers, Series Titles, Student Classes etc. | + | There are really three different types, or purposes, of data being used by a normal user of Mystic, as shown in the following diagram: |
| - | The **System Category Types** contain foundation data which is used to configure Mystic, or otherwise inform Mystic how to operate. | + | {{ :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. |
| - | The **Lookup Manager** has a number of core categories of information which are available in all versions of Mystic, as well as a number of custom categories which may have been created by Esferico on the behalf of Mystic users or by suitably authorised Mystic users with access to the Category tools. | + | 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. |
| - | Standard categories include: | + | When you use the higher data records, such as the Circulations function, Catalogue Items or Reader Records, you do so using a dedicated Mystic Manager Dialog which is intended //just// for that purpose. To provide a dedicated editor for every type of foundation data in the Expanse however, would mean that you would need to keep track of of tens of different dialogs (possibly hundreds in the case of some Mystic licenses, where you are allowed to create your own data categories in the Expanse). |
| - | ==== | + | For this reason, we do it all through a single Lookup Manager dialog which is flexible enough to cope with many different types of data but using the same basic principles that you know from using other Managers. |
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| + | It is usually the sheer number of different types of data which therefore worries users - but there is no real need to worry. Once you learn how to use on Mystic Manager Dialog, the others are almost identical with only the need to adapt to the few additional functions that you can use only in that area. | ||
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| + | Lookup Manager help articles: | ||
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| + | * [[:pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:lookup_overview|Full overview of Lookup Manager Foundation Data]]\\ | ||
| + | * [[:pergamonmystic:linkedhelp:lookup_using|Using the Lookup Manager]]\\ | ||
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