Discovery Online update Settings

To make a change to the Discovery Online fields, open the configuration area from Settings / Discovery.

The Discovery Online settings screen will then appear where the user may select the fields that should be updated. Note that the settings here only affect resources, retrospectively. It is not possible to change what fields are brought onto a book record at the point of cataloguing. Once finished configuring, click OK. This will only take affect when the Discovery Online task has run via the scheduler. For more information about scheduling a task follow the steps in the topic Creating a Scheduled Task and apply these steps to the Discovery Online task.

It is highly recommended to tick the Update Empty Fields Only box. If this is not checked, the Discovery task will update fields and potentially overwrite data which you have added manually.

Each of the settings that can be selected from the Discovery settings area map to fields show within a book record (with the exception of the Meet the Author links which are stored internally).

Tick each of the fields that you wish to have updated by the Discovery Online task.

There are also check boxes available under the "Actions" section. Definitions describing what these boxes will do when checked are below.

Option	Description

Update Empty Fields Only	MLS recommend that this option is checked. When this setting is checked, it means that Discovery Online will only update fields where there is no data currently present. In most circumstances you would want this option checked because otherwise it has potential to overwrite data you have entered yourself. For example, let's assume that we have a resource that has no "Publication Date". With this option checked, this value will be updated (a publication populated) as there is no data in that field. However, if you had manually added a publication date and have this option unchecked then when the task runs it will overwrite it.
Force Complete Update	When this option is unchecked, the Discovery Online task updates the catalogue records in batches each time it runs. With this option selected, the task attempts to update all records in one go.

Click OK to save any changes.