Need to Know Wizard

The Need to Know policy contains information about need-to-know restriction levels. User policies and access restrictions are compared to item policies and access restriction levels. The user must have at least one Need To Know policy in common with the item being charged. SirsiDynix Symphony also checks the associated access restrictions; the user must be at an equal or greater level than the item to be displayed or charged.

If a library user does not have the same need-to-know status as a need-to-know item, the item cannot be checked out.

From the List policies window, you can create, display, modify, copy, or remove the Need to Know policies. Click Close to exit the wizard.

Attributes

The Need to Know policy includes the following attributes.

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Name

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Description

Name

This attribute uniquely identifies a Need to Know policy for use in the accountability record. This name is ten characters or less, and may not include spaces or punctuation, except for dash (-), underscore (_), and dollar sign ($). Additionally, the pipe character (|) may not be used.

Description

This attribute provides more information about the policy and its use by the library. The description may be up to 60 characters in length. Although the Description attribute may contain spaces and punctuation, the pipe character (|) cannot be used.