HIP Helper Page

 

This page is here as a resource to anyone needing detailed information on specific topics related to HIP 4.x setup.

 

The admin tool has 6 different menu options for doing search setup and customization.  This diagram helps you understand the relationships between all the different setup areas for searching.
Helps you visualize the relationship between users, roles, security groups, admin groups and protection domains.
You have about 20 different ways a search prompt screen can be arranged.  The names of the different templates don't give you too much information.  This page lists them all, gives you a sample of the layout and offers hints about how each layout could/should be used.
An Excel document that lists a majority of the different parameters that you find in the HIP Admin tool (and elsewhere too) along with how you navigate to that parameter.  Good notes that include a lot of tips.
Powerpoint presentation given at CODI 2005.  Good speaker's notes and lots of sample screens.  Especially critical is the discussion of setting up the detailed steps involved in setting up Template users.
Powerpoint presentation given at CODI 2005.  Good speaker's notes and lots of sample screens.  Not just the process of creating channels, but some good tips about which channels to use and when.
Before HIP 4.x it was easy to just grab the contents of the address bar in a browser to get the URL you needed to navigate back to a specific search result screen (or even full BIB screen).  You can't do that with 4.0.  It's a more involved process--but it is possible to create a URL that will perform an automatic search in HIP 4.x; this document explains how.
A white paper written by Steve Orton detailing how you can modify a skin to change the colors of your menu bar and tabs.
A white paper written by Dennis Todd.  Setting up Reserve Book indexes in HIP 4.x has several unique aspects compared to other Horizon indexes.  This paper explains the issues and walks you through the process of getting RB indexes up and running with as little pain as possible (Thanks to Jeromy Wilson who made it all possible!)