About the Focus Menu

The Focus Menu displays for all authorized users who have the system permission setting Institution Focus: Override or Institution Focus: Scheduled into, and have institution Focus (I/F) turned on. The Focus menu allows the user to quickly switch between Scheduled Into Institution memberships.

When logging in, a user is always logging into their Home Institution. To switch the Institution Focus to any Scheduled Into institution, select an Institution from the menu box. The institutions listed depend on I/F permission setup.

This feature requires the institution Focus: Override permission to be granted. Additionally, if the user should have access to other institutions, access to those institutions must first be granted via the person > Institution tab > Scheduled Into.

The table below shows the behavior of the institution focus authority permissions when granted (X).

Scenario I/F Override I/F Scheduled Into System > Auth Level > Admin
User can see focus menu. X X  
User can modify scheduled into institutions in person >Institution tab. X    
User can not modify scheduled into institutions in person > Institution tab.   X  
User has no scheduled into institutions defined in person > Institution tab and can see all institutions in focus menu. This is true until the user is limited to Scheduled Into institutions. The applications returns memberships first via Scheduled Into, if none are found and the user has I/F Override then the application returns all institutions. X    
User’s focus menu shows Institution 1 and Institution 3. While both I/F Override and I/F Scheduled Into permissions are granted in this scenario, Scheduled Into turns ON and limits the focus menu to the user’s institution memberships, institution 1 and 3. X X  
User can only see scheduled into institution memberships in focus menu and cannot edit Scheduled Into institutions in person > institution tab.   X  
The user can see the < None > option in the focus menu.     X