Configure Access to Digital Content

You may want to prevent unauthorized users outside your school from accessing digital content stored on your Destiny server. You can do this based on network addresses and can grant or deny access for individual computers or groups of computers.

Patrons can upload digital content to book reviews, and library staff can attach digital content to title records in Destiny. When you deny access to digital content, any reviews or title records with digital content appear as though no digital content has been entered.

Note: You can prevent authorized users inside your school from uploading digital content to reviews and title records by removing these permissions from their Access Levels.

By default, all computers are granted access to digital content. As soon as you configure access for a single computer or group of computers, all other addresses are automatically denied access. Before you begin, you need to know the IP address of any computers you want to configure, and the subnet mask for any networks you want to configure.

To add, edit or delete an IP address digital content access:

1. Log in as a Destiny Administrator.
2. Select Setup > District Options.
3. Next to Digital Content Access, click Edit.
4. Do one of the following
   • To add a computer or network, click Add New.
   • To edit an entry, click the edit icon, .
   • To delete an entry, click Delete.

You cannot grant access to a group of computers within a denied group. To allow access inside a denied group, you must grant access to a single computer.

Example: To prevent users outside your school from accessing your digital content, click Grant, then add the IP address and subnet for the gateway of your school's network.