📄️ Custom Field Definitions
Define your own fields for requests, users, and activities in the Customization Manager — choosing a data type, a short name, and a display label for each.
📄️ Custom Dropdowns
Manage the lists of values that appear in dropdown fields across Aeon — statuses, departments, ID types, countries, states, and your own custom lists — from the Customization Manager.
📄️ Custom Flags
Create, rename, and delete the custom request flags staff use to mark requests for purposes like supervisor review, independently of request status.
📄️ Email Templates: Creating and Editing
How to create, copy, edit, and delete the email templates Aeon uses for automated and staff-sent messages, including the body editor and database tags.
📄️ Email Templates: Field Tags and Preview
How field tags pull live data from your Aeon database into email templates, how to insert them, and how to see the substituted result before an email goes out.
📄️ The Queues Table
Manage Aeon's request queues in the Customization Manager — review the default status queues and create, edit, or remove your own custom queues.
📄️ The EAD Mapping Table
Configure URI and XPath rules that tell Aeon which XSLT file to use when processing an EAD finding aid, so collections with special markup get the right transformation.
📄️ The OpenURL Mapping Table
How to configure the OpenURL Mapping table so requests linked from catalogs and databases land in Aeon with the right fields and request type.
📄️ The Local Info Table
How to maintain your institution's contact details in the Local Info table so email and print templates fill in the right name, address, and phone — including per-site overrides.
📄️ Web Form Values
Configure the submit-button text shown on Aeon's patron-facing web request forms using the Web Form Values table in the Customization Manager.
📄️ Validation Links
How to map a patron web form to the validation rule sets that apply to it, using the Web Form Validation Links editor in the Customization Manager.
📄️ Z39.50 Configuration
Set up Z39.50 server connections and the named searches staff use to look up catalog records and holdings from inside Aeon.