Add members (consortium install)

Once you have set up and organized your installation, you are ready to add the members to it. A member can be either an entire district or a single site. On the Add Member page, you can either add a new member or attach an existing member to your installation.

Remember that each member of a consortium installation is completely independent.
Members cannot interact with each other. Members do not share data.

Add a new member

You will need the member's customer number to complete this task.

To add a new member

1. After logging in, click the house icon adjacent to the installation name on the Update Members page of Setup.
2. To add a new member to your installation, enter the required information on the New tab of Add Member:

   

   • Name – Enter the member's name as you want it to appear on the Welcome page.
     Each member must have a unique name.
   • Customer Number: Enter the member's 7-digit customer number.
   • Group: Optionally select the group to which the member belongs. You can make this assignment later, if you prefer.
   • Database/Context Name: Provide a name for the member's database. The web server will also use this name. The database/context name can only contain alphanumeric characters and no punctuation other than the underscore character. Each database/context name must be unique.
3. Once you have specified all the necessary information, click Save.

You can access any member of your consortium and perform all administrative tasks while logged in as a Super Administrator.

Attach an existing member

If there are districts or sites that are currently running their own installation of Destiny®, it is possible to add them to your consortium as members:

To attach an existing member

1. Verify that the consortium and the member-to-be are running the same version of Destiny.
2. If the other installation is on another server, copy its \districtresources folder to a temporary location.
3. Rename the \districtresources folder to \districtresources.<contextname>.
   The web server uses a context name to identify each member. Typically, the context name is the same as the database name. The context name can contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore character. Each context name must be unique.
4. Copy the renamed folder to the consortium server's \FSC-Destiny\FSC folder.
5. Copy the member database to the consortium database server. Attach it with sa as the owner.
6. As sa, execute the following query to align the CircCatAdmin user on the new database:
   sp_change_users_login 'auto_fix', 'CircCatAdmin'
7. Open the Existing tab of Add Member and enter the following information:
   

   

   • Group: Optionally select the group to which the member belongs. You can make this assignment later, if you prefer.
   • Database: Choose the name of the member's database that you want to add.
   • Context Name: Enter the context name you assigned (in step 3, above) to the selected database.
8. Once you have specified all the necessary information, click Save.

If you attached existing members to your installation, any sites that had been set up for that member are ready to use.