M5 v5-2

December 2016

 Advanced Cataloging

 

  1. The Search dialog now applies scope restrictions.
  2. On Step 3 of the Import, the list of organizations is now restricted to the accessible organizations for the logged-in user.
  3. Orphaned holding records were causing an export of records to fail, creating a 0 KB export file – that has now been addressed.
  4. Organizations in the Search dialog are now set to display alphabetically by name.
  5. Advanced Cataloging has been optimized to reduce and clean up the number of open socketconnections, resulting in greater availability and stability.
  6. It is now possible to upload barcodes directly from a scanner, or from a file, for batch operations in Find/Replace.

 

 

Catalog

 

  1. A simple interface to manage comments has been implemented. The number of comments needing review is reflected in the notification bubble next to My Account on the homescreen.
  2. Organizations now appear as a post-query filter after retrieving results from a scoped database.
  3. Catalog initiates search on the selected Autocomplete entry without having to separately click the Search button.
  4. A new key has been added that allows turning off the bibliographic call number display in the results and record details views.
  5. If the user deselected all databases and attempted to search, Catalog would search the first default database in addition to the selected database (if not the default) after the user corrected the original selection error – that has now been addressed to search only the selected database(s).
  6. Numerous improvements to scoping access have been implemented.
  7. Catalog has been optimized to reduce and clean up the number of open socket connections, resulting in greater availability and stability.
  8. When Postgres searching is enabled, Catalog now retrieves bibliographic and holding results exclusively from the Postgres database, resulting in a significant performance increase.
  9. Decimal values are now supported for the Reading Counts and Accelerated Reader reading program ranges on the search page.

 

 

Circulation

 

  1. In a non-scoped environment, the database name is placed in the header.
  2. Self-Mode now has a configurable timeout.
  3. When an item is returned that has been reported missing by the prior patron, there is now an option to enter a redesigned Refund screen and process a refund to that patron.
  4. When loading an item that has been marked missing, there is no longer a reference to the prior patron, unless ‘missing’ was notated for that patron’s transaction.
  5. Receipts have been corrected to reduce unnecessary length.
  6. The Self Mode interface has been stripped down to remove elements that the user cannot access.
  7. Scope restrictions are applied to holdings when searching from the Barcode field.
  8. Patron records can now be duplicated.
  9. The issue where uploading and attaching a patron picture caused a random different patron picture to display instead of the uploaded image has been addressed.
  10. Receipts can be printed for each approved ILL.
  11. 'Overdue loans current week' selection in Library Transactions is now 'Overdue Loans Last 7 Days'.
  12. Access group access to the originating library is no longer required to return ILL loans at the requesting library.
  13. The following items in Library Transactions were unscoped: Overdue Loans Current Day, Due Tomorrow, Due Within 2 Days, Due Within 3 Days, Overdue Loans Last 7 Days, Overdue Loans Last 14 Days, Overdue Loans Last 30 Days. That has now been addressed so those items are scoped.
  14. ILL is now working in non-scoped environments.
  15. Numerous improvements to scoping access have been implemented.
  16. Circulation has been optimized to reduce and clean up the number of open socket connections, resulting in greater availability and stability.

 

 

Group Editor

 

  1. A new, optional flag in Global.ini (Remove Non-accessible Groups=1) allows for the removal of inaccessible group from the display. This is operative if the hierarchy is enforced. The default is to show all groups.
  2. The Members tab no longer displays search results when you click on the tab after having performed an earlier search.
  3. Scope restrictions are now applied to holdings when searching for bibliographic records.
  4. Holdings are no longer aggregated from all selected bibliographic records after searching. Now only the holdings for the selected bibliographic record are visible. 


Record Editor

  1. The 852#a with the logged-in user’s organization symbol was not added to new patron records. The 852#a was added as an empty field in the editor. Now a new patron includes the symbol of the logged-in user by default.
  2. After clicking Cancel or Save, the Record Editor UI is disabled to prevent double-clicking the Cancel or Save buttons, which had been causing a 404 not found error.
  3. The Record Type dropdown has been removed from Basic Editor when editing existing records.
  4. An issue that could cause a 404 (Not Found) error when clicking on Save or Cancel more than once has been addressed.

 

 

Schema

 

  1. An issue that caused 521 Lexile record count to be absent from the filter has been corrected. This happened when the record contained both 521 and 526 fields.
  2. The schema has been performance tuned to handle larger numbers of records and large numbers of scope restrictions.