M5 v5-8-2

July 2025

Ver 5.8.2

 

Advanced Cataloging.
1. A crash when searching bibs without holdings has been resolved.
2. Collection members can now be printed.
Catalog.
1. Catalog now supports saving records in RIS format from My List. 
2. The way lists are handled has been redesigned in this release.
3. The way records are added to a database in Record Fetch has been redesigned in this release.
4. Logon and session postback queries have been optimized, resulting in increased performance.
5. Compatibility issues with Microsoft Edge have been addressed.
6. Alt and Title elements have been added to the Logo image. These are based on the value of the Title field on the Library Settings section in Setup. Additionally, there is a new logo_alttext key in Setup that allows the user to specify a different value for the Alt and Title attributes.
7. An issue that prevented printing the results of a Patron search has been addressed.
Circulation.
1. Added Email and Phone columns for the Public Library display in the Library Transactions view on screen and in print.
2. An issue that caused receipts to be emailed twice has been addressed.
3. Circulation queries on the Group table have been optimized, resulting in a significant performance increase when loading patrons with large numbers of transactions.
4. An issue that would cause Circulation to hang on startup when the logged in user had access only to Self Mode has been addressed.
Group Editor.
1. Printing of group members has been implemented.
2. An issue where members of a Special Reserve group were not refreshed when viewing the members of another special reserve group has been addressed.

ADVANCED CATALOG

  • NEW!  Field Options: In “Cataloging Tools” you will find a new feature that allows you to create a list of possible entries on a particular field. For more information take a look at this short video
  • ENHANCEMENT! In the Import, the Field Mapping no longer allows the user to enter uppercase subfields.

CATALOG

  • ENHANCEMENT! Attaching a Picture to a record. When there is a need to attach a picture to a book, the “Attach picture” feature from "catalog” will automatically search the image from an external source by the ISBN, if picture is found it will load it automatically to the interface making it easier to save it to the record.
  • ENHANCEMENT! Mandarin has updated the API to retrieve Book Jacket images from Google image resulting on a much broader and more reliable range of Google cover images while presenting the results from a catalog search.

CIRCULATION

  • ENHANCEMENT! Book cover Images are now display in Circulation under the Item Pane.
  • NEW! From the “Library Transactions” window in Circulation, new filters have been added under the “Fine” filter option. The new filters are “Overdue”, "Lost” and “User Created” , each one with a different customizable message when sending email notifications.

RECORD EDITOR

  • ENHANCEMENT! Mandarin will no longer allow records to contain uppercase subfields. Also, when copying and pasting text into a pre-existing field, carriage returns are now stripped from the data.
  • ENHANCEMENT! Based on the fields defined in Advanced Cataloging Field Options, Record Editor highlights a controlled field and allow you to  selected a saved entry, or manually adding a new entry.