Pika Release Notes 2016.08.0

Released on 9/1/2016

New Functionality

• Add the ability for patrons to reset their pin in Horizon for libraries with the latest version of the Horizon APIs installed.

• Public Lists based on the New York Times published lists can now be created.

  • Need account information for the shared user to create the lists for. Just let us know which username and account you want to have associated with the NY Times List.

  • Available for anyone with the role of OPAC Admin, Library Admin, Library Manager or Content Editor.

  • NY Times lists can be used as list widgets or browse categories.

• Checkouts page allows sorting by user account if the user has linked accounts

• Created a new tool to merge add and delete files with an existing MARC record file (Video)

• Add the ability to set how many titles can be shown for a list widget.

Bug Fixes

• Citations for user lists now work properly

• Updated the list of pTypes that can bypass automatic logout at Marmot

• Properly identify branches based on sublocation code if more than one branch has the same location code.  See Lincoln Memorial Library and Lincoln County Bookmobile

• If subject display is limited to LC Subjects and or Bisac Subjects, only those subjects will show within Grouped Work View.

• Fix display of Checkouts and Reading History for users who have MARC records that are invalid checked out.

• Identify Lynda.com courses as non-fiction based on 655a of Instructional Video or Educational Video

• When adding new titles to a list, the available lists are sorted alphabetically.  

• Series no longer displays in search results if there isn’t a series for a title.

• Fix display of ISSN within record details (was showing as Array)

• Fix display of librarian picks to allow additional url formats (see Remembering Salida Collection)

• Fix more from the catalog and other issues where the subjects weren’t being loaded into Pika properly (see Remembering Salida Collection)

• Hide transcript section for objects in the archive that do not have a transcription for them.

• Fix display of related objects for archive objects

• Fix filtering by date for archive map view.

• Refine which people are shown in the production team section for archive objects

• Search result counts were not matching counts of related objects from the archive within the Explore More sidebar.

Digital archive work in Pika

• Display of Books within Pika including

  • Display of Transcription, PDF, Image

• Navigation between pages

• Table  of contents for books with sections

• All pages have permanent urls that can be shared with others

• Objects related to specific pages can be viewed while browsing

• Display of PDF’s (Academic Research)

• User Lists can contain both materials from the catalog and materials from the archive.

  • User lists with archive materials can be used in list widgets

• User lists with archive materials can be used in browse categories

• Collections within a collection can now be ordered within the metadata and displayed sorted on the collection page. Objects in a collection will also sort by title now by default.

• Collections are now properly paginated if they contain more than one page worth of objects.

• Collections of collections are now shown as widgets if there are a limited number of sub collections.

• Users can search within a collection.  Results appear as normal search results with the collection preselected.

• Display parent and children relationships for people (see Monie Beal)

• LIbrary Administrators can view staff view for archive objects now.

Additional Archive work

• Launch of Vail Valley Quilt Project and Remembering Salida Project

• Migrated Digital Archive (Islandora) to new internal server from hosted server.

eContent Sideload setups

• Springer records for Western State

• Oxford Reference for Western State

• Zinio for Flatrions

• Automatic export of ebrary DDA records to EBSCO for Adams State