Pika Release Notes 2017.05.0

Released June 7, 2017

New Functionality

• Symphony API Implementation for Anne Arundel (also applies to Horizon libraries)

  • View a list of checked out titles

  • Renew a checked out title

  • View a list of holds

  • Freeze/Thaw holds

  • Cancel Holds

  • Change Hold Pickup Location

  • View Account information

  • Change Account information

  • Reset PIN (forgot PIN)

• • Change PIN within Account

  • View Fines

• CARL.X implementation for Nashville

  • View fine details

  • Renew All Holds

  • Update Format determination based on the most used item type in the event conflicting item types are found.

  • Upgrade Pika server to RHEL 7

  • Final implementation of Masquerade Mode based on CARL.X implementation

• Prep for Wake County Hosting

  • Transfer exports (both daily and real-time) to new server

• When a user’s preferred branch is closed, force the user to select a branch.  After selecting the branch update their alternate branches if the alternate branch is not already selected.

• Created a page to show how much information each library has within the Archive

• When Pika is placed in Offline Mode, allow configuration for whether or not the user can accept holds.   

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• Allow additional configuration for how individual MARC records are organized into folders within Pika servers.  

Bug Fixes

• Titles that have been weeded from the OverDrive Collection are no longer displayed in Pika.

• When using linked accounts, if one account was expired the information could cause errors in the display of the main account

• Correct the display of military information when the branch or conflict is not known.

• Correct the login process when submitting new materials requests

Sideloads

• Films on Demand for CMC

• Hoopla for Pitkin

• Alexander Street Press for CCU

Additional Work

• Automatically deliver ebrary records to EBSCO EDS for Western

• Update search bar for Pine River to allow searching the website in addition to the catalog