Pika Release Notes 2017.10.0

Released Nov 15, 2017

New Functionality

Performance Improvements

• Account Validation cached (main and linked accounts)
• Catalog records with Archive links (aka samePika) now cached

  • Clear cached links in Staff View section of Grouped Work or Islandora Object View​

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• Grouped Work View
  • Improved caching of description
  • Fixed caching of record from Solr

• Caching of user-lists used for Browse Categories

• Account Menu

  • Checkout, hold, etc counts loaded via AJAX
  • List of user-lists cached

• Internal use of userdata refactored to take advantage of caching

OverDrive Improvements

• Large numbers of OverDrive changes will no longer block indexing while the changes are extracted.

• Advantage copies that have been moved to the shared account are now correctly reflected within copy display

• Weeded titles will no longer appear within Pika

• Archive homepages can display a map for multiple collections (aka meta-map)

• Archive map view can now display without a Timeline filter

• Sideload cover images for Classroom Video on Demand, Films on Demand, BiblioBoard and Kanopy
• Sideload cover images for ebrary sideloads that are now called ProQuest
• Lexile branding updates
• Updated and standardized Marmot ftp server setup of Marc data for sideloads
• Automatic restart of Islandora web server (Tomcat) when it halts

Bug Fixes

• Pika will not be unresponsive during Islandora system upgrades
• Availability facet was not indexing for some scopes using sublocation
• Archive Object View will not display a subtitle when it is the same as the title
• Person entity will display birth or death date even when there is not other genealogy data
• Can now add Other Region to addresses for person entities in Archive
• When sideloads have IDs of the same format as a Grouped Work, the sideload record link will not redirect to the grouped work.
• Arlington Pika needlessly listed pickup locations multiple times in Place Hold prompt
• Removed old Library Admin options with no function
  • Record View - Main Details option: Locations
  • Record View - Notes Tab Name

Sideloads

• EBSCO eBook Collection for Adams State
• Axis360 for Englewood
• Consolidated Lynda.com Sideload for Marmot
  • Existing sideloads converted for EVLD, Grand County, Pitkin County, Vail, Wilkinson
  • New libraries added: Basalt, CMC, and Mesa County

• Lynda.com for Boulder
• Kanopy sideload for Steamboat Springs and Anne Arundel  
• Nashville sideloaded Classroom Video on Demand
• Biblioboard sideload for CCU (go live on deployment)
• Gale 18th Century sideload for CCU
• Added proxy links to CCU’s Alexander Street sideload
• Renamed Adams State ebrary sideload to ProQuest
• Removed Oneclickdigital sideload for Englewood
• Sideloading FTP folder restructuring
  • Adds and Updates Only - Partial file with added items since last update, or records that have been updated, or collection has several different Marc files
  • Complete Collection - Marc records sets are complete representation of the eContent
  • Deletes Only - When records have been removed from the collection, and you have been given those files as a set of Marc records
  • Processed - When the production Pika server has actually processed the files     
  • eContent Collections successfully sideloaded

Additional Work

• Fort Lewis Archive Homepage redesign
• Google Analytics for Pitkin and Grand County
• Updated Vail logo