Release Notes for 03/05/2019

Pika Release Notes 2019.02

New Functionality

• Aspencat Koha Migration
  • Handling of additional status values from new ILS
  • Koha Export Handling
    • Can only deliver a full export once a week
    • Daily Updates
      • An adds & updates file delivered nightly
      • Pika Koha Extractor has an additional process to collect deleted Bibs nightly
      • Co-opted sideloading updates process to create a full export nightly
    • For Continuous Reindexing, added the fetching of deleted items so that those items are removed in near real time
  • Auto renewal eligible items in Koha do not offer renewal option in patron account
    • Displays message can be set in config.ini file

• Sideload updating improvements
  • Scripts can now handle gz compressed MARC files in addition to regular MARC files

• ​Additional output so that we can easily monitor for failures is the data transfer process

• Aurora Public Library Implementation
  • Test server created and browseable
  • Initial configuration and indexing in progress

Bug Fixes

• Sierra API extract interacting with new indexing profile field (record number subfield)
  • Patched

Additional Work

• Added library specific codes to self registration form for Sacramento
• Library specific terms and conditions for Sacramento SMS notifications
• Bemis Public Library now live on Marmot
  • Self registration setup
  • Transferred checkouts from old ILS into Sierra via Pika Offline Circulation process
  • Transferred holds from old ILS to Sierra via Pika Offline Hold process
• General browse categories that scope to local Marmot libraries created in production
  • New Fiction, New Nonfiction, New eBooks, New eAudio, New Movies, Video Games
    • These are all of the parent browse categories with several sub-categories assigned as ‘children’
  • Feel free to use - all begin with ‘marmot’ in text id field and have ‘parent’ for the parent browse category with sub-categories assigned
  • Please do NOT edit these

• Updated AspenCat widgets and browse categories to work with new ILS data points

Documentation

• Available Facets
  • More detailed information about Audience and Reading Level facets