Release Notes for 12/09/2020

Pika Release Notes 2020.07.0

New Functionality

  • Abridged edition sorting - abridged editions will be sorted to the bottom of the editions tables. When there are abridged copies in the editions, a column to denote abridgement is displayed. (Minute 19:50)

  • OverDrive Improvements (Minute 22:07)
    • Magazines
    • Editions will be sorted but last published first so that newest issue will be used for the primary checkout/place hold button action
    • Publication date will be displayed as a column in the editions table

  • Patron actions
    • Patron can choose different loan periods, if offered by the library
    • Can set defaults for different material types e.g. 21 days for audiobooks, 7 days for ebooks

 

  • Patron can suspend/freeze Overdrive holds from Pika account for delivery at later date

  • Updates to Overdrive hold email prompt
    • Clarify prompt switch

  • General workflow for Overdrive checkouts is improved
    • Set lending period for the checkout
    • Use default lending period settings
    • Successful checkout prompt
      • Display buttons for read/listen online actions
      • Button to go to My Checkouts, doesn’t automatically direct to My Checkouts page immediately after Overdrive checkout
      • Overdrive checkout popup with user options doesn’t close automatically

      

  • Overdrive Extraction (side effects for RBDigital migrations)
    • Correct for API not correctly report Always Available titles
    • Do not mark in full reload always available copies since the availability will not change
    • Improve the efficiency of fetching availability data so that more information can be processed.
  • Indexing
    • Moved hard-coded suppression settings into indexing profile settings
      • WCPL, AACPL
  • Sierra item status settings - turned into indexing profile settings
    • Available statuses
    • Library Use Only statuses
    • Checked Out statuses

  • Improved format determination for Braille titles (Minute 37:23)

  • Looks at 300 physical description or 245$h title medium
  • Format determination for Playstation 5 & Xbox Series X games (Minute 35:34)

  • User List improvements (Minute 14:11)
    • Sharing functions added to public user lists

  • Ability to copy public lists

  • Reading History Search (MUG 2019 Winner)(Minute 00:41)
    • Search by title or author
    • Respects “Records per page”, “Sort by”, “Hide Covers”

  • [Sierra] Patron Web Note will now display in MyAccount/Home, My Account/Fines and Messages (Minute 2:58) & (Minute 6:08) & (Minute 10:14)
  • Record View search navigation links will now remain at the top of the view when scrolling down the page for easy navigation of search results (prioritized feature request) (Minute 38:34)

  • Improved handling of search facet range types like published Date, Lexile Measure, etc
  • Improved display of automatic hold cancellation information, incorporating linked users and patron’s library settings. (Minute 39:54)

 

Bug Fixes

  • Lists limited to 2000 items (Minute 18:11)
    • UI changes to disallow adding more than 2000 items to a list
    • Splitting currently large lists into lists of less than 2000 items
  • Pinterest Sharing button fixed
  • Fetching enrichment from Content Cafe would cause long delays in page loads
    • Shortened time out period waiting for responses from content cafe
    • Switch calls to https (secure connection), which seemed to reduce the number of time outs
    • Additional logging for diagnosing issue
    • Ensured calls for syndicated reviews weren’t made when reviews aren’t part of the subscription
  • [Sierra] Duplicate barcodes can now login (Minute 4:41)
  • [Sierra] Bibs with item volumes display only holdable items for logged in patron (Minute 8:41) 
  • Clone Location and Clone Library updates to permissions (Minute 19:23)
  • NY Time API list integration - more robust handling of ISBNs to fetch bestseller titles (Some incomplete information in the API)
  • Fort Lewis hold submission button wasn’t displaying when logging in at point of placing hold

Sideloads 

  • Creativebug shared collection(Minute 50:37)
    • To be used by all Marmot and Discovery Partner libraries subscribing to Creativebug
    • Creativebug will send general record set to Marmot, URL replacements with libraries’ domains will ensure that patrons are directed to unique Creativebug domains
    • Updated 3 times yearly
  • Colorado Historical Newspaper Collection(Minute 53:40)
    • Shared collection (similar to CO State Gov Docs) that can be applied to any Marmot or Colorado Discovery Partner library’s Pika site
    • Updated by State Library staff regularly with new titles
  • Gale Courses for Flatirons (Minute 57:20)
  • Build handling for MARC files for sideloads that can be handled on multiple Pika servers

Additional Work

  • New Marmot member migration and Pika setup (Minute 57:29)
  • Switch from Memcache to files for session storage (Minute 13:28)
  • Added additional languages to Sacramento translation options
  • Database cleanup
    • Remove old logging
    • Remove old user data that has been marked as deleted by the user
    • Remove old offline hold/circulation entries
  • Ashley updating MODS records for related Pika links for digital archive (Minute 58:00)
  • Several Marmot libraries going live with Prospector
  • Database upgrade
  • Security update to cookie handling
  • Records to Not Merge (Minute 43:25)

Documentation (Minute 58:42)

 

Meeting Date: 
Wednesday, 2020, December 9
Documentation Type: 
Release Notes
Link to File: 
Release Notes for Sprint 2020.07.0
Committees: 
Discovery Committee