Release Notes for 12/03/2024

Pika Release Notes 2024.04.0

Deployed 12/3/2024

New Functionality

• Polaris Patron integration (Minute 2:26)
  • Patron login
  • Update patron profile
    • Update Contact Information

• Basic information section

• Set notification preferences

• Set eReceipt options

• Update patron pin

• Create user name

• Reading History Options
  • Opt-in/Opt-out reading history
  • Load initial reading history from the ILS
  • Regular reading history updates
• Patron Actions
  • Place Hold

• Place Item Hold
• Suspend Hold
• Renew Checkout

• Patron Account pages
  • My Holds
  • My Fines
  • My Checkouts

• Patron Self-Registration

• Also registration success email

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• Polaris Bibliographic Extraction (Minute 13:54)
  • Fetch deleted bibs
  • Fetch created bibs
  • Fetch updated bibs
  • Fetch new and updated  items
  • Fetch deleted items
  • Fetch Replaced Bibs IDs 
  • Fetch holds count for bibs
• Clearview/Polaris Indexing (Minute 15:25)
  • Incorporate Polaris Organization, Collection, and Shelf Locations Ids into single field displayed as “Location” in Copies section

• DateAdded computed from 008 record creation date

• Horizon Bib Holds Count (Minute 17:32)
  • Holds counts for physical bibs is now extracted from a nightly file of a SQL results
  • This prevents search pages from being delayed by API queries of the ILS for holds counts

• Searching with OverDrive Magazine Issue IDs will return the OverDrive magazine in a keyword search
• Self-registration (Minute 18:50)
  • For Eagle Valley, remove Lib-Locker and Bookmobile locations as options for self-reg users to choose as their Home Library

• Archive Only Interface (Minute 21:48)
  • Pika interface for VuFind libraries so that VuFind libraries can browse the Marmot Archive
• Archive Partner Interface
  • A Pika interface for a library’s community partner for the Marmot Archive

• New Admin Role: (Minute 24:10)
  • partnerAdmin allows administration of partner (archive only) interfaces.
  • Permission is for library staff to administer the partner interface on behalf of the Partner organization.

• List Widget CSS - New text input added to allow for CSS rules for the widget to be included in the embedded widget within a <style> tag. (Minute 10:36)
  • Please move any list widget CSS rules you have in the library CSS Overrides setting over to your Active list widgets.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed display of relevant format manifestation when the “Available At” facet is applied
  • If the first item matching the “Available At” location was not an available item, but other items at that location were available, the format manifestation was incorrectly hidden for display. (Minute 19:54)

• Polaris Integration
  • Display Prospector holds when patron has no regular holds
  • Do not display Prospector holds with statuses: received, returned, cancelled

Sideloads

• N/A

Additional Work (Minute 26:14)

• Clearview site setup
  • Use translations for frozen/freezing eg. suspended/suspend
  • Pin Reset requires  a redirection to the classic pac pin reset pages (Required initially for go-live)
• Mesa County School District - Add logo for Appleton Elementary
• Basalt self-registration: Set pcode1 value and capitalize user input
• Added 3rd party Recite Me plugin to LION library North Haven’s Pika site

• Theme Updates for LION
  • East Lyme
  • Wallingford

Documentation

• New

• Updated (Minute 29:31)

  • Materials Request configuration (Library System)

VuFind Updates 

New Functionality (Minute 30:21) 

• Password reset and change functionality for Western 
  • Working on getting the code accepted by the VuFind community

Configuration Updates (Minute 33:53)

• CMU update to indexing to skip certain fields in the keyword search
• Added server configuration files for logging
• CMU item display
• CMU indexing updates

Sideloads

• Western OverDrive (Minute 32:37) 

Other

• Added as an official committer on the VuFind project