Release Notes for 07/03/2018

Pika Release Notes 2018.06
Released July 5, 2018

New Functionality

• Sacramento Implementation
  • Indexing of econtent records from Sierra so treated as external econtent records rather than print records  
• Suppression settings in place
• Finished translation maps
• Format indexing - Prefers Sacramento Material Type, if not available uses the default format logic
• Audience indexing
  • Display of custom values (teen, children)
  • Grouping correctly with values for Overdrive records
  • Overdrive values can display with desired translations        

• Added in Last indexing
  • Facets values were initially wrong due to improper handling of econtent records

• Consortium views require turning on “Include All Records In Date Added Facets"         

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• Extract and indexing of On Order records
• Call Number indexing
• Movie Rating indexing - additional patterns checked in the 521a    

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​        ​    Consortium theme created

• Initial Sacramento Public Library and Folsom Public Library themes created
• Improvements to Indexing Profile Admin page
  • Subsections added to ease navigation    

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•  Additional suppression fields included at item level
• Item types

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• ​​Shelving locations

BCode3 suppression added for Sierra

• No longer hard coded - can now be edited in the indexing profile
  • Will need to remove existing suppression coding for each site
    • Only Marmot and Sacramento have had this done so far
• Marmot will now be suppressing BCode3 “v” for “on the fly” records    

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• ILS Econtent record handling for Anne Arundel

Bug Fixes

• Manual grouping of records
  • Specifically there were issues manually grouping works from side loaded collections or grouping records for physical items for libraries using Sierra API extract (LION)
  • Added a check to group unchanged files when for merges even when underlying MARC data hasn’t changed
• Edits to loan rules with large amount of entries
  • Users can now make edits and additions for single entries without having to use the CSV/INI work around    
• Format displays for external eBook records stored in Symphony
  • Created some new translation maps to ensure correct display
  • Special suppression of locations    

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• LION On Order Records
  • not all were displaying, some that shouldn’t have been displaying were
• Implemented non-holdable Item Types for Wake County

Sideloads

• New RBDigital sideload profiles created for individual LION sites
• EBSCO eBooks for AspenCat site Community College of Aurora
• Cover images for LION RBDigital magazines (Zinio)

Additional Work

• Evaluated sample records for Aspencat Koha migration
• Updated Aspencat test site with data from production
• Novelist data for Flatirons
• NY Times Lists updating
  • We starting hitting the daily limits on the API. Test sites now use a different API key
  • Production sites will update daily now
• Extraction of wait list (hold) counts  for Anne Arundel restored
• Update Reading History notice language
• CSS for slogan for Wallingford at LION

Documentation Work

• Created an initial document for tracking site specific indexing customization
• Progressing on Grouping Logic documentation
• Updated Browse Categories documentation
  • Added section on adding filters
• NYT lists Functionality documentation debuted
• Other past updates of note
  • Pika Search Box
    • Added section for archive search box