Release Notes for 04.02.2019

Pika Release Notes 2019.03

New Functionality

• Pika List API call to get New York Times Bestsellers Lists information
  • Used internally for diagnosing issues related to the NYTimes Pika integration

• This is for the Pika NY Times Lists under Pika Configuration
  • This will not affect any lists Pika users have created

• Hoopla API Integration
  • Patron Interactions
    • Check Out Hoopla button in place of ‘Access Online’

• Checkout titles directly from catalog

• Hoopla titles will display in checkouts and reading history

• Suppression by price value (example)

• Hoopla price now in index

• Overdrive magazines “Read Online”
  • Overdrive magazines not available for download

• Download format no longer displays

• Sierra order records : display the order item for one day after the received date/cataloged date (depending on the corresponding Pika setting)
  • The day that the regular item record is created, that item has not been exported, and therefore is not in search results yet.
  • Applies to current sierra extract process, not the newer sierra api extract process
• Sierra order records: added option to suppress order records by the received date

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Pika SMS switching for iii texting notification system for Sacramento

• Opt-in/Opt-out option in the classic opac has to be turn on in order for the switching to work in Pika

• Clean up “Thaw” message when unfreezing hold.
• Fix for “Receive notifications by” switch not showing as selected when Telephone is chosen in patron Account Settings.
• Offline Mode System Variable would not turn on offline mode
• Sacramento Implementation clean up
  • Recently available holds would not display as available in My Holds page
  • Sacramento renew all fix
  • Reading History Loading from Sierra
  • Built a new User API call loadReadingHistoryFromIls which will allow the initial loading of a patron’s reading history to be done in a series of calls, rather than one call
    • The cron process on the server will make these calls to go through the entire reading history in the ILS
    • Only Includes data needed to populate reading history in Pika
    • ILS Entries that do not have a bib Id or match a grouped work but do have title and author information will get stored as a reading history entry in Pika
  • Self Registration changes
    • Fix date parsing error causing 0 (zero) fill in APATID
  • Special case users that do not have a barcode, only a student ID in the Sierra patron record would not correctly save a Pika account.
• Aspencat ILS Migration Clean-up
  • Aspencat auto renew messages for titles not renewable
  • Some patron accounts were not able to log in to Pika
• Reading History display of entries that do not have a Grouped Work ID associated with it
  • Typically Interlibrary loan items

Sideloads

• RBdigital Magazines for Addison
• Learning Express for Addison
• Biblioboard for Bemis
• Implementing Creative Bug for several sites

Additional Work

• Moving test sites to new hardware.
• Preparation for new 10G switches.
• Aurora site theme
• CliC Spring Workshops! (Thanks, CliC!)

Documentation

• Reorganization of Format Facet Logic document
  • Organized the “List of All the Relevant Formats Based on MARC Data” by readable labels.
  • This grouped all the formats with the same readable label together.