Release Notes for 08/05/2019

Pika Release Notes 2019.07 

New Functionality

• Sierra API Extract
  • All Pika test site for Sierra libraries now running the API extract process
  • New Extraction table to track when bibs were last extracted and when a bib was marked as deleted

• New force re-extraction button in staff view section for staff users
  • Login required

• Pika Status monitor will now warn there hasn’t been Sierra extract in 30 minutes and alert after an hour.
• Telluride “Available to Order” Status handling

• Determination for when it should be the grouped status
• Status displayed as another color to distinguish from the other unavailable statuses

• Lesser requirements for custom cover art in either FTP images or by URL  
  • New keywords in the MARC tag will be respected : 'pika', 'pikaimage', 'pika_image', 'image', 'vufind_image', 'vufindimage', 'vufind' case-insensitive will now be acceptable as well.
  • No need for indicators

Bug Fixes

• AJAX refactoring issues
  • Item API getCopyAndHoldCounts call was not returning responses
    • Specifically affecting Arlington’s mobile app
  • Browse category call was not returning responses
    • Specifically affecting Arllington’s mobile app
  • Prospector results displayed at the end of search results was not loading
  • Digital archive search options on collection pages were not working
  • EBSCO results in Combined Searches (Bento Box option) were not returning
• Saturday indexing issues
  • A nightly backup script caused poor performance on Marmot Pika server
• Hoopla Extract process was improperly doing a full extract of data nightly
  • Now extracts only changes since the last extract
• Sierra self registration PIN not set error when it actually is set
  • Sacramento 

Sideloads

• Kanopy for Mesa County
• Project Gutenberg for AspenCat

Additional Work

• New test server for Aspencat
• New Marmot member library implementation kick off
  • Montrose Regional Library District
• Location settings changed for all AspenCat libraries to remove individual records to include to toggle on ‘Include Library Records to Include’ option for ease of use. 

Documentation

• DPLA feed documentation 
  • Updated to include information about enhancements for subject entries
  • For Members>Pika Documentation & Training>Digital Archives
• Adding covers in Pika
  • Pika can handle URLs to fetch custom cover art, which was existing but not well known functionality
  • For Members>Pika Documentation & Training>Catalog Enrichment