Pika Release Notes 2017.08.0

Released Sep 7, 2017

New Functionality

• Extract Due Dates from Sierra DNA to avoid bug in full export process from Sierra upgrade

• Prompt to place hold on an alternate edition if the preferred edition is checked out

• Anne Arundel go-live work and post-go live clean up

  • Included On order titles in Pika for Anne Arundel

  • Added search suggestions data for Anne Arundel

  • Migrate user lists from Sirsi data into Pika

  • Display number of holds on title for Anne Arundel

  • Checked out magazines in patron’s My Checkouts page now display the call number as a subtitle, which has the issue information (date, issue number) for the magazine

  • Setting a reactivation date when freezing a hold is now optional

  • The Pickup By date for available holds now displayed in My Holds page

  • The hold Placed date now displayed in My Holds page

  • Title & Author now displayed for ILL holds on My Holds page (by querying the ILS APIs)

  • Title & Author now displayed for holds that Pika doesn’t have good MARC data for on My Holds page (by querying the ILS APIs)

• Adams State Pika header updated to be consistent with the header on their libguides

• Added a Show Sierra Password option for the Offline Circulation page

• Added the Salida Assessor's Cards to the Map Collection

• Display of any compound object in Pika

• Format determination by popularity for Aspencat

Bug Fixes

• Anne Arundel go-live work and post-go live clean up

  • Fixed email and text sharing in catalog

  • Some On Order items were displaying with status of On Shelf

  • Lost items no longer display in patron’s My Checkouts page

  • Claims returned items no longer display in patron’s My Checkouts page

  • On My Checkouts page, the days until due could be off by up to a day

  • On My Holds page, an unrelated book cover image would display for ILL holds

• Archive

  • For libraries that have archive sharing turned off, archive search facets displayed collections & entities from other libraries

  • Prevent web search engines from indexing the Islandora server

  • Wikipedia information for place entities would not display when the library admin setting Catalog Enrichment, Show Wikipedia Content was turned off

• • Related archive collection would show when the collection is not supposed to be seen by Pika

  • Some parent/child relationships from Islandora not displaying correctly in Pika

  • Related object would not show in a object when the type of relationship was not specified

• Search

  • Poor relevancy for title / author searches when 245c not filled out    

• When exporting My Holds to spreadsheet,

  • date fields that had no date would show an erroneous date, now no date will be set

  • some date fields had the potential to be misformatted

• Fixed the inclusion of and display of On Order items for Santa Fe

• Fixed RSS Feeds based on search results

• Quick Copy View link is not shown when the link would be displayed from within the pop up window     

• Language for Blocking Link Account admin page was difficult to understand

• Updated place hold failed message for Aspencat

• Under Location Admin, ILS/Account Integration, the default value for Ptypes that can renew is set to * (meaning all ptypes), so that when a new location is created it is presumed patrons can place holds through that location’s interface

Sideloads

• None this time

Additional Work

• Completed migration of Marmot FTP server to a virtual server

• Updated Manage Material Requests Statuses documentation to include a list of email template tags

• gcpld.org hosted at Marmot went live

• Flatirons Sierra & Pika server move to Marmot server room

• Watched the solar eclipse!