Pika Release Notes 2017.12.0
Released Jan 4, 2018
New Functionality

• Created customizable “Combined Results” (bento box) search interface to show search results from multiple sources next to each other.

• Search sources include Pika, Ebsco Discovery Service, Pika Digital Archive, Prospector, and the Digital Public Library of America.

• Pika admins can choose which sources are displayed, the order of display, and how they are labeled.

• Combined Results will need to be enabled and set up before use.

• Added new logging page for Record Grouping to review timing and number of works processed.

• Added an option to bypass suppression of Hoopla and OverDrive records to allow CMC sideload and to improve performance.

• Added home library and home location to the display of Administrators when setting up roles

• Set up new collections and metadata to add music to the Digital Archive.

Bug Fixes

• Users were unable to email lists, now they can.
• Titles owned by a library’s OverDrive Advantage collection are now always displaying (they previously weren’t when the title was only in the Advantage collection).
• Fixed errors renewing and placing holds with Symphony systems.
• Fixed Ajax error that occurred when displaying a user list that contains one or more deleted titles.
• Searching OverDrive as a search source now takes users to search results from OverDrive rather than the OverDrive homepage.
• Fixed slowness related to the Digital Archive.
• Rebuilt Fedora so that all collections were displayed in Islandora for the Digital Archive

Sideloads

• Kanopy for Grand County Public Library and Vail Public Library
• Overdrive Sideload for Colorado Mountain College

Additional Work

• Optimized memory usage for record grouping (part of performance enhancements).
• Optimized indexing performance so performance is better on many systems.
• New hosted Anythink servers prepared.  Go live will be in January.