Aspen Discovery releases new features, enhancements, and patches on a monthly basis. Below are highlights from the full release notes. The highlights focus on major enhancements, new settings and permissions, and big changes with product integrations. The full release notes for each month are linked with the relevant highlights.
Administration
eCommerce
Integration
Carl.X
Aspen LiDA
- New Setting
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Loading Messages > Loading Message Type
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Loading Messages > Loading Messages
- Aspen Native Events will be returned when calling getSavedEvents from the Events API
- If there's no language parameter provided for API calls, it will default to a patron's preferred language
- Expiration dates will be loaded rather than an entire account profile when fetching linked accounts
- getAppSettings will now return loading message type and custom loading message
- If no latitude and longitude has been set, 0 will be returned when getLibraries and getLibrary API is called in GreenhouseAPI
- renewItem will now check for interLibraryLoanName as a potential source from settings
- Admins can now choose to have the target audience section display
- Boundless Indexer can now process multiple settings in parallel
- System Administration > System Variables > Indexing Settings> Number of Boundless Settings to process in parallel
- Boundless API calls are retried and not logged until all retries are done
- Boundless Settings now have a name to make them more easily identifiable when a site has multiple collections
- Boundless Indexing Log can be filtered by setting ID
- Paths of both solr and tunnel Dockerfiles are now updated in gitlab-ci.yml
- Users cannot create an Indexing profile before at least one, valid ILS Account Profile exists
- ip_lookup table supports IPv6 addresses
- API access can now be controlled for IPv6 addresses
- Validation implemented for IPv6 addresses and ranges. There's no support for IPv6 subnets however
- IPv6 address ranges can be specified using dash notation
- MARC record display updated to show the original order of subfieldds within the display rather than showing them alphabetically
- When the MyPrivacySettings page is launched and the current action is 'save', the user will be returned immediately after the redirect to prevent unnecessary methods being called and errors being generated
- Deleting a series will now delete series members, and reindexing will not add these members to deleted series ort create duplicate series
- When a title belongs to multiple series, it will now show them all instead of just the first one
- Upddated the "Usage Dashboard" bereadcrumb link so that it now points to the correct path
- Records Accessed Online usage graphs have now been filetered to display data specific to each side load
- New theme setting under "Placards" in the theme editor that allows for the optional setting of max display height for placard images
- Set hostname will now be used when fetching records for a given list to the solrhost defined in cofnig or default to 'solr' to prevent indexing errors and ensure lists are made searchable successfully
- LiDA release notes are now loaded dynamically from github
- System Administration > System Variables > LiDA GitHub Repository URL
- In the search results, a record's target audience will be shown without having to click 'More Details'
- Target audience is immediately visible in the Full View page of a record or grouped work
- In a grouped work, the Audience field value is only visible if the audience of each record matches each other
- If they do not match, then a message will appear saying "Varies, see individual formats and editions"
- If one or more records do not have a 521 MARC field set, then the audience field in a grouped work will show "Varies, see individual formats and editions"
- Option added to hide reward name on user campaign pages for digital rewards
- A new dashboard has been added in the Community Engagement module that allows for downloading data about patron engagement
- New manual milestone type that allows for the option of users and library staff to add their own progress
- New optional enrollment period for campaigns which will prevent enroll buttons from appearing outside the set dates
- Landing page added for campaigns that can be reached by admins which is used for enrollment
- Users can opt in and out of email notifications about campaigns
- Email can be added that will have emails sent to it when a user completes a campaign
- Found: Library Systems->Community Engagement
- Email template addded for campaign completion, start and end, enrollment, milestone completion, and a staff alert of campaign completion
- Digital rewards can be shared on social media
- Option added to make digital rewards be automatically given out on completion of a milestone
- Configurable leaderboard added that can be viewed by user or by branch
- Found: Library Systems->Community Engagement
- Can opt in or out of appearing in leader boards
- Can see linked user campaigns
- Can no longer save without updating the required attribute to the reward for completing a campaign on the campaign object
- Option added to highlight campaigns in the account area via a toggle in the Basic Display Settings
- Force reloadsd on book and list covers when no source is provided
- Will now clear all libraries and locations of deleted event types
- Deleted event types are handled now when checking if an event type is archived
- Springshare LibCal event indexer is now ensured to update existing events when reprocessing deleted events
- Action bar has now been added to the top of the Holds section
- Can now filter checked out items by linked user
- Can now export only selected checkouts to CSV
- Toggles added in the LIbrary Systems, ILS/Account Integration to allow libraries to control use of these features
- Titles from the New York Times API will now be correctly loaded if the ISN is only provided within book details and not the ISBNs array
- The "Appears on these lists" section within search results has been updated to only show lists based on the Public Lists to Include setting for the active library or location
- The "Appears on these lists" section within search results has been updated to show lists created at the active library before other lists
- If Syndetics Unbound is enabled, the Key field will not be hidden under the Syndetics settings
eCommerce
- For the PayPal Payflow transaction, patron first name, last name, barcode, and username information has been added
- Fines now rounded to the 2 decimal places
- After selecting the debts that a patron wishes to settle on their Fines page, Click to Pay Fines Online button will take them to HeyCentric payment platform is integrated
- This payment amount will be reflected on the HeyCentric landing page
- If making a transaction of more than one item, each line will be shown as well as the total cost
- After completing transaction, they will automatically be brought back to the Aspen Fines page
- They will then recieve a message saying the payment was successful or not depending if it was approved or declined
- When a payment is successful, the total is reflected in the ILS and the Fines page in Aspen is refreshed
- If a patron cancels their payment attempt while on the HeyCentric platform, a message will appear to confirm that payment was canceled
- Permissions can be set to manage HeyCentric settings at a system level
- With these HeyCentric permissions, admins can:
- Manage settings and assign them to libraries
- Choose which settings fields are to be included when generating the hash
- Select which settings fields are included when generating payment URL
- Now see if Aspen can assign a value to a URL parameter by default by consulting the tooltip for the 'Value to assign this URL parameter if known' setting
- Set a specific value to be assigned a given URL based on active settings
- Assign values stored in a specific Koha ILS database and fields to a given URL parameter. This includes additional fields
- Option added that would allow for a patron's type to be displayed under the barcode and expiration date
Integration
Carl.X
- Expiration dates are now loaded independently of the rest of the account summary
- When the checkout limit has been reached, it will no longer show a successful checkout
- Expiration dates are now loaded independently than the rest of the account summary
- Hoopla Flex funcationality added
- Settings are now updated to handle Hoopla Instant and Flex data extrations for daily 1am incrememntal updates and full updates
- Hoopla Settings > Hoopla Instant sections > Hoopla Instant Enabled, Run Full Update for Instant, Last Update of Changed Instant Records, Last Update of All Instant Records
- Hoopla Settings > Hoopla Flex sections > Hoopla Flex Enabled, Run Full Update for Flex, Last Update of Changed Flex Records, Last Update of All Flex Records
- Hoopla Flex availablity updates for Hoopla indexer every 5 minutes added
- Option added to include Instant and Flex to the scopes to allow filtering for the respective titles
- Hoopla Scopes > Include Instant, Include Flex
- Display holds stats in Hoopla Dashboard
- Export logs have been updated to handle Flex and Instant
- indexByDay column removed from hoopla_settings table
- Hooplay Type column has been added to the hoopla_export tablee with all existing records set to Instant
- Store token in hoopla_settings table to deccrease the token API calls
- Flex titles can now be checked out, returned, placed on hold, and cancelled holds
- Patrons can now be allowed to select Hoopla Hold Queue Size Confirmation
- Hoopla Options > Display hold queue size before placing holds
- Patrons can now be allowed to place holds on Flex titles that are currently unavailable before they're made available
- Patrons can now check out Flex titles that are currently available before availability is updated
- Prompts that redirect unregistered patrons to reigster a Hoopla Account has been updated
- Expiration date loaded independeently from the rest of the account summary
- Patron type imporation has been enhanced to automatically set the account profile of the new patron type based on existing indexing profile
- If no profile is found with name set in the Indexing profile, the type will not be imported and an error will be logged
- An issue has been fixed where user objected insertions would fail when accounts were auomatically registered with Koha during SSO
- Issue corrected where Aspen sometimes would not assign the right purchase suggestion permissions if Koha patron catagory names were similar
- Error handling has been improved, making it so that informative error messages are displayed to the user on page load for MyAccount/MyPrivacySettings
- Records with URLs longer than 512 cheraacters are indexed properly now and do not cause errors
- Field added that stores the palace project library id in LIbrary systems for patron circulations
- Library Settings > Palace Project > Palace Project Library ID
- Expiration date loaded independently from the rest of the account summary
- Item-level holds corrected in the Polari ILS driver which locates variation-specific item barcodes and volume numebrs properly
- Expiration date loaded independently from the rest of the account summary
- Address, state, and zip code parsing has been made more flexable
- User-Agent header has been updated so that it now identifies Aspen Discovery in Sierra API requests
- Expiration date loaded independently from the rest of the account summary
- The title and due date will now be shown for titles checked out via Scan and Go for LiDA
- Bots can no longer index Talpa data
- Debug error corrected in the sidebar if tryThisSearchInTalpaSidebarSwitch is disabled
- The talpa.less file is automatically incorporated to talpa css in main css file
Aspen LiDA
- Allow for 3 different styles of loading messages to be used in the Branded App Settings: "Show library facts', 'Show step being performed', and 'Show random loading message'
- Custom loading messages can also be defined in Branded App Settings
- The Select List fields have an increased maximum length for its options
- Input boxes for the Select List fields are now loarger and resize automatically to fit the content
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Administration
Boundless
Full release notes
- Added the handlePropertyChangeEffects() method which will now serve as a central mechanism for managing and executing side effects triggered by property changes across Aspen
- When record regrouping is required, there a new method, forceRegrouping(), in the SystemVariables class to set the regroupAllRecordsDuringNightlyIndex
- In order to prevent error messages in logs when saving Indexing Profiles, the dynamic_label property type was added to the list of skipped types in oneToMany relationships
- readOnly attribute added to the groupingCategory property in FormatMapValue class
- Override of the delete method in FormatMapValue class added
- The subfield q of the MARC 100 field will now be added to the indexed author display name and will also display in MARC full record view
- Brackets are no longer stripped from titles during indexing and grouping processes
- 505t added to fields to look at when determining alternate titles
- Local ILL can now be restricted based on patron type
- New Setting
- Primary Configuration > Patron Types > Allow Local ILL
- New Setting
- Untitled volumes can now be requested if those volumes are also present on the record
- If volume is not owned by a library, Request Unabailable action will be shown instead of blocking the request later
- Note field in the Local ILL form can be hidden
- If the calendar year is determined by a specific date rather than a rolling year, the number of requests that have been placed in a year is now loading correctly
- On logging in, and with ssoAuthOnly enabled, the user's patron type will be assigned to the "Patron type given to staff users," which takes logical precedence, or to "A fallback value for category ID."
- Alert added to the SSO Setting page to inform admins that the patron types must be correctly assigned to the admin_sso profile when ssoAuthOnly is enabled. Specific Warnings are for LDAP, SAML, and OAuth services to ensure proper staff permissions and access rights
- Restructure LiDa related theme settings into their own section
- LiDA Logo header can be justified left, center, or right
- New Setting
- Theme & Layout > Themes > Aspen LiDA > Header Logo Alignment
- New Setting
- LiDA logo background color can be defined
- Theme & Layout > Themes > Aspen LiDA > Header Logo Background Color
- Location option added to Aspen Events Settings and updated the event indexing. This update allows for event locations that are visible from various library pages can be controlled via these settings
- Error fixed that reads "facet does not exist" for Course Reserve facets that have a large number of options
- Volumes where all of the associated items have suprressed statuses are now filtered out of the volume holds dropdown
- NYT list visibility fixed for consortiea using 'Lists from library list publishers Only' option for a library system
- Pickup Locations has been relabeled to Pickup Area for clarity and conssitency
- Respectful bots will now be turned away for SnapPay/Complete
Boundless
- Adobe PDFs and Adope EPUB types will now be treated as eBooks when indexing
- Renewing Cloud Library titles has been modified and the UI updated during this process, making it more user-friendly
- Patrons may now update their username through the My Preferences page
- Alert error messages handling added to Koha update Contact Information
- Depending on the version of Koha, marc data for authorities wil lnow be correctly handled
- Notices will now be filtered based on the syustem preferences in the ILS
- Location code will be sent instead of null in CheckoutByAPI
- New process called "processDeleteCollections()" which will ID collections present in Aspen by missing from the Palace Project API response, clean up their titles, and remove the collections
- runFullUpdate flag will now reset after successful updates
- Editing of the Last Update of Changed Records and Last Update of All Records fields has been disabled because they are populated by the exporter
- Fixed an issue where Polaris export failed on dublicate subdomain enteries
- Logging has been improved for library management, providing better visibility into subdomain conflicts and special account profile situations
- New module added allowing for searching Talpa
- New settings for Talpha that specify the API key, terms related to the integration, and where the integration appears
- When enabled, add Talpa to the search sources list
- Patrons can now choose, when showing Talpa results, to see results only owned by the library or all Talpa results
- Material requests for titles not owned by the library can be placed if enabled
- Background cron added to update Talpa with the works owned by the library
- Optional branding logo can now be justified left, center, or right
- Background color for the branding logo can be set now
Full release notes
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Administration
Evergreen
- Libraries can now give permission for users to filter holds by linked users in ILS / Account Integration
- New setting
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Allow Filtering of Linked Accounts in Holds
- New setting
- Users can now filter their holds by linked users
- Users can now export only selected holds if allowed
- New Setting
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Allow Ability To Export Only Selected Holds
- New Setting
- If a translatable text block does not have a default value, it will not show the default tab or the copy from default button
- The default module page will now display 50 modules at the default. Also, a default filter for the module name has been added
- Boundless titleLicense API endpoint can now process more than 500 changed titles at a time
- Email passed to boundless doHold when moving from Checkout to Place hold
- GroupedWorkDriver loadRelatedRecords has been changed to now pull from getPickupLocation
- Option now added to allow for cover images to use direct cover URLS instead of pulling from the file system
- New Setting
- System Variables > Use Original Cover URLs
- New Setting
- Docker image updated to use PHP 8.4
- New event reporter that graphs the hours of events over time, including filtering options
- New Setting
- Events > Aspen Events > Event Reports
- New Setting
- Users that have permission can add a calendar header in Calendar Display Settings, and they can print calendars with uploaded header
- New Setting
- Events > Calendar Display Settings
- New Setting
- System preference added for Prefer ILS Description in Grouped Work Display
- New Setting
- Grouped Work Display Settings > Full Record Display > Prefer ILS Description
- New Setting
- Logrotate config file will now be properly installed on debian systems
- max_input_vars increased to 5000 for php on debian systems
- Further updates to Debian installer to upgrade them to PHP 8.4, option to install ClamAV, and use Debian-specific logrotate config
- IP address usage updates atomic now
- There's now a new Series module which adds a different and seperate search index for series while also allowing for series info to be edited
- New Permission
- Local Enhancement > Administer Series
- Option added in Library System Settings to "Use Series Index"
- New Setting
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Series Search Mode > Aspen Series Search
- New Setting
- Grouped works indexer has been changed to create series objects during indexing if enabled
- New Settings
- Series > Indexing Settings
- Series > Indexing Log
- New Settings
- Series indexer added to add records to a new series Solr core
- An administer Series page has been added which displays all existing series. Someone with the Administer Series Permission can moidify info about the series and all the titles in the series
- New Setting
- Series > Administer Series
- New Setting
- Records can be added to existing series as well as placeholder records for titles that the library does not own
- Can also upload alternate series covers
- Series record page added that displays all titles in the series
- Works in lists and within Explore More
- When showing series information for a single work or recrod in a search result or full record view link to the indexed series
- Optional logo for branding can display above the title in LiDA and display on all pages
- New Setting
- Theme & Layout > Themes > Logo to show above the screen title in LiDA
- New Setting
- Uploaded list covers will nwo work again as they are stored ina different directory than covers uploaded for ILS records
- Users with permissions can edit a list to remove uploaded covers if they exist
- New Permissions
- Administer All Custom Web Resource Pages - Allows the user to define custom web resource pages for all libraries.
- Administer Library Custom Web Resource Pages - Allows the user to define custom web resource pages for their home library.
- New Settings
- Web Builder > Custom Web Resource Pages
- Web Builder > Custom Page > Cell Content > Hide Description (only shows for source type: Custom Web Resource Page)
- Web Builder > Custom Page > Cell Content > Custom Image (only shows for source type: Custom Web Resource Page)
- Web Builder > Web Resource Settings
- Web Builder > Web Resources > Generate Placard
- New step added for the directory creation that makes sure the traget /original/lists/ directory exists before it tries to copy files to it
- Added a fallback mechanism to getUploadListCover() which will check the new and old directories for list cover images
- Community Engagment Module added which will allow patrons to participate in reading challenges, monitor enrollment, and give rewards
- This module will be hidden when not active
- In a new install, there is now a default format sorting entry inserted in the grouped_work_format_sort_group table
- Format String in a Grouped Work Display setting is required now, has a description, and automatically fills with the default entry
- SnapPay redirectURL moved outside MyAccount
Evergreen
- Patrons can update their emails now through the Contact Information page
- Will now respect usAllCapsWhenSubmittingSelfRegistration when a self-registration is submitted
- Will now inform patrons that there is a delay when a hold is placed for it to display on the patron's account
- New fields have been added in the Self Registration form as well as more ccustomized fields for libraries
- New Setting
- ILS Integration > Self Registration Forms > Barcode Prefix, Barcode Suffix, Patron Type, Patron Code, Patron Message, Notice Preference, Patron Agency
- New Setting
- There's now a missing locations field to Seierra expoert API request for updateMarcAndRegroupRecordId().
- Updated the search indexes so that they match the serials solutions
- Setting added that gives teh option of filtering out results from teh lirbary catalog when searching using Summon
- Summon > Filter Out Books And eBooks
- For the exporter, error and file handling has been enhanced for corrupt files sent form Symphony
- Try-catch added around the deletion of the original gzip/zip file after successful extraction
- Will now filter checkouts and holds by source within LiDA isntead of making more calls to Discovery APIs
- Will now refresh the account summary automatically in the account drawer every 5 minutes, matching Aspen Discovery's frequency
- Optional logo added for branding. This displays above the title in LiDA and displays on all pages
- More Info Button added for each edition when viewing editions with a similar logic setup to grouped works
- Message will now show when trying to put a hold on a title that a patron has on hold in Discovery
- Search box permanently added to the top of Search Results screen
- Can now configure the android icon for branding seperately from the iOS icon
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Icon for iOS App (renamed from Logo for App Icon)
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Icon for Android App
- Will only validate the active account profile for the active library when authenticating patrons
- Validation added on the front and backend for uploading images with a note that displays the valid file types
- Web Resources categories and audiences now have automatically generated pages
- Custom web resource pages can now be created that intersect with defined audiences and cartegories
- Source type has been added for custom web resource pages that can be used now in portal cells
- Web Resources from A to Z has automatically generated page added
- There now exists a Web Resource Settings page which will allow admins to pick and choose which Resource pages should be indexed
- On the above mentioned settings page, A to Z resource list location will be shown as well as the resource list with featured resources
- Placards can be generated from web resources
Aspen Discovery GitHub
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Administration
Carl.X
Aspen LiDA
- Admin account profiles cannot be deleted
- Account profiles cannot be batch edited or deleted
- Patron types are now allowed to be associated with account profiles and make uniqueness the combination of the patron type and account profile
- aspen_admin user cannot be deleted
- aspen_admin user cannot be edited by anyone other than aspen_admin user
- Creation of objects now allowed using the editor and is done in two steps
- When a field is read-only, the value to blank when updating an object will not change
- When editing an object, properly display the fields that are required and ensures the required attributes are set for teh control
- reead-only checkboxes will no longer change values when updating objects
- New Setting
- Primary Configuration > Patron Types > Account Profile ID
- New API added to retrieve available sublocations for the system
- API now supports multiple pickup areas in a location
- Support added for starting a Shared Session with LiDA to open a Grouped Work
- New permissions for administering Aspen Evens
- Events > Administer Field Sets
- Events > Administer Event Types
- Events > Administer Events for All Locations
- Events > Administer Events for Home Library Locations
- Events > Administer Events for Home Location
- Events > View Private Events for All Locations
- Events > View Private Events for Home Library Locations
- Events > View Private Events for Home Location
- Events > View Event Reports for All Libraries
- Events > View Event Reports for Home Library
- Events > Print calendars with header images
- Interface added for creating Aspen Events, event types, event field sets, and even fields. Events have an event type that determines the configurable field set they use
- Options and calculate dates added for even recurrence
- Generate and allow users to manage eventt instances for each date an event occurs on
- Is Valid Even Location option added for sublocations
- Aspent Events allowed to be at specific sublocations
- Indexer and record driver added for Aspen Events
- New Settings
- Events > Aspen Events - Manage Events
- Events > Aspen Events > Event Fields
- Events > Aspen Events > Event Field Sets
- Events > Aspen Events > Event Types
- Events > Aspen Events > Indexing Settings
- Add an environment variable useful for tunnel service
- Option added to only index records by the 856 field if the record does not have eContent items
- In SystemUtils, isOffline and quitIfOffline have been made to share common behaviors across exporters
- All ILS exporters have been updated to exit if offline mode and message are enabled
- Local administrators can now be defined in Aspen
- Local admins must have a strong password of 12 to 50 characters. A blank may be created initially to force password reset
- Local admins can be given Two-Factor Authentication
- Local admins can reset PIN/password after logging in
- Local admins can also use forgotten PIN/password reset via email
- Local Admins cannot link to other accounts and cannot be linked from other accounts
- Show Checkouts and Holds in Results preference is hidden for local admins in My Preferences
- Contact Information is hidden for local admin
- New Permissions
- System Administration > Manage Local Administrators
- If the record requires local ILL and all volumes are not part of the active hold group when displaying actions for a record, show a message that requests are not available
- Disable from the list of volumes that a patron can place holds for in the modal that cannot be requested
- ILLPENDING is added to list of statuses treated as Local ILL
- Some patron types may now submit unlimited material requests
- Start date for requests per caldendar year to be based on what is chosen by the library instead of January 1st
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Materials Request > Yearly Request Calendar Start Date
- When placing a request, it will now check to see if a title already exists in the catalog. If it does, it will let the patron know. This check can be disabled in library settings
- If "Check Requests for Existing Titles in the Catalog" is on when managing requests, a new column will be shown that indicates if the request exists in the calaog, in another format, or does not exist. It'll check once a day
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Materials Request > Check Requests for Existing Titles in the Catalog
- Will now include $c and $a when showing book summary (520)
- Subfields are now seperated with a space rather an a comma when showing notes for a MARC record
- Default cover image style "Shadow/Floating" for new themes
- Two-Factor Authentication linked to Account Profiles so local admins can use it
- (userAgentId, year, month, instance) has a unique composite index added for usage_by_user_agent
- Update call added for bootstrap.php that'll update IP Address request counter
- bootstrap.php has itt's local time initialization moved to occur before any usage table operations
- Update calls has been changed to user usage table to be atomic SQL queries
- Modified UserList::getListEntries() to do SQL-level pagination
- Dynamic weighting from UserList::getListEntries() removed
- Weighting moved so that it is performed when titles are added or removed from a patron's list
- When looking for the sublocations while setting a preferred pickup location, cases will be handled where the active pickup location is disabled
- New check "
BookCoverProcessor::getUploadedListCover()"to make sure the list's cover is actually from an upload source - Patrons are now allowed to place requests for items that do not have volumes if there exists a mix of items with and without items on a record, and the library does not own any copies
- Renew all, renew checked, and export to csv buttons added if 5 or more items are checked out
- Error message will now display when placing a hold and a valume has not been selected
- Additionlal logging added for SnapPay
- Linked account order creation has been fixed for SnapPay
Carl.X
- Lost items added to Check out page
- Timeout for loading reading hisotry has been extended
- Will now properly handle titles that no longer exist within Evergreen when loading reading history for a patron
- When importing lists, makes sure that the list entries have their titles set so the lists can be sorted by title
- Fixed error when processing PIN Reset
- When existing volumes during indexing, only load volumes for the current indexing profile
- Admins with the permissions that allow them to edit library settings will now be able to toggle on/off "Enable ILS-issued consents" setting under the "Data Protection Regulations section" if using the koha-plugin-newsletter-consent plugin
- Fixed NYT LIst Updater stalling due to a missing include statement for "GroupedWork.php"
- Time portion of display dates from Aspen Open Archives search results has been eliminated
- Subtitle filtering for records in OverDrive has been enhanced by ignoring the subtile "number one best seller"
- Automaticall associate patron types and libraries with the correct account profiles when loading them
- If the user has chosen to remember their pickip area, it will now correctly send to the pickup area
- Once something has the status of ILLSHIPPED, it cannot change pickup locations, be canceled, or have hold frozen
Aspen LiDA
- If a library has multiple sublocations that are valid as pickup areas, the user is allowed to change the pickup area when changing pickup location
- 'More Info' button added at the bottom of the Grouped Work screen
- Users can select pickup area when placing a hold if there are multiple sublocations that are valid as pickup areas
- Item location and status will match the display in Aspen when displaying a list of items to place a hold on
- Call number now included when displaying holds for patrons
- Will now wait for all freeze operations to complete to show accurate results when freezing holds
- "Title Not Available" will be displayed to match Discovery if a title for a hold cannot be loaded properly
- When freezing a hold, it will not show the calendar to select a thaw date if the ILS does not support reactivation dates
- Sort order facets are respected when showing facet values inside of LiDA
- The API keys are used within Branded App Settings if available when validating authentication tokens for LiDA instead of authenticating against Greenhouse
- New Setting
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > API Keys
- New Setting
- Allow any user with permissions to modify system variables the permission to enable branded apps not just aspen_admin
- New setting added to show/hide More Info button on the Grouped Work screen
- Aspen LiDA > General Settings > Show More Info button on Grouped Work Screen
- Message added when saving a Grape JS Template or PAge that confirms it has been updated successfully
- Issue fixed that prevented admins from saving a "URL to link image to" from "WebBuilder Portal Cells" page
Aspen Discovery GitHub
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Administration
Boundless/Axis360
Aspen LiDA
- New setting for Patron Display Names
- Primary Configuration > Library > ILS/Account Integration > User Profile > Patron Display Name Style
- There's now "select all" and "deselect all" toggles to all object lists where there are checkboxes
- Will now only show the first 3 values on selected values for multiselect lists in a table
- An Out of Hold group message has been added to the getPatronHolds API
- ILS tables will be checked to see if they've been initialized to avoid database conflicts
- Condition added to creat or not create symlinks
- Control of processes has been included into the entrypoint script in order to avoid waiting for cron jobs
- Subfield c will now be used to distiguish between authors where titles and additional information is important when indexing the 100, 700, and 800 fields to load infomation about authors and contributors
- Yoto players will have their word boundaries checked to avoid matching with Kyoto
- Yoto players, when checking for them, will be prefereed over Kit format if both are found
- For Tonies, the word boundaries on either side will now be checked on either side
- WhaZoodle format added according to 028 subfield when subfield b contains playaway and subfield a starts with WZ
- Note and debugging info added to Large Print check
- Volume lvel holds in Local ILL will be properly handled
- New sublocation settings and permissions
- Permissions
- Primary Configuration - Location Sublocations > Administer Sublocations for All Libraries
- Primary Configuration - Location Sublocations > Administer Sublocations for Home Library
- Settings
- Primary Configuration > Library > Locations (Branches) > Sublocations
- Permissions
- "Enable Add To Reading History" can be displayed properly now within LIbrary Settings
- Subfield 1 for subjects will not be shown to patrons
- If an author is displayed for a record, subfield c is now added to show titles and other information that is relevant
- When a list is searched:
- the results are now allowed to be sorted by date added
- included an Added In The Last Facet to the results
- results are allowed to be sorted by Date Updated
- included an Updated In The Last Facet to the results
- Will now reindex the user lists every 24 hours
- Non-implemented Cover View, RSS export, and RIS export removed from LIst Search Results
- Date Updated for user lists is ensured to update as titles are added or removed from the list
- Fixes for remembering this pickup location function when sublocations are not defined for a location
- Patrons can now set their display name to have first and middle initials
- Patrons can now set a preferred pickup sublocation
- Sublocation is selectable when placing a hold or when updating a hold's pickup location
- If a sublocation is set for a hold, display it on thhe Holds page
- Hold popup will now show correctly if there is only one pickup location after sublocation changes
Boundless/Axis360
- Gets records availability API URL and adjusted response processing
- Optimized daily indexing behavior as well as made "Index by Day" a default setting
- URLS for sites inside of Greenhouse now can have port numbers
- Issue causing infinite growth of auto_incremement value for ils values when updated has been fixed
- Case will be ignored for item types when updating them in the Format Map table during indexing
- volumeID check has been fixed for the items without valid item group when placing volume holds
- For those records found in aan Artcicles and Database search through the EBSCO host of EBSCO EDS integration:
- Patrons of libraries with a LIbKey subscription may now access the full-text document with the "Access Online" button found to the right of "More Info" on search results pages.
- This button will not show if the LibKey API does not return a direct link
- For EBSCO EDS and host records, the API will send a cover image URL to show on the search result
- If an article has been retracted, they will be marked as such
- Information on that retraction will be linked
- The "Access Online" button is not displayed for retracted articles
- Automatically will import sublocations
- Will now set the hold pickup area when sublocations are being used
- Error where logging in with staff user for API access did not show some account information has been fixed
- Appropiate error message will be displayed if the user attempts to change sublocation for hold without changing main location
- Will now pass the pickup area to Polaris when placing a hold if a location has only one pickup area
- Some fixes for setting preferred pickup area in My Preferences
- Bypasses the pickup location prompt when a library has a preferred sublocation
- Site creation process has been updated so that it prompts for connection information and sets up a default Account Profile and Indexing Profile
- Libraries and locations can now automatically be imported from Sierra using their APIs
- Multiple Syndetics settings are now allowed to be created in a single Aspen instance to allow for Synddetics Unbound to direct to the proper catalog
- Third Party Enrichment > Syndetics Settings > Unbound Instance Number
- Names added for each Syndetic setting
- Hides or shows the appropriate fields for Syndetics based on if Syndetics Unbound is selected or deselected
- Their cover images now display correctly
Aspen LiDA
- Volume will now show in holds
- Out of Hold group message will now show in holds
- Local ILL requests now allow for the placing of requests on individual volumes of a record
- Moved to its own Repository: https://github.com/Aspen-Discovery/aspen-lida
- Debugging code added to help diagnose startup problems
- If a for is added to a custom page, Aspen Web Builder will limi the forms displayed in the dropdown to only those from the user's own library if the permissions set for them are Administer Library Custom Forms
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Administration
Evergreen
- New API that retrives LocalIllForm Configuration
- New API that submits Local ILL requests
- New Settings for Local ILL system in use
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > Local ILL Request Type
- Primary Configuration > Locations > Interlibrary loans > Local ILL Form
- Update hold groups so that they are not specific to VDX. Can now be used with Local ILL and VDX
- Interlibrary Loan > Hold Groups
- Update Local ILL forms so that they now allow for configuration of information that patrons can provide when submitting a request
- Interlibrary Loan > Local ILL Forms
- Holds process will now use Local ILL process when it is configured
- Holds with the ILL_WYLD or ILLSHIPPING status cannot have pickup location changes, be suspended, or canceclled
- Material Requests now has the ability to Export All to CSV
- Material Request statuses can now be marked as active
- Yearly Request Limit can be set based on a calandar year or a rolling year
- If enabled, users can now add titles manually to their reading history
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Enable Add To Reading History
- New setting to configure year in review fucntions
- Local Catalog Enrichment > Year in Review
- Patron Types updated so that Year in Review functions can be either enabled or disabled based on their type.
- When a Patron logs in, they will see a link to their Year in Review based on their Patron Type
- New Permissions
- Year in Review > Administer Year in Review for All Libraries
- Year in Review > Administer Year in Review for Home Library
- New System Variable option that allows for disabling or enabling Aspen to avoid spammy IP addresses
- Alerts removed from Circ Report printouts
Evergreen
- Library subdomains now include numbers when imported from Evergreen
- In the staff view, date first detected has been added for Hoopla records
- The column name is corrected when the user message queue is fetched from
- Fallback value added for the Library ID field instead of sending an empty field when a Material Request is submitted
- The error loading OVERDrive Scope information for libraries that do not have Overdrive set up has been corrected
- Updated so that the site create process prompts for connection information and also sets up a default Account Profile and Indexing Profile for Polaris libraries
- Loading Hold Groups from Symphony has been added
- Loading Locations from Symphony has been added
- Corrected the setting of day and home phone numbers so that they're not overriden based on the phone field
- Available Holds can now now be canceled
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS / Account Integration > Holds > Allow Cancelling Available Holds
- Holds that come from the out of the patron's hold group can not be allowed to be canaceled when available
- Notes on holds for Symphony are restricted to 50 characters to match Symphony limit
- The record page has a Request button addded for records that need a Local ILL request
- Holds process updated so that it uses the Local ILL process whgen configured
- The edit button in the admin view of Grapes JS Pages has been removed
- Tooltips have been added to those buttons in the Grapes JS editor that did not have them
- Can now add styles ot the body element in the GrapesJS editor
- Custom headers can now be added with custom blocks for H1, H2, and H3 to the GrapesJS editor
- Users can now control if the titles they assign to their Grapes JS page is displayed on the page when viewed
- Harvard Citation style added to both the list that appears in the citation section on each full record and to the dropdown list in the Generate Citation section in the lists section
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Administration
Carl.X
Full release notes
- Can now create Background Processes that allow for long-running tasks to run in background.
- System Reports > Background Processes
- Shows all selected options when showing multi-select options within a One To Many Block
- Recursive calls will be avoided when no libraries are found in the greenhouse
- New Zines format based on 655a
- CD+ Book Format updated to not be martked if the 300e includes booklet rather than book
- Indexer now avoids errors during multthreaded indexing of materials
- For Book+DVD format, it will now check for a videodisc in addition to dvd in 300e
- Debian servers now installed with Java 17
- Setting permissions on old solr directory have been removed
- Update default username and password labels found in the library settings
- Masuerade's flow changed. The session will now start on the page the guiding user was on when they initiated Masquerade instead of the MyAccount Page. When ended, the user will return to the page they were on when they started the session.
- Corrected the updating of internal formatID for requests when a request is made or updated
- Hold candidate generation log is now sorted newest to oldest
- Will no longer sort requests needing holds based on Format
- The right permissions are now used when showing Requests Needing Holds
Carl.X
- Allow any casing of XORD when order records based on self location are checked
- Ability added to set payment branch for fines and eCommerce transactions
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Fines/eCommerce > Payment Branch Source (Carl.X only)
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Fines/eCommerce > Specified Payment Branch Code (Carl.X only)
- Issue fixed that was causing Aspen to overlook OPACSuggestionUnwantedFields setting
- Single library can now access multiple OverDrive collections
- The old Format section has been renamed to Available Platforms to meet OverDrive implementation standards
- Drop references to EPUB, PDF, etc when displaying format info. Will now use preffered terminology of Libby eBook and Libby eAudiobook. Libby will automatically be renamed with the reader name set in settings
- Fulfillment to be done now using the iFrame method
- Naming OverDrive platform within setting is now allowed
- OverDrive platform properly seperated from the reader name
- Default PIN required within settings
- No longer allowed to add OverDrive Scopes from the Scopes list. They will be added within settings
- List of libraries and locations that apply to a scope is updated to be checkboxes rather than dropdowns
- Additional notes added to Library Settings and Scopes in settings to better explain them
- New Settings
- Primary Configuration > OverDrive > Settings > Name
- Primary Configuration > OverDrive > Settings > Reader Name
- Primary Configuration > OverDrive > Settings > Library Settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > OverDrive > OverDrive Settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > OverDrive > OverDrive Scopes
- Can now search SHAREit as an ILL
- New Settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > Interlibrary Loan System: Added SHAREit as an option
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > SHAREit > Repeat in SHAREit
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > SHAREit > SHAREit CID
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > SHAREit > SHAREit LID
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > SHAREit > SHAREit Username
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > SHAREit > SHAREit Password
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Locations > Searching > Search Box > Repeat in SHAREit
- Catalog / Grouped Works > Grouped Work Display > Full Record Options: Added SHAREit as an option
- If updating the username is not allowed, the link to do so will be hidden in My Account
- Making new Symphony sites when creating accoutn profiles and indexing profiles is now easier
- Self-Registration added to log in screen
- Users can now delete their Aspen Discovery accounts in the Aspen LiDA "More" menu.
- OverDrive hold items being renewed, returned, or thawed/frozen send sourceID instead of recordID
- Collection name displayed if a library has multiple OverDrive connections
- OverDrive items now display "Where Is It?" on Grouped Work screen, giving patrons the collection name when multiple OverDrive connections are present
- Checking the app slug has been updated when looking at which Greenhouse call to make for fetching libraries to only look at the beginning of the string to start with "aspen-lida". This determins if it's teh community app or a branded/alternative app.
- NCR payments recieve extra error logging
- Staff users with permissions to see only their library's ecommerce report now yields results
- The recalculating done for library cost savings on the Replacement Costs page is done now in the background
- Both item barcode and item id when loading cost savings from MARC record will be checked
- Patron display name added to Aspen when adding a linked account
- Can now generate test users
- Can now generate reading hisotry to process test users
Full release notes
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Administration
Integration
Cloudsource
Greenhouse
Aspen LiDA
Full release notes
- Can now assign multiple locations for a user to administer
- Additional list actions seperated from standard actions
- Properties lists now have more panels in the form
- deleteAspenUser endpoint added to User API
- catalogRegistrationCapabilities added to library config output for Sytem API's getLibraryInfo endpoint
- getSelfRegistrationForm added to Registration API
- getSelfRegistrationTerms added to Registration API
- processSelfRegistration added to Registration API
- New option for Materials Request Statuses that defines what should be checked to see if the request is available for holds, what is set after a hold is placed, and what is used if a hold fails to be placed
- Materials Request > Manage Statuses > Check for holds?
- Materials Request > Manage Statuses > Hold Placed Successfully?
- Materials Request > Manage Statuses > Hold Failed?
- Materials Request > Manage Statuses > Hold Not Needed?
- Can now map formats between formats in the catalog and formats defined for material requests using new option
- Materials Request > Format Mapping
- Cron task made that makes hold candidtates for requests with the "Check for holds" status set
- New page that shows and amanages requests that need holds
- Materials Request > Requests Needing Holds
- New page that shows generation log for hold candidates
- Materials Request > Hold Candidate Generation Log
- New Permission that allows users to put in holds for those that have active Materials Requests when titles are added
- Materials Request > Place Holds For Materials Requests
- Usage graphs and data tables are added for Axis 360, Aspen API, and SideLoads usage dashboards. This also includes a CSV download feature
- URLs changed for API Usage Dashboard and API Usage graphs from /Admin/APIUsageDashboard to /API/UsageDashboard and /Admin/APIUsageGraphs to /API/UsageGraphs
- Query updated removing deleted items from grouped_work_record_items
- Library Savings page created for patrons which can be opt in and out of using the Library Savings page or My Preferences
- Option added to display current costs savings at top of patron's checkouts
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Enable Cost Savings
- Display historical cost savings at top of reading history if enabled
- Define default replacement costs per format
- New permission
- Administer Replacement Costs
- Catalog / Grouped Works > Replacement Costs
- New permission
- Ability to define a field within an indexing profile where the replacement cost can be found for an item
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Cost Savings Enabled Explanation
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Cost Savings Disabled Explanation
- If consent is required to use analytic cookies, users can now opt in/out of localAnalyticsTracking. Those that do not require consent, the data will be tracked as it is currently.
- Users can no longer use html tags when updating list titles
Integration
Cloudsource
- Repeating searches allowed in CloudSource
- New Settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > CloudSource > Repeat In CloudSource
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > CloudSource > CloudSource URL
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Locations > Searching > Search Box > Repeat In CloudSource
- New Settings
Greenhouse
- Can now create historical reading data from the past 1-6 years for patrons located at Greenhouse > Testing Tools > Generate Reading History
- Refer to correct array keys for innReach results, preventing errors with php and no results
- User agent made that handles requests to Koha
- Date format settings added
- Open Archives > Collections > Date Formatting
- Fixed the deletion of Palace Project Titles
- The build location for the Export jar file when using new workspace has been corrected
- Updates are now triggered for related records when a hold is placed so the hold copy counts will update
- If the replacement cost field is defined in the indexing profile, Aspen will extract the replacement costs from Sierra
- Notice and billing notice preferences have been added based on the User Categories to Contact Information page
- Setting added for user catagory number and valid options to use for both notices and billing notices
- Support for alternate phone field names
- New setting for default phone field
- Cellphone field supported now on patron profile page
- clume export for malformed volumes increased from an array size of 7 to 8
- Titles can be checked in and out using the API
- Testing page added that allows for API paths to easily be described
- New Setting
- Aspen LiDA > Self-Check Settings > Assign Checkouts To - Add Symphony to the list of ILSs that support Item Location
Aspen LiDA
- Sorting options added to Checked Out Titles
- Option added to enable self-registration
- Aspen LiDA > General Settings > Enable self-registration
- Checkouts assigned to Item Location for Symphony are now allowed
Full release notes
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Administration
cloudLibrary
Aspen LiDA
- getUserForApiCall and checkoutILSItem APIs can be called internally
- checkInILSItem API added to check in titles. Cannot be called externally.
- User API additions
- UpdateAlternateLibraryCard allows for updating or removing alt library cards
- getPatronProfile modified so that alternateLibraryCard value is added if there is one
- Endpoints added to retrieve, make, and cancel materials requests
- showAlternateLibraryCard and alternateLibraryCardConfig array added in Library API
- alternate library card details are now added to linked accounts through getLinkedAccounts in User API
- New Permissions - Grouped Works
- Grouped Work Display > Administer All Format Sorting
- Lets users change how formats are sorted in a grouped work for all libraries
- Grouped Work Display > Administer Library Format Sorting
- Lets users cahnge how formats are sorted in a grouped work for individual library
- Grouped Work Display > Administer All Format Sorting
- New Setting - Grouped Works
- Catalog / Grouped Works > Format Sorting
- Target audience added to the diagnostic panel for grouped works
- When deleting grouped works during indexing, records, variations, and items in the database will now remove correctly
- Languages now sorted by weight then alphabetically by display name
- Internal method to easily look up the main location for a library
- New Setting - Stat Group (Sierra Only)
- Primary Configuration > Locations > ILS/Account Integration > Stat Group
- New Setting - Circulation Username (Sierra Only)
- Primary Configuration > Locations > ILS/Account Integration > Circulation Username
- Code 39 barcode generator for Avery 5160 labels to Circ Reports
- EAN-8 discc hub barcode generator added to Circ Reports
- New Permissions - Barcode Generator
- Circulation Reports > Barcode Generators
- Self check test page added. Only works within Sierra ILS
- Permission - Test Self Check
- Circulation > Test Self Check
- Allows users to access the self check test page
- Circulation > Test Self Check
- Authentification ot web resources requiring log in unless accessing from library. This adds a new setting that appears after checking 'Requires being logged in to access unless in library'
- Web Builder > Web Resources > Web Resource > Allow Access to patrons of these home libraries
- More checks for blank values from getActiveLocation as well as null values. Adds additional debugging to self check tester.
cloudLibrary
- Scopes assigned will display on Library Systems and Locations
- Scope assignments work like other eContent. You can only assign 1 scope per library and location
- Linked accounts will now use the settings for the home library that matches the scope when checking out or placing a hold
- supportingCompany support in scripts
- cron process executes in foreground at end of start-up script
- scripts related to Docker are more robust
- Unnecessary loop in driver function updateHomeLibrary removed
- Empty item groups for volume level holds hidden
- Old pre-production Koha volumes code removed
- For those using Lexis Nexis, linking urls will use /title now not /media
- Overall updates for consortia with multiple settings/overlapping consortia
- Stores active borrow link, preview link, and availability per collection
- Will now display the proper links and availability based on home library or active catalog
- Out dated non-numeric identifiers removed
- Updated the formatting of the Collection report. It will now apply defaut table styling and right align number of deleted titles
- Fixed the method deleteRecord() not being found
- Stat groups can be defined for each location now
- Circulation Username can be defined for each location
- Checkout grid per format type can now be shown
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Display Sierra Checkout Grid?
- Patron code to variables used for self registration added
- ILS Integration > Self Registration Forms > Patron Code
- Can now handle checkouts by API
- Json manually encoded when a title is checked out
Aspen LiDA
- Prompts asking for alternative library cards added for cloudLibrary items
- Screen to modify or remove alternative library cards if enabled
- Grouped Works can now have a custom sort order
- If a user has "Manually Group and Ungroup Works" permission, the "Record Ungrouped" will display
- FISERV SnapPay added
- Titles for cells can no longer be locked
- New IntelliJ and PhpStorm Projects, making setup easier for new devs
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Administration
Integration
CarlX
Aspen LiDA
- API command updates
- getInbox to User API which fetches user ILS messages
- markMessageAsRead/markMessageAsUnread to User API which updates user ILS message isRead status
- getLibraryInfo in System API now has a check to see if it has inbox features in it
- Checks for "And" or a plus sign when checking Blu-ray/4k combo packs
- Prefer the word "Manga" when both "Manga" and "Graphic Novels" are present
- Check put in place that looks for "Manga" in addition to "Graphic Novel" when determining eComic format for side loads
- Setting added which chooses which fields to use for bib-level call numbers
- When installing, the passkey file generation has been updated
- php /usr/local/aspen-discovery/code/web/cron/createKeyFile.php
should be run as root to generate passkey
- php /usr/local/aspen-discovery/code/web/cron/createKeyFile.php
- Option added is Show Hold and Copy Counts to always show those features
- Searching by work ID and by ISSN fixed
- Explore More Bar added to Library Systems
- New setting to Location(branch) which will allow admis to toggle visibility of specific branches under the "Available At" search facet
Integration
CarlX
- Terms and Service added to self-registration form for ILS self registration
- Can now use alternate library cards
- Issue with the Open button where it was automatically logging in is now fixed
- Removed account key from lists when settings are viewed, and it will encrypt the key at rest
- Option to change search results from List to Covers removed
- Issues related to updating both patron contact information and messaging settings for Koha 24.05 have been fixed
- Functions added to get data from the message_queue table and the letter table, all in preperation for ILS Notifications
- The message_queue table will only fetched data for query rows created in the last 24 hours
- If no item group ids exist for volume holds, it will not pass an item group id when placing volume holds
- Clearer debugging info for Libby if authentiacation requests fail
- Series length in overdrive_api_products table has been increased
- Collection report now added which shows the number of titles owned by each collection for each library
- If PAPIErrorCode is not set, the notice while Masuqerading has been corrected
- Self registration added for Sierra Patron API
Aspen LiDA
- Sorting and pagination for the Reading History page has been fixed
- On the Checked Out Titles page, filtering by source has been fixed
- Going back to the Notification Permissions page from device settings will not make the screen re-render and display updated options
- The sorting of Titles of the Hold page were out of sync, and it will now re-render
- Notification Settings now as option to assign ILS Notification Settings (only works for Koha libraries at the moment)
- Aspen LiDA > Notification Settings > ILS Notification Settings
- ILS Notification Settings added that define the types of ILS messages that should be sent out of Aspen (Only Koha libraries)
- Aspen LiDA > ILS Notification Settings
- Search filter accordions can now be opened and closed using the keyboard
- Tab path added that will allow for the refresh button on the holds page to be reached
- Tab path added that will allow for Display/Languages button in the header.
- Font size increase for labels for the Grapes JS components of the WebBuilder
- Blue background added to the save button on the Grapes JS Editor of the WebBuilder so it's easier to find
- Account renewal links will now be shown when appropriate on the Library Card page
- Issue fixed with Stripe and Square donations where card info box would not appear if user was not logged in
- Square donations issue fixed that resulted in AJAX errors
- grapes.js functionality added
- Grapes Pages and Templates added to the WebBuilder Section
- Templates can now be created for Grapes Pages
- Grapes Pages added to Web Indexer
- Option to create a Grapes Page from no template
- Character limit increased for the Custom Form email
- Stop using cache for bad words
- Can now switch to other languages even when users fill out forms
- Graphs and raw data tables added for ILS Integration and for Summons
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Administration
Integration
Carl.X
Aspen LiDA
Full release notes
- The translated value will now be output via Hold Status
- When sorting in getLanguages in the System API, Pass Language weight will be used
- Palace Project instructions returns now with getLibraryInfo in System API
- Various forms of "Graphic Novel" (such as "A Graphic Novel" or "The Graphic Novel") will be handled when stripping subtitles from display titles
- Common subtitles from Display Information will not be removed if they have been manually set
- Check for if 655a starts with "fiction". This will add one count of literary form Fiction when determining literary form for grouped work
Integration
Carl.X
- Self-registration form added
- Item Level Holds added
- Bugfix for CloudLibrary showing available books as On Order
- If an existing tab is replaced, the title of the tab also changes the title of the spotlight as long as it's the only tab
- holds.csv files will now be proccessed in a supplemental directory. This shows number of holds in search results and full record views
- Offset and limit values for fetching reading history to avoid timeouts added
- Control over whether holidary and hours are auto loaded for each library and location added
- Expired Patron reading history will not be updated
- Issue with resending password reset links fixed
- Pass in Orgld for payments
- Item fields from base MARC record brought in from Polaris are discarded
- The message that lets you know when you successfully updated home library is not translateable
- Code adjustment for getFaceSet function to correct a bug
Aspen LiDA
- Grouped Works recieved a small redesign to make room for long action button text
- When updating the lanaguage, the AAccount drawer and Preference screen will also change
- Gesture navigation removed on some React Navigation stacks
- Back button will now always be shown on the Manage Browse Categories screen
- Palace Project checkout instructions viewable
- Display Hide button added for browse categories in Accessible Browse Catagory mode
- Also added in Accessible Browse Catagory mode, links to view more results for browse categories
- Also available in Accessible Browse Category mode, "Show Hidden Browse Categories" is not available for Keyboard navigation
- For holds, bib records with both eContent and volumes will check the physical variations for volumes so they're correctly placed
- The date of the last time reading history was saved now saves properly when updating from cron
- Bugs fixed when searching with special characters
- 'Old Pin provided is incorrect' message is now translatable
- Donations fixed
- Original translation term shown when translating text
- New Feature: SMTP setting
- Allows for SMTP config to be used when sending e-mails
- Scripts made to automatically start and stop offline mode
Full release notes
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Administration
Koha
Aspen LiDA
Accessibility
Full release notes
- New settings for each row in the format table within Indexing Profiles that control whether the value is used when determining format based on Material Type, Bib Level, Shelving Location, Sublocation, Collection, Item Type, Item Format, and/or Fallback format
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Mat Type?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Bib Level?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Item Shelving Location?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Item Sublocation?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Item Collection?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Item Type?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Bib Level?
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Format Information > Applies to Fallback Format?
- Grouping format used for each value in the format table within an Indexing Profile will be shown
- New Diagnostic panel added for the Grouped Work index.
- Will now add the authorized author if available instead of original author when manually grouping records
- Wonderbooks default format category set to Audio books
- Combine default format maps into a dingle file
- Track requests by User Agent
- Add reporting of traffic by User Agent
- User agents are not able to be identified as bots and also traffice by specfic user agents can be blocked
- Primary Configuration > User Agents
- System Reports > Usage by User Agent
- New Permission
- Administer User Agents
- Format match for when "manga" is used in the 655a to add the format "Manga"
Koha
- Will no longer show auto-renewal message if user has opted out of auto-renewal
- Will not show when records have been ungrouped from other works in the staff view and allow for them to be regrouped
- The error message when returning kindle books can now be translated into different languages
- The API call when loading holds has been optimized
- Vender Opac URL in Account Profile will be used rather than the one in config.ini when linking to ILS course reserves
- New Under Consideration status has been added that can allow for the ordering of items
- ILS Integration > Indexing Profiles > Sierra Settings > Order Record Status to treat as Under Consideration
- Toggle added that sets "Full Text" limiter as default
Aspen LiDA
- If a title from Libby that has been placed on hold is ready for checkout, it can now be checked out from the holds screen
- Access Online action for Libby items now will use the library's preferred reader name on the checkouts screen
- Access Online action from the checkouts screen will now properly open the contents of Libby itemsagain
- Alert added that informs Android 11 users they are no longer going to recieve updates for the app
- Minimum iOS version updated to 16, and older versions no longer can recieve updates for or download the app
- Option added in Branded App Settings allowing for users to log in without having to be prompted to select a location via using their home location
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Use User Home Location When Logging In
Accessibility
- Added accessibility note in the 532 field when viewing a MARC record
- Libby lending period options made keyboard accessible by making them select elements
- Allows side loaded records treated as physical media instead of eContent
- Side Loads > Settings > Convert Format to eContent
- Allow side loaded records to use 856 link as label for action button
- Side Loads > Settings > Use Link Text For Button Label
- If there's multiple 856 links in a record in a side load, display multiple actions
- Documentation links added to several settings pages
- Bot blocking files modified
Full release notes
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Administration
Integration
Axis360
Aspen LiDA
General Updates
Full release notes
- Determination of format by bib is now made consistent when format for use is indexing and for use in grouping is determined
- Format group that can handle things like video games and such that are no books, movies, or music has been added
- Format group of comic also added to handle graphic novels, manga, and comics
- Will now look at format catagory "book" and then "eBook" when determining author for grouped work
- Will mark a record with the format of Manga if the 655 contains "manga graphic novel"
- Formats when loading from 008 field have been expanded. Of particular note, the addition of a distinction between computer programs and video games based on position 26 in the 008 when the leader position 6 is m
- Indexers have been refactored so settings are now stored inside of the Indexing Profile object to make testing easier
- Item API changes:
- getRecords now returns hold type for format and variation IDs
- default hold type is "bib" which allows for getRecords and getVariation to match functionality to Aspen Discovery when formats are not found in the ILS Indexing Format Mapping table
- New setting that allows/disallows masquerading using a username
- Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Masquerade Mode > Allow Masquerading Using Username
- Check added for null values when looking to see if a translation map has a value
- Manga added to default form maps
- When loading for the III indexing class, will only load Sierra Export Mappings
Integration
Axis360
- More checks for records that should have a eComic format are added
- Default format boost provided for comics
- More checks for records that should have a eComic format are added (Based on 650 fields)
- New error handling when viewing staff view
- Loading audience corrected
- Regroups records when updating single works from command line
- New error handling when viewing staff view
- Initial code added for all in one integration of Novelist.
- Added more checks for records that should have the eComic format
- Added error handling for records when active library tries to view a record it does not have access to.
- Removed solr 7.6 from code base
- New events inegration added
- Issue fixed where "canceled" value is an integer instead of a string
- Issue involving availability when there are multiple settings fixed
- Determination of format now considers Collection Code and translated Collection
- Corrected an issue where, when indexing items, new items were found that have not been indexed previously
- Delete MARC files after being processed
Aspen LiDA
- Will now assume a hold type is a bib if format is not found in ILS Indexing Format Mapping table
- Placing hold or checking out in the Editions modal will match results from doing so on the Grouped Work screen
- Lists browse catagories display again on the Home screen
- Self-checkouts show the correct user when there are linked accounts
- Toasts display again after a finished task
- Holds are now cancelable for eContents
- eContent previews for samples will open up properly now
- Linked accounts can be removed by users'
- Set cancelable is now set to true in Libby, Boundless, PalaceProject, and CloudLibrary holds, allowing LiDA to cancel holds
- Applied Filters and Narrow Your Results are now set to Heading 3
- Filter headings in the search sidebar now have added aria-expanded attributes
- "Go to Top" button removed on phones and tablets
- "What's this?" link in the My Preferences page now has aria-expanded attributes
- Modal buttons changed to button elements
- Availability control toggles now also have aria-expanded attributes
- Title attributes to custom menu links
General Updates
- Official repository now at: https://github.com/Aspen-Discovery/aspen-discovery
Full release notes
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Administration
Integration
Koha
Aspen LiDA
- 500 field should not be used to index a Blu-ray/DVD and a 4k/Blu-ray combo pack.
- Descriptions fixed in admin dashboard
- Hyphens no longer stripped from lib and location codes while determining scoping info
- Arial font replaced with the Arimo font
- Logic changed and updated for how the name for an owning library for a marc holding is displayed
- Matches the rules for detriming scope when it is determining active search location
- There's now setup a unit test framework for Aspen APIs that use a standardized database
- Old and unmaintainted unit test has been removed
Integration
Koha
- Will now sort with main library listed first and then alphabetically when showing libraries for self-registration
- Will now permit the selection of Digest checkbox for Holds Filled for Message Settings
- Handles MARC holdings that are missing MARC tags associated with them
- Loading location for additional copies fixed
- Loading changes' buffer corrected
- Retrys connection when indexing
- Issues when saving fixed
- Changed "Adult" audience to "Adults"
Aspen LiDA
- Bug fix to rectify issues with browsers not closing and disallowing additional browsers to open
- Bug fix to stop Holds screen from loading incorrect cover images
- LiDA will not allow patron login if a library is in offline mode
- Permission Dashboard has been added which details what is turned on and off and how to update it
- Will now auto push docker images to dockerhub and quay on commits
- Will now show total holds in the ILS dashboard
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Administration
Polaris
Full release notes
- Can now Handle cases where format is determined by bib, but record has eContent or similar items where the format is determined at item level.
- Changes to User API
- getLinkedAccounts now reloads contact info for each linked account
- checkoutItem, placeHold, cancelHold, renewItem, and returnCheckout now support Palace Project items
- getPatronProfile also supports Palace Project items for holdss and checkout numbers and accounts for eContent sources if valid
Polaris
- Trim trailing space from value when importing shel locations and item types into translation maps
- At 9PM every night it will check for deleted bibs
- When freezing holds, show error if no holds can be frozen or a warning if only some could not be.
- Removed time limit when importing Reading History
- Looks out for null values when loading formats
- Option added that makes a page for forcing users to accept or reject the page before allowing self-registration
- Option to copy self registration forms
- Issue fixed where location/branch was showing twice for events
- Allows the user to chose a reactivation date when suspending a hold
- Null objects during login handled
- When one updates patron infor with the bypass review queue off, it'll look for more error messages
- Events now load into Browse Catagories
- Palace Project items are now interactable and managable
- UI enhancements for tablet users, specifically on the Discover, Search, and Grouped Work screens
- References to Overdrive or Axis 360 now display as Libby, the library's custom reader name, and/or Boundless
- New Settings for seperate Registration Body field
- Events > LibraryMarket - LibraryCalendar Settings > Registration Information to Show in Aspen LiDA
- Events > Springshare - LibCal Settings > Registration Information to Show in Aspen LiDA
- Events > Communico - Attend Settings > Registration Information to Show in Aspen LiDA
- More error checking while loading browse catagories
- Aria-label added for external links containing "opens in new window"
- FontAwesome icons use "role=presentation" to not confuse screen readers
- Redudant title tags removed
- Bug fixed when "Display Options" in hidden menu would break tab order
Full release notes
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Administration
Catalog Enrichments
eCommerce
Integration
Cloud Library
Web Builder
Aspen LiDA
Full release notes
- Can now create translatable text blocks in admin interface that can handle larger blocks of text compared to the traditional translation intereface.
- getSearchSources and getSearchIndexes added in SearchAPI
- Event searching added to searchLite in Search API
- Event API retrieves details for an event
- getLocations added to SystemAPI that returns locations set in showInLocationsAndHoursList
- Unused Cron Commands cleaned up
- Auto-optimized additional Cron tables
- Cron Update to reading history to use ils_barcode instead of cat_username
- Ability to hide series name from series facet and Grouped Work Series Display Information
- Catalog/Grouped Works > Hidden Series
- Permission change for Hide Subject Facets to Hide Metadata
- Upgrade to Solr 8
- Solr host name customizable in INI and is used in all indexers
- Additional classes and data elements added that help idenitfy shelf locations and call numbers
- USPS Address validation settings added
- System Administration > USPS Settings (Permission Needed: Administer System Variables)
- "Include Location name in Detailed Location" setting applied when orders are created
- In order to match the table, place of publication has been truncated to a max of 250 characters
- Added getCatalogStatus to System API
- Catalog offline mode check added to search API
- Fixed renewItem API
- New Payment settings
- Library Systems > Payment History > Show Payment History for fines paid in Aspen
- Library Systems > Payment History > Payment History Explanation
- Library Systems > Payment History > Delete Payment History Older than (days)
Catalog Enrichments
- Limits search number of titles to 500 when loading More Like These to avoid Max Boolean Cluases error
eCommerce
- Checkbox added to request users to add their address for donations
Integration
Cloud Library
- Index target audeince based on 650a
- Scope settings updated to use a checklist for lirbaries and locations
- Updates to Indexing
- Load barcode and call numbers for checkouts
- Copy notes loaded from EG APIs, displayed as item notes
- copy tags loaded from EG APIs, displayed as item notes
- Additional info added to fine and fees display
- Extract prestamp and poststamp when availbale while updating from ILS
- Load titles on hold during masquerade mode if the patron has never logged in
- Load preferred pick up location on initial log in
- Fixed items, locations, statuses, and other things marked as hidden being removed within opac using unapi
- Course reserves are auto-imported into Aspen. Can also be searched
- If "Allow Patrons to Update Their Home Libary" is turned off, patrons cannot update it
- Won't index data if offline
- Archives can be processed in MODS format
- Location Facet added
- Updated date processing for Solr 8
- New Settings
- Open Archives > Collections > Metadata Format
- Open Archives > Collections > Index All Set
- Items can be checked out
- Items checked out can be viewed in My Account
- Instructions for accessing Palace Project can be shown for checked out titles
- Items can be returned
- Holds can be placed
- Holds can be cancelled
- Holds can be viewed in My Account
- Things are indexed by collection, collection name added in the eContent Source facet
- Titles are removed when not available when indexing
- User-Agent added for when Java is used to make calls to Palace Project
- Error handling when loading circ info
- Skip all processes that require a database connection if the connection cannot be made
- Null Pointer exception fixed
- Will now ignore any 907 field that is not the bib number
- Connectivity added
- New Settings
- System Configuration > Modules > Summon
- Administration Menu > Summon > Settings / Dashboard
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Summon
- Self registration forms changed to look more organized
- Fixed self-registration for when only one library can be chosen
Web Builder
- New Field Types added for when users create custom forms
Aspen LiDA
- Will check if user credentials are still valid in the background and will log the user out if not.
- Cover images are now specifc to source
- Filters on Checkout and Holds will check if the eContent source is valid before giving the option to filter
- Toggling Enable All on the Notification Screen will set individual toggles
- Events are now searchable
- Saved Events are now managable
- Locations other than the location logged in on are now viewable
- Settings within Branded App available to customize constact information on the Privacy Policy Page
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Address
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Phone Number
- Aspen LiDA > Branded App Settings > Email
- New User Manual, found here: https://help.aspendiscovery.org
- Upgraded Java to v.11 on CentOS systems
Full release notes
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Administration
Integration
Evergreen
- Option added that displays a renewal link or Quipu eRenew for an expired patron card. Can be configured to show on expiration or 30 days beforehand.
- New things can be copied from the admin interface
- Basic Pages
- Browse Category Groups
- Custom Pages
- JavaScript Snippets
- Library Systems
- Locations
- Menu Links within Libraries
- Placards
- System Messages
- Web Resources
- Option "Specified Value from Indexing Profiles -Load Format From Options" removed
- "In Library Use Only?" Option removed from format map
- Patron standing in Symphony now blocks correctly when placing VDX request
- Option added to not monitor antivirus logs
- getLibraryLinks added to System API
- getLibrary now returns distance of locations from given coordinates in Greenhouse API
- Option "Show On" added determining where links should display
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Menu Links > Show On
- Option "Location Image" added to upload images for locations. Only used in LiDA library contact screen.
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Locations > Location Image
- Option added that updates ILS account info with IdP data when logged in
- Primary Configuration > Single Sign-on (SSO) > Update users ILS account information with data from the IdP when logging in using the data mapping provided
- onboardAppNotifications no longer allows null values
- Option added in System Variables that hides or shows LiDA branded app settings
- noCustom parameter added so one can view page without leading theme CSS or JavaScript Snippets
- noCustomCSS parameter added to view page without theme's CSS
- Title and keyword searches include format(s) of title, improvingsearch relevancy whe format is included in search
- Submitted donations now treatedd as donation payment types
- Update to ensure email reciept is triggered for donation payments
Integration
Evergreen
- By default, display preferred name in account header
- Display of contact information added on the Contact Information Page
- Fall back to day, evening, or other phone number when a hold is placed, phone_notify is checked, and no default phone number is set
- Allow for titles that have super long identifiers
- Page made displaying eRenewal Form
- Will now restore the list if it was deleted when importing the list from Sierra
- Option added to turn off duplicate checking in self-registration
- Symphony support for resetting passwords
- Stores now if the user should be re-prompted for Screen Brightness permissions on library card screen
- Distance from provided coordinates is now considered when selecting a library in a branded app top match with LiDA Community functionality.
- Preferred pickup location set by default when placing holds, otherwise it'll be the home library.
- More screen appearance change with support for custom menu links from Discovery
- Library Contact screen appearance change for improved usefulness
- Background checks to see if Aspen Discovery session is valid, will renew if not
- "Fines" opetion added to the Account Drawer which will open Fines page
- passUserToDiscovery added which allows for Aspen Discovery to be opened inside the app while also logging in the user based on active app session
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Administration
Catalog Enrichments
Integration
Evergreen
Aspen LiDA
Full release notes
- Series matches deprioritized while first word matches prioritized more.
- Ignore eContent for call number sorting.
- Limit the max boosts added in certain cases to avoid over-boosting for titles with many copies.
- Sorting will now return the Best Match if converting a Start of Title search to a Keyword one.
- Patrons can no longer place VDX requests if their account is expired or banned.
- User API settings
- Linked Account Settings Updated/Added
- getPatronProfile retuns Linked Account settings for user
- added disableAccountLinking
- added enableAccountLinking
- Linked Account Settings Updated/Added
- Setting added in Library Systems to allow for users to choose where to display languages (in burger menu or also in the page header).
- Button added that now allows users to go straight to submissions page.
- Setting added restricting poll results to patrons who are logged in.
- Setting added to show poll results as a graph, table, or both.
- If name is entered for an unathenticated user, the form will have it show as completed instead of blank.
- In the case of an authorized user filling out the name field, the form will show the name that was entered instead of a username.
- Fixed the showing of current item values as radio options when updating existing requests
- Cron update to increase the read timeout for updating reading history
- Find and suppress items in the MARC that are missing item identifiers labeled in the indexing profile
Catalog Enrichments
- Patrons may toggle in My Preferences whether they want to see Checkout and Hold Actions in search results and full record pages.
- Removing a managing linked account in both Aspen Discovery and Aspen LiDA will now send an app notification.
- Removing and Adding a linked account in will now display an alert in Aspen Discovery.
Integration
Evergreen
- Patron barcodes now quoted for cases where barcodes may be non-numeric
- Unapi now receives bib records during indexing insteada of supercat
- Config options for when fetching bibs from Evergreen
- On failure, can set max number of retries.
- Can set how many miliseconds between attempted bib fetching.
- Will wait 1 second if rate limit response (502) is found.
- Will send opac_renewal flag if title is renewed
- Log invalid MARC data when bib cannot be parsed from unapi instead of as an error
- Will now throw "invalid record" message when attempting to open an inactive record while Hoopla module is not active.
- Perfomance improvements made when opening Koha checkouts.
- In Messaging Preferences, Digest checkbox needs at least one transport method for a row to be selected
- Digest options now update correctly
- Will no longer try to look up unmanaged names for request when loading material requests
- A call specific to LibLime fork that occurs when determining on/off status of read history has been removed
- For versions of Koha prior to 22.11, removed old checking for volume info
- Checks if the user is valid when a pick up location is loaded
- Fixed an issue when setting home library for patron when updating their information
- Any subtitles that prevent proper grouping are eliminated.
- Forces full update of Overdrive/Libby collections
- Single accounts can be used for multiple scopes
- Module, settings, and scopes added for indexing titles
- Axis360 updated to Boundless
Aspen LiDA
- Shelf Check Scanner fixed to not crash on Android.
- Will now only load preferred language or English if the former is not set.
- Account Linking can be disabled or enabled on Linked Accounts screen
- Also on the Linked Accounts Screen, app will display UI text and buttons depending on rules that have been set for linked accounts.
Full release notes
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Administration
Catalog Enrichments
Integration
Evergreen
Aspen LiDA
Full release notes
- Search API Updates
- getLocationInfo will return location's Group Work Display Settings
- getLibraryInfo will return library's Group Work Display Settings
- getAvailableFacets returns availability toggle values
- searchLite returns availability toggle values
- searchLite returns 0 when global is not set on the availability toggle and will try the search again as global.
- "Request through ILL" user searches retain search parameters when redirected to proper URL in WorldCat and INN-Reach
- Self-Check settings added to define allowed location's barcode styles
- Defaults to Codabar, UPC A, UPC E, UPC EAN, EAN-13, and EAN-8
- New Setting
- Aspen LiDA > Self-Check Settings > Valid Barcode Styles
- Availability toggle renamed from "Available?" to "Search Within"
Catalog Enrichments
- Cookie Consent options stored with user when logged in, stored as cookie when logged out
- Google Analytics tracking code hidden if tracking was opted out
- Users can choose to display their name or "Library Staff" when making public list
- Your Lists > Show list author in search results
Integration
Evergreen
- Now checks if subdomains are correct length when adding libraries
- Item titles no longer need collections
- Additional Authors added to keyword index
- Buffer when polling for changes increased from 5 minutes to 15 minutes
- Payment type field now allows up to 12 characters
- Non-public notes will not show from some multi-volume records
- Duplicate Patron fixes
- Ensure first and last name match
- Check differences in date of birth
- Will ignore birthday if not given
- Barcodes are now case-insensitive
- Will now load the collection for a holding upon new item being discovered.
- When bringing in from reading history, timeout timer has been increased.
- When a title is not in the index, holds will be correctly loaded.
Aspen LiDA
- New setting to set default facet for the Availability toggle
Full release notes
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Administration
Catalog Enrichments
Koha
General Updates
Full release notes
- Setting and Permission added to give the option for administrator to run optional updates.
- New Settings - System Administration / Optional Updates
- New Permission - Run Optional Updates
- Setting added for adding images for Explore More icons
- Theme & Layout > Themes > Explore More Images
- A new session is now made when Masquerade is started or stopped
- Sort by name in admin sections
- Section added for email templates and connections with providers
- By default, Item URL and Item URL Descriptions fields are set to visible in Indexing Profile Settings
Catalog Enrichments
- Setting added to display number of renewals for a checkout
- Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > "Always display the number of renewals for a checkout"
Koha
- New Rest API will validate patron accounts instead of ILSDI
- Can now import lists exported from CARL.X
- Patron will be asked to confirm renewel if renewing will incur a fee
- Item level holds utilize Sierra APIs
- Call number and/or volume shown for available holds
- Option for self registration forms to use barcode prefix
- Duplicate checking for new accounts
- Lookup for valid barcode
General Updates
- Reactivation date option added when freezing holds in bulk
Full release notes
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Administration
Koha
- IP Address single sign-on restriction settings added
- Single sign-on (SSO) Settings > Restrict single sign-on by IP address
- Primary Configuration > IP Addresses > Allow Single Sign-on (SSO)
- Open Archive Facet Settings added
- Open Archives > Open Archives Facet Settings
- Website Facet Settings Added
- Website Indexing > Website Facet Settings
- Permissions to edit facests for Websites and Open Archives
- Administer All Website Facet Settings
- Administer Library Website Facet Settings
- Administer All Open Archives Facet Settings
- Administer Library Open Archives Facet Settings
- Permission added allowing for fields to be locked and unlocked
- Lock Administration Fields
- Polls in Web Builder added with permissions:
- Administer All Quick Polls
- Administer Library Quick Polls
- Option for supressing bibs without items from Indexing Profile and Sideload settings has been removed
- Forgot Barcode setting to retrieve barcode via Twilio text message
- Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > User Profile > Enable "Forgot Barcode?" Link on Login Screen
Koha
- LiDA add supports hold cancellation workflow
- Masquerading with patron barcode has been updated
- More safeguards against null barcodes, usernames, and borrower numbers are now handled if detected
- Usernames and barcodes are now case insenstive on login
- Messages for checkout renewals and auto-renewals updated
- Holds available for pickup can be modified
- Aspen will not send updated patron information if info is marked as not modifiable
- Pick-up location can be modified for available holds
- Masquerade Mode issue corrected
- Exported files can be GZipped
- New user logins corrected
- MARC holdings can now be extracted and displayed
- If configureded, extracts call number prestamp field
- Item URL and description can also be extracted
- "Forgot Password" and "Forgot Barcode" added to the login screen if enabled
- Self-check out through app if enabled
- Export CSV for eCommerce and Donation reports
- Permissions to allow libraries to see only their ecommerce and donation reports
- View eCommerce Reports for All Libraries
- View Donations Reports for All Libraries
- View eCommerce Reports for Home Library
- View Donations Reports for Home Library
- Self-checkout SIP function added for handling barcode
- API endpoint for self-checkout to support barcode
- Solr server can now be used when creating new sites
- Error will not be shown if no password is given on password reset
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Administration
Integrations
- Allows custom facets to be defined within Aspen Indexing.
- Indexing Profiles > Custom Facets
- Optimize loading indexing settings at index time to avoid loading them in 2 places.
- A default cover image can be selected for each website indexing settings
- Website Indexing -> Settings -> Background Image for Default Covers
- SSO authentication through SAML, LDAP, and oAuth now support separate fields for username and barcodes in the database.
- A default cover image can be selected for individual Open Archives collections
- Open Archives -> Collections -> Background Image for Default Covers
- Updates and new settings for Events
- Events -> LibraryMarket - Library Calendar Settings -> Events in Lists
- Events -> LibraryMarket - Library Calendar Settings -> Bypass event pages in Aspen
- Events -> Springshare - LibCal Settings -> Events in Lists
- Events -> Springshare - LibCal Settings -> Bypass event pages in Aspen
- Events -> Communico - Attend Settings -> Events in Lists
- Events -> Communico - Attend Settings -> Bypass event pages in Aspen
- Some light styling and behavior adjustments to the event registration modal.
- Updated facet and index options for all event integrations.
- New setting to make facets for all event integrations editable.
- Facet counts for events can be disabled/enabled separately from grouped works.
- New setting for setting a specific number of days to index.
- New facet added to limit start dates for events to a specified range
- New Permissions: Administer Events Facet Settings
- Events > Events Facet Settings
- Events -> LibraryMarket - Library Calendar Settings -> Number of Days To Index
- Events -> Springshare - LibCal Settings -> Number of Days To Index
- Events -> Communico - Attend Settings -> Number of Days To Index
Integrations
- Twilio
- New settings added to allow SMS messages to send through Twilio.
- New permissions: Administer Twilio
- System Administration > Twilio Settings
- Library > Messaging Settings > Twilio Settings
- New settings added to allow SMS messages to send through Twilio.
- Koha
- Patrons can renew early manually even if the checkout is scheduled for auto-renewal (if renewal is permissible).
- New setting for custom ILL Item Types. If left undefined, default will be the previous standard ILL.New Settings
- Library Systems > Interlibrary loans > Interlibrary Loan Item Types
- New search field displays at the top of the Discovery screen. Search tab removed from navigation.
- New setting to allow for utilize self-check in Aspen LiDA.
- New permission: Administer Aspen LiDA Self-Check Settings
- Aspen LiDA > Self-Check Settings
- Border added to yellow/warning-styled labels to increase contrast. Border color is inherited from the theme "Warning" button border color.
- Labels on the Account Summary page have been updated to "Checked Out Titles" and "Titles on Hold" to create consistency in navigation.
- Username and barcode fields are now split in database for Users.
- Display order updated for “Where is it?” dialog. Order is defined as:
- Active Library (if in a branch)
- Home Library (if logged in)
- Nearby Libraries (for user if logged in)
- Nearby Libraries (if in a branch)
- Other branches at the library system in alphabetical order (if the system is multi-branch and they aren't shown above)
- All other branches in alphabetical order
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Administration
- Masquerade Mode now able to be restricted to specific IP addresses
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Masquerade Mode > Allow Masquerade Mode - Added Allowed from enabled IP Addresses
- IP Addresses > Allow Masquerade
- New Single Sign-on settings to force users to re-authenticate when logging into Aspen
- Single Sign-on (SSO) Settings > Force users to re-authenticate with the IdP when logging into Aspen
- A default cover image can be selected for covers generated for library catalog items.
- Themes > Default Cover to add an image to be used for default covers
- Ability to upload new images for format category icons
- Themes > Format Category Icons to add images for format category icons
- New API to third party registration
- Updated permissions: Library Self Registration has been renamed Library Registration and controls both
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Third Party Registration > Enable Third Party Registration
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Third Party Registration > Home Location for Third Party Registrations
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Third Party Registration > Patron Type for Third Party Registrations when address has been validated
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Third Party Registration > Patron Type for Third Party Registrations when address has been not been validated
- CARL.X
- Patron privacy improvements - item notes will be automatically stripped from MARC file exports to remove any patron identifiers
- Now allows login with barcode/last name configuration.
- Account Profiles > Login Configuration - Added Barcode and Last Name
- Automatically update patron's pickup location whent the home location changes.
- INN-Reach
- Integration is no longer limited to Prospector, ant INN-Reach system can be integrated. Linking is now done with the Interlibrary Loan URL.
- Library > Interlibrary loans > INN-Reach > Repeat In INN-Reach
- Library > Interlibrary loans > INN-Reach > Enable INN-Reach Integration
- Library > Interlibrary loans > INN-Reach > Show INN-Reach Results At End Of Search
- Integration is no longer limited to Prospector, ant INN-Reach system can be integrated. Linking is now done with the Interlibrary Loan URL.
- Sierra
- Patrons are now able to update their Home Library if enabled in library settings.
- Improvements and fixes to sorting of titles and lists.
- Square is now a supported vendor
- New Permissions: Administer Square - Controls if the user can change Square settings.
- ECommerce > Square
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Administration
- New setting to show the book cover for editions in the grouped works display.
- Catalog / Grouped Works > Grouped Work Display > Search Results > Show Covers for Editions
- New option to allow single sign-on to bypass the Aspen Discovery login page.
- Primary Configuration > Single Sign-on (SSO) Settings > Bypass the Aspen Discovery patron login page
- New options to target the application of book cover images to bib and grouped work levels.
- New permissions and settings to allow staff to be assigned to edit specific Browse Category Groups.
- New Permissions: Administer Selected Browse Category Groups - Allows the user to view and edit only the Browse Category Groups they are assigned to.
- Local Catalog Enrichment > Browse Category Groups > Additional Users who can edit this group
- Sierra integration has a new setting that allows the Sierra MatType to be used as part of format determination.
- ILS > Indexing Profiles > Sierra Settings > Check Sierra Material Type during format determination
- When patrons use the Renew All option the renewals will now include titles checked out to linked accounts.
- PayPal Payflow added as a new eCommerce integration.
- ECommerce > PayPal
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Administration
- New setting for single sign-on to bypass the patron login page.
- Primary Configuration > Single Sign-on (SSO) > Bypass the Aspen Discovery patron login page
- New setting in Theme to customize tab colors.
- Theme & Layout > Themes > Tabs
- Collection Spotlights limited to 100 titles at once.
- Evergreen integration now allows lists and reading history to be imported into Aspen.
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Administration
- Searching added to various areas of administration settings.
- Themes can now be shared within the Aspen community.
- IP Address tracking is disabled by default to comply with GDPR. Tracking can be enabled as needed for diagnostics.
- New checkbox added to themes to indicate that the theme is for higher contrast and other accessible options.
- Certified Payments By Deluxe added as a new eCommerce integration
- ECommerce > Certified Payments By Deluxe Settings
- Communico added as a new third party integration.
- New permissions: Administer Communico Settings - Allows the user to administer integration with Communico for all libraries
- Events > Communico Settings
- Evergreen integration now has the ability to email the patron a link to recover their Pin/password.
- Your administrator will need to edit the appropriate Evergreen email template so the password reset link goes to: https://yourAspenSiteUrl/MyAccount/PasswordRecovery/?uniqueKey=[% target.uuid %]. See https://docs.evergreen-ils.org/eg/docs/latest/admin/actiontriggers.html.
- Evergreen integration now allows the patron to set a new pin/password self-service.
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Administration
- Account profiles can be assigned at the library system level instead of just by branch.
- Single sign-on can be used for account profile authentication.
- New setting to have the library receive an email when a materials request is submitted.
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Materials Request > Send email to library when Materials Requests are created
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Materials Request > Email to receive notifications for new Materials Requests
- New settings to have a staff member receive an email when a materials request is assigned to them. Staff can opt out of these emails.
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > Materials Request > Send email to staff when they are assigned a Materials Request
- My Account > Account Settings > Staff Settings > Receive an email when a Materials Request is assigned to me
- Single sign-on settings consolidated under Primary Configuration.
- New option to use single sign-on as the only point of authentication when the ILS does not have patron accounts.
- Primary Configuration > Single Sign-on (SSO) Settings > Only authenticate users with single sign-on
- New option for patrons to ask libraries to inform another party when a donation is made in honor or memory of someone.
- New library-level settings in LiDA General Settings.
- Aspen LiDA > General Settings
- New setting to automate rotation to landscape mode when accessing Library Card screen.
- Aspen LiDA > General Settings > Automatically rotate the library card screen to landscape
- Moved some settings for LiDA to a new section, Location Settings, for those location specific settings that were previously under App Settings.
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eCommerce
- ProPay removed as an eCommerce integration.
- New settings for patron reading history to control whether patron opt in/out is communicated to the ILS.
- New settings for patron reading history to allows history to be disabled by patron type.
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS / Account Integration > Opting in to Reading History Updates ILS settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS / Account Integration > Opting out of Reading History Updates ILS settings
- Primary Configuration > Library Systems > ILS / Account Integration > Opting in to Reading History Updates ILS settings
- New settings to prevent users from removing linked accounts by patron type.
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eCommerce
- InvoiceCloud added as a new eCommerce integration.
- eCommerce > InvoiceCloud
- Custom updates to grouped works data will be the default instead of the generic Novelist data.
- Card screen now displays linked account barcodes.
- Reading History now available from the Account page.
- New Notification Type "Account Alerts" added to LiDA Notification Settings. Account Alerts is left unselected by default.
- Holds can now be placed at the grouped works level (brings the mobile experience in line with the browser performance).
- User lists can be sorted. Lists are now paged instead of one long scroll.
- Notifications settings for LiDA moved within Administration from Local Catalog Enrichment to the Aspen LiDA admin section.
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