Release Notes from 05/07/2019

Pika Release Notes 2019.04

New Functionality

• Hoopla Integration
  • All Econtent record views based on MARC data will display the 300 field ‘physical description’
    • Useful because the description often says how long a title plays. ( eg. A movie is 98 minutes long)
    • Is labeled “Content Description”

• The “Physical Descriptions” setting needs to be turned on in order of the “Content Description” label to display.

• Settings by “kind” (hoopla formats)
  • Anything marked as inactive in the Hoopla extract data will be excluded from Hoopla results.
  • Maximum price

• Exclude parental advisory titles
  • “MUSIC” type

• Exclude profanity titles
  • Not very many titles have this marked, but some EBOOK and MUSIC

• Include only children’s titles
  • ~63,000 titles marked as children’s

• The Staff View shows the display of the price, active, pa, profanity, and children for all the features listed above.

• Library & Location level settings
  • Library settings will be in-effect for locations unless the location has its own settings in place
    • Location has a copy from library button

• Indexing Standardization (replacing customized indexing routines)
  • Bib-level format determination
    • Marmot format determination
    • MatType determination
      • Will use the format, format category, and format boost maps
      • Exclude matType values
      • Falls back to the Marmot format determination when there isn’t a matType value for a bib or the value is excluded

• Admin Features
  • Translation maps now how the javascript tablesorter enabled so that specific values can be found more easily

• P-type “label” field to identify patron types.

• Aurora Implementation
  • Production server spun up
  • For indexing, implemented matType format determination
  • Hoopla, Kanopy sideload set up
  • Implemented Opac Mode using IP addresses
  • Fixed parsing of screen-scraping for My Fines page
• Sidebar links can now contain more HTML content
  • Easter Egg: Advanced editor for sidebar links.

• Widgets can display in sidebar links

• NYT user list creation will now use the primary isbn data from the NYT best seller API if the expected ISBNs data is not present.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed ‘Renew All’ for Sacramento
• Edit Browse Category Page will now require the “text_id” field to ensure that the edited browse category will function correctly.

• Patch : Linked patrons for Sacramento were not displaying checkouts and holds - only displaying for primary user. Now primary user account will show linked accounts’ checkouts and holds
• Patch : prevent Overdrive indexing error when series title is too long (over 215 characters)
  • Example here

Sideloads

• Ebrary/Proquest for Broomfield
  • Fixed URL replacement settings for proxy links for Ebrary econtent for Broomfield and Boulder
  • New records added for Broomfield
• Creative Bug
  • Bemis and Addison

• Working to implement for a few Flatirons libraries
• Kanopy added for Lake County
• Biblioboard for Bemis

Additional Work

• For Addison indexing, format determination will be switched to the standard matType method shown in the indexing profile rather than custom coded routine.
• Pulled 2018 page view analytics for Marmot subdomains using Google Data Studio.

Documentation

• Advanced link editor