Aspen Discovery

Aspen Discovery Announces 20.14.00 Release and Notes

by Jessie Zairo on Oct 8, 2020

Aspen Discovery announced this week that the 20.14 release is available. This minor release and includes 8 updates to the Aspen Discovery system.

Mark Noble, Aspen Discovery Developer, recently commented on the release:

This minor release addresses several issues to polish existing Aspen Discovery functionality. We strive to regularly update Aspen to ensure our users have the best discovery experience.

Administration Updates

  • Update multi-select forms using checkboxes.

CARL.X Integration Updates

  • Update PIN Validation rules to allow up to 6 digits when resetting PIN for CARL.X.

Collection Spotlight Updates

  • Remove tab formatting from spotlights if there is only one spotlight.
  • Allow spotlights to be created from search results for events.

Events Updates

  • Update event sorting within the calendar view.
  • Correct display of event start and end times based on the active timezone.

Interface Updates

  • When navigating directly to a page that requires login, navigate to that page after login rather than going to the home page for the account.
  • Fix menu display so the height of the menu so the width of the bottom border can be adjusted.

MARC Record Display Updates

  • Allow repeated subfields within the Physical Description display.
  • Update display of publisher information to include 264 fields with a second indicator of blank or 1.

Materials Request Updates

  • Make error messages when submitting materials requests translatable so libraries can change the text.
  • Fix so status can be updated from the Update Request popup.

OverDrive integration updates

  • Update to properly show titles when a library owns the only copy of a title in their OverDrive Advantage account.
  • Remove storing numeric formats since they are unused with Aspen Discovery.
  • Set format boosts for OverDrive magazines.

Symphony updates

  • Update so holds can be frozen and thawed properly.

System Updates

  • Updates for restarting solr in the event it has issues.
  • Stop indexers for each process when nightly indexing runs to reduce memory consumption.
  • Unify the configuration of cron to use a symbolic link for settings.
  • Remove startBackgroundProcesses script in favor of checking background processes and checking solr.

Theme updates

  • Don't override advanced search button color.

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