Aspen Discovery
Aspen Discovery 23.07.00 Release Notes
by Mark Noble on Jul 17, 2023
Aspen Discovery announced this week that the 23.07.00 release is now available.
This release includes code contributions from:
- ByWater Solutions
- Theke Solutions
- Nashville Public Library
Thanks to all of our contributors!!
23.07.00 Release Notes
CARL.X Updates
- Automatically strip item notes from exported MARC files since they may contain patron identifiers.
- Allow login with barcode/last name configuration.
- Do not update reading history in the evening if the user has not been seen since the last update.
- If the patron's home location changes, update the pickup location to the new home library and turn off remember hold pickup location.
- Updates for loading reading history from Carl.X
Revised Settings
- Account Profiles > Login Configuration - Added Barcode and Last Name
ECommerce Updates
- Square is now a supported vendor.
- Updated the tooltips and notes for Payflow Settings
New Permissions
- Administer Square - Controls if the user can change Square settings.
New Settings
- ECommerce > Square
Hoopla Updates
- When indexing hoopla titles, make titles sortable.
- When indexing hoopla titles, ensure the eContent Source facet does not include Hoopla if all titles are suppressed due to availability from other sources.
INN-Reach Updates
- Allow INN-Reach to be configured to work with any INN-Reach system rather than only working with Prospector (Colorado's INN-Reach System). Now uses the Interlibrary Loan URL for linking.
Revised Settings
- 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
Koha Updates
- Do not update reading history in the evening if the user has not been seen since the last update.
- Properly handle empty format translations for iType and format subfields.
Masquerade Mode Updates
- Allow the use of Masquerade Mode to be restricted to specific IP addresses.
New Settings
- Library > ILS/Account Integration > Masquerade Mode > Allow Masquerade Mode - Added Allowed from enabled IP Addresses
- IP Addresses > Allow Masquerade
Open Archives Updates
- When indexing open archives, fix setting last seen date for existing records and ensure records are not incorrectly deleted if errors are encountered.
Polaris Updates
- If the patron's home location changes, update the pickup location to the new home library and turn off remember hold pickup location.
- Correct errors running continuous index if no records have ever been imported.
Sierra Updates
- Allow patrons to update their Home Library if enabled in Library Settings.
Single sign-on Updates
- When a user logged in via SSO masquerades, they'll no longer be logged out when ending the masquerade session.
- Added a toggle for if users should re-authenticate with the IdP when logging into Aspen.
New Settings
- Single Sign-on (SSO) Settings > Force users to re-authenticate with the IdP when logging into Aspen
Symphony Updates
- Hide staff/private/circ notes but show public notes for Symphony if note field is specified in indexing profile. This requires both the Note and Item Record Number subfields to be set in the indexing profile.
Theme Updates
- Add ability to choose a default cover image for default covers generated for library catalog items
- Default cover images for EBSCOhost databases will use the logo uploaded in EBSCOhost Settings > edit search setting > edit database > logo
- Add ability to upload images for format category icons - two images should be uploaded, one for the selected and the unselected version of the icon
New Settings
- New setting in Themes > Default Cover to add an image to be used for default covers
- New setting in Themes > Format Category Icons to add images for format category icons
Third Party Registration Updates
- Add new API to determine what registration capabilities are active on the system.
- Add an API to lookup account card numbers by email.
- Add an API to get the format of a registration form.
- Add an API to submit a registration form.
- Add an API to determine how PIN/Password reset will be performed with a link to the reset form.
- Add an API to start the PIN Reset process.
Updated Permissions
- Library Self Registration has been renamed Library Registration and controls both
New Settings
- 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
Other Updates
- Add check for "playaway launchpad" in 500 note field for Playaway Launchpad format
- Redirect user to My Account page after logging in from a successful self registration.
- Fix an issue where excluded paths for website indexing weren't being honored for those using sitemaps
- Allow horizontal scrolling of MARC records within staff view.
- Correct showing Home Location Name when Home Location cannot be edited.
- Automatically Force a reindex if grouped work display info is added, updated, or deleted.
- When creating collection spotlights, default number of titles to show to 25.
- Creates collection report (a full dump of all a Location's items) for Nashville Schools.
- Updates to only save changed data to the database rather than saving the entire row to improve concurrency issues.
- Cleanup old unused fields in the database.
- Add the servername to slack alerts from the Greenhouse.
- Correct Smarty error viewing people within the Genealogy module.
- Fix a PHP error when attempting to view an empty result set in an excel view
- Fix a Smarty error on self registration form submission
- Add a format category for Bingepass to clear Hoopla extract errors
- Update database cleanup cron to optimize search table
- Update checks for malicious URLs to look at month and year
- Removed the format icons from While You Wait - Help Center Documentation
Aspen LiDA Updates
- When leaving the Card Screen, restore the system brightness mode.
- Added modal in certain scenarios at launch to prompt the user about their Notification settings.
- Removed HTML entities from coming in when translating text.
- For Android users, tapping on the label of a Select instead of the arrow will no longer result in being able to edit the box.
- Certain sort methods will no longer remove other filters when applied.
- Sorting and paging options have been fixed when viewing a user's list.
- Added toggle on Notification Settings to "Enable all" types of notifications.
- All browse categories are now properly loading records when tapping on the title to view more.
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