Aspen Discovery
Aspen Discovery 23.09.00 Release Notes
by Mark Noble on Sep 20, 2023
Aspen Discovery announced this week that the 23.09.00 release is now available.
This release includes code contributions from:
- ByWater Solutions
- James Staub
- Theke Solutions
Thanks to all of our contributors!!
23.09.00 Release Notes
Account Updates
- Added option to allow users to retrieve their barcodes via text using Twilio.
New Settings
- Library Systems > ILS/Account Integration > Login > Enable "Forgot Barcode?" Link on Login Screen"
- When starting Masquerade mode, allow the administrator to enter either barcode or username as applicable for the ILS.
- Add a session expiration of 15 minutes of inactivity when Masquerading.
- Automatically refresh the page when a session is scheduled to finish
Administration Updates
- Added the ability to Export to CSV for most administration setting tables (including eCommerce Report and Donations Report). Export to CSV will maintain applied filters.
- Added the ability to Export Selected to CSV for most administration setting tables (including eCommerce Report and Donations Report).
- For all Export to CSV functionality will only export columns displayed in the table by default.
- Allow individual fields to be locked within Aspen so only users with the ability to lock and unlock fields to edit them.
See Help Center Documentation - export to CSV
New Permissions
- Lock Administration Fields
EBSCO EDS Updates
- Handle cases when authentication tokens time out while loading records for display within a list.
eCommerce Updates
- Added permissions to allow libraries to see only their own ecommerce and donations reports.
New Permissions
- View eCommerce Reports for All Libraries
- View Donations Reports for All Libraries
- View eCommerce Reports for Home Library
- View Donations Reports for Home Library
Event Updates
- Add a class of addToYourEventsBtn to all buttons labelled Add to Your Events.
Facet Updates
- Added ability to edit facets for websites and Open Archives
- Updated the facet for event date to limit the max date to the number of days events are indexed for
New Permissions
- Administer All Website Facet Settings
- Administer Library Website Facet Settings
- Administer All Open Archives Facet Settings
- Administer Library Open Archives Facet Settings
New Settings
- Open Archives > Open Archives Facet Settings
- Website Indexing > Website Facet Settings
Help Center Documentation - Open Archives
Help Center Documentation - Website Indexing
Hoopla Updates
- When linking to author pages, do not quote the author name since Hoopla does not provide authors in lastname, firstname format.
Indexing Updates
- Create a new Indexing Class specific to Nashville to account for unique format determination rules.
- Carl.X libraries will now use standard format determination depending on the type of format determination selected (bib/item)
Interface Updates
- If a user manually provides input when selecting a date for automatic hold cancellation, it will now check if the date is earlier than the current date.
- While paying a fine if a user inputs a value higher than the outstanding amount, they will be alerted and the total to be paid will not be updated.
Koha Updates
- Display a more specific error message if a user cannot be logged into Koha while updating patron information with the review queue on.
Polaris Updates
- When updating patron information in Polaris check Aspen settings to see what information should not be modifiable and do not send those values to Polaris.
- Allow holds that are available for pickup to be cancelled, frozen/thawed, and pickup location to be changed.
Search Updates
- Only provide spelling and search suggestions for Keyword, Title, Start of Title, Author, Series, and Subject Searches.
Single Sign-on (SSO) Updates
- Add ability to restrict single sign-on by IP address.
New Settings
- Single sign-on (SSO) Settings > Restrict single sign-on by IP address
- Primary Configuration > IP Addresses > Allow Single Sign-on (SSO)
Symphony Updates
- Allow exported files from Symphony to be GZipped.
Theme Updates
- When assigning a theme to a Library or Location, Aspen will now provide an initial weight greater than the existing amount of themes to keep it from being the default theme.
Translation Updates
- When importing translations, Aspen will now encode the terms to ensure compatibility with the database.
- The prompts for confirming with the user to Freeze Selected or All Holds is now translatable.
- The prompts for confirming with the user to Thaw Selected or All Holds is now translatable.
- The prompts for confirming with the user to Cancel Selected or All Holds is now translatable.
- Prevent imported translations and community translations from sharing the value "null" for translated terms.
VDX Updates
- Add a class of vdx-request-btn for VDX request buttons so they can be styled with css.
Web Builder Updates
- Add the ability to create quick polls within Web Builder.
New Settings
- Web Builder / Quick Polls
New Permissions
- Administer All Quick Polls
- Administer Library Quick Polls
Other Updates
- Show the list of users that can be assigned to a materials request properly when the user's display name has not been set.
- Do not redirect to an individual record page if the search term starts with id.
- Fix saving secondary phone number.
- Added SIP function to handle barcode self-checkout with the ILS.
- Added API endpoint in the User API to support barcode self-checkout.
- Fixed an issue where bots were generating errors with old saved searches
- Fixed an issue where the usage dashboard was incorrectly showing "0" values for sessions started.
- Allow Solr server to be specified when creating new sites.
- Fix issue where barcodes with a "+" couldn't check out Overdrive items
- Install ClamAV by default
- Fix issue where wrong language shows in More Details for non-English works
- Fix issue where if includeOutOfSystemExternalLinks is set to true, Libby items sometimes showed the incorrect availability status
Aspen LiDA Updates
- Added "Forgot Password" to the login screen for libraries who have it enabled.
- When viewing a user list from a Browse Category show button to delete the item from the list instead of adding.
- Fixed a bug that would cause the Notifications onboarding prompt to display too frequently.
- Added "Forgot Barcode" to the login screen for libraries who have it enabled.
- When placing a hold that allowed an item-level selection, and "First Available" is selected, it will no longer treat it as an item-level hold.
- Filtering on My Checkouts and My Holds screens will now filter as expected.
- If enabled in Discovery users can now self-checkout items in the app.
- For Koha, the app will now support the hold cancellation workflow.
- Fixed a bug preventing users from going to the Holds screen after placing a hold.
- When searching for an item by scanning the barcode, if only 1 result is returned, the app will automatically load that Grouped Work.
Documentation coming soon!
Watch the 23.09.00 Aspen Updates in an Instant Recording
Watch a short highlight video of the some of the new features available in 23.09.00
Read more by Mark Noble