Aurora Desktop Release Notes – 2014 #
Details are displayed in reverse chronological order (latest first)
Type of Release code per feature: (E=Enhancement, B=Bug fix, M=Major release)
Reference | Version | Change | Source of Change | Functions affected by Release | Display Effect | Parameter changes |
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181 E | 4.12.3 | The ability to add pdf documents via digital catalogue has been adjusted. This process now adds a pdf with a 006/09 = z (other) to separate it from an eBook 006/09 = d (document). This change has also incorporated a fix to the cataloguing save functionality of Digital catalogue documents. | NLML | Digital Cataloguing | None | None |
180 B | 4.12.3 | The newly acquired works screen had lost its control for defining the format and was displaying the entity rather than ‘All’ results. This is now working | NSHOR | Search/Lists | None | None |
179 E | 4.12.3 | ‘Browse by Name and Subjects’ has been added as an option on the first level of the catalogue popup menu to allow searching through both heading types. | NSHOR | Cataloguing | New menu function | None |
178 E | 4.12.3 | The Loan Parameters Closed Days ‘Council’ combobox will be disabled unless the operator is at level 8 or above. | NSHOR | Closed Days | None | None |
177 E | 4.12.3 | A cosmetic change was made to the Loan Parameters screen for users with low resolution monitors. | AIT | Loan Parameters | Buttons have moved | None |
176 B | 4.12.1 | A bug was found where the $z Message field was not being displayed until saved in the 852 tag after load. This has been rectified. | NSPL | Cataloguing | None | None |
175 E | 4.12.3 | The columns in ‘Details of a Work/Works’ are now able to be sorted via the column header. | RNZFB | Details of a work | As described | None |
174 E | 4.12.1 | Further fields have been added to the display table in ‘User Links/Requests’. | RNZFB | Requests | As described | None |
173 E | 4.12.3 | For the item format Magazine, the ability to select both Magazine and Daisy has been added to allow for ‘burn on demand’ Daisy magazines. | RNZFB | System Parameters/Item Formats | New check box | None |
172 E | 4.12.3 | A new tab ‘Reports’ has been added to the System Parameters group, this will provide the ability to add and maintain reports in the SQL Query screen. At present it only displays the report info, the ability to save will be added in an upcoming version. | AIT | System Parameters | New function | None |
171 B | 4.12.3 | Failure of the ‘Advanced reminders’ was being displayed on Desktop when the notices had been run successfully. This occurred when there were no notices to be sent out. The process of checking if the task has been run has been amended to cover this eventuality. | AIT | Desktop | None | None |
170 E | 4.12.3 | The selection of added since or updated since has been separated as new filter options in Bibliographic Export allowing further refinement of selection criteria. The combined ‘added or updated since’ option remains in place | QMC | Bibliographic Export | New radio buttons | None |
169 E | 4.12.3 | The ability to filter by a string has been added to Bibliographic Export. This allows the operator to search records by Title, Author, Subject, Series, Publisher,or Anywhere to limit the records to be exported. This function also contains an option to NOT find the string. | VNILS | Bibliographic Export | New function | None |
168 B | 4.10.15 | A bug was removed that caused workforms to disappear intermittently. | AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
167 E | 4.10.15 | Withdrawn items will now appear on the ‘Reserves with no available items’ key report | AIT | Reports | None | None |
166 E | 4.10.15 | New Enterprise parameters have been added to allow only specific statistical categories 1 and 2 to be selected for display in the cataloguing screen. | AIT | Cataloguing | None | |
165 E | 4.10.15 | An optional subscription is now being offered to perform Z39.50 searching through Aurora Cloud Services via AWS. This service provides the means to perform Z39.50 searches without the need to open network ports (e.g. 210) required by all Z39.50 servers. | AIT | Cataloguing | New radio button in Remote Catalogiong | None |
164 E | 4.10.15 | If a Remote catalogue search is performed in Search and the operator has cataloguing access, then the MARC record will now be placed into the Clipboard when the title is selected. | AIT | Search | None | None |
163 E | 4.10.15 | Setting your favourites in the Remote Catalogue screen can now be done per workstation. This is achieved by altering the auWksAurora.ini file and amending the favourites line under [Z3950] e.g. Favourites=State Library of Western Australia (LISWA)^Libraries Australia^ | AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
162 E | 4.10.15 | New Enterprise parameters have been added to allow Statistical categories 1 and 2 to be selected for display in the serial predictions screen. The chosen statistical category may then be automatically added to all items created in that prediction. | AIT | Serials | None | |
161 E | 4.10.15 | Automatic and manual claims functionality has been added to Aurora Desktop for both Monographic and Serial orders. Manual claims can be initiated from the receive orders screen by title or purchase order. Alternatively from the Notices screen, claims may be generated for a supplier, date range or automatically for all items eligible for claim. A flash marker is placed next to an order that has been claimed in Receive Orders indicating how many claims have been made and the date claimed is viewable here too. | AIT | Notices / Claims / Receive Orders | New radio buttons and search options | None |
160 E | 4.10.15 | A new tab has been added to Loan Parameters to define the days the library’s Closed Days | AIT | Closed Days | New tab | None |
159 E | 4.10.15 | When a report is run that requires an input field, the label for this field is highlighted in yellow. | AIT | SQL Query | ‘as described’ | None |
158 E | 4.9.30 | A new Enterprise parameter has been added to automatically set lost items to a normal status when they are checked in through the returns process. NOTE: This setting may cause conflict with the ‘Lost items – purge’ and should be used with caution. | AIT | System parameters | None | AutoClearLostOnReturn |
157 E | 4.9.30 | A new interface has been added to perform maintenance on the non-operational days of your library. Dates may be set for a specific year or fixed so that they recur. These closed days may be labeled with free text and the closed day may even be marked as a date that items are due if so desired. | AIT | Reports | New tab ‘Closed Days’ | None |
156 E | 4.9.30 | SQL Query has been updated to display enabled fields more clearly. Now when a SQL report is run that requires an input field, the label for this field is highlighted in yellow. | AIT | Reports | Yellow highlights | None |
155 E | 4.9.30 | New Enterprise parameters have been added to allow statistical categories 1 and 2 to be selected for display in the cataloguing screen. These statistical categories will be the only codes available when adding a holding. These parameters may be inserted via Aurora Systems Manager ASM v4.9.19 | AIT | Cataloguing | None | MonoStatCat1, MonoStatCat2 |
154 E | 4.9.30 | New Enterprise parameters have been added to allow Statistical categories 1 and 2 to be selected for display in the serial predictions screen. The chosen statistical category may then be automatically added to all items created in that prediction. These parameters may be inserted via Aurora Systems Manager ASM v4.9.19 | AIT | Serials | New combo boxes for category selection | SerialStatCat1, SerialStatCat2 |
153 E | 4.9.10 | A new batch run ‘Show email addresses – bad syntax’ has been added. This will display users that have errors in their email addresses such as spaces, carriage returns, extra @ symbols and more. | AIT | Batch Runs | None | None |
152 E | 4.9.10 | If a user places a suggestion and selects ‘Upgrade my suggestion to a request’ the library name will appear in the ‘Collect at’ column of suggestion. If the user does not select this checkbox [Not required] is displayed. This allows the distinction between requests that require a reservation and those that do not. | NSPL | Suggestion | None | None |
151 E | 4.9.10 | A new bibliographic work status has been added ‘Shadowed Work’. Works that are marked shadowed will not appear in the OPAC. This may require an updated OPAC .dll file. | AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
150 E | 4.9.10 | The ability to transfer an active reservation from one work to another has been added to the ‘Details of a work’ screen (this requires AWS 4.8.30 or later). When the reserve is selected in ‘Details of a work’ a new menu item ‘Transfer this reserve’ pops up if the reserve is active and it is a monograph. If this option is selected the next step is to find another work in search. Right clicking on the work in search will provide the new menu option ‘Transfer reserve to this work’. The reserve will be transferred and the reserve comment field will be updated in User links. | AIT | Reservations | New contextual menu options | None |
149 E | 4.9.10 | The task level for access to SQL Query has been lowered from 8 to 7 | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
148 E | 4.9.10 | The contextual help menu has been added to the Labels screen | AIT | Labels | None | None |
147 E | 4.9.10 | An operator may now opt to have Bib ID or ISBN as the default on startup of Bibliographic Cataloguing. This may also be defined in the Options tab of Bibliographic Cataloguing. | NSHOR | Cataloguing / Options | New checkbox | None |
146 E | 4.9.10 | A new Enterprise setting DropTags_Z3950_b allows the definition of tags to be dropped from records found via Z39.50. To prevent such an action from interfering with the saving of these records to disk the tags are dropped before they are put into ‘Marc view’. These tags can be defined in the Enterprise table and viewed on the options tab of Bibliographic Cataloguing. | NSHOR | Cataloguing | None | DropTags_Z3950_b |
145 E | 4.9.10 | In cataloguing the ‘scroll Lock’ key acts as a shortcut to toggle ‘Assist’ on/off | AIT | Bibliographic Cataloguing | None | None |
144 E | 4.9.10 | Items on loan which have a ‘Claimed Returned’ or ‘Statutory Declaration/Claimed never loaned’ status now do not trap a reservation when they are returned. On return the operator will be prompted to remove the claimed returned status. If the operator answers ‘No’ they will be prompted to bill the user. If the answer is again ‘No’ the charge is applied but with a waive and there is no outstanding amount owed.
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NSHOR | Returns | None | None |
143 E | 4.9.10 | A user message has been added to the ‘Cancelled trapped reserve report’ process. This permanent message contains information on the item and date it should have been collected by. | NLML | User Links | None | None |
142 E | 4.9.10 | Desktop has been extended to allow .xml files and work files to be saved to a network disk rather than a local disk. If this functionality is required the following two lines must be added to the [Settings] section of the auWksAurora.ini file with Z: and Y: representing the disk directories. These can be mapped drives or UNC paths.
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QWSC | AuWksAurora | None | None |
141 B | 4.9.10 | Some screens were found to not be resizing correctly when the font size was changed. These have been corrected. | AIT | Headings, Invoices, Marc parameter & List of works | None | None |
140 E | 4.9.10 | Having this Enterprise parameter set to on will allow part of a day to be registered as a full day overdue. E.g. 3 days 8hrs overdue = 4 days overdue. The returns screen also shows the calculation in the comment field when the item is returned. | NSHOR | System Parameters | None | ChargesIncPartOverdue |
139 E | 4.8.15 | Reserves may now be placed for users in an abnormal status by using the new checkbox ‘Allow review user status’ in the ‘Place reservation’ screen that pops up when you are in Search. | AIT | Search | New checkbox | None |
138 E | 4.8.15 | Flashes are now present on the ‘Place a Reservation’ screen that pops up when you are in Search. These show if the user is debarred or in an abnormal state. | AIT | Search | None | None |
137 E | 4.8.15 | mPac statistics are now counted in the Collection Maintenace > Graph Searches screen. These are in blue if present. This requires an mPac that is setup to use operator ‘mpac’ if not a consortium council, or ‘mpac_<entity>’ if a consortium council. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
136 B | 4.8.15 | The ‘User Links’ Previous Loans Delete button had lost functionality. This has been restored | AIT | User Links | None | None |
135 E | 4.8.15 | The ‘User Links’ Previous Loans History button now shows all transactions, where previously it did not show it if there was only one (the loan itself). | AIT | User Links | None | None |
134 E | 4.8.15 | A new check box ‘Browse backwards’ has been added to the Headings screen. This allows a user to view the headings in reverse alphabetic order, so that the headings before the searched term may be viewed. | AIT | Headings | New check box | None |
133 E | 4.8.15 | The ability to manipulate, create and delete matching routines has been added to a new tab in System Parameters. This requires AWS 4.8.6 or later. | AIT | System Parameters | New tab Matching routines | None |
132 E | 4.8.15 | When a key report is run, the tick is removed from the tick box, ‘Show reports’ in SQL Query to provide a fuller view of the generated report. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
131 E | 4.8.15 | The screen focal point was adjusted so that the mouse wheel no longer changes the financial year. | AIT | Funds | None | None |
130 E | 4.8.15 | A new panel has been added to the Fund detail tab to provide further information on a particular order. This has also been adjusted to display the serial subscription amount as well as the order amount. | AIT | Funds | New panel | None |
129 E | 4.8.15 | Four new reports have been added to ‘Key Reports’. These show the top 100 loaned works, broken down by format, statistical category or user type. They are also refined by a number of days. | AIT | Reports | New key reports | None |
128 E | 4.7.30 | A new checkbox, Discover Local / Remote has been added. This defaults to off and allows the lists in suggestion to be displayed faster. Checking this box enables the discovery tab and a refresh of the list will activate the search. | AIT | Suggestion | New check box | None |
127 E | 4.7.30 | A number of email parameters are now able to be set at the Council level for libraries operating in a consortium environment. These can be managed in the Enterprise table in System Parameters. The parameters so extended are:
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AIT | System Parameters | None | as described |
126 E | 4.7.30 | A new listview has been added to the ‘Fund detail’ tab when viewing orders. This makes it easier to view the audit transactions which relate to specific orders and comprise the expenditure when appropriate. | AIT | Funds | as described | None |
125 E | 4.7.30 | The funds screen now shows only the funds relating to a specific council (Consortium). | AIT | Funds | as described | None |
124 B | 4.7.30 | A bug was created by the introduction of the fund description in ‘Details of a work’ 4.7.16. This caused the ‘Orders by suppliers’ tab to only display one record. This has been corrected. | AIT | Suppliers | as described | None |
123 E | 4.7.30 | The headings are now colour coded in the marc view of the catalogue record. The codes are listed below:
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AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
122 E | 4.7.30 | The ability to upgrade a heading to a ‘Basic Authority’ has also been added to the cataloguing screen. From here, a heading may be authorised without having to go to authority cataloguing. | NSHOR | Headings | None | None |
121 E | 4.7.30 | The ability to upgrade a heading to a ‘Basic Authority’ has been added to the Headings screen. This allows a heading to be upgraded to an authority without accessing authority cataloguing. | NSHOR | Headings | None | None |
120 E | 4.7.30 | The Search items screen now defaults to call number browse and the operator’s home library. | AIT | Search items | None | None |
119 E | 4.7.30 | A link from a work in ‘Look-up Selection’ to ‘Details of a work’ has been added in the Homebound module | AIT | Homebound | None | None |
118 E | 4.7.30 | Two new enterprise parameters have been added to allow the tags defined to be dropped when cataloguing records to be different to the tags defined to be dropped when loading records. The new parameters are DropTags_Cataloguing_b (Bibliographic) and DropTags_Cataloguing_a (Authority) | NSHOR | System Parameters | None | As described |
117 E | 4.7.16 | A subject heading may now be updated to an authority, when an exact match name heading already exists. A link is auto generated in the 072 $a value of the new heading, and is used to advise AWS that the origional source of the record is a heading. A non-preferred Subject heading may now become a preferred Subject heading even though the associated Authority record is a Name authority record. | NSHOR | Headings | None | None |
116 E | 4.7.16 | There is a new option in Serials control to select the sub-locations that the items created via prediction will be placed in. As previously with location, more than one sublocation may be chosen for multiple issues. | AIT | Serials | New checkbox and sub-location display | None |
115 E | 4.7.16 | Desktop has been modified, so that on start-up, if unable to connect to AWS an offline workstation will not default to the first location for loans. The workstation will default to the information acquired from the XML file on the PC disk. | AIT | Start up | None | None |
114 E | 4.7.16 | When an order is being placed via the ‘Approved Order Suggestions’ tick box. If the suggestion has an estimated price, this is now displayed in the far right column. | QGML | Place Order | New column | None |
113 E | 4.7.16 | The charges maintenance screen has been moved into Desktop and allows operators with appropriate security to update the library charges. More information on setting these parameters may be found at Charges | AIT | Loan Parameters | New tab ‘Charges’ | None |
112 E | 4.7.16 | Desktop has been modified to allow two levels of Special Interest Codes (SIC). These codes may be drawn from the 659 $a (code) and $b (description) fields. The SIC codes are defined in System Parameters > SIC Codes tab. The levels are defined in System Parameters > System > Special Interest Codes – Level 1 and Special Interest Codes – Level 2. | NLML | System Parameters | None | None |
111 E | 4.7.16 | Identifiers have been added to the security tab in operators parameter maintenance. These clearly define if the operator does not have access to perform a specific task. The icons also have a tool tip that states the required security level for that task:
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AIT | System Parameters / Operators | None | None |
110 E | 4.7.16 | The fund warnings defined in Fund Management now alert the user in the Place Order function, if they are violating the levels set. The limits affected are ‘Percent overcommitment allowed’, ‘Percent overspend allowed’, ‘Max% on a single order’ and ‘Max amount on a single order’. These warnings may be overridden by a user with appropriate permissions. | AIT | Funds | None | None |
109 E | 4.7.16 | Context sensitive help links have been added for Reviews, Circulations per Hour and Digital Catalogue. | AIT | Help | None | None |
108 E | 4.7.16 | If you navigate from Place an Order to Remote Catalogue via the Ctrl+R shortcut, the ISBN that was used to search is now taken across. | AIT | Place an order | None | None |
107 B | 4.6.13 | A bug has been fixed where, if there were two items of a work, and one of these was trapped for a reserve, then the item on loan to a user was not able to be renewed. | NLML | Circulation | None | None |
106 E | 4.6.13 | Supplementary issues may now be inserted before the last, and after the first, issue in a subscription | NLML | Serials Control / Issues | None | None |
105 E | 4.6.13 | A new function that allows the operator to choose a font size between 8pt and 12pt has been added to Desktop. | AIT | Desktop | New control on all screens | None |
104 E | 4.6.13 | A serial issue is now able to have set the status of ‘No longer expected’. This control is in the contextual menu on the issues tab. | NSPL | Serials control | New command in contextual menu | None |
103 E | 4.6.13 | The ability to create spine labels has been moved from Backroom to Desktop. This screen allows an operator to select a template, e.g. Avery_L7651, then wand in item barcode values. The program enters the relevant call numbers from the holding, and when finished, the operator can print the page of labels. The label parameters are defined by rules in the auLabels.ini file. | AIT | New function (to Desktop) | New button ‘Labels’ on the Technical Services ribbon | None |
102 B | 4.6.13 | There was an error in SQL Query when loading the suUserDebarReasonToCombos routine. This error has been rectified. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
101 E | 4.6.4 | A new task has been added to Aurora Task to automatically renew serial subscriptions that are within the current financial year and have not yet been renewed. Please see Aurora Task ASR | NSPL | Serials | None | None |
100 E | 4.6.4 | A serial may now be retrieved by bibliographic ID on the Subscriptions tab | NSPL | Serials | None | None |
99 E | 4.6.4 | On the subscription tab, the status of a serial will show whether the subscription has been renewed (the icons have been changed to reflect this). The renewal may be instigated from this tab as well by utilising the contextual menu. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
98 E | 4.6.4 | When a prediction is automatically filled by the ‘Last prediction pattern’, the last received issue is displayed in a pop-up box. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
97 E | 4.6.4 | An extension is made to Serials Predictions – When items are created via a successful serial prediction, the values in certain fields are saved and are able to be used to predict future subscriptions. The new fields are applied by Aurora Systems Manager for update to Schema version 177, and so this is required before this function can operate. The next time a subscription is placed on this same order, these fields will be automatically filled. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
96 E | 4.6.4 | The ‘Fund bubble up task’ has been amended to complete all ‘On order’ subscriptions that have no items waiting to be received. Please see Aurora Task ASR | AIT | Serials | None | None |
95 E | 4.6.4 | The number of statuses for a subscription has been reduced to three. ‘On order’ – this denotes a current subscription and the value of the subscription will appear in commitment. ‘Completed’ – this denotes a subscription that has been completed and the value of the subscription has been moved to expenditure. ‘Cancelled order’ – this denotes a subscription that has been cancelled and will not show in either commitment or expenditure. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
94 E | 4.6.4 | The ability to move the commitment value of a serial subscription over to expenditure has been added. This is achieved by marking the subscription completed. The value of the subscription NOT the order is used for this calculation. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
93 E | 4.6.4 | Remote catalogue searching now has the ability to display all of the hits returned, rather than the first 20, if the operator is searching through a single remote catalogue. | AIT | Cataloguing | As described | None |
92 E | 4.6.4 | The ability to create adhoc bibliographies from a user’s cart within Desktop has been added. After selection of a user, items may be added via bib ID in this screen, or through ‘Search’ via right click, ‘List of works’ > ‘Add work to a user’s cart’. After a list is created view the items in the ‘view user cart’ tab and a right click contextual menu provides the options to create a bibliography. | AIT | User Cart | As described | None |
91 B | 4.6.4 | A bug was identified that prevented the title level reserve file from saving, this has now been rectified. | AIT | Offline | None | None |
90 B | 4.5.16 | A bug was identified that caused a loop when a user type was automatically changed from adult to senior. This has been rectified | NSHOR | Circulation | None | None |
89 E | 4.5.16 | A new menu option has been added to allow the operator to go to returns directly from the ILL list if the selected request has a barcode number | AIT | Interlibrary loans | New option in pop-up menu | None |
88 B | 4.5.16 | When an interlibrary loan has been received and is returned to trap the reservation, when prompted to remove the abnormal status, the answer ‘yes’ now removes only the inprogress status and leaves the ‘interlibrary loan’ status intact. | NSHOR | Interlibrary loans | None | None |
87 E | 4.5.16 | A ‘Reference number’ may now be assigned to an item and viewed on the item details screen. The item can be found in search by choosing ‘item reference number’ from the dropdown menu. | RNZFB | Item Details / Circulation details panel | None | StaticItem. IS_ItemOld is now used for this field |
86 E | 4.5.16 | A new button has been added to the Details of a Work summary, with a tooltip: ‘Place a request on this work’. This allows the operator to assign a request to the user currently selected. This is specifically provided for Libraries for the Blind / Homebound application, and if the user is not registered in the homebound module, then you will receive warnings. | RNZFB | Search / Details of a Work summary | None | None |
85 E | 4.5.16 | The Help link for Bibliographic Merge is now in place. | AIT | Help | None | None |
84 E | 4.5.16 | With the corresponding AWS version or later in place, operators can now maintain the Operator Task Group levels from within Desktop. Right-click for a contextual menu that also accommodates the save button | AIT | System Parameters | New contextual menu | None |
83 E | 4.5.16 | The Bibliographies screen now has the 2 Statistical Category fields as filters. | NSHOR | Reports / Bibliographies | Two new combo selections for the Statistical Categories | None |
82 E | 4.5.16 | A new pop-up menu is applied to the User Links / Items on loan display. This allows one or more items to be returned. A secondary option allows all checkboxes to be selected, and this permits block return of all loans to a given user. | AIT | User Links | New pop-up menu | None |
81 E | 4.5.16 | The placement of a new request now advises if the user has been loaned that work previously. This is to prevent staff from unintentionally giving the same title to the same user | AIT | Circulation | New alert | None |
80 B | 4.5.16 | The Profile and Homebound user screens were not displaying the user name. This has been rectified | AIT | Loans | as described | None |
79 E | 4.5.16 | When returning items the last item actioned now appears at the top of the list | AIT | Returns | as described | None |
78 E | 4.5.16 | When checking out items, the last item actioned now appears at the top of the list | AIT | Loans | as described | None |
77 E | 4.5.5 | On the creation of a ‘Quick Work’, the work is assigned the status ‘Mark for Review’ if the new Enterprise parameter ‘BibsMarkForReviewIfQuick’ is true | QPIL | Quick Work | None | New enterprise parameter as detailed |
76 E | 4.5.5 | When an order is created from a suggestion, the suggestion is now automatically deleted – if the new Enterprise parameter ‘SuggestAutoDelOnOrder’is true | AIT | Suggestion, Acquisitions | None | New enterprise parameter as detailed |
75 E | 4.5.5 | When a suggestion is turned into an interlibrary loan the suggestion is now automatically deleted – if the new Enterprise parameter ‘SuggestAutoDelOnILL’true | AIT | Suggestion, Interlibrary loans | None | New enterprise parameter as detailed |
74 E | 4.5.5 | A new button has been introduced into the Interlibrary loan form, that allows the operator to create a ‘Quick ILL‘. This new button will create the work and load it into the catalogue without the need to create a suggestion. This greatly reduces the amount of time it takes staff to create an interlibrary loan request. | AIT | Interlibrary loans | New ‘green cross’ button | None |
73 E | 4.5.5 | If an Item format has a parameter setting indicating ‘no holdings’, then the Homebound ‘lookup’ now bypasses the item format filter | NSHOR | Homebound | None | None |
72 E | 4.5.5 | Call number browsing is fixed to allow call numbers ending in Z to be found | NSHOR | Search | None | None |
71 E | 4.4.24 | A new context sensitive menu option is provided to invoke a ‘lookup’ directly from the page showing the profile headings. | AIT | Housebound | New menu | None |
70 E | 4.4.24 | The immutable title number is now shown on the Housebound list of works looked up | AIT | Housebound | As described | None |
69 E | 4.4.24 | Clicking a hyperlink now invokes a Browser rather than using the internal Aurora Desktop. | AIT | Search | None | None |
68 E | 4.4.24 | A change of bibliographic record status will now trigger the Save button to be enabled | NSHOR | Cataloguing | None | None |
67 E | 4.4.24 | The Suppliers screen now contains the ability to export to Excel on the three listview tabs:
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NSHOR | Suppliers | New Excel button and link | None |
66 E | 4.4.24 | The Statistics – Stock report in Collections has been enhanced to provide a more detailed breakdown of stock. New radio buttons have been added for the following:
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NSHOR | Collections | New radio buttons | None |
65 E | 4.4.2 | Published is now a searchable field | AIT | Search | None | None |
64 E | 4.4.2 | The search for headings has been updated to allow for ‘space dash dash space’ (Great Britain — History) to be inserted between search terms. | NSHOR | Headings | None | None |
63 E | 4.4.2 | A ‘starts with’ search has been altered to include hits that have a leading article such as an, a or the. The search has also been altered to ignore a leading article placed in the query. ‘a killer’ will find the same set of results as ‘killer’ in a ‘starts with’ search | AIT/NSHOR | Search | None | None |
62 E | 4.4.2 | New tasks are added to Submit Task:
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AIT/NSPL | Submit Task | New tasks as indicated | None |
61 E | 4.4.2 | Following a ruling in the NSW High Court that allows someone in NSW to be categorised as a ‘Non-specific’ gender, this more appropriate term is now used as the default in place of ‘Transgender’. | AIT/NSPL | User details | Gender selection labels | None |
60 E | 4.4.2 | The button to check for existence of the Alias on file in another user record is now aligned to the Alias text box | NSPL | User details | Alias check button position | None |
59 E | 4.4.2 | A change is made to the ordering of the vertical control buttons in User Details: the Delete button is now moved to the bottom of the column | NSPL | User details | Command button display | None |
58 E | 4.4.2 | A new keyword is now available for Docket Reservation Slip output, allowing the user’s mobile number to be printed. The keyword is [USR_Mobile] | NSHOR | Docket Reservation Slip | None | None |
57 B | 4.4.1 | A problem was found in GST calculations in the export to Finance One process for order details. This is fixed | NLML | Finance Export | None | None |
56 E | 4.4.1 | The Digital Catalogue is now fully functional in Desktop under the Technical Services tab. This was previously only available in Backroom under Collection Management. | NLML | Digital Catalogue | Toolbar icon now enabled and linking to the existing function’s screens | None |
55 E | 4.3.31 | A new option is added to Collections / Annual Statistics, allowing statistical counts to be produced according to transaction | AIT | Collections / Annual Statistics | New radio button as indicated | None |
54 B | 4.3.31 | A bug was fixed that prevented commitments moving through to expenditure. This only occurred in sites using accounting method 2 and Desktop version 4.3.26 | AIT | Funds | None | None |
53 E | 4.3.26 | The ‘collect at’ column in Suggestions has been added to the Excel export file | RLQ | Suggestions | New column in exported file | None |
52 E | 4.3.26 | Suggestions have been added to User links. The suggestions can be viewed by clicking on the link in Loans and User details displays. A right click opens active suggestions. | RLQ | User Links | User Links, User Details, Loans | None |
51 E | 4.3.26 | The Item Format deletion process has been amended to record the costing in the CirculationHistory table. | AIT | Circulation | None | None |
50 E | 4.3.19 | The Scroll key now allows the top Ribbon tabs to be changed via keyboard: so someone vision impaired is now able to press Scroll, then Alt, and select a tab, then press Alt to go to the required function. It must remain a 2-step process and is therefore not set by default. Hint is modified to indicate this (and also includes the Escape key which can be used to clear the clipboard – if used, a message to this effect is shown in the bottom right corner once this key is pressed). | AIT | Shortcuts | Changes as detailed | None |
49 E | 4.3.19 | A new function is added to Cataloguing, allowing the creation of Child holdings, allowing serial records with large numbers of embedded item details to be slimmed down and made more efficient by moving selected items to separated MARC Holdings records. Please note that the option to create a new child holding requires AWS 4.3.19 or later to be in place. | AIT | New function | Changes to Cataloguing screen – new link and new tab | None |
48 E | 4.3.14 | The Lists of Works function is extended to allow setting of list attributes (description, reading level, active dates) and permit deletion | AIT | Lists of Works | Extensions of the function as indicated | None |
47 E | 4.3.11 | The ability to add reading lists and prequel/sequel lists has been moved across to .Net. Works can be added to a list via search. Please see List of Works. This function requires AWS 4.3.11 or later | AIT | New function | The Cart link has been renamed ‘Lists of works’ and is expanded | None |
46 E | 4.3.11 | ‘Quick suggestion’ has been added to the ‘Circulation’ ribbon bar. The icon for ‘Local settings’ has been replaced. ‘Collections’ has been relocated to the ‘Administration’ ribbon bar next to ‘Reports’ | AIT | Desktop | As described | None |
45 E | 4.3.11 | New columns have been added to ‘Quick find’. The columns are Middle name/initial, User title, Home library and Council | AIT | Quick Find | New Columns | None |
44 E | 4.3.6 | Shortcuts have been added to all selections on the Circulation, Technical Services, Administration and Management ribbon bars. A new button ‘Hint‘ has been added to each that displays the shortcuts available. Selecting ‘Alt’ on your keyboard will also display the relevant shortcuts. | AIT | Desktop | Hint button and shortcut hints | None |
43 B | 4.3.3 | A conflict in the User 029 tag has been resolved which prevented saving referral information inputted via User Details/Profile | AIT | User Details | None | None |
42 E | 4.2.26 | A new message has been added to an unsuccessful Bibliographic ID search to indicate that the search failed and provides suggested syntax. | AIT | Search | New message popup | None |
41 E | 4.2.26 | The ‘Skeleton record’ checkbox in Quick work now indicates whether the Enterprise parameter SkeletonItemCheck is set to ON or OFF. | AIT | Quick Work | None | None |
40 E | 4.2.26 | A new checkbox is applied to SQL Query – ‘Lock dates’ – when this is ticked, the dates from/to are retained as entered, and do not then need to be restated for a number of continuous reports. | AIT | SQL Query | New checkbox | None |
39 E | 4.2.26 | SQL Query syntax is being overhauled, to improve the performance of older reports. You will need first to apply Aurora Systems Manager of this date or later. | AIT | SQL Query – ‘canned’ reports | None | None |
38 B | 4.2.25 | A fault was identified in title searching in Serials Control, where the presence of an apostrophe in a title was not taken into account. This is now fixed | AIT | Serials Control | None | None |
37 E | 4.2.22 | System parameters: Item formats now allows for the maintenance of a new parameter (field: Loan_ItemFormat. IM_XONotices), which is labelled ‘Excluded from overdue notices’, and has that effect of suppression from the Notices processes.Note that the parameter must be applied by Aurora Systems Manager of this date or later | VNILS/AIT | System parameters: Item formats | None | New parameter as indicated |
36 E | 4.2.15 | With this version (and AWS of the same date or later), Administrators are able to define Councils (or whole systems) that block items from being reserved according to settings for specific statistical category 1 and/or 2 values.
If the Council has no other items to satisfy a reserve, then the reserve is denied.
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AIT | Reservation | None | None |
35 E | 4.2.15 | Previously if you did a batch deletion in Item Transfer, the process used the Aurora Item IDs, and if the item had no item barcode, the number deleted was not shown. It now shows the Aurora Item ID in this case. | AIT | Item Transfer – Clear Item Transfer – Batch deletion | None | None |
34 E | 4.2.13 | A new Key Report option is added – Items – call number list – this lists (for the whole system, or specific Council or Library) any selected range of call numbers. This report can be qualified according
or any combination. Limits can also be applied to select according to the number of loans recorded, in a flexible time period, including or excluding renewals. The report listing is shown on the SQL Query tab |
AIT/NSHOR | Reports / Key Reports | New report as detailed | None |
33 E | 4.2.13 | A new Key Report option is added – Reserves with no available items – this lists (for the whole system, or specific Council or Library) any reserve for which there are no available items. This report bypasses items on-order but shows items with other abnormal statuses, and the number of reservations. The report listing is shown on the SQL Query tab. | AIT/NSHOR | Reports / Key Reports | New report as detailed | None |
32 E | 4.2.11 | A development allows an operator interface to list and see users requiring requests or profile allocations, and to invoke the new AWS allocation method – and to receive the response (viewing items created and lent) | AIT/VNILS | Allocated loan | New ‘On demand’ tab | None |
31 E | 4.2.11 | An adjustment is applied to the SQL syntax for most popular Titles in Collections – Graph-Loans /Title, to remove duplicate iterations (as alternative titles) of the same work. | AIT | Collections – Graph-Loans | None | None |
30 E | 4.2.6 | Where a title is duplicated in a ‘starts with’ search result, because the title is similar to the additional title, an icon is now displayed to alert. | RLQ | Search | New ‘dice’ icon | None |
29 E | 4.2.6 | All areas where call numbers are entered into bibliographic records now have automatic capitalisation. These include Quick Work, Quick Holding, Add holding/Details of a work and Change Holding/Cataloguing. | RLQ | Cataloguing / Search / Quick Work | None | None |
28 B | 4.2.6 | A bug was fixed that prevented barcode and bib_id searches in ‘Search for any work’. | NSHOR | Search | None | None |
27 E | 4.2.5 | The ability to add a user’s barcode to the loan docket has been introduced via .xml template. | NSHOR | Templates | As described | None |
26 E | 4.2.5 | Similar to the use of the Red Flag to indicate items are overdue, a new Amber Highlighter over items due in the next two (or three) days has been added to the Loans, User Links and Item Details screens. The number of days is extracted from the Advance Reminder Enterprise setting. | NSHOR | Loans / Item Details / User Links | As described | None |
25 E | 4.2.5 | ‘Search’ has been changed to remember the last title sort and sequence plus the last item sort settings | NSHOR | Search | None | None |
24 E | 4.2.5 | A new tab ‘Key Reports’ has been added to ‘Daily Reports’ that will contains a list of reports and refinements. Only one report has been added so far: ‘Unsatisfied reserves’. This report lists reservations that have not been satisfied within a time limit set by the operator and is library specific. These reports are viewed in ‘SQL Query’ and may be exported from there. If the work reserved has an item attached, the item status is displayed. | NSHOR | Reports | As described | None |
23 E | 4.2.5 | If a ‘starts with’ search results in no hits being found, Desktop now automatically invokes a second browse on the title sortkey to attempt to show some indicative results | NSHOR | Search | None | None |
22 E | 4.1.29 | A +/- adjustment in Invoices now immediately forces a recalculation of the funds. | NSHOR | Invoices | None | None |
21 E | 4.1.29 | A hyperlinked date has been added to the suggestion detail tab to indicate the last time a user was emailed. This link goes through to User Links / Calls which contains the HTML versions of the correspondence. | NSHOR | Suggestion | New Link | None |
20 E | 4.1.29 | In ‘Search / Details of a work / Summary / Orders ‘the right click contextual menu now has a new option ‘Receive Order’ for monographic items | NSHOR | Search / Details of a work / Summary / Orders | New menu option | None |
19 B | 4.1.29 | The supplier’s standard discount now holds when a new purchase order is selected. This occurs when placing a new order with the same supplier. | NSHOR | Place an Order | None | None |
18 B | 4.1.29 | A display issue was resolved that prevented the supplier discount function from being visible on some laptop screens. | NSHOR | Suppliers | As described | None |
17 B | 4.1.25 | The manipulation of Statistical data in ‘Statistics – Annual’ now produces the same results for Format and Statistical category 2, as well as totalling correctly for multiple branch libraries within a consortium | NSHOR | Collections / Statistics – Annual | None | None |
16 E | 4.1.25 | Statistical Category 2 has been added as an access point in ‘Graph – Loans’ | AIT | Collections / Graph – Loans | New radio button | None |
15 B | 4.1.24 | The User details relationship tree has been enhanced to provide more accurate detail | RLQ | Loan an Item | None | None |
14 B | 4.1.24 | The name of the borrower has been restored to the Reserve screen as it had been previously removed. | RLQ | Reserve an item or work | As described | None |
13 E | 4.1.23 | The ‘Aurora Wiki’ icon on the Desktop now opens with the local default browser. | NSHOR | Desktop | None | None |
12 E | 4.1.23 | Statistical Category 2 searching has been added to the Advanced Search screen. | NSHOR | Search | As described | None |
11 E | 4.1.22 | Order Price Notes and the Order Notes are now shown in the list view in Invoices. A note field also appears when you select to make an adjustment. | NSHOR | Invoices | As described | None |
10 E | 4.1.22 | The Monographic order statement in Receive Orders is extended, and a new box has been added to display Title, Author and ISBNs. ISBNs are now also displayed in the Orders list view. | NSHOR | Receive Orders | As described | None |
9 E | 4.1.22 | Terms have been rationalised for local title orders and local purchase orders. These are now consistently named ‘Title order ref.’ and ‘PO(local)’ | AIT | Place Orders / Receive Orders / Suppliers / Send Orders | None | None |
8 E | 4.1.22 | ‘Graph – user ages’ has been updated to include staff, organisations and suppliers. | AIT | Collections | None | None |
7 E | 4.1.22 | Overdue notices have been filtered for libraries for the blind. They no longer send notices for items which have the checkbox ‘Exclude from Overdue Notices’ ticked (Loan_ItemFormat field IM_XONotice set to 1) | AIT | Notices | None | None |
6 E | 4.1.17 | ‘Item lists report’ now includes both current location as well as current sub-location. | RLQ | Reports / Item lists | None | None |
5 E | 4.1.13 | The maximum number of rows displayed as a result of an SQL query has been raised from 1,000 to 2,000. | AIT | Reports / SQL Query | None | None |
4 E | 4.1.10 | If a ‘starts with’ or ‘exact’ search term starts with double quotes or some other similar punctuation it is now left in place to allow a match. Previously it was assumed this was a phrase search. | AIT | Search | None | None |
3 E | 4.1.8 | Overdue items display no longer shows the volume/part next to every title if the item has a single part. | AIT | User links | as described | None |
2 B | 4.1.8 | An error was found where the parameter for EmailSentFromReserves was using the overdue sent from address. This is now corrected | AIT | System parameters | None | None |
1 E | 4.1.7 | On start-up of Desktop, if the application does not have permissions to create a folder into which to put XML parameters, a message is now shown to indicate a possible security issue.
The directory 'xxxxxxx' could not be created due to local security permission settings. You can set the local application work area in auWksAurora.ini [Settings] with the line Environment_SpecialFolder=nn’ where nn is the numeric value denoting the work directory to be used Here the work area is defined as : yyyyyyy |
AIT | Startup | New message | None |