Aurora Desktop Release Notes – 2016 #
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 E | 6.11.2 | The results grid in SQL Query now has a contextual menu that allows the operator to link through to a user, item or work when their IDs are returned in a report. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 99 E | 6.11.2 | The supplier discount is now stored differently so that it may be retrieved in more situations. | AIT | User Links | None | None |
| 98 E | 6.11.2 | A new enterprise parameter has been added to allow a library to determine the default user message type used when creating user messages. | AIT | User Links | None | UserMessageTypeDefault |
| 97 E | 6.11.2 | Listview of a folder now clears if no files are in the folder. Previously it was showing the last displayed which was potentially misleading | AIT | Digital Cataloguing | None | None |
| 96 E | 6.11.2 | A new enterprise setting has been added to speed up the saving process of a work. This requires AWS v6.10.24 | AIT | Cataloguing | None | CatalogueSaveTask |
| 95 E | 6.11.2 | The lists in ‘Work to be done’ are now able to be exported to excel. | AIT | Cataloguing | New context menu choice | None |
| 94 B | 6.11.2 | There was an error occurring when the screen refreshed whereby the date due checkbox did not hold for some libraries. This has been rectified | QGML | Loans | None | None |
| 93 E | 6.11.2 | A format radio box in Item Formats now says “Newspapers” except for Libraries for the blind where it says “Daisy”. | AIT | System parameters | None | None |
| 92 E | 6.11.2 | There is now an extra check on login to see if there are any offline transactions pending | AIT | System | None | None |
| 91 E | 6.11.2 | The newly acquired list in Search has a new radio button ‘Newly acquired items’ that looks to see if the new works also have items added in the last 30 days for the entity that is creating the search. | NSHOR | Search | New radio button | None |
| 90 E | 6.11.2 | An item being created for the purposes of an ILL will now not have the Floating item flag set ON if new items for that location are specified as Floating stock. This requires AWS v6.10.24 or later. | AIT | Interlibrary Loans | None | None |
| 89 E | 6.11.2 | Serial captions are now appended to the title info if the item is still on file in Previous Loans. | AIT | Previous Loans | None | None |
| 88 E | 6.11.2 | The button ‘View history of this work’ in Previous Loans now links through to Circulation History and provides all loans for that user. | NSHOR | User Links | None | None |
| 87 E | 6.11.2 | A full list of user details may now be exported from user lists via a new check box called CSV. This new check box becomes available when the save results check box is selected. The operator must be level 7 or higher and the escape key will interupt the process. | NSPL | User Lists | New check box | None |
| 86 E | 6.11.2 | A new type of workstation is now available ‘Help’. This new workstation type provides a ‘Desktop lite’ version locked down to basic circulation features such as loan, reserve, renew and search. This is currently provided to QMC only for the purpose of a client services help desk, but is open for inquiry from other Aurora libraries. The structure of this new workstation type allows for the addition of multiple physical workstations to one workstation license. | QMC | System Parameters | New workstation type | None |
| 85 E | 6.11.2 | An HTML template may now be used to print the items on loan to an A4 sheet. This can be achieved through the loans screen and requires a HTML template and a new enterprise parameter to be activated. This is most useful when the user has a lot of items checked out. The function is attached to the print icon on the left side of the loan screen. | AIT | Loans | None | HTMLTemplate_ItemsOnLoans |
| 84 E | 6.11.2 | It is now possible to authorise 655 genre headings. This requires an update to Group/Subgroup codes for genre and this can be done on request. | NSHOR | Headings | None | None |
| 83 E | 6.11.2 | A new serial pattern ‘Five times a year’ has been added to Serial prediction. | NSHOR | Serial Control | None | None |
| 82 E | 6.11.2 | There is now a new Enterprise parameter called ReserveTrapUserReview which if set to True will allow an item to be trapped for a user with a status of Review on OPAC and Montage. If on Desktop a checkbox is located on the reserve pop-up box. | AIT | System parameters | None | ReserveTrapUserReview |
| 81 E | 6.11.2 | It is now possible to copy parameters from one library to another in the Closed Days tab of Loan Parameters. This is acheived by selecting the parameters you wish to duplicate (multi-select is available) and then moving to the new location and pasting these parameters. If a parameters is already there the paste is ignored. | AIT | Loan Parameters | New context menu | None |
| 80 B | 6.11.2 | A minor bug has been corrected where an out of memory error was intermittently being produced by the batch thumbnail process | AIT | Digital Catalogue | None | None |
| 79 E | 6.11.2 | A new item status ‘Display shelf’ has been added. This status may be used to identify items that are on display but are still available for loan. When this item is borrowed the status is automatically removed. This allows a borrower to loan the item from a kiosk even though it has an abnormal status. The item is also reservable. This requires AWS v6.8.1 or later. | NRML | Item Details | New check box | New status code 262144 |
| 78 E | 6.11.2 | The ability to create a user self profile with no subject headings in now permitted. This provides a blanket profile to be set on a single format. | NRML | User Self Profile | None | None |
| 77 E | 6.11.2 | An option to allow users to be emailed a list of newly added works matching their user profile has been added to the User Self Profile screen. If the appropriate task (userprofilesrefresh) is running nightly on the server and the user has a profile set up then they will be emailed if a work that matches their profile is catalogued. An HTML profile template is also required. | AIT | User Self Profile | None | None |
| 76 B | 6.7.27 | Two new bi-weekly serial prediction patterns will replace those currently available. A simple SQL update will also be required for non-cloud customers to complete this improvement. | NRML | Serial control | None | None |
| 75 E | 6.7.27 | A minor improvement to Circulation per hour now ignores rows that are not ticked. This improves the speed of the report when generating the data. | AIT | Circulation per hour | None | None |
| 74 E | 6.7.27 | When adding funds on the fourth and fifth levels, the fund group was not being correctly populated, this prevented the fund from displaying. This has been corrected. | NSHOR | Funds | None | None |
| 73 E | 6.7.27 | The default font for Rich text boxes in Desktop has been changed from ‘Microsoft Sans Serif’ to ‘Arial Unicode MS’. This allows for the display of more characters in more languages. | QPIL | System | None | None |
| 72 E | 6.7.27 | ‘Council specific user browse’ may now be selected by default on the reservations screen for consortia | QPIL | Place a reserve | None | None |
| 71 B | 6.7.27 | The Desktop colour change was not saving and this has been rectified. A change made in the operator section of System Parameters will now save in the database for that operator and will move from workstation to workstation. | QFCL | System | None | None |
| 70 E | 6.7.27 | If an operator has come to the ‘Place an Order’ screen from the search screen. The last remembered settings are now populated including purchase order and fund. Previously this was considered to be a new order and the default was ‘new purchase order’. | NSHOR | Place an order | None | None |
| 69 E | 6.6.23 | When a Holding (852) $z was amended, it was causing an update to the item message field. Now, this change does not update the item message if there is already an existing value in the item message field. | AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 68 E | 6.6.23 | Stocktake and stock rotation may now be performed across entities for a consortium. This function has only been activated for consortia where it is required. | QPIL | Stock Rotation | None | None |
| 67 E | 6.6.23 | A new enterprise parameter has been added to allow an item with a hold (‘set aside’ NSHOR) to have this status auto cleared on return. This parameter is entity specific for consortia i.e. AutoClearHoldOnReturn_STANTON | NSHOR | Return | None | AutoClearHoldOnReturn |
| 66 E | 6.6.23 | If a user is sent a self profile notice, the work that is recommended is now recorded in the circulation history table. These can be retrieved via History using the transaction ‘User self profile notice of new works that matches user profile’ | AIT | Audit History | None | None |
| 65 E | 6.6.23 | A new user address validation process has been added to Batch runs. The process automatically fixes user addresses where possible by matching the data against a street table and a postcode/suburb table. This can be run in read only mode. Those records that are successfully adjusted are hidden by default. A code is shown where an adjustment is made and if the record can not be fixed the row is marked BAD and an explanation is given where possible.
- H The house number was adjusted e.g. removed from the street name field - T The street type has been changed e.g. from street to the accepted st coding - S The suburb was fixed - * The suburb in the data is not the official suburb name |
NRML | Batch Runs | Show addresses if mismatched with street table | None |
| 64 E | 6.6.23 | The speed of the search screen has been increased by only returning the item details when the work they are associated with is selected. | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 63 E | 6.6.23 | ‘Interlibrary loan’ item format now shows in the Quick work and Quick Suggestion screens. | AIT | Quick work and Quick suggestion | None | None |
| 62 E | 6.6.23 | A new enterprise parameter has been added that allows the operator to choose the type of message created when a suggestion is deleted. The default value is delete upon viewing. | NSPL | Suggestions | None | SuggestDeletionMessageAction |
| 61 E | 6.6.23 | The docket setting PaymentReceipt_SaveOnlyIfNoEmailAddress= in the default section has been moved to the AuWksAurora.ini file. This is in response to docket settings being lost when updating. Three Enterprise parameters have also been added to allow the setting of Author, Counter and Format on a system level, removing the need to have these set per workstation. | AIT | System Parameters | None | Docket_ItemsOnLoanAuthor; Docket_ItemsOnLoanCounter; Docket_ItemsOnLoanFormat |
| 60 E | 6.6.23 | A new report ‘Users – Pending SMS messages’ has been added to Key reports. This is used to report on any SMS messages that have not been sent because of an interruption in the service and allows the operator to drill down to see the extent of the unsent messages. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 59 E | 6.6.23 | A new tab has been added to System Parameters called ‘Management view’ that allows an operator to set the thresholds for the new set of management tasks. | AIT | System Parameters | New tab | None |
| 58 M | 6.6.23 | A new tick box located on the Management tab called Overview activates a new management panel. This panel provides information on the status of various aspects of the Aurora products. The management panel allows an operator to see at a glance if the OPAC speed is acceptable, how long since the overdues or reservations were last run, if there are any SMS messages pending on the server and many other functions. The stats are refreshed every hour by a new task called Management – All (this task does not appear in the completed task list) and thresholds may be set in a new tab in System Parameters called Management view. | AIT | System | New tick box and management panel | None |
| 57 E | 6.6.23 | The default font size for Desktop has been raised to 9pt | AIT | System | Larger font size | None |
| 56 E | 6.6.23 | The ability to browse items by specific formats and item statuses has been added to the call number browse. The item format description and a breakdown of the item statuses are now also shown. The hits per page counter has been upgraded to allow 500 hits per page and the columns are now able to be sorted. | NRML | Search | None | None |
| 55 E | 6.6.23 | A new report for Loans within a specific period has been added to Key Reports | NRML | Reports | None | None |
| 54 E | 6.6.23 | The stop button has been activated for Circulation transactions per hour to terminate a long running script. | AIT | Circulation transactions per hour | None | None |
| 53 B | 6.6.23 | It is now possible to cancel orders with the status copyright license agreement. Previously the cancel order button was not active for this type of order | RNZFB | Place an Order | None | None |
| 52 B | 6.5.9 | The un-receive function in Receive orders was not handling the invoice correctly in consortium libraries. This has been corrected. | NSHOR | Recieve orders | None | None |
| 51 E | 6.5.9 | A new Enterprise parameter ‘UsersRelBlockOverdueDays’ has been included to block family members borrowing when a defined relation has items overdue for x days. | QGML | Loan | None | UsersRelBlockOverdueDays |
| 50 E | 6.5.9 | The reserve screen has a new option to ‘Force item specific reserves’. This removes the repetitive confirmation box when processing multiple item specific reserves. | QGML | Reserve | New check box | None |
| 49 E | 6.5.9 | A user can no longer renew items for debarred members of their family via User Links via the ‘renew for all members of family’ option | QGML | User Links | None | None |
| 48 E | 6.5.9 | Two new Enterprise parameters have been included that are required to run notifications to users that new items are available from their profile selection.
- UsersSelfProfileNewWorkDays - This setting defines how many days to look back from today's date to check for new works. - UsersSelfProfileNewWorkReserves - This setting defines the maximum number of automatic reserves to place per run for any one user. |
AIT | Profile | None | UsersSelfProfileNewWorkDays, UsersSelfProfileNewWorkReserves |
| 47 E | 6.5.9 | The Charge sub-type ID is once again included in the Charges paid report. This is used by some libraries in bespoke financial reports. | QGML | Reports | New column | None |
| 46 E | 6.5.9 | Child holdings may now be transferred from one item format to another via ‘Item transfer’ | AIT | Item transfer | None | None |
| 45 E | 6.5.9 | It is now possible to create a user profile that has only an item format. If no headings are defined a user may be alerted to all items added in that format. | NRML | Profile | None | None |
| 44 E | 6.5.9 | The reservation screen has a new check box ‘Force item specific reserve’, this removes the need to confirm your reserve is item specific when doing multiple item specific reserves | QGML | Reserve | None | None |
| 43 E | 6.5.9 | Preference Item formats in the User Self Profile screen now do not include eBooks or ILLs. | NRML | User Self Profile | None | None |
| 42 E | 6.5.9 | It is now possible to sort the suggestions via the date added column header. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 31 E | 6.5.9 | A new contextual menu option ‘Cataloguing maintenance’ allows the operator to move from a suggestion that has been loaded into the catalogue, through to the cataloguing module. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 41 E | 6.5.9 | A new icon is shown for non-preferred headings in an authorised term. The icon is a horizontal scroll. | AIT | Headings | New icon | None |
| 40 E | 6.5.9 | Ability to set Item Format Float Maximum (max items per location) this is located in the item format table- requires AWS 6.4.7 in place and schema v181 | NRML | System Parameters | None | None |
| 39 E | 6.5.9 | A new column has been added to the Allocation settings tab allowing the operator to view the number of works that are available per heading. Right clicking the headings profile list provides an option to view the count. | RNZFB | Homebound | New column ‘No. available’ | None |
| 38 E | 6.5.9 | ‘No telemessaging’ has been added as an option in the privacy settings of User Lists. This is located on the ‘With’ tab. | AIT | User Lists | New radio button | None |
| 37 E | 6.5.9 | Enterprise parameters have been added to provide more flexibility for default payment options.
- DefPaymentMethod - Default charge payment method (C)ash, che(Q)ue or (E)ftpos - DefPaymentAction - Default charge payment action (P)rint after save, (S)ave only. Email if P and EmailTaxDocketsAllowed=True - EmailTaxDocketsAllowed - Allow tax receipt and invoice dockets to be emailed |
AIT | Loans, User Links | None | DefPaymentMethod, DefPaymentAction, EmailTaxDocketsAllowed |
| 36 E | 6.5.9 | Suggestion, Quick suggestion, Quick work and Quick ILL have been updated to include the physical format. This adds the 007 tag and sub-fields at the creation of the work. | AIT | Suggestions, ILL, Quick work | New physical format list | None |
| 35 E | 6.5.9 | The ability to filter by language of work has been added to Statistics – Annual. A check box has also been added to remove eBook statistics if required. | NRML | Statistics | New combo and check boxes | None |
| 34 E | 6.5.9 | The ability to select the entire row instead of a single cell in Statistics – Annual was requested. This has been done. | AIT | Statistics | None | None |
| 33 B | 6.5.9 | The item formats were not always displaying in Graph – Circulation, this has been corrected. | AIT | Statistics | None | None |
| 32 E | 6.5.9 | A new check box ‘ignore renewals returned same day’ has been introduced. It appears only when Renew or/and Overdue Renew transactions are selected. | NRML | Circulation per hour | New check box | None |
| 31 B | 6.5.9 | In circulation per hour the stop button did not function, this has been fixed. | AIT | Circulation per hour | None | None |
| 30 M | 6.2.19 | Orders may now be loaded with shelf ready records if the supplier provides the order information in the MARC record. Specific fields of the 852 tag are now being used to hold the necessary order information
- A sub-location $b - A replacement cost $r - A standing PO number $7 - An item barcode $p (optional) - Item format $= (optional) - copy number $t (optional) When the MARC record is loaded an order is created and committed to the default fund for the chosen sub-location. Then when the item arrives it can be received as normal. |
AIT | Loader | None | None |
| 29 E | 6.2.19 | A new menu option ‘Un-receive’ an order has been added to Receive Orders. This functionality requires both Desktop v6.1.25 and AWS v6.1.25. This option will remain disabled if the order is not ‘completed’ or ‘not received’ (i.e. partially received) or if the order is not in the current financial year. | AIT | Receive Orders | None | None |
| 28 E | 6.2.19 | Funds are now shown in the last column of the Monograph Items to Receive display | AIT | Receive Orders | None | None |
| 27 E | 6.2.19 | A new menu option to ‘create an order from this order’ will save time for acquisitions staff when re-ordering a work | AIT | Receive Orders, Order List, Search/list view of orders | None | None |
| 26 E | 6.2.19 | The options to find monographic orders to receive have been enhanced. These include an ISBN search and a date range limiter. A check box to only display orders from this financial year has also been added | AIT | Receive Orders | None | None |
| 25 E | 6.2.19 | New links have been added to ‘Workflow’ making it easier to find reports using the ‘I need a report on’ option. | AIT | Workflow | None | None |
| 24 E | 6.2.19 | The suggestion screen now has the option for predefined responses to be added to emails, such as ‘Title is out of print; please try inter library loan’ These are added via system parameters / system – code SU and may be of any length of text. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 23 E | 6.2.19 | Three reports have been moved from Batch Runs ‘Users with invalid email addresses’, ‘Users with duplicate barcodes’ and ‘Item duplicate barcode’ and added to Key Reports | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 22 B | 6.2.19 | The locations control on the Trends graph was not working, this has been amended. | AIT | Statistics | None | None |
| 21 B | 6.2.19 | Multiple settings that were lost during an update of Aurora Desktop such as ‘cash drawer port setting’ , copy user email and mobile and ‘show operators name on banner’ are now retained | QMC | System | None | None |
| 20 B | 6.2.19 | Image validation was not correctly handling some invalid URLs and this caused the routine to exit early. This has been fixed. | NLML | Reports | None | None |
| 19 E | 6.2.19 | Very few files are now required to be saved on the local PC, by the introduction of the special folder .ini settings. This includes offline transactions, xml files, etc. This has also now been linked to the operator rather than the workstation, so that an operator may change PCs and the default files and settings will still be available.
- Environment_SpecialFolder=H:\Desktop_Special - WorkArea_SpecialFolder=H:\Desktop_Work |
AIT | System | None | None |
| 18 E | 6.2.19 | An update to the Local Settings screen now provides links to the files and folders used by Desktop. | AIT | Local Settings | New look and new links | None |
| 17 E | 6.2.19 | A checkbox that removes items renewed and returned on the same day has been added to Statistics/Graph – Circulation and Annual Statistics | NRML | Statistics | None | None |
| 16 E | 6.2.19 | Report R721 (a fund report) has been blocked from being able to be run by anyone under operator task level 8. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 15 B | 6.2.19 | Settings were not being saved from one session to another in digital cataloguer. These settings are now saved to an xml file. | NLML | Digital Cataloguer | None | None |
| 14 E | 6.2.19 | New screen banner colours have been added for all modules. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 13 E | 6.2.19 | When deleting a suggestion, the message that is sent to the user is now a ‘delete upon viewing’ temporary message. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 12 B | 6.2.19 | The date columns in previous loans are now able to be sorted correctly. | AIT | User Links | None | None |
| 11 E | 6.2.19 | A new enterprise parameter has been added that provides an alternative renewal structure. This allows the library to renew items from the date that the item is due rather than today’s date. | NRML | Renewal | None | RenewFromItemDueDate |
| 10 E | 6.2.19 | A new enterprise parameter has been added that allows the operator to email a receipt rather than print when paying charges if the user has an email address present in their details. A default payment option check box has also been added to accommodate those without email addresses. | AIT | User Links | None | EmailTaxDocketsAllowed |
| 9 E | 6.2.19 | A new enterprise parameter has been added to restrict the ability to return items in User Links | NRML | User Links | None | ReturnItemsInUserLinks |
| 8 E | 6.2.19 | A new enterprise parameter has been added to restrict the ability to override the renewal limit in User Links | NRML | User Links | None | RenewalsAllowMaxBypass |
| 7 E | 6.2.19 | The ‘Marc codes’ tab has been moved over to the Marc Parameters screen from the System Parameters screen | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 6 E | 6.2.19 | The operator font size selection is now able to be saved. This requires AWS 5.12.10 or later and the database schema is on v180 | AIT | Login | None | None |
| 5 E | 6.2.19 | The operator background colour selection is now able to be saved. This requires AWS 5.12.10 or later and the database schema is on v180 | AIT | Login | None | None |
| 4 E | 6.2.19 | Suburbs are now displayed in upper case as per Australia Post requirements for mailing, and the Aurora Marc_MailingLocations table has been updated with the latest post codes file which has 16,521 Australian Postcodes. | AIT | User Details | None | None |
| 3 E | 6.2.19 | Place a reserve now shows the Review and Collection Recovery status icons (not the general abnormal status icon) for a user in these states. | AIT | Reserve | None | None |
| 2 E | 6.2.19 | A new checkbox option to override the renewal of items for a review user has been added. AWS v5.6.23 is required, else this checkbox should be disabled. | AIT | User Links | None | None |
| 1 E | 6.2.19 | Review status now has a different icon. It was a blue LED light and is now a blue question mark. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |