Aurora Desktop Release Notes – 2017 #
Details are displayed in reverse chronological order (latest first)
Type of Release code per feature: (E=Enhancement, B=Bug fix, M=Major release)
| Ref | Version | Change | Source of Change | Functions affected by Release | Display Effect | Parameter changes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 86 E | 7.8.2 | Hourly loans now show the time component. | AIT | Loans | None | None |
| 85 E | 7.8.2 | There is a new Privacy flag, Enterprise table setting to allow some privacy values to be blocked for existing users – for NSPL these values will be determined via ‘Campaign Monitor’ system settings. | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 84 E | 7.8.2 | If a user has reached the reservation maximum, there is now a visual clue in the Place Reservation screen to advise this. | AIT | Reservation | New highlighted message | None |
| 83 E | 7.8.2 | Menu option to allow a trapped Reserve item, which has been paid to be delivered, to be loaned to the user. | AIT | Library To Your Door | None | None |
| 82 E | 7.8.2 | Menu option to allow a trapped Reserve item, which has been paid to be collected, to get a pickup message. | AIT | Library To Your Door | None | None |
| 81 E | 7.8.2 | Option to pay charges via the Aurora Payment Portal (required APP licence) is now in User Links. | AIT | User Links | New payment option | None |
| 80 E | 7.8.2 | The ability to set a work to be Shadowed, Mark for Review or back to Normal may now be done from the Search screen (operator permissions are linked to Cataloguing or Digital Cataloguing access). | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 79 E | 7.8.2 | For a public library the summary tab is now shown first in Homebound. | AIT | Homebound | None | None |
| 78 E | 7.8.2 | User Lists now shows the maximum number of titles that can be allocated to a home-bound user | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 77 E | 7.8.2 | Homebound selection user information (i.e. profile or request) added to User Lists. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 76 E | 7.8.2 | New menu option to set a user to a home-bound user from the User Lists screen | AIT | User Lists | New contextual menu link | None |
| 75 E | 7.8.2 | New menu option to allow profile additions to be added from the User Lists screen | AIT | User Lists | New contextual menu link | None |
| 74 E | 7.8.2 | New icon (House) on User Lists screen to indicate a homebound user. | AIT | User Lists | New icon | None |
| 73 E | 7.8.2 | The Allocations screen has been improved by including auto refresh of items in the picking list once the allocation run has started. | AIT | Allocated Loans | None | None |
| 72 B | 7.8.2 | Fix to the Allocation counts per heading lookup – previously the format was not being changed according to its profile setting. | AIT | Allocated Loans | None | None |
| 71 E | 7.8.2 | A visual count of how many items are in the picking list is now shown in the Allocations screen. | AIT | Allocated Loans | Count shown | None |
| 70 E | 7.8.2 | New reports, LTYD Items To Be Delivered & LTYD Items to be Picked up are now visible for Lane Cove library | AIT | Reports | New Library to your door reports | None |
| 69 E | 7.8.2 | There are two new key reports, Claims Monographs and Claims Serials that display what claims were sent to suppliers over a time period. | AIT | Reports | New Key Reports | None |
| 68 B | 7.8.2 | Items Overdue Only report fix to cater for transferred and floating items | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 67 B | 7.8.2 | Unsatisfied Reserves report fix as the collect by date calculation was one day off previously | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 66 E | 7.8.2 | Charge Amount Owed is now shown on lists of reserves per user. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 65 E | 7.8.2 | Reserves reports now returning issue caption for a serial. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 64 E | 7.8.2 | Reserves list now shows in-transit from location as well as the to location when reserve trapped and in-transit. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 63 E | 7.8.2 | Charges Paid Report now shows the Payment Method and Device. | AIT | Charges Paid | New fields displayed | None |
| 62 E | 7.8.2 | If there is no designated HTTPS (or HTTP) in the eLibraryServer setting then HTTPS is used. | AIT | Digital Cataloguing | None | None |
| 61 E | 7.8.2 | Bulk multimedia load – ability to load into a specific Database subset. | AIT | Export | None | None |
| 60 E | 7.8.2 | Bulk multimedia load – ability to apply a specific matching routine when batch loading. | AIT | Export | None | None |
| 59 E | 7.8.2 | Bulk multimedia load – now handles consortium customers. | AIT | Export | None | None |
| 58 E | 7.8.2 | Loader now remembers most recent loaded file folder. | AIT | Loader | None | None |
| 57 E | 7.8.2 | It is now possible to set images as the default in the export screen. | AIT | Export | None | None |
| 56 E | 7.8.2 | Digital Cataloguing now displays an icon on title list of work if shadowed or marked for review. | AIT | Digital cataloguing | None | None |
| 55 E | 7.8.2 | Set status of a work to shadow, marked for review or back to normal (allows a shadow work batch loaded to be unshadowed) | AIT | Loader | None | None |
| 54 E | 7.8.2 | The user self-profile transaction is now displayed in Circulation History, this shows a new work that matches the profile of a specific user. | AIT | Circulation History | New transaction type displayed | None |
| 53 E | 7.8.2 | HTML information in the Report SQL grid (e.g. user call notices) can now be shown in a Browser. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 52 E | 7.8.2 | Holdings screen now hides the Save button if the holding is not in your council (consortium only). | NSHOR | Cataloguing | Save button is hidden | None |
| 51 E | 7.8.2 | Long field data (>255 characters) is now truncated as it was not showing in Excel tables | AIT | System | None | None |
| 50 E | 7.8.2 | EvolvePlus icons are now displayed on the Desktop | AIT | Desktop | New icons | None |
| 49 E | 7.8.2 | New work formats created for Plays and Scores | AIT | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 48 E | 7.8.2 | New User Type fields : Reserve max, Suggestion max, Suggestion Period (Daily/Weekly/Monthly/Annual) & Hide | AIT | System Parameters | New fields | None |
| 47 E | 7.8.2 | Exceeds Suggestion max function added to alert when a user reaches the suggestion max limit. | AIT | System Parameters / Suggestion | None | None |
| 46 E | 7.8.2 | Delete if Expired has been changed to the number of Days after registration expiry until an inactive user can be deleted. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 45 E | 7.8.2 | Title starts with speed enhancement for search | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 44 E | 7.8.2 | Enhancement to reduce the need to call AWS, thus speeding up the access for the Interlibrary loans screen. | AIT | Interlibrary Loans | None | None |
| 43 E | 7.8.2 | New work folder icon on Desktop allows direct link to the local work area where files are saved | AIT | Desktop | New Icon | None |
| 42 E | 7.8.2 | If no default operator is selected a message is shown, as opposed to a dialog with no message as previously. | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 41 E | 7.8.2 | A new link to allow you to view where the XML and docket files are held locally is displayed in Local Settings. | AIT | Local Settings | New link | None |
| 40 E | 7.8.2 | Payment portal minimum amount now able to be set via Enterprise setting. | AIT | System Parameters | None | PaymentPortal _MinAmt |
| 39 E | 7.8.2 | If an operator adds a User Call and selects ‘Pickup’ the Followup checkbox is now ticked, the follow-up date is set for 1 day from now. The focus is put onto the note text box. If a follow-up was not selected then the user details were not coming up in the Key report ‘Items ready to be collected (Library to your Door)’ | AIT | User Lists | Checkbox is ticked | None |
| 38 E | 7.8.2 | If an operator selects pay user charges via the User List screen this now auto ticks the ‘Select all on page’ checkbox if there are any charges. | AIT | User Lists | Checkbox is ticked | None |
| 37 E | 7.8.2 | The statistics are now counted for items ordered at the item home location, rather than the place of ordering. | AIT | Statistics | None | None |
| 36 E | 7.2.22 | The key report, Reserves in-progress items, was returning potential matches when in a consortium model. These have been removed by request and only reserves with the home collect at location are now displayed. | AIT | Key Reports | None | None |
| 35 E | 7.2.22 | It is now possible to add a new serial issue before the first on the list and after the last on the list. | AIT | Serial Control | None | None |
| 34 E | 7.2.22 | A new checkbox has been added to the Untrapped on-shelf reserves report that allows the operator to export additional data to a text file. Included are Author, Location and Call number. | AIT | Reserves | New checkbox | None |
| 33 E | 7.2.22 | The Untrapped on-shelf reserves report lost its contextual menu. This has been replaced and more options have now been added. | AIT | Reserves | None | None |
| 32 E | 7.2.22 | A new report has been added to Statistics / Collection Summary. Notices/day displays the number of notices that have been sent per day and the medium with which they were sent, when a single notice type is selected. | AIT | Statistics | New report | None |
| 31 B | 7.2.22 | The Low Activity report in Stock Analysis displayed some works more than once, the code has been adjusted to compensate. | AIT | Stock Analysis | None | None |
| 30 B | 7.2.22 | The return process was updated to compensate for a potential time difference between the workstation and the server. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 29 E | 7.2.22 | The Statistics Annual report may now be limited by a time period other than the financial year by using the new ‘Custom’ radio button and selecting the period manually. | AIT | Statistics | New radio button | None |
| 29 E | 7.2.9 | When receiving items, if the library policy is to skip the inprogress status and go straight to on-shelf, the blue box to move the item to a holding is now activated. | QGML | Acquisitions | None | None |
| 28 E | 7.2.9 | When receiving items, if the operator forgets to enter an invoice ID or date, there is now a message rather than simply doing nothing. | AIT | Acquisitions | None | None |
| 27 B | 7.2.9 | Some reports were incorrectly stating that an item was missing rather than withdrawn, this display error has been corrected. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 26 E | 7.2.9 | When searching in User Lists it is now possible to limit the list by the users age. The control is located in the “with” tab. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 25 B | 7.2.9 | When selecting a supplier or Institution as the User Type in “User Details” the default Institution gender was not always being selected. This has been corrected | AIT | User Details | None | None |
| 24 E | 7.2.9 | A new button in the “Set Reserve Parameters” section called “Reserve Parameter Test” allows an operator to run a diagnotic test and the results are auto-exported to a text file. Every combination of Location, Material Type, User Type, and Loan Category are run by the system and any missing parameters are highlighted in the text file (*** Missing). This process can take quite a long time and requires AWS v7.1.24 or later. | AIT | Loan Parameters | New button | None |
| 23 E | 7.2.9 | The reserve list in “Details of a Work” has received an upgraded SQL to speed up the process, this will have a flow on effect to other processes such as returns and searching. | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 22 E | 7.2.9 | A new privacy setting has been added to the security section of User Details. “No promotions and offers” prevents a user from receiving marketing linked to a third party resource such as Campaign Monitor. A corresponding filter has been added to User Lists so that a report may be generated of users with or without this flag set. | NSPL | User Details and User Lists | New radio button | None |
| 21 E | 7.2.9 | Management Overview & Taskflow tree now link to the ILL No action report | NLML | Key reports | None | None |
| 20 E | 7.2.9 | The BibUSRI has been added to the unsatisfied reserves report | AIT | Reserves | None | None |
| 19 E | 7.2.9 | Quick Find is now available for Client Services workstation. | QMC | None | None | |
| 18 E | 7.2.9 | A new filter has been added to the statistics – stock report allowing the operator to filter by the language of the work. | NRML | Statistics | None | None |
| 17 E | 7.2.9 | Improvements have been made to the bulk multi-media load tool. These include a new eBook load, create thumbnail folder & batch image load. | NLML | Export | None | None |
| 16 E | 7.2.9 | Polling messages on bottom caption have changed to be more meaningful | AIT | System | None | None |
| 15 E | 7.2.9 | There is a new option to export the results to excel for stock rotation. | AIT | Stock Rotation | None | None |
| 14 E | 7.2.9 | Desktop now deletes old notice/label print files so these do not build up unnecessarily. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 13 E | 7.2.9 | A new registry printing method now does not delete the notice/label file immediately after invoking the print action. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 12 E | 7.2.9 | The Loan parameter ID value is now displayed on the Loan parameters form, this makes it easier to know which parameter the selected parameters refer to in the table. | AIT | Loan Parameters | None | None |
| 11 E | 7.2.9 | The user’s default browser is now used for display of HTML pages and the Aurora Browser has been retired. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 10 E | 7.2.9 | When a supplementary issue is added and a classification number is defined in the bibliographic record, this is now added to the new issue. | AIT | Serials | None | None |
| 9 E | 7.2.9 | Statistical categories 1 and 2, located in System Parameters/System now have a new column available to consortia. The new field “Entities that block this category” allows an operator to prevent the full list of statistical categories showing on various screens in the product. | NSHOR | System | None | None |
| 8 E | 7.2.9 | A new navigation Button has been added to the “reports and Statistics” ribbon bar called “Google Analytics”. This simply provides a link directly to the Google Analytics home page where an operator may login, or if already logged in may go directly to data | AIT | None | None | |
| 7 E | 7.2.9 | A new report has been added called “High activity items”. This report is used to identify items that have been loaned more than the predefined threshold for the selected item format. This allows the operator to identify items that may need to be replaced as they have been loaned many times (AKA: tired). The “tired” threshold can be set in System Parameters/Item formats | AIT | Stock Analysis | New report | None |
| 6 E | 7.2.9 | A new report has been added called “Low activity items”. This report is used to identify items that are not perfoming i.e. producing sufficient loan statistics. These items may need to be weeded or moved to a different location to promote more activity. The report may be limited by call number range to provide manageable lists for shelf checking. | AIT | Stock Analysis | New report | None |
| 5 E | 7.2.9 | The Stock Rotation tab has been renamed and is now called “Stock Analysis” | AIT | Stock analysis | New navigation button | None |
| 4 E | 7.2.9 | A new radio button “Counts – Views” has been added to the Graph – searches tab. This provides a direct count of every time a work in Montage is clicked on by a user. A hit is registered when a user is looking at an image, looking a the details of a work, etc. | AIT | Statistics | New report | None |
| 3 E | 7.2.9 | A new tab “Top charts” has been added to replace “Graph loans” in Statistics. This tab displays similar data, but has some extra limits, like gender, and a new suggested orders section. The program looks at historical loans data and the amount of items that are on shelf. It then provides a recommendation of the number of items to purchase to always have an item on shelf in that genre, by that author, etc. If an order is suggested the cell is highlighted red. | AIT | Statistics | New tab | OrderAt PercentAvail |
| 2 E | 7.2.9 | A new tab “Collection Summary” has been added to Statistics. This contains eight new reports that give statistical data on items on loan in the collection and charges owing.
- Stock on loan/library : displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per branch relative to the stock in that branch. - Stock on loan/item format : displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per item format - Stock on loan/statistical category 1 : displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per statistical category 1 - Stock on loan/statistical category 2 : displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per statistical category 2 - Stock on loan/user type : displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per user type - Stock on loan/user age : can be limited by gender and displays a graph of the percentage of items on loan per user age. - User charges owed per user type - User charges owed per user age |
AIT | Statistics | New tab and new reports | None |
| 1 M | 7.2.9 | A new top level navigation tab has been added, “Reports and Statistics”. This has been introduced to bring together all forms of reporting into the one area. Several reports that were in other sections have been moved to this new ribbon bar and several new reports are now available. | AIT | Desktop | New ribbon bar | None |