Aurora Desktop Release Notes – 2020 #
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 110 E | 10.9.23 | User’s last activity date now shown in Loans and in User Details (History tab). | AIT | User Details | None | None |
| 109 E | 10.9.23 | Item Transfer change to dialog box if the ‘include title and URL checkbox’ is ticked – a warning icon instead of an error icon is now displayed when the export file is in a format that is not suitable for processing. | QPIL | Item Transfer | New warning icon | None |
| 108 E | 10.9.23 | Change to use the Tax Invoice template if present rather than having the details output programmatically. | NNSYD | Circulation | None | None |
| 107 E | 10.9.23 | The Enterprise screen now displays tick/cross for 3 more boolean fields (UserRegoAutoRoll, UserSigninUseSSO, DDS_URL_Case) | AIT | System | None | None |
| 106 E | 10.9.23 | Address fix to allow for an address like “The Grand Parade” where there are more than 2 words and the last word is also a street type. | NRML | User Details | None | None |
| 105 E | 10.9.23 | Allow Single BibUSRI to be run in Global changes, previously this was unavailable The text box is now shown in white and a number can be entered. | NHKS | Batch Runs | None | None |
| 104 E | 10.9.23 | Improved logging on start-up (to c:\temp” if it exists) | AIT | System | None | None |
| 103 E | 10.9.23 | Allocation screen now has ability to download and view log files. | AIT | Homebound | New tab called logs | None |
| 102 E | 10.9.23 | User Tracing changed to come on automatically in User Details but not auto create the transaction if you go there via another screen e.g. User Lists | QPIL | Circulation | None | None |
| 101 E | 10.9.23 | User auto rollover enabled – Requires AWS v10.9.10 or later | AIT | System | None | None |
| 100 E | 10.9.23 | Minor change to clear the rating colour on a change of review. | AIT | Authorisation of reviews | None | None |
| 99 E | 10.9.23 | Auto authorisation of a review if a staff member is adding the review – Requires AWS v10.9.10 or later. | NHKS | System | None | None |
| 98 E | 10.9.2 | Rolling registrations are now available where the users registration end date is updated each time the user is active. If this setting is ON then whenever the user’s date of activity is auto updated for any reason, the user’s registration end date will now also be rolled forward by the number of months defined in the User Types table from today’s date. Requires AWS v10.8.28 or later. | NSPL | System | None | UserRegoAutoRoll |
| 97 B | 10.9.2 | A bug was identified in the offline process preventing the use of this function. This has been rectified. | AIT | Offline | None | None |
| 96 E | 10.9.2 | The multimedia load process can now handle multiple sub folders to produce several series headings within each record created. | NINV | Multimedia Load | New check box, Sub-directories -> Series | None |
| 95 E | 10.9.2 | A new Enterprise parameter has been introduced to allow users to be debarred if items are overdue for more than X number of days. This parameter is linked to a housekeeping task that will debar the user overnight. When all of the items are returned an AWS process will clear the users debar at the point of return. | QPIL | Circulation | None | UserDebarIfLoanItem MaxDays_[Entity] |
| 94 E | 10.9.2 | A new worstation type Smartshelf (M) has been added to System Parameters / Workstations. This new workstation type does not update a trapped reserve from trapped to expired when the item is returned. This allows expired reserves to still appear on the expired trapped reserves report even after they have been returned (multiple times). | NRML | System | New workstation type | None |
| 93 B | 10.9.2 | The report Statistics stock had a bug where a specific selection of Dewey classification returned no results. This was due to an AWS imposed character limit on scripts. This has been rectified. This same report was amended to take floating stock into account for location based results. | NUHU | Reports | None | None |
| 92 E | 10.9.2 | New enterprise parameters have been added to enhance digital cataloguer. DDS_URL_LocalPrefix allows the library to define if their multimedia server is http or https and DDS_URL_Case provides for a connected task to update all DDS_URL fields to a specific case 0=None 1=Lowercase 2=Uppercase | QMC | Digital Catalouger | None | DDS_URL_LocalPrefix and DDS_URL_Case |
| 91 E | 10.9.2 | It is now possible to create a list of works derived by a keyword selection from the title or URL of a work. This has been developed to aid in the updating of eResources in conjunction with Batch on Cloud. The screen allows the operator to create a list of BibIDs that can be used in a batch deletion process. A list of titles and URLs can also be created to check if the correct works are being selected by your keyword choices, however this file can not be used for batch processing. | AIT | Reports | New screen Reports & Statistics / Key Reports / Filter Works | None |
| 90 E | 10.9.2 | External fund IDs may now be defined in the Enterprise table using EN_Extra=’FundID’ these external fund IDs are linked to transactions, for example en_type = ‘Trans025’, and are then displayed in the Charges Paid report. | NNSYD | System | None | EN_Extra=’FundID’ |
| 89 E | 10.9.2 | The 856 tag now has the option for a $7 subfield to restrict access to the URL. This will prevent the URL from being visible to the public. This utilises the XACCESS in the coded field. | NHKS | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 88 E | 10.9.2 | The provisional work for drag and dropping multiple multimedia works per title has been completed in Desktop. | NHKS | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 87 E | 10.9.2 | Spaces are now catered for in the Search summary where a URL is present replacing them with %20. | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 86 E | 10.9.2 | Bibliographic tags may now be entered containing a running number. This utilises the Control Number Counters screen in Marc Parameters and uses default text linked to the subfield a of a designated tag. This has been created for libraries for the blind and Museum and Gallery installations. | SALB | Cataloguing | New screen Control Number Counters | None |
| 85 M | 10.6.3 | Aurora sites search – A new function has been added to Remote cataloguing. Aurora site search allows the operator to search for and download MARC records from other Aurora libraries via ISBN. | AIT | Cataloguer | New radio button | None |
| 84 E | 10.6.3 | Only clear list of titles found by remote searches if the checkbox “Clear titles on new search” is ticked | AIT | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 83 E | 10.6.3 | Works to be done refresh after a selection. | AIT | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 82 E | 10.6.3 | Show database subset and target audience descriptions in the list of titles | NHKS | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 81 E | 10.6.3 | A new database subset filter on the list of titles as been added | NHKS | Cataloguer | New combo box | None |
| 80 E | 10.6.3 | Cataloguer remembers the operator’s last database subset and refreshes the list of titles based on the last record shown | NHKS | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 79 B | 10.6.3 | fix to listing works with skeleton items. | AIT | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 78 E | 10.6.3 | Certain Gallery/Museum combobox prompts – sorted by description. | NHKS | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 77 E | 10.6.3 | New Gallery/Museum combobox options for none traditional MARC cataloguing. | NHKS | Cataloguer | None | None |
| 76 E | 10.6.3 | Check to see if another copy of the item at destination location taking into account in-transit status. | QPIL | Item transfer | None | None |
| 75 E | 10.6.3 | New Checkbox to check if item in-transit to another location, if the put in-transit option is ticked. | AIT | Item transfer | New checkbox | None |
| 74 E | 10.6.3 | ISBN convertor now has the ability to search remote Aurora sites. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 73 E | 10.6.3 | Dockets can now be printed directly to a non-default printer. (contact AIT for set up – requires dockets plus) | QPIL | System | None | None |
| 72 E | 10.6.3 | A new Enterprise option OperatorLogonClears which if set will show a new Logout button. This allows an operator to log out and Desktop remains running and a new operator can log in. | QMC | System | None | OperatorLogonClears |
| 71 E | 10.6.3 | If offline when a login attempt is made, ignore the ActiveDirectory setting and allow a manual login. | SALB | System | None | None |
| 70 M | 10.6.3 | Updates have been made to reduce the number of AWS calls that are made to get parameters which are used to populated comboboxes, list choices etc. This will speed up performance and put a lighter load on the server. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 69 M | 10.6.3 | Desktop is now using Net Framework 4.7.2 it was previously using Net Framework 4. | NSPL | System | None | None |
| 68 E | 10.6.3 | ‘Web reports usage icon’ on Desktop’s desktop tells the operator which web reports have been run and when. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 67 E | 10.6.3 | Right clicking on a report in ‘Web reports usage’ will run it after the operator logs in to the report portal. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 66 E | 10.6.3 | Item formats – must be 3 characters long. (not numeric or start with numeric) | AIT | System | None | None |
| 65 E | 10.6.3 | Item formats – block any item format changes or deletions when a Material type is selected. Similarly block any Material type changes or deletions when an Item format is selected. | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 64 E | 10.6.3 | Item formats – warning if an item format ID of less than 2 or more than 3 characters is entered. | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 63 E | 10.6.3 | New Museum parameters. (M1-M7) | NHKS | System | None | None |
| 62 E | 10.6.3 | New Museum parameters. (M8 & M9) | NHKS | System | None | None |
| 61 E | 10.6.3 | User Types – new eCard only user type. (requires schema v191 and AWS v10.3.10 or later) | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 60 E | 10.6.3 | Locations – new button to clear a background colour which has previously been set. | AIT | System Parameters | None | None |
| 59 E | 10.6.3 | LoansBlockIfAnyItemMaxDays now allows for multiple entries for consortium systems, defining when a loan will be blocked if any item on loan is overdue by NNN days or more. | AIT | System | None | None |
| 58 E | 10.6.3 | UsersDeleteInactiveYrs now allows for multiple entries with consortium systems, defining the number of years of inactivity before a user is deleted. | QPIL | System | None | None |
| 57 E | 10.6.3 | When listing users with loans the count now ignores eBook loans. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 56 E | 10.6.3 | When searching for a name using ‘Search name’ the program now allows a LIKE search to be performed. If no user is found in the search a LIKE search will be prompted. If the user surname checkbox is ticked it will do a search only on the surname. | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 55 E | 10.6.3 | Charges paid – allow listview to be sorted. (taking into account counts, dates and charge values) | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 54 E | 10.6.3 | Item call number list – a new control has been added to allow in-transit items to be added or removed from the report. | QPIL | Key Reports | New check box | None |
| 53 E | 10.6.3 | Charges paid – a new control allows the operator to filter by the payment method. | NSHOR | Reports | New combo box | None |
| 52 E | 10.6.3 | Reserves with no available items – change when showing home location to take into account floating stock. | AIT | Key Reports | None | None |
| 51 E | 10.6.3 | The option to clear the filter text boxes, listview checkboxes has been provided in the screen ‘Filter items’. | AIT | Reports | None | None |
| 50 E | 10.6.3 | Invoice information now acquired. (first invoice only is shown in list) | AIT | Order List | None | None |
| 49 E | 10.6.3 | The recent transactions list now shows the item call number. | AIT | Returns | None | None |
| 48 E | 10.6.3 | Concession has been made for streets like ‘The Strand’ where there is no street type. | AIT | User Details | None | None |
| 47 E | 10.6.3 | A new button allows for a duplicate record check of surname, initial and date of birth. | AIT | User Details | Updated button | None |
| 46 E | 10.6.3 | A new check box allows the operator to negate a deferred reservation charge by unticking the charge deferred checkbox and saving. | AIT | User Links | New checkbox | None |
| 45 E | 10.6.3 | On the items on loan’ tab a renewal now caters for new error message where the item has been recalled. | NIDA | User Links | None | None |
| 44 E | 10.6.3 | A check has been added into Place a Reservation, via a new Enterprise setting ‘DatasetSubsetConfirmReserve’ to force a reservation to be confirmed if the work is in a database subset. | NHKS | Search | None | DatasetSubset ConfirmReserve |
| 43 E | 10.6.3 | If an item is on loan the grid now show the user’s name and barcode. | QPIL | Search | None | None |
| 42 E | 10.6.3 | New link has been added from the Item details screen to the Search screen and ‘Details of a work’. | AIT | Item details | None | None |
| 41 E | 10.6.3 | A new checkbox ‘Item not able to be deleted’ can be set in the flags tab. This prevents the item being deleted through cataloguing, item transfer or batch purge. | QBAN | Item details | New checkbox | None |
| 40 E | 10.6.3 | A user check has been added to ensure an item renewed by a Solus mobile app can only be renewed for the user that has this item on loan. | AIT | Circulation | None | None |
| 39 E | 10.6.3 | A small change to how consortium Entity names are displayed. | AIT | Funds | None | None |
| 38 B | 10.6.3 | If a save was performed after the profile was manually created, selected headings were being replaced with auto profile headings, this has been corrected. | AIT | User Profiles | None | None |
| 37 B | 10.6.3 | Fix to the display of geographic, language and target audience codes. | AIT | User Profiles | None | None |
| 36 E | 10.6.3 | If a profile name is left empty then the system creates one based on the date and time. | AIT | User Profiles | None | None |
| 35 E | 10.6.3 | The ‘in-transit to’ location is now shown in the status column of circulation history in the appropriate transactions. | QPIL | Circulation History | The status column now displays more information | None |
| 34 E | 10.6.3 | The format of the work can be passed through to the saved Suggestion in a previously unused field. Previously only the item format was saved. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 33 E | 10.6.3 | The work format description is now shown in the list of suggestions. | AIT | Suggestions | A new column displaying the format of the work | None |
| 32 E | 10.6.3 | The system will now only check if there is a ‘Home collection’ setting if there is a User. If the request is a Suggestion only and not an ILL then there may not be one. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 31 E | 10.6.3 | On saving some more validity checks have been added as a precaution. | AIT | Suggestions | None | None |
| 30 B | 10.6.3 | The mailing address source code check is not called when a new address is entered by staff as this was causing an error. | AIT | User details | None | None |
| 29 E | 10.6.3 | A new check is in place to ensure the street name is mixed case and not upper case unless the Enterprise setting UserAddressStreetUCase is applied to force upper case. | AIT | User details | None | None |
| 28 E | 10.6.3 | A new check is in place to ensure the first character of a street type is upper case. | AIT | User details | None | None |
| 27 E | 10.1.22 | The ‘Works to be done’ results list may now be refined by a database subset. This is particularly useful in a GLAM implementation. | NHKS | Cataloguing | New combo box | None |
| 26 E | 10.1.22 | Barcode browse has been added as a new search option in ‘Search Items’ this provides the ability to find items within the collection where they have special item barcodes or where the item barcode has been entered incorrectly | AIT | Search Items | New radio button | None |
| 25 E | 10.1.22 | User Lists now provides an optional near match search if no results are found. Left and right wildcards may be added using %. For example %oole% | AIT | User Lists | None | None |
| 24 E | 10.1.22 | Collection Age of items in the statistic module no longer is limited by the start date of the CirculationHistory table. The program now uses date the item is added values which may have earlier dates due to a data conversion. These counts now also take into account the floating stock settings. | AIT | Statistics | None | None |
| 23 E | 10.1.22 | User details has a new email address syntax check. Individual sites may need to liaise with AIT to see ensure the latest address information is available. | AIT | User Details | Colour change | None |
| 22 E | 10.1.22 | The background colour of the opening desktop screen can now be set per location. The same colour then persists on the status bar at the bottom of the screen. Please note the colour needs to be darkish as the captions on the desktop main screen and the status-bar are shown in white. The colour is set in the locations tab of System Parameters | NRML | System | Colour changes | None |
| 21 B | 10.1.22 | User Lists, count of reserves and User Links, count of reserves have been corrected to take into account deleted works. | AIT | User Lists and User Links | None | None |
| 20 E | 10.1.22 | User types set to hidden in System Parameters will now not appear as parameter options in the User Details screen. | QMC | System Parameters | None | None |
| 19 E | 10.1.22 | It is now possible to bypass the reservation placement charge on the ‘Place a reserve’ screen. A new checkbox will be available if the new enterprise setting ReservePlacementChargeBypass is set to true and the new Operator Reserve modification value is set to 9. The exception to this is in a consortium where if an intra-library loan is being placed then any charge will still be applied. AWS v10.1.8 is also required | AIT | Place a reserve | New check box | ReservePlacement ChargeBypass |
| 18 E | 10.1.22 | The ability to create ‘blanket’ reservations by linking several reserves has been added to User Links. The first item scanned into Returns fulfills the request and removes the other linked reservations for that borrower. This enables an operator to place reserves on a large print, adult fiction and YA fiction of the same work for example, and the user will only receive one of these copies. More than one set of blanket reservations can be added to a single user. | AIT | User Links | New button | None |
| 17 E | 10.1.22 | A new tab in Key Reports called ‘Filter Items’, allows an operator to create a list of item barcodes that can be used in other functions. A limit of 10,000 barcodes is applied. | AIT | Reports | New tab Filter Items | None |
| 16 E | 10.1.22 | A new function ‘Change URLs’ has been introduced to the Batch Runs screen. This allows an excel file wth a specific structure to be used to amend catalogue record URLs in bulk. | QPIL | Batch Runs | New tab ‘Change URLs’ | None |
| 15 B | 10.1.22 | A User Self Profile display issue with the Geographic area setting was fixed. | AIT | User Self Profile | None | None |
| 14 B | 10.1.22 | The sort option on the ‘count’ column now sorts numerically in works to be done. | NHKS | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 13 E | 10.1.22 | In the Catalogue screen the Hawkesbury unique control number is shown in the Local no. column value. | NHKS | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 12 E | 10.1.22 | In the Catalogue screen, if ‘work to be done’ is invoked and a Database subset value is present and the library is Hawkesbury – then works are sorted by their unique control number e.g. G00000 for Gallery and M00000 for Museum | NHKS | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 11 B | 10.1.22 | Drag and drop of an image or document was removing the status and/or database subset of a work. This has been resolved. | AIT | Search/Cataloguing | None | None |
| 10 E | 10.1.22 | In Marc parameters, the default sort order of the SIC codes has been altered from description to code. Column sorting is now available. | NHKS | Marc parameters | None | None |
| 9 E | 10.1.22 | The expired trapped reserves report now contains a new checkbox option to allow trapped reserve items to be shown if; no notice has been sent, but the reserve has been deleted. | NSHOR | Reserves | New check box | None |
| 8 E | 10.1.22 | A new shortcut icon is available on the desktop called ‘Web reports available’ this allows the operator to access a searchable list of all available web reports. | AIT | System | New shortcut | None |
| 7 E | 10.1.22 | Drag and drop now caters for records that already contains previous image links. It now replaces the existing JPEG & JTHUMB links rather than adding new 856 tags. The new image is uploaded to the server and overwrites the previous one. | AIT | Search | None | None |
| 6 E | 10.1.22 | New combo boxes have been added for Museum record cataloguing. These are only active when using an M database subset. | NHKS | Cataloguing | New codes are in System M1-M7 | None |
| 5 E | 10.1.22 | The Z39.50 search results have been modified to return a comprehensive set of results when searching specific libraries. The process allows for more results to be returned for a single library search, however a multi library search will now only return the top 10 results per library. | NSHOR | Cataloguing | None | None |
| 4 E | 10.1.22 | A new check box has been added to User Details, if the Enterprise setting UserAddressCheck is in place, this check box will be auto ticked. If ticked the user’s street, street type, suburb and postcode will be checked against the current address database tables. If there is an error, the operator will be prompted to fix this error before a save can be successful. If present, the House number needs to be removed from the Street field and placed in the House no. field in order for a lookup to be successful. | AIT | User Details | New check box | UserAddressCheck |
| 3 E | 10.1.22 | A new option to prevent the return of notes when performing a look-up has been added to reduce the load for remote sites with low bandwidth | SALB | Homebound | New check box | None |
| 2 E | 10.1.22 | In Look-up results, extra line spaces and unwanted text in notes have been removed to make them easier to read. | SALB | Homebound | None | None |
| 1 E | 10.1.22 | The Book number is now shown in a new column at the start of the listview of look-up results. | SALB | Homebound | New column | None |