M5 v5-8-0

November 2024

Ver 5.8.0

 

Advanced Cataloging.
1. A crash when searching bibs without holdings has been resolved.
2. Collection members can now be printed.
Catalog.
1. Catalog now supports saving records in RIS format from My List. 
2. The way lists are handled has been redesigned in this release.
3. The way records are added to a database in Record Fetch has been redesigned in this release.
4. Logon and session postback queries have been optimized, resulting in increased performance.
5. Compatibility issues with Microsoft Edge have been addressed.
6. Alt and Title elements have been added to the Logo image. These are based on the value of the Title field on the Library Settings section in Setup. Additionally, there is a new logo_alttext key in Setup that allows the user to specify a different value for the Alt and Title attributes.
7. An issue that prevented printing the results of a Patron search has been addressed.
Circulation.
1. Added Email and Phone columns for the Public Library display in the Library Transactions view on screen and in print.
2. An issue that caused receipts to be emailed twice has been addressed.
3. Circulation queries on the Group table have been optimized, resulting in a significant performance increase when loading patrons with large numbers of transactions.
4. An issue that would cause Circulation to hang on startup when the logged in user had access only to Self Mode has been addressed.
Group Editor.
1. Printing of group members has been implemented.
2. An issue where members of a Special Reserve group were not refreshed when viewing the members of another special reserve group has been addressed.

Catalog:

  • NEW MOBILE INTERFACE. Mandarin M5 is now a responsive website providing proper rendering so your students and patrons search your catalog from anywhere using their mobile phone. Simply access your Mandarin M5 site and the search your catalog. This is our first release so stay tuned for more improvements. In addition, we have made a series of minor User Interface improvements associated with this change. Due to those improvements you may need to use the Shift F5 (Chrome) or press CMD and Shift and R (Mac) to refresh your M5 site after we upgrade your M5 installation. 

  • Visual Search will now expand properly if it is the default search on a new catalog session. 

  • In Visual Search configuration, it is now possible to move components that lack a topic (label).
  • You can now attach pictures to records from the My List view.

 

Advanced Cataloging:

  • ENHANCEMENT.  Holdings can now belong to more than one Collection.

  • In Export, an issue that could result in only one record being included in the export file has been addressed.

 

Record Editor:

  • An issue that could cause multiple detached barcode records while editing patrons has been corrected.

  • When purging bibliographic records, an issue that prevented all but the first barcode record being purged has been resolved.