Oasis 2.9.3 Updates and System Improvements (full list)

OASIS 2.9.3

June 2014

 

Advanced Cataloging

New Features

  1. It is now possible to add a field/subfield using Find/Replace.
  2. Fields and subfields can now be renamed.

Improvements

  1. When using the Advanced options, Find/Replace now assumes an asterisk (*) search and the Wildcards selection is made.
  2. On Remove Field/Subfield, if Remove Entire Field is selected, it is no longer necessary to require the user to enter a subfield.

 

Catalog (including Web OPAC)

New Features

  1. Catalog supports a new permission called Change Login/Password to control users’ ability to change the username and password in My Account.
  2. Duplicate detection for records added from Record Fetch has been implemented.
  3. Items that are added via Record Fetch now create holdings for each occurrence of 852.
  4. The Setup page has been enhanced to allow the user to reset Record Formats and Record Templates to the current default.
  5. A new key has been added to the Z39.50 Searches databases to control whether 852 fields should be removed when importing records through Record Fetch. The default is to remove.
  6. Clicking on the Catalog tab now returns the user to the initial page.

Improvements

  1. The RESERVED status in Record Details now shows the total number of hold and reserve transactions.
  2. If logo_redirect has an empty URL, clicking the logo image will take the user to Catalog’s initial page.
  3. The cover image no longer displays when using List and Compressed List formats.
  4. Databases that return 0 results are no longer listed on the Results page.
  5. In My Account Current Transactions and History, the Author is now a link and searches the Author index if clicked.
  6. The holdings are now listed in the Print format in Results and the Bookbag.
  7. The MLA and APA citation styles have been corrected. The update installer will update the corresponding record formats for all installations.

 

Adjustments

  1. The Reserve At pick list was unavailable if the user did not have access to Cataloging. The only requirement is Hold/Reserve access for OPAC.
  2. The Data Pager was causing the session to reinitialize on Internet Explorer 11.
  3. The Contact Your Librarian contact is now emailed when reserving/holding items in a non-scoped environment, or if the library record lacks email address.
  4. Bibliographies whose filenames contained apostrophes could not be deleted.
  5. After clicking the Setup button and logging in to the setup page for a particular installation (coming from a logged-in session), it was not possible to Edit or Add to Sort Formulas, Record Icons, or All Material Types.
  6. After searching in Standard Search using a Lexile (or other RP) range, if you switched to Advanced Search your query would generate an Invalid Lexile range error.
  7. The Tabvue button has been enabled on the stand-alone Oasis (Web OPAC).

 

Circulation

New Features

  1. Clicking the Circulation tab from anywhere within Circulation will take the user to the initial Circulation page.
  2. Call Number is now sortable in Library Transactions.

Improvements

  1. In new installations of Oasis, RDA field 264#c is handled along with 260#c for displaying Date of Publication. Existing Display.cfg files can be modified as follows: ~Global/Date~%bib:260#c%%bib:264#c%
  2. The filtered and/or sorted state in Library Transactions is now preserved as the user goes to and from other areas of Circulation.

Adjustments

  1. Circulation no longer sends the user to the Directory page after the application pool has recycled.
  2. When entering Loan mode by clicking an entry in Library Transactions, the Item link in the Item pane loaded the wrong bibliographic record.
  3. The presence of the Patron Picture no longer causes the data to shift under the wrong column headers on the Fine Payment screen.
  4. A crash that could occur when adding entries to Holidays & Exceptions in the Schedule with the error ‘Item has already been added’ has been addressed.
  5. Transactions created using Item Specific Reserve did not include call number.

 

 

Group Editor

New Features

  1. Group Editor supports a new permission called Change Login/Password to control users’ ability to change the username and password in My Account.

 

 

Record Editor

New Features

  1. Record Editor now allows the user to set visibility using the Mark Invisible checkbox.

 Improvements

  1. The Calendar that is used for 853#e (date of expiry) now allows going forward a year at a time.
  2. When editing an existing bibliographic record, if the record has no 852 initially, a holding is now created, if the user adds 852 data.

Adjustments

  1. Record Editor failed with 'Session Expired' if there were mixed-case subfields ('a' and 'A') when an attempt was made to modify or save the record.
  2. Corrected an issue where 008 was not added to the patron record when the Default Patron group was unspecified.

 

Reports

Improvements

  1. Overdue Notice 1 Per Page report has been added.
  2. Item List reports have been updated to support RDA field 264.

Adjustments

  1. The Item List reports now sort by Title. When Title was specified as the sort, the sort had been by Call Number instead of Title.
  2. The call number was blank in all of the Statistical Reports Loans and Renewals by Dewey Ones, Tens, and Hundreds.
  3. The Spine Labels report printed too high on the page, causing the top of the call number to miss the label.