M5 v5-6-8-2

August 2019

Ver 5.6.8.2

 

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.

Advanced Cataloging.

  1. Online resources/ebooks have been removed from the Search for Bibs Without Holdings feature in Find/Replace.
  2. We fixed an issue in the Export where the results of a search may fail to display.

 

Catalog.

  1. The Format post-query filter items are now in alphabetical order.
  2. The List view now obeys the Reading Program selections.
  3. The Contact Your Librarian email has been redesigned to be a submission form. It will now use the sender address in Global.ini, if no library_mailto has been defined.

 

Circulation.

 

  1. When a scanned barcode is not found, the user now has the option to add a temporary record on the fly.
  2. When temporary records are returned, Circulation now pops up a notification that the temporary record will be deleted.
  3. An optional automatic renewal feature has been implemented.

 

Group Editor.

 

  1. An issue that could allow deletion of groups that are not empty has been corrected.
  2. The default number of groups displayed on the main page has been increased to 20.

 

Record Editor.

 

  1. The current database is now displayed in the header.