1. Evergreen 3.1.7

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.6. All bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

1.1. Bug fixes

  • Adds several columns to the items out grid.

  • Adds the ability to copy patron addresses to the clipboard.

  • Fixes several issues with adding new items and call numbers.

  • Adds links to catalog records from the query and pending tabs of the Record Buckets interface.

  • Corrects the date format used in several bucket interfaces.

  • Adds a loading spinner to interfaces that are embedded in the web staff client via iframe (such as the catalog).

1.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.7 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • a. bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Dawn Dale

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

2. Evergreen 3.1.6

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.5. All bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

2.1. Bug fixes

  • Fixes an issue that caused catalog searches to fail after a new library was added to the org tree.

  • When you mouse over a grid cell in the client, a tooltip will display the full contents of the cell.

  • Fixes issues with columns in the Item Status, Holdings View, Checkout, Patron Bill, Recent Circ History,

  • Fixes various misspellings and capitalization issues in the interface.

  • Circulation staff can now override a patron block that is placed from Messages/Apply Penalty.

  • Fixes an issue with checking in hourly loans.

  • Staff can now approve pending patron addresses in the patron edit interface.

  • Prevents patron records from being merged with themselves.

  • Fixes a bug where the patron card dialog would not allow the user to change the primary barcode under certain circumstances.

  • Fixes issues with duplicate transit records.

  • Adds the transit cancel time to the Most Recent Transits section of the Item Status Holds / Transit tab.

  • Adds the "Show in Catalog" action back to the Item Status grid.

  • Improvements to the Item Attribute Editor.

  • Staff can now set a default search box in the Z39.50 search interface.

  • Staff can now delete copy notes.

  • Fixes an issue in which transferring items and vol/items caused statistical categories to disappear.

  • In the MARC editor, the 007 physical characteristics wizard now has a different icon than the authority linker.

  • Protects backordered acquisitions items from having their catalog items deleted.

  • Fixes a problem where EDI ORDERS message were not visible in the EDI Messages interface.

  • Fixes problems that occur when cloning a report template created in the XUL client.

  • Fixes bugs that caused activity metric data when performing searches.

  • Fixes an issue where the "Predict New Issues" button in the Serials module did not use the correct pattern.

  • The KPAC now respects the opac.holds.org_unit_not_pickup_lib setting.

2.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.6 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • a. bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Steven Callender

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Amy Constantino

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Joan Kranich

  • Sam Link

  • Jeanette Lundgren

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Michele Morgan

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Dan Scott

  • Chris Sharp

  • Ben Shum

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Dan Wells

  • Beth Willis

3. Evergreen 3.1.5

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.4. All bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

3.1. Bug fixes

  • Several strings are now displayed in the correct translation.

  • Right clicking in grids results in more intuitive behavior.

  • Usernames and barcodes containging the % character no longer experience problems logging in.

  • Fixes cases in which the web client stops loading after the toolbar.

  • Fixes problems in which using the web client in multiple tabs leads to data inconsistency.

  • Fixes an issue that caused authentication session checks to spam the system and needlessly fill up logs.

  • Boolean fields within grid views now say "Yes"/"No" instead of "true"/"false".

  • Fixes sorting issues in the patron search.

  • Staff can now choose to print out only a selection of items out, instead of having to print them all.

  • The patron triggered event screen now respects the circ.staff.max_visible_event_age library setting.

  • Fixes an issue which caused an exception to be thrown during non-cataloged item checkout.

  • Fixes permission issues related to merging users.

  • The bibliographic record summary now displays the call number that matches the library’s classification system.

  • The copy editor now makes shelving locations visible to catalogers from other libraries as needed.

  • Once a record is overlayed in the Z39.50 screen, it is no longer marked for overlay.

  • Fixes several issues with the item status list view.

  • When adding new copies, the circulation library now defaults to the call number’s owning library.

  • Fixes display issues with the Print Item Labels page.

  • Fixes an issue in which the staff client and the OPAC displayed different counts of available items.

3.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.5 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • a. bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Garry Collum

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Terran McCanna

  • Michele Morgan

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Ben Shum

  • Cesar Velez

  • John Yorio

4. Evergreen 3.1.4

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.3. Note that all bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

4.1. Bug fixes

  • Fixes right-click issues with the Web client grids

  • Fixes an issue with the Default SMS Carrier in the patron edit form.

  • Fixes an issue that allowed overdue notices to be sent to a patron whose long overdue item has been paid for.

  • Checking in precat items now displays the "Route to Cataloging" alert each time the item is checked in.

  • Fixes an issue where alerts that had been cleared by a check-in continued to display.

  • Fixes an issue in which the Adjust to Zero feature does not close a checked-in lost circ.

  • Deleted copies that are still checked out can now be checked in.

  • Fixes a mislabeled column in the patron checkout grid.

  • Grocery bills are no longer styled the same way as overdue bills.

  • Fixes an error with the missing pieces functionality.

  • Courier codes now display in the transit slip receipt preview.

  • Fixes several issues related to adding volumes.

  • Fixes several issues related to empty volumes.

  • Fixes several issues related to item and volume transfers.

  • Fixes several issues with checkboxes in the volume/copy editor.

  • The Item Status grid now displays OU shortnames instead of full names for the "Circulation Library" column.

  • The Volume/Copy editor now allows users to remove a value from the Age Hold Protection field.

  • Barcode completion now works in copy buckets.

  • The Z39.50 interface now notices when another record has been marked for overlay.

  • Fixes a display issue for the Remove MARC Field Groups checkboxes in the Z39.50 interface.

  • Fixes a performance issue for the Validate button in the MARC Editor.

  • Fixes an incorrect close tag in the Print Item Labels toolbar.

  • Better scoping of copy tags in search results.

  • Prevents sending invalid search.highlight_display_fields calls.

  • Electronic Resource links now open in a new tab.

  • Fixes an issue with the fiscal year close-out operation.

4.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.4 point release of Evergreen:

  • A. Bellenir

  • Adam Bowling

  • Jason Boyer

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Terran McCanna

  • Michele Morgan

  • Jennifer Pringle

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

5. Evergreen 3.1.3

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.2. Note that all bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

5.1. Bug fixes

  • Fixes specific cases in which deleted records appear in search results.

  • Fixes a performance issue with deleting patrons.

  • The hold shelf dialog popup now lists the patron’s notification preferences.

  • Fixes an issue that prevented editing items when a monograph part is present.

  • Patron information is now available for use in the bills_current and bills_historical receipt templates.

  • The browser’s "This page may contain unsaved data" warning now appears when users click the update expire date button in a patron account and attempt to navigate away without saving.

  • The holds tab of the patron record now includes a monograph part column.

  • The barcode box in the checkout screen no longer hovers above patron record tabs when staff users scroll down.

  • Fixes an issue with the date of birth in the patron edit scren.

  • The patron account bills grid are now color-coded by the item’s status.

  • Fixes an issue with the dropdown of billing type options.

  • The Item Status screen now includes as a floating group column.

5.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.3 point release of Evergreen:

  • BC Libraries Cooperative

  • A. Bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Dawn Dale

  • Bill Erickson

  • Blake Graham-Henderson

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Jeanette Lundgren

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Terran McCanna

  • Michele Morgan

  • Dan Pearl

  • Mike Rylander

  • Geoff Sams

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

6. Evergreen 3.1.2

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.1. Note that all bug fixes refer to the web staff client unless otherwise specified.

6.1. Bug fixes

6.1.1. Cataloging

  • The MARC editor now handles 008 fields better.

  • Adds spaces between subfields when suggesting a call number for a new volume.

  • MarcXML exports from the MARC Batch Import/Export → Export Records screen now downloads the file, rather than opening it in the browser.

  • The Item Status Circulation Library column now displays a shortname rather than the full library name.

  • The Item Status Remaining Renewals column now displays correctly.

  • The Item Status now has a "Last Renewal Workstation" column available.

  • Fixes the circulation counts displayed in Item Status Details.

  • Removes an error that got thrown in the Holdings View when a call number contains no copy.

  • Fixes an issue where multiple copies with different values for required statistical categories could not be edited and saved in batch.

  • Add an option to remove floating in the copy editor.

  • Fixes an issue with the floating dropdown in the copy editor.

  • Fixes a problem in which the copy template didn’t properly copy certain objects.

  • Reduces the number of API calls that the MARC Editor requires.

  • The order of the Z39.50 servers on the Z39.50 import screen no longer relies on capitalization.

6.1.2. Circulation

  • Fixes an issue that prevented the offline patron registration screen from loading.

  • Fixes an issue with searching patrons by permission group.

  • The barcodes in the patron search are now clickable.

  • Staff members can now manually override the patron juvenile flag value, regardless of the patron’s date of birth.

  • Checkboxes on patron registration screen are now properly aligned with other fields.

  • The user permission group dropdowns in the patron registration, edit, and search interfaces now have scrollbars.

  • The date picker on the checkout screen is now hidden unless circ staff activates a specific due date option.

  • The check-in screen now includes a copy status column.

  • The Merge Patrons interface now displays the date of birth.

  • The user bucket screen now displays the Bucket ID.

  • The payment button on patron bills screen is now inactive if the Payment Received field is blank.

  • The Bill History receipt now includes a Finish date and a Last Payment date.

  • When a patron summary contains an image of the patron, that image tag now has a null alt attribute to remove it from the flow of a screen reader.

  • Corrects an issue that caused the transit dialog to show the wrong branch.

  • Corrects an issue with printing transit lists.

  • "Find another target" on transiting hold no longer leaves the copy "in-transit".

  • The images now display to distinguish hold and transit slips.

  • The Clearable Holds list printout now only shows holds that have expired.

  • Restores the call number prefix and suffix fields to the holds pull list.

  • The documentation at the top of the hold shelf slip template adds patron.alias.

  • The cursor in the in-house use screen now automatically goes to the barcode field.

  • The in-house use screen now shows a copy status column.

  • Add support for converting change to patron credit in the patron bills interface, consistent with the XUL feature.

  • Fixes a bug that caused pickup/request library fields to be blank sometimes.

  • Fixes a bug in the offline org unit tree.

6.1.3. Command-line system administration

  • The novelist entry in eg_vhost.conf includes two new parameters.

  • Corrects an issue with the --max-sleep argument on the action_trigger_runner.pl support script.

  • Corrects an issue with how the eg_pbx_allocator.pl script detects an existing lock file.

  • The 3.0.2-3.0.3 upgrade script disables triggers before recalculating bib visibility.

6.1.4. Public catalog

  • Fixes an issue that caused records with located URIs to be retrieved in Copy Location and Copy Location Group searches.

  • Fixes an error message that appeared in the search box in the public catalog while placing hold after an advanced search.

  • Restores the display of copy information for the user’s preferred library in the public catalog.

  • Author and contributor names are no longer highlighted in search results when the user has turned off highlighting.

  • Fixes regression errors in the search results page.

  • Removes redundant call numbers from the Show More Details search results.

  • The cast field in the catalog is now taken from the 511 field when first indicator = 1, rather than the 508.

  • Fixes a display issue caused by editing holds.

  • Repairs broken author search links on the catalog record page.

6.1.5. Serials

  • Fixes an issue that prevented users from searching for receivable issues using Database ID or ISSN in the Serials Batch Receive interface.

6.1.6. General

  • Pins AngularJS support to version 1.6, which prevents unsupported AngularJS versions (such as 1.7) from breaking the build process.

  • Adds some padding to the bottom of Web Client interfaces.

  • Logins now honor all org unit timeout settings.

  • Evergreen will now identify and handle invalid timezones.

  • Fixes an issue where a column header in some interfaces were automatically highlighted in green when retrieving the interface.

  • The parts column in the Item Status screen now displays parts data.

6.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.2 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • Jason Boyer

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Dawn Dale

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Lynn Floyd

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Sam Link

  • Jeanette Lundgren

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Katie G. Martin

  • Terran McCanna

  • Michele Morgan

  • Dan Pearl

  • Mike Rylander

  • Laura Sachjen

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Ben Shum

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Josh Stompro

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

  • Bob Wicksall

7. Evergreen 3.1.1

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.1.0.

  • Fixes a performance issue with the Patron Billing History screen and other screens that cause Flattener.pm to re-create joins unnecessarily.

  • Fixes an issue that prevented patron alerts from showing to staff at other libraries.

  • Corrects the "Holdable" attribute display on the Item Status detailed view.

  • Fixes the ability to delete multiple copies from Item Status.

7.1. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, tests and documentation patches to the 3.1.1 point release of Evergreen:

  • Jason Boyer

  • Bill Erickson

  • Morkor Quarshie

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Kevin Tran

  • Dan Wells

8. 3.1.0 Upgrade Notes

Like many major Evergreen upgrades, 3.1 requires a full reingest of your bibliographic records before the system is usable again. While a basic reingest is included at the end of the upgrade script, it happens after the main COMMIT, so it is safe to cancel that and run the required reingest as you see fit (e.g. via pingest.pl).

9. 3.1.0 New Features

9.1. Administration

9.1.1. New Latency Tester Tool

The Evergreen Web Staff Client now includes a section called Tests linked from Administration → Workstation. The Tests page houses a simple tool that can be used to test the latency of the websocket connection between the client and the server (via the opensrf.echo service).

This page displays which Evergreen host server is being queried. Upon hitting the blue "Start Test" button for the first time, it will issue 10 sequentially fired requests in order to get a solid initial average. Clicking the button a second time will take one more measurement and recalculate the average latency. The results can be copied to clipboard for troubleshooting purposes and also cleared from display.

9.1.2. marc_export --uris option

The marc_export support script now has a --uris option (short form: -u) to export records with located URIs (i.e. electronic resources). When used by itself, it will export only records that have located URIs. When used in conjunction with --items, it will add records with located URIs but no items/copies to the output. If combined with a --library or --descendants option, this option will limit its output to those records with URIs at the designated libraries. The best way to use this option is in combination with the --items and one of the --library or --descendants options to export all of a library’s holdings both physical and electronic.

9.2. Architecture

9.2.1. Sample Data Includes Surveys

The Concerto sample data set now includes patron surveys, questions, answers, and responses.

9.2.2. Virtual Index Definitions

The practical purpose of Virtual Index Definitions is to supply an Evergreen administrator with the ability to control the weighting and field inclusion of values in the general keyword index, commonly referred to as "the blob," without requiring tricky configuration that has subtle semantics, an over-abundance of index definitions which can slow search generally, or the need to reingest all records on a regular basis as experiments are performed and the configuration refined. Significant results of recasting keyword indexes as a set of one or more Virtual Index Definitions will be simpler search configuration management, faster search speed overall, and more practical reconfiguration and adjustment as needed.

Previously, in order to provide field-specific weighting to keyword matches against titles or authors, an administrator must duplicate many other index definitions and supply overriding weights to those duplicates. This not only complicates configuration, but slows down record ingest as well as search. It is also fairly ineffective at achieving the goal of weighted keyword fields. Virtual Index Definitions will substantially alleviate the need for these workarounds and their consequences.

  • A Virtual Index Definition does not require any configuration for extracting bibliographic data from records, but instead can become a sink for data collected by other index definitions, which is then colocated together to supply a search target made up of the separately extracted data. Virtual Index Definitions are effectively treated as aggregate definitions, matching across all values extracted from constituent non-virtual index definitions. They can further make use of the Combined class functionality to colocate all values in a class together for matching even across virtual fields.

  • Configuration allows for weighting of constituent index definitions that participate in a Virtual Index Definition. This weighting is separate from the weighting supplied when the index definition itself is a search target.

  • The Evergreen QueryParser driver returns the list of fields actually searched using every user-supplied term set, including constituent expansion when a Virtual Index Definition is searched. In particular, this will facilitate Search Term Highlighting described below.

  • Stock configuration changes make use of pre-existing, non-virtual index definitions mapped to new a Virtual Index Definition that implements the functionality provided by the keyword|keyword index definition. The keyword|keyword definition is left in place for the time being, until more data can be gathered about the real-world effect of removing it entirely and replacing it with Virtual Index Definition mappings.

  • New system administration functions will be created to facilitate modification of Virtual Index Definition mapping, avoiding the need for a full reingest when existing index definitions are added or removed from a virtual field.

Increased use of Metabib Display Fields

We use Metabib Display Fields (newly available in 3.0) to render catalog search results, intermediate metarecord results, and record detail pages. This requires the addition of several new Metabib Display Field definitions, as well as Perl services to gather and render the data.

We also use more Metabib Display Fields in the client. As a result, bibliographic fields will display in proper case in more client interfaces and in Evergreen reports.

Interfaces

A new AngularJS "MARC Search/Facet Fields" interface has been created to replace the Dojo version, and both have been extended to support Virtual Index Definition data supplier mapping and weighting.

Settings & Permissions

The new Virtual Index Definition data supplier mapping table, config.metabib_field_virtual_map, requires the same permissions as the MARC Search/Facet Fields interface: CREATE_METABIB_FIELD, UPDATE_METABIB_FIELD, DELETE_METABIB_FIELD, or ADMIN_METABIB_FIELD for all actions

Backend

There now exist several new database tables and functions primarily in support of search highlighting. Additionally, the QueryParser driver for Evergreen has been augmented to be able to return a data structure describing how the search was performed, in a way that allows a separate support API to gather a highlighted version of the Display Field data for a given record.

Default Weights

By default, the following fields will be weighted more heavily in keyword searches. Administrators can change these defaults by changing the values in the "All searchable fields" virtual index in the "MARC Search/Facet Fields" interface.

  • Title proper

  • Main title (a new index limited to the words in the 245a)

  • Personal author

  • All subjects

In addition, note indexes and the physical description index will receive less weight in default keyword searches.

Re-ingest or Indexing Dependencies

With the addition and modification of many Index Definitions, a full reingest is recommended. However, search will continue to work as it did previously for those records that have not yet been reingested. Therefore a slow, rolling reingest is recommended.

Performance Implications or Concerns

Because the Metabib Display Fields infrastructure will eventually replace functionality that is significantly more CPU-intensive in the various forms of XML parsing, XSLT transformation, XPath calculation, and Metabib Virtual Record construction, it is expected that the overall CPU load will be reduced by this development, and ideally the overall time required to perform and render a search will likewise drop. It is unlikely that the speed increase will be visible to users on a per-search basis, but that search in aggregate will become a smaller consumer of resources.

9.3. Cataloging

9.3.1. Track Record Merges

When 2 or more bib records are merged, all records involved are stamped with a new merge_date value. For any bib record, this field indicates the last time it was involved in a merge. At the same time, all subordinate records (i.e. those deleted as a product of the merge) are stamped with a merged_to value indicating which bib record the source record was merged with.

In the browser client bib record display, a warning alert now appears along the top of the page (below the Deleted alert) indicating when a record was used in a merge, when it was merged, and which record it was merge with, rendered as a link to the target record.

9.4. Circulation

9.4.1. Alternate Patron Hold Pickup

This feature adds a bit of convenience to a common task: checking out an item on hold to another patron (typically a family member or helper).

When you checkout the item, you will get a pop-up window with warnings associated with this item. The "ITEM_ON_HOLDS_SHELF" message is now expanded to

  • Let you know the name of the person who had placed the hold.

  • Give you the option (in the form of a checkbox) of cancelling the hold placed by the above-named patron. (Checked = Cancel the hold; Unchecked = Leave the hold in place)

The initial value of the checkbox is derived from the circ.clear_hold_on_checkout organizational setting.

If the operator has CANCEL_HOLD privilege, then if the checkbox is checked and the checkout is allowed to proceed, the hold will be cancelled with a note that the item was checked out to another patron.

This feature is available in the browser-based staff client.

9.4.2. New Patron Billing Statement

The Evergreen web staff client now includes a patron billing statement, which summarizes a patron’s bills, credits and payments in a familiar layout. This can be found on the "Statement" tab of the Patron Bill Details page. (From the Patron Bills page, double-click a row to view its details, or choose "Full Details" from the Actions menu.)

9.4.3. Enhanced Billing Timestamp Support

Previously, billings had to make do with a single timestamp attempting to fill two different roles. In the case of an overdue fine, the timestamp represented the end of the fine period for that billing, while for all other fines, the timestamp was merely the time the bill was created. This setup generally worked, but not without confusion, and limited our ability to understand and process the data.

Billings will now have up to three timestamps: a create date, and when applicable, a fine period start and a fine period end. This clarifies and simplifies things like backdating, retrospective fine generation, account balancing for negative balance avoidance, and billing timeline views.

9.4.4. Copy Alerts and Suppression Matrix

The Copy Alerts feature allows library staff to add customized alert messages to copies. The copy alerts will appear when a specific event takes place, such as when the copy is checked in, checked out, or renewed. Alerts can be temporary or persistent: temporary alerts will be disabled after the initial alert and acknowledgement from staff, while persistent alerts will display each time the alert event takes place. Copy Alerts can be configured to display at the circulating or owning library only or, alternatively, when the library at which the alert event takes place is not the circulating or owning library. Copy Alerts can also be configured to provide options for the next copy status that should be applied to an item. Library administrators will have the ability to create and customize Copy Alert Types and to suppress copy alerts at specific org units.

Copy alerts can be added via the volume/creator and the check in, check out, and renew pages. Copy alerts can also be managed at the item status page.

Copy alert types can be managed via the Copy Alert Types page in Local Administration, and suppression of them can be administered via the Copy Alert Suppression page under Local Administration.

9.4.5. Place Multiple Holds At Once

Users with the appropriate permissions now have the ability to place multiple title/metarecords holds at once. This feature is especially beneficial for book clubs and reading groups, which need to place holds on multiple copies of a title.

In order to use the feature:

  • Set the Maximum number of duplicate holds allowed Library Setting (circ.holds.max_duplicate_holds) to a number higher than 1

  • Log in as a user with the CREATE_DUPLICATE_HOLDS

When placing a title or metarecord hold, a Number of copies field will display for these users. This field is not available when placing part, volume or copy holds.

This feature does not change the way in which the system fills holds. The multiple holds will fill in the same way that they would if the user had placed multiple holds separately.

9.4.6. New Notice Columns in Items Out Grid

The grid in the patron "items out" page in the Evergreen web staff client has two new columns indicating the number of notifications generated for a given loan and the date of the most recent notification. These columns will allow circulation staff to better respond to patron questions about whether they were sent notification about an overdue item.

The columns are based on the number of completed Action Trigger events on the loan that have a checkout.due hook. In other words, they would include overdue and courtesy notices.

A new library setting, "Exclude Courtesy Notices from Patrons Itemsout Notices Count", if set will cause the notice count and date fields to exclude courtesy notices.

9.4.7. Patron Email Addresses Now Clickable In Web Staff Client

Adds a mailto link to the patron’s email in their profile so it can be clicked to send and email to the patron. No new settings or permissions are included in this feature.

9.4.8. Pickup Library for Staff-placed Holds

Adds a new library setting, circ.staff_placed_holds_fallback_to_ws_ou, that helps determine the hold pickup library in cases where patrons don’t have a preferred hold pickup library in their account and a staff member is placing the hold on their behalf.

  • When this setting is true and the patron doesn’t have a preferred library listed, the hold pickup library will default to the workstation’s organizational unit.

  • When this setting is false and the patron doesn’t have a preferred library listed, the hold pickup library will default to the patron’s home library.

9.5. Public Catalog

9.5.1. Search Term Highlighting

Evergreen now highlights search terms on the public catalog’s main search results page, the record detail page, and intermediate pages such as metarecord grouped results page. Highlighting search terms will help the user determine why a particular record (or set of records) was retrieved.

Highlighting of matched terms uses the same stemming used to accomplish the search, as configured per field and class.

This feature will help the user more quickly determine the relevance of a particular record by calling their attention to search terms in context. Lastly, it will help familiarize the user with how records are searched, including which fields are searched as well as exposing concepts like stemming.

You can turn off search term highlighting by uncommenting the line search.no_highlight = 1; in config.tt2.

When highlighting is generally enabled, it may be turned on or off on a per-page basis through the use of a UI component which will request the page again without highlighting.

Highlighting of terms uses Template::Toolkit-driven CSS. A generic CSS class identifying a highlighted term, along with CSS classes identifying the search class and each search field are available for use for customization of the highlighting. A stock CSS template is provided as a baseline upon which sites may expand.

9.5.2. Copy Location Filter Displays for System Searches

The Shelving Location filter now displays on the advanced search page when a search is scoped to a library system, not just to an individual branch. If a library system is selected as the Search Library, the shelving location limiter will display any shelving location that is owned by the selected system or by the consortium. It will NOT display shelving locations owned by child branches.

9.5.3. Multi-source Attributes

We now allow record attribute definitions to extract data using more than one strategy (XPath, tag+subfield, fixed field, etc.) as long as the values from various sources would, after normalization, have the same shape.

This change allows us to configure multilingual search, by extracting values from both the 008 controlfield and the 041 datafield. Because the values in each can be normalized to the same controlled list (and, in practice, are already from the same normalized value set), catalog searches can now use normal boolean search semantics to find records with various combinations of language attributes.

E.g., in the concerto test data:

  • keyword: piano item_lang(eng) item_lang(ita)

9.5.4. Optional Display of Badges in Catalog

A new setting controls whether badges (popularity, etc.) are displayed in the catalog. If you do not wish badges to be displayed, set the ctx.hide_badge_scores setting to "true" in config.tt2.

9.6. Miscellaneous

9.6.1. Fixes to patron name/username search indexes

When using pg_restore to restore an Evergreen database, some of the indexes used to speed up patron searches on names and usernames could be lost.

This release fixes the underlying issue and re-creates the indexes in question.

Details

When using pg_restore to restore an affected database, the "unaccent" indexes on actor.usr would not be created due to an unqualified function reference in evergreen.unaccent_and_squash.

The function will be replaced to resolve the search path issue, and the following indexes on actor.usr will be dropped and then re-created:

  • actor_usr_first_given_name_unaccent_idx;

  • actor_usr_second_given_name_unaccent_idx;

  • actor_usr_family_name_unaccent_idx;

  • actor_usr_usrname_unaccent_idx;

This will be done even if the indexes are already present, and may take a few minutes on a database with many patrons.

10. 3.1.0 Acknowledgments

The Evergreen project would like to acknowledge the following organizations that commissioned developments in this release of Evergreen:

  • Albany Public Library (Oregon)

  • Consortium of Ohio Libraries

  • CW MARS

  • Indiana State Library

  • Georgia Public Library Service

  • Hagerstown - Jefferson Township Library

  • Linn-Benton Community College

  • MassLNC

  • Pennsylvania Integrated Library System

  • Sage Library System

  • Union County Public Library (Indiana)

We would also like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, translations, documentations patches and tests to this release of Evergreen:

  • Eva Cerninakova

  • Andi Chandler

  • Galen Charlton

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jeff Godin

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Angela Kilsdonk

  • Sam Link

  • Jeanette Lundgren

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Fares Othman

  • Dan Pearl

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Ben Shum

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Kevin Tran

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

We also thank the following organizations whose employees contributed patches:

  • Bibliomation

  • British Columbia Libraries Cooperative

  • Calvin College

  • CW MARS

  • Equinox Open Library Initiative

  • Georgia Public Library Service

  • Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library System

  • Jordanian Library and Information Association

  • King County Library System

  • Knihovna Jabok

  • Linn-Benton Community College

  • MassLNC

  • Sigio

  • Traverse Area District Library

We regret any omissions. If a contributor has been inadvertently missed, please open a bug at http://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/ with a correction.