1. Evergreen 3.4.6

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.5, including a security bug fix.

1.1. Bug Fixes

1.1.1. Security

  • Fix an issue where open-ils.pcrud backends could crash with a segmentation fault under certain conditions that could be invoked by an external attacker, thus leading to a potential denial of service attack.

1.1.2. Public Catalog

  • Fix an issue where titles could run together when viewing a carousel with a mobile browser. (Bug 1868147)

1.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.6 point release of Evergreen:

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jason Stephenson

2. Evergreen 3.4.5

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.4.

2.1. Bug Fixes

2.1.1. Accessibility

  • Help popovers in the AngularJS staff client can now be opened using keyboard navigation (Bug 1801947)

  • Keyboard navigation improvement to the Register/Edit Patron screen (Bug 1840329)

  • Decorative icons in the navbar are now aria-hidden (Bug 1795720)

  • The staff login page now contains an apporopriate heading (Bug 1839365)

2.1.2. Acquisitions

  • Improve wording in acquisitions line item actions menu (Bug 1418694)

2.1.3. Administration

  • Permission Group Interface refreshes after making permission changes (Bug 1891355)

  • Permissions for creating/modifying booking reservations can now be scoped by org unit (Bug 1835127)

  • Fixes issues with sharing settings in the reporter (Bug 1851413)

  • It is now possible to report on non-cataloged circulations separately from non-cataloged in-house uses (Bug 1788260)

  • Fixes a UI issue in the reporter (Bug 1207744)

2.1.4. Cataloging

  • Catalogers can now batch edit call numbers from item buckets (Bug 1747664)

  • The item editor now displays all circulation modifiers when batch updating (Bug 1844732)

  • When merging bibliographic records, the deleted record is now also marked as inactive (Bug 1771386)

  • The staff catalog now includes a UPC search option (Bug 1885764)

  • Catalogers can now choose "AND" or "OR" as the root node of a record match set (Bug 1839562)

  • The Replace Item Barcode screen now displays an error message when trying to replace a barcode with a barcode already in use (Bugs 1362743 and 1890498)

  • The Angular Catalog’s Holding View grid context menu no longer includes horizontal scroll bars (Bug 1890849)

  • Fixes an issue that caused the Holdings View grid to not display all necessary holdings (Bug 1845047)

  • Fixes an issue with exporting MARC records via a CSV file (Bug 1850825)

  • Fixes an issue with the queue type selector in the Inspect Queue screen (Bug 1890351)

2.1.5. Circulation

  • The Patron Edit form now reflects the opac.hold_notify user setting, if set (Bug 1879993)

  • The Patron self-registration form now persists a patron’s selected home library, even if they refresh the form in their browser (Bug 1361270)

  • Offline circulation interface now lists organizational units in the correct order (Bug 1724019)

  • Fixes an issue that resulted in displaying duplicate holds in the catalog’s View Holds tab (Bug 1865564)

  • Fixes an issue in which cataloged resources sometimes do not appear in the Booking Pull List (Bug 1882828)

  • The Booking Pull List grid now allows users to save their grid settings (Bug 1882825)

  • Fixes an issue that prevents items from circulating when OpenSRF is installed with non-default router names (Bug 1904220)

2.1.6. Client

  • Fixes an issue with keyboard shortcuts in the Angular Staff Client (Bug 1883126)

2.1.7. Public Catalog

  • Fixes an issue which prevented Zotero from gathering metadata from the public catalog (Bug 1776954)

2.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.5 point release of Evergreen:

  • Jason Boyer

  • Dan Briem

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Ruth Frasur

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Elaine Hardy

  • Shula Link

  • Tiffany Little

  • Mary Llewellyn

  • Terran McCanna

  • Christine Morgan

  • Michele Morgan

  • Jennifer Pringle

  • Mike Risher

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Dan Scott

  • Chris Sharp

  • Beth Willis

3. Evergreen 3.4.4

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.3.

3.1. Bug Fixes

3.1.1. Administration

  • Fixes a bug that caused the Emergency Closing handler to skip circulations with fines (Bug 1870605)

  • The column headers in the Copy Status configuration screen have improved labels (Bug 1848573)

  • Fixes an incorrect link to the Match Set configuration screen (Bug 1840294)

  • Updates the descriptions of the circ.staff_client.receipt library settings (Bug 1705302)

  • The labels of the All Circulations reporter sources have been clarified (Bug 1852443)

  • The emergency closing form provides additional guidance about end dates (Bug 1867524)

  • The badge_score_generator.pl script is now installed as part of an Evergreen install (Bug 1847784)

  • User preferred names and name keywords are now purged from the database when the user is purged (Bug 1802166)

  • Fixes a bug with the "months ago" functionality in the reporter (Bug 1885759)

  • Angular call number prefix/suffix admin pages no longer let you edit sort key (Bug 1889251)

3.1.2. Cataloging

  • Various improvements to the MARC Editor (Bugs Bug 1735568 and Bug 1830443)

  • Fixes an issue with undeleting bibliographic records (Bug 1845241)

  • Item status now alerts the user about invalid barcodes uploaded from a file (Bug 1847784)

  • You can now open multiple items in Item Status from an item bucket (Bug 1735828)

  • The experimental catalog now allows searching by format (Bug 1886118)

  • The experimental catalog now displays the bib call number according to the search library’s org unit setting (Bug 1874897)

  • Fixes an issue with adding and editing call numbers in the experimental catalog (Bug 1878079)

  • Newly added items and call numbers have distinct styling (Bug 1731370)

  • Fixes an issue with hold activation dates (Bug 1783793)

  • Adds item creator and editor to holdings editor grids (Bug 1811466)

3.1.3. Circulation

  • Overdue items are now highlighted in red in the Items Out screen (Bug 1775286)

  • Fixes an issue that caused patron stat cat information to persist between patrons in the Patron Edit screen (Bug 1844365)

  • The Pending User Buckets now allow more than 100 users (Bug 1754387)

  • Fixes an issue that caused long patron names to obscure important parts of circulation screens (Bug 1805860)

  • Prevents an incorrect "Input is out of range" validation error in the date pickers of the check out and renewal screens (Bug 1864056)

  • Long overdue and lost and paid items now count toward patron limits (Bug 1747542)

  • The holds shelf list now includes columns for "User Alias" and "User Alias or Display Name" (Bug 1712854)

  • In the messages tab of a patron’s account, you can now change the date range of displayed archived penalties (Bug 1775940)

  • Fixes an issue with hanging transits (Bug 1819542)

  • Fixes some hold targeting logic (Bug 1886852)

  • Fixes an issue with default billing type prices (Bug 1776757)

  • The experimental catalog’s hold grid now includes both date and time for hold request time (Bug 1889296)

  • Sounds now play when an item alert pops up in the web client (Bug 1851541)

  • Autorenewal notifications now display a more intelligible message (Bug 1842431)

3.1.4. Client

  • New installations of Evergreen will prevent problematic caching of the Angular client (Bug 1775276)

  • All screens in the angular client now have a banner to indicate which screen it is (Bug 1474874)

  • Fixes a bug that caused inconsistent hotkey behavior (Bug 1886713)

  • The moment-timezone library is pinned to 0.5.27 in the Angular client (Bug 1884787)

  • Fixes an issue with comboboxes (typeaheads) in the Angular client (Bug 1882591)

  • Publicly visible buckets are now known as Shareable buckets (Bug 1717996)

3.1.5. Feeds

  • Fixes an issue with HTML item feed cover images (Bug 1674364)

3.1.6. Public catalog

  • The list of holdings in the OPAC now considers call number suffix in its sorting (Bug 1795469)

  • The Exclude Electronic Resources checkbox now works properly when locale picker is enabled (Bug 1847343)

  • Fixes an issue with SRU search (Bug 1833300)

  • Fixes an issue with searching the catalog from the staff client (Bug 1858701)

  • The experimental catalog basket clears when a staff member logs out (Bug 1867834)

  • Fixes an accessibility issue with the catalog search on the splash page (Bug 1839369)

3.2. Upgrade notes

Evergreen administrators should update existing apache configuration files so that the Angular index.html file is never cached by the client. This can be done by changing the Angular setup section of the apache configuration that starts with:

<Directory "/openils/var/web/eg2/en-US">

or similar in the apache configuration. Add the following after the FallbackResource directive:

    <Files "index.html">
      <IfModule mod_headers.c>
        Header set Cache-Control "no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate"
        Header set Pragma "no-cache"
        Header set Expires 0
      </IfModule>
    </Files>

Finally, ensure that the mod_headers apache module is enabled by running the following commands on all apache servers as the root user:

a2enmod headers
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

3.2.1. Purge User Preferred Names

The new, user preferred name fields are now set to NULL in the database when a user account is purged via the staff client or using the actor.usr_delete function in the database.

To clear the preferred name fields from records that have already been purged, run the following SQL update:

UPDATE actor.usr
SET pref_prefix = NULL,
    pref_first_given_name = NULL,
    pref_second_given_name = NULL,
    pref_family_name = NULL,
    pref_suffix = NULL,
    name_keywords = NULL
WHERE usrname ~ ('^' || id || '-PURGED')
AND NOT active
AND deleted
AND (
  pref_prefix IS NOT NULL OR
  pref_first_given_name IS NOT NULL OR
  pref_second_given_name IS NOT NULL OR
  pref_family_name IS NOT NULL OR
  pref_suffix IS NOT NULL OR
  name_keywords IS NOT NULL
);

3.3. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.4 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • A. Bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Steven Callender

  • Galen Charlton

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Ruth Frasur

  • Blake Graham Henderson

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Elaine Hardy

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Shula Link

  • Tiffany Little

  • Christine Morgan

  • Michele Morgan

  • Terran McCanna

  • Gina Monti

  • Mike Risher

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Dan Scott

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Josh Stompro

  • John Yorio

4. Evergreen 3.4.3

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.2.

4.1. Bug Fixes

  • Check In - "Route To" Field Sometimes Incorrect (Bug 1775276)

  • Repair nested i18n Angular attribute (Bug 1862395)

  • Select element on login not accessible (Bug 1839359)

  • Org unit admin interface sorting (Bug 1860468)

  • Splash page needs headers (Bug 1839372)

  • Use correct API method for updating existing MARC records. (Bug 1859191)

  • Callnumber Sorting by Sortkey in Transit & Copy Buckets (Bug 1654529)

  • Reset field transform after adding fields (Bug 1778521)

  • Login page tile is confusing to screen readers (Bug 1839361)

  • Wrong row details shown on billing grid (Bug 1792995)

  • Mark items as damaged - changing fee usability issues (Bug 1849370)

  • Item Status checkout date and checkout workstation for renewed items (Bug 1787415)

  • Staff catalog add mono part repair (Bug 1860275)

  • Ang cat prevent keyword starts/exact searches (Bug 1819236)

  • Marc flat editor repair slashes (in AngJS and Angular) (Bug 1841823)

  • Add Vols and Copies honors owning lib (Bug 1854197)

  • Avoid repeating qtype prefix in query (Bug 1839684)

  • Link ADMIN_CAROUSEL permission to appropriate OU context (Bug 1863386)

  • Add barcode to patron neg balance grid (Bug 1668352)

  • Copy delete override repairs, perm failed handler (Bug 1860460)

  • Change Pull list page title from Holds Shelf title; Make page title consistent with heading (Bug 1774285)

  • Event Def Environment Fleshing Might Have Issue (Bug 850160)

  • Fix sample survey data. (Bug 1863929)

  • Visited link color (Bug 1789491)

  • 3.4 Angular version mismatch repairs (Bug 1860460)

  • Fixes to consistency in two files, creating uniform capitalization and use of ellipses (Bug 1865951)

  • Adding alt attributes to Open-ILS\src\templates\kpac\parts\paginate.tt2 (also handling I18N) (Bug 1834251)

  • On patron edit screen set the email and phone notification to true (Bug 1774268) when patron doesn’t have any preferences. This mimics the behavior in the xul client.

  • Item Status Precat Information (Bug 1801137)

  • Change expire list to match what the hold expire function (Bug 1819540)

  • Fix floating point issue preventing transactions from closing (Bug 1781274)

  • Additional aged_payment fields; Aged money control flags; Money aging srfsh script function repair; Disable inititial aged money migration (Bug 1858448)

  • Fix Bad End Tags (Bug 1873286)

  • Angular staff cat browse links (Bug 1869906)

  • Coerce Values to String in egGridValueFilter (Bug 1813088)

  • Remove right justification in grid view; Sort Libraries without Holdings In Holdings View (Bug 1787636)

  • Add scoped retrieve perms for booking resource types and resources (Bug 1873048)

  • Org proximity admin disable org filter (Bug 1837656)

  • Fix rendering of monograph parts (Bug 1880035)

  • Links to secondary admin pages (fm-editor defaultNewRecord backport; config_field attribute in IDL; Admin grids support config_field links; Admin grid filter display, default fields, IDL repairs; Bug 1847800, Bug 1834687, Bug 1847781, Bug 1847810)

4.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.3 point release of Evergreen:

  • Bill Erickson

  • Chris Sharp

  • Dan Briem

  • Daniel Pearl

  • Dawn Dale

  • Elaine Hardy

  • Galen Charlton

  • Gina Monti

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Jason Boyer

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Jeff Davis

  • Jennifer Pringle

  • Jennifer Weston

  • Jessica Woolford

  • John Amundson

  • Josh Stompro

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Llewellyn Marshall

  • Lynn Floyd

  • Michele Morgan

  • Mike Risher

  • Mike Rylander

  • Ruth Frasur

  • Sam Link

  • Steven Callender

  • Terran McCanna

  • Tiffany Little

5. Evergreen 3.4.2

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.1

5.1. Upgrade Notes

The SendEmail reactor for Action/Trigger has been updated to use the Email::MIME Perl module for proper encoding of the email message header fields. You should notice no functional difference in the sending of emails. This change does add a new prerequisite package, so be sure to run the prerequisite installation procedure for your Linux distribution before upgrading Evergreen.

The new dependency is the libemail-mime-perl package for Debian and Ubuntu, and the perl-Email-MIME package for Fedora.

5.2. Bug Fixes

5.2.1. General

  • Fixes an issue with the Angular portions of the web client running on Firefox (Bug 1857710)

  • Fixes an issue with sending emails on newer versions of Ubuntu and Debian (Bug 1801163)

  • It is now harder to accidentally close modals in the Angular portions of the web client (Bug 1827942)

  • Organizational Unit Selectors in the Angular portions of the web client now present libraries in the correct order (Bug 1857350)

  • Several fixes to grids in the Angular portions of the web client (Bugs 1855931, 1835982, and 1858138)

  • Fixes some permission-related code in the Angular portions of the web client (Bug 1860351)

5.2.2. Hatch

5.2.3. Acquisitions

  • Fixes an issue with receiving line items from the general acquisitions search screen (Bug 1607922)

5.2.4. Administration

  • Fixes an issue with the carousel creation process (Bug 1851524)

  • Fixes an issue with the Server Administration Permission Group interface (Bug 1851831)

  • Fixes an issue with the Local Administration Standing Penalty interface (Bug 1843640)

5.2.5. Cataloging

  • The new batch import/export interface now allows users to view and edit the incoming MARC records while inspecting an imported queue (Bug 1830923)

  • Evergreen now asks users to confirm that they want to delete items that are in non-ideal statuses, like Checked Out (Bug 1735566)

  • Catalogers can now apply copy alerts to multiple items at once when creating new items (Bug 1832735)

  • The experimental staff catalog now displays more helpful titles in browser tabs (Bug 1849182)

  • The experimental staff catalog now uses the $ (dollar sign) instead of ‡ (double dagger) as the flat text editor’s subfield delimiter (Bug 1848778)

  • Fixes an issue that prevented catalogers from setting a bib source for a bibliographic record (Bug 1843599)

  • Fixes a display issue in the experimental staff catalog holdings view (Bug 1840982)

5.2.6. Circulation

  • The check in screen now honors the ui.circ.suppress_checkin_popups library setting (Bug 1437103)

  • Fixes an issue with selecting bills on the Bill History tab (Bug 1780283)

  • Improves performance of the hold shelf functionality (Bug 1855329)

  • Fixes a display issue with the check out screen’s due date box on wider screens (Bug 1803406)

  • The check out screeen no longer allows due dates in the past (Bug 1712644)

  • Circulation staff with appropriate permissions can now override certain circulation alerts (Bugs Bug 1851434 and 1827901)

  • Loan duration rules can now include hour lengths that are longer than two digits (Bug 1857156)

  • The check in grid now has an optional Monograph Parts column (Bug 1739609)

5.3. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.2 point release of Evergreen:

  • John Amundson

  • Zavier Banks

  • Felicia Beaudry

  • Katlyn Beck

  • Jason Boyer

  • Dan Briem

  • Andrea Buntz Neiman

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Bill Erickson

  • Lynn Floyd

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Terran McCanna

  • Michele Morgan

  • Mike Risher

  • Mike Rylander

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Dan Scott

  • Chris Sharp

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Josh Stompro

  • Beth Willis

6. Evergreen 3.4.1

This release contains bug fixes improving on Evergreen 3.4.0.

6.1. Bug Fixes

  • Reduce the cost of utility functions, speeding up search (Bug 1836963)

  • Fixes Current Date in Date Returned in Circ History CSV (Bug 1813056)

  • Fix Last Captured Hold Check for Holds Shelf (Bug 1827250)

  • Only include OPAC-visible copies in SRU/Z39.50 holdings (Bug 1609556)

  • Re-alphabetize Local & Server Administration Links (Bug 1803790)

  • Allow saving Bill Full Details grids (Bug 1729435)

  • Improve usability of Patron Bill History date selector (Bug 1841089)

  • MARC Batch Import/Export: Disable grid row select on queued record matches (Bug 1842763)

  • Fix when the "duplicate barcode" alert appears (Bug 1777698)

  • Fix paging of pending patrons (Bug 1749970)

  • Check bib visibility for located URI auto suggest (Bug 1802952)

  • Patron Prefix and Suffix Display in Summary (Bug 1821969)

  • Numerous usability improvements to the Booking module (Bug 1816475)

  • Do not include Tag Owner in Tag (Bug 1825403)

  • Browser refresh no longer closes an open purchase order (Bug 1765434)

  • Avoid hard-coded paths in Apache config (Bug 1844720)

  • Close all open dialogs on Angular route change (Bug 1849372)

  • Offline: Non-cataloged item receipt printing (Bug 1806783)

  • Require some Storage submodules instead of use them (Bug 1835620)

  • Test Angular(JS) with modern browsers (Bug 1845693)

  • Remove "Install latest LTS node from source" docs (Bug 1849506)

  • Remove extra grid refresh from configuration load (Bug 1846038)

6.2. Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the following individuals who contributed code, testing and documentation patches to the 3.4.1 point release of Evergreen:

  • Andrea Buntz

  • Bill Erickson

  • Chris Sharp

  • Dan Briem

  • Dan Scott

  • Dan Wells

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Jason Boyer

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Jeff Davis

  • Jeff Godin

  • Jennifer Pringle

  • Josh Stompro

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Michele Morgan

  • Mike Rylander

  • Remington Steed

  • Terran McCanna

  • Tiffany Little

7. Evergreen 3.4.0

The Evergreen 3.4.0 release is a major feature release.

8. Upgrade notes

8.1. Minimum Required OpenSRF Version

Evergreen 3.4 requires OpenSRF 3.2.x or later.

8.2. Updating OPAC colors.tt2 file

Sites that have customized colors.tt2 should add a line for the new link color. For example:

link = "#3ef624", # lime green

The template can be found at opac/parts/css/colors.tt2.

8.3. marc_stream_importer.pl configuration file

Because marc_stream_importer.pl now expects its configuration file to be in the configuration directory, not the binary directory, existing users will likely need to manually move the configuration file into place.

9. New Features

9.1. Administration

9.1.1. Ability to specify specific date in action_trigger_aggregator.pl

An option, --date, has been added to the action_trigger_aggregator.pl support script that allows the user to specify a specific date to aggregate event output for. This new argument cannot be used with either --start-date or --end-date. This option was added to simplify pulling event output for a single day.

9.1.2. Aged Billings and Payments

Two new database tables are added for tracking aged billings and payments: money.aged_billing and money.aged_payment.

Two new database views are added, money.all_billings and money.all_payments for aggregating data across the active and aged tables.

When a circulation is aged, billings and payments linked to the circulation are migrated from the active billing and payment tables to the new aged tables.

The new tables are accessible to the reporter.

9.1.3. New Action Trigger - Fine Limit Exceeded

New optional email notification that is sent when a block is applied to a patron’s account due to excess fines.

(The patron block functionality itself already exists and is based on the settings in Local Administration → Standing Penalties (PATRON_EXCEEDS_FINES) and Local Administration → Group Penalty Thresholds.)

9.1.4. Install marc_stream_importer.pl By Default

The script for the MARC stream importer, marc_stream_importer.pl, is now installed in the Evergreen bin directory (typically /openils/bin) by default. It now also expects that its configuration file will be in the usual config directory (typically /openils/conf) and the example configuration file is installed there by default.

9.1.5. AuthProxy Support for Arbitrary LDAP Usernames

AuthProxy now supports LDAP-based login with a username that is different from your Evergreen username.

This feature may be useful for libraries that use an LDAP server for single sign-on (SSO). Let’s say you are a post-secondary library using student or employee numbers as Evergreen usernames, but you want people to be able to login to Evergreen with their SSO credentials, which may be different from their student/employee number. To support this, AuthProxy can now be configured to accept your SSO username on login, use it to look up your student/employee number on the LDAP server, and log you in as the appropriate Evergreen user.

For this to work, in the AuthProxy configuration for your LDAP server in opensrf.xml, set bind_attr to the LDAP field containing your LDAP username, and "id_attr" to the LDAP field containing your student or employee number (or whatever other value is used as your Evergreen username). If bind_attr is not set, Evergreen will assume that your LDAP username and Evergreen username are the same.

Now, let’s say your LDAP server is only an authoritative auth provider for Library A. Nothing prevents the server from reporting that your student number is 000000, even if that Evergreen username is already in use by another patron at Library B. We want to ensure that AuthProxy does not use Library A’s LDAP server to log you in as the Library B patron. For this reason, a new restrict_by_home_ou setting has been added to AuthProxy config. When enabled, this setting restricts LDAP authentication to users belonging to a library served by that LDAP server (i.e. the user’s home library must match the LDAP server’s org_units setting in opensrf.xml). Use of this setting is strongly recommended.

9.1.6. Angular Organizational Units Admin Page

The Administration → Server Administration → Organizational Units page has been migrated to Angular.

9.1.7. pingest.pl Now Has a --rebuild-rmsr Option

An option, --rebuild-rmsr, has been added to the pingest.pl support script. This option will rebuild the reporter.materialized_simple_record (rmsr) table after the ingests are complete.

This option might prove useful if you want to rebuild the table as part of a larger reingest. If all you wish to do is to rebuild the rmsr table, then it would be just as simple to connect to the database server and run the following SQL:

SELECT reporter.refresh_materialized_simple_record();

Hyperlinks in the public catalog now have a separate color definition in the colors.tt2 template to make it easier to style the public catalog header/footer to use the same background color as the center panel.

9.1.9. Server-Managed Print Templates for Angular

Adds support for generating print content via server-side web service. Server print templates are implemented as Template Toolkit and content is compiled and generated on the server, based on runtime data provided by clients.

Feature includes a new Angular admin interface for testing and editing server-managed print templates. The UI is accessed under Administration → Server Administration → Print Templates, though the menu entry may be moved to Administration → Local Administration, once Local Administration is migrated to Angular.

Two sample templates are included to demonstrate the format and functionality. The Holds For Bib Record template may be tested by navigating to the record holds tab in the Angular staff catalog (/eg2/en-US/staff/catalog/record/<record-id>/holds) and chose the Print Holds grid action.

Apache Configuration

Apply Apache configuration changes to eg_vhost.conf and eg_startup.

  • Add to eg_vhost.conf

<Location /print_template>
    SetHandler perl-script
    PerlHandler OpenILS::WWW::PrintTemplate
    Options +ExecCGI
    PerlSendHeader On
    Require all granted
</Location>
  • Add to eg_startup

# Pass second argument of '1' to enable process-level template caching.
use OpenILS::WWW::PrintTemplate ('/openils/conf/opensrf_core.xml', 0);
New Perl Dependency

A new Perl module HTML::Defang is required for cleansing generated HTML of executable code for security purposes. The dependency is added to the Makefile.install process for new builds. Existing Evergreen instances will need the dependency manually installed.

Installing on (for example) Ubuntu:

sudo apt-get install libhtml-defang-perl

9.1.10. Angular Standing Penalty Admin Page

The Administration → Local Administration → Standing Penalties page has been migrated to Angular.

9.1.11. Copy Alert Permissions Added to Seed Data

Copy alerts were improved in recent releases of Evergreen, but the permissions were not assigned to any of the stock permission profiles in the "seed data" supplied to first time installations.

The VIEW_COPY_ALERT permission is now assigned to all profiles under the "Staff" parent profile, and ADMIN_COPY_ALERT is now assigned to Cataloging Administrator and should be available to all Administrator profiles.

This change does NOT include an upgrade script, so site server administrators are responsible for updating the permissions profiles for their individual systems.

9.2. Architecture and Internals

9.2.1. Angular Grid Improvements

Grids in new Angular staff interfaces now have options to

  • allow users to filter results per-column

  • make the grid header in tall/long grids sticky (i.e., the grid header continues to be displayed while the user scrolls through the grid)

  • allow users to edit a record in a grid and save the results without losing one’s place in grid paging.

9.2.2. Configurable APIs for Patron Authentication and Retrieval

Many external services need to authenticate patrons and retrieve information about their accounts from Evergreen. Most of these services support some form of HTTP-based authentication, but every service has its own requirements and none of them support native Evergreen authentication. Meanwhile, libraries often need to restrict access to these external services based on patron type, current status, standing penalties, and so on.

To meet these needs, Evergreen now has support for separate, configurable HTTP API endpoints for remote patron authentication and retrieval. Each RemoteAuth endpoint handles a different external service or authentication method. You set up the endpoints you want in your Apache config; each one uses a generic mod_perl handler to manage incoming requests, and specifies a Perl module that can actually talk to the external service, as well as an authentication profile that determines which patrons can be authenticated at this endpoint. Support for "Basic" HTTP Authentication is provided as a reference implementation.

9.2.3. open-ils.circ.renew.auto API Deprecated

The open-ils.circ.renew.auto API added in release 3.2 is deprecated and will be removed in Evergreen release 3.5. Please switch to using the open-ils.circ.renew API with the auto_renew option set to 1 in any custom code.

9.3. Cataloging

9.3.1. New Cancel Edit Button In Record Merge Interface

The web staff client’s Record Merge dialog now has a "Cancel Edit" button that is displayed when editing the lead record in place. Using this button will abandon any pending record edits without requiring that the entire dialog be dismissed.

9.3.2. Staff Catalog Basket Export Option

Adds a new "Export Records" option to the staff catalog basket menu. When selected, the user is directed to the Vandelay record export interface, which will be set to "basket export" mode. Staff can then apply export preferences (usmarc, marxml, etc.) and export the basket records. In "basket export" mode, Vandley provides a link to return to the catalog (preserving search parameters).

9.3.3. Copy Edit Interface Display Modifications

Hide Disabled Fields

Disabling a field in the "Defaults" tab in the copy editor now hides the field instead of simply disabling it.

Working Items Moves Down

The "Working Items" grid now sits below the item attribute edit area, so the attributes are allowed to fill the horizontal space.

9.3.4. New Options for Importing Copies

Two new options for importing holdings have been added to MARC Batch Import/Export:

  1. Auto-overlay On-order Cataloguing Copies: This is similar to "Auto-overlay In-process Acquisitions Copies," but for copies that were not created from an acquisitions workflow. Holdings information in the incoming record will be used to overlay any existing On Order copies for the matching record which belong to the owning library defined in the Holdings Import Profile. The Holdings Import Profile is also used to match incoming copies to existing copies, if possible; otherwise, On Order copies are overlaid in the order they were created. The call number will also be overlaid if the incoming record provides one.

  2. Use Org Unit Matching in Copy to Determine Best Match: When there are multiple potential matching records, this feature allows the user to automatically select the record which has the most copies at libraries near the importing library in the org tree. That is, starting at the importing library, it climbs the org tree, gradually expanding the scope at which it checks for holdings on matching records; once holdings are found, the record with the most holdings at that scope is selected for overlay. If there are no matching records with holdings, then the default best match overlay is attempted.

Permissions

Two new permissions control the use of these new features:

  • IMPORT_ON_ORDER_CAT_COPY

  • IMPORT_USE_ORG_UNIT_COPIES

9.3.5. Enhanced Request Items Functionality

The Request Items action available in the Item Status and Item Buckets interfaces has been given an Honor User Preferences checkbox which does the following for the selected user when checked:

  • Change the Pickup Lib selection to match the user’s Default Hold Pickup Location

  • Honor the user’s Holds Notification settings (including Default Phone Number, etc.)

Success and Failure toasts have also been added based on what happens after the Request Items interface has closed.

Also, a Title Hold option has been added to the Hold Type menu. This will create one title-level hold request for each unique title associated with the items that were selected when Request Items was invoked.

9.3.6. Display Codes in Physical Characteristics Wizard Drop-downs (LP#1776003)

Drop-downs in the Physical Characteristics Wizard in the MARC editor now display both code and label.

9.4. Circulation

9.4.1. Booking Module Refresh

The Booking module has been redesigned, with many of its interfaces being redesigned in Angular.

This adds a new screen called "Manage Reservations", where staff can check details about all outstanding reservations, including those that have been recently placed, captured, picked up, or returned.

On many screens within the new booking module, staff are able to edit reservations. Previously, they would have needed to cancel and recreate those reservations with the new data.

There is a new notes field attached to reservations, where staff can leave notes about the reservation. One use case is to alert staff that a particular resource is being stored in an unfamiliar location. This field is visible on all screens within the booking module.

The Create Reservations UI is completely re-designed, and now includes a calendar-like view on which staff can view existing reservations and availability.

9.4.2. New Permission: CREATE_PRECAT

This permission is required to create (or re-create) a pre-cataloged item through the "Barcode ??? was mis-scanned or is a non-cataloged item." dialog. All form elements in the pre-cat dialog other than the Cancel button will be disabled if the current user lacks the CREATE_PRECAT permission when an uncataloged (or already pre-cataloged item) is scanned. This permission is not needed to renew pre-cataloged items.

The upgrade script for this feature will insert the permission into every permission group that has the STAFF_LOGIN permission, so out-of-the-box no behavior will change.

9.4.3. Enhanced Mark Item Functionality

Evergreen’s Mark Item Damaged and Mark Item Missing functionality has been enhanced, and the ability to mark an item with the Discard/Weed status has been added. This enhancement affects both the Evergreen back end code and the staff client.

Staff Client Changes

The option to "Mark Item as Discard/Weed" has been added to areas where the option(s) to "Mark Item as Missing" and/or "Mark Item as Damaged" appear. This is primarily in the action menus on the following interfaces:

  • Item Status

  • Checkin

  • Renew

  • Holds Pull List

  • Patron Holds List

  • Record Holds List

  • Holds Shelf

  • Holdings Edit

This new option allows staff to mark a copy with the Discard/Weed status quickly and easily without necessarily requiring the intervention of cataloging staff. In order to mark an item with the Discard/Weed status, staff will require either the MARK_ITEM_DISCARD or UPDATE_COPY status at the item’s owning library. (NOTE: This permission choice is consistent with the permission requirements for the current Mark Item Damaged or Missing functionality.)

If the item to be marked Discard/Weed is checked out to a patron, the staff will be presented with a dialog informing them that the item is checked out and asking if they would like to check it in and proceed. If they choose to continue, the item will be checked in and then marked with the Discard/Weed status. If the staff person chooses to cancel, then the item will not be checked in, and it will not be marked Discard/Weed. The Mark Item Missing functionality has also been changed to exhibit this behavior with checked out items. The Mark Item Damaged functionality already handles checked out items.

Should the item have a status of In Transit at the time it is to be marked, then staff will be prompted to abort the transit before proceeding with changing the item’s status. If they choose to abort the transit and they have the permission to do so, the transit will be aborted and the item’s status changed. If they choose to cancel, then the transit will not be aborted and the item’s status will remain unchanged. This change applies to all three of the current Mark Item statuses: Missing, Damaged, and Discard/Weed.

Marking an item Discard/Weed is typically one step away from deleting the item. For this reason, if the item to be marked Discard/Weed is not in a Checked Out or In Transit status, but it is in a status that restricts item deletion, the staff will be presented with a dialog notifying them of the item’s status and asking if they wish to proceed. If staff choose to proceed and they have the COPY_DELETE_WARNING.override permission, then the item will be marked with the Discard/Weed status. Naturally, the item’s status will be unchanged if they choose not to proceed. This change does not affect the marking of an item as Missing or Damaged.

Marking an item as Discard/Weed has one more additional check that the other statuses do not. If the item being marked as Discard/Weed is the last copy that can fill a hold, then staff will also be notified of this condition and asked if they wish to continue. In this case, there is no permission required. Whether or not the item is marked as Discard/Weed in this case depends solely on the staff’s choice.

Back End Changes

In order to accommodate the presentation of dialogs and overrides in the staff client, the OpenILS::Application::Circ module’s method for marking item statuses has had a few changes made. Firstly, the code of the mark_item function has been rearranged to a more logical flow. Most of the condition and permission checks are made before creating a transaction. Secondly, it has been modified to return 3 new events when certain conditions are met:

  • ITEM_TO_MARK_CHECKED_OUT

  • ITEM_TO_MARK_IN_TRANSIT

  • ITEM_TO_MARK_LAST_HOLD_COPY

The COPY_DELETE_WARNING event will be returned when attempting to mark an item with the Discard/Weed status and the status has the restrict_copy_delete flag set to true.

The function now also recognizes a hash of extra arguments for all statuses and not just for the mark Damaged functionality. This argument hash can be used to bypass or override any or all of the above mentioned events. Each event has a corresponding argument that if set to a "true" value will cause the mark_item to bypass the given event. These argument flags are, respectively:

  • handle_checkin

  • handle_transit

  • handle_last_hold_copy

  • handle_copy_delete_warning

The code to mark an item damaged still accepts its previous hash arguments in addition to these new ones.

The function still returns other errors and events as before. It still returns 1 on success.

It is also worth noting here that the staff client can be easily extended with the ability to mark items into the other statuses offered by the back end functions. Most of the staff client functionality is implemented in two functions with placeholders in the main function (egCirc.mark_item) for the unimplemented statuses.

The Billing Full Details view now includes links to information about the billing and owning libraries. This can be useful in situations where circulation staff are troubleshooting a bill and would like to quickly find contact information for the billing or owning library.

9.5. Client

9.5.1. Cross-Tab Communication Demo

The Angular Sandbox now includes an example for developers interested in sharing data between staff client browser tabs.

9.5.2. (Experimental) Staff Catalog: Record Holds Tab

Adds support for the Holds tab in the record detail view of the Angular staff catalog. Includes grid and hold-related actions.

  • Holds grid

  • Batch cancel holds

  • Batch retarget holds

  • Batch edit holds

    • Unified form to modify notify options, dates, etc.

  • Hold detail page (menu and row double-click)

  • Batch mark items damaged

  • Batch mark items missing

  • Show last few circulations

  • Retrieve patron

9.5.3. (Experimental) Staff Catalog: Call Number Browse

Adds support for call number browsing in the staff catalog. The browse results display vertically for consistency with the regular search and browse result interfaces.

9.5.4. (Experimental) Staff Catalog: Recent Searches & Templates

Recent Searches

Adds support for Recent Searches in the Angular staff catalog, consistent with TPAC staff recent searches. Setting a value for the library setting opac.staff_saved_search.size is required for the recent searches to appear.

Search Templates

Adds support for named catalog search templates. Templates allow staff to create predefined searches (e.g. title =, subject =, format =, etc.) where all that’s left do to perform the search is fill in the search values.

Templates may be built from any of the search tabs — search, numeric search, marc, and browse — except shelf browse, which uses no filters.

Templates are stored by default as workstation settings, using the setting key eg.catalog.search_templates.

9.5.5. Port Permission Group Admin to Angular

The Administration → Server Administration → Permission Groups admin page has been migrated to Angular.

As an added feature, the interface now displays inherited permissions alongside linked permissions for each group. Inherited permissions are read-only and act to indicate to the user when a group already has a certain permission and therefore may not need a new one added.

Additionally, a new filter option is available in the linked permissions interface for filtering the displayed linked permissions by code or description.

9.5.6. Port Org Unit Type Admin to Angular

The Administration → Server Admininistration → Organization Types admin page has been migrated to Angular.

9.5.7. Port Local Administration Page to Angular

The Administration → Local Administration page has been migrated to Angular along with the following specific Local Administration interfaces:

  • Address Alerts

  • Barcode Completion

  • Group Penalty Thresholds

  • Hold Policies

  • Item Alert Suppression

  • Item Tags

  • Non-Cataloged Types Editor

  • Shelving Location Editor

  • Statistical Popularity Badges

9.6. Public Catalog

9.6.1. Carousels

This feature fully integrates the creation and management of book carousels into Evergreen, allowing for the display of book cover images on a library’s public catalog home page. Carousels may be animated or static. They can be manually maintained by staff or automatically maintained by Evergreen. Titles can appear in carousels based on newly cataloged items, recent returns, popularity, etc. Titles must have copies that are visible to the public catalog, be circulating, and holdable to appear in a carousel. Serial titles cannot be displayed in carousels.

Administration

This feature introduces the concepts of Carousel Types, Carousels, and Carousel Library Mappings. The first can be administered in Server Administration while the latter two can be administerd in Local Administration.

Carousel Types define the attributes of a carousel, such as whether it is automatically managed and how it is filtered. A carousel must be associated with a carousel type to function properly.

There are five stock Carousel Types:

  • Newly Cataloged Items - titles appear automatically based on the active date of the title’s copies

  • Recently Returned Items - titles appear automatically based on the mostly recently circulated copy’s check-in scan date and time

  • Top Circulated Titles - titles appear automatically based on the most circulated copies in the Item Libraries identified in the carousel definition; titles are chosen based on the number of action.circulation rows created during an interval specified in the carousel definition and includes both circulations and renewals

  • Newest Items by Shelving Location - titles appear automatically based on the active date and shelving location of the title’s copies

  • Manual - titles are added and managed manually by library staff

While additional Carousel Types can be added using the administration interface, new automatic types currently require additional Perl code to be recognized.

Carousel definitions allow the operator to specify the type, owner, name and, for automatically-maintained types, the item libraries and shelving locations to look for titles to populate the carousels as well as how far back to look for titles.

Carousel Library Mappings specify the libraries that the carousel should be displayed out. The visibility of a carousel at a given organizational unit is not automatically inherited by the descendants of that unit. The carousel’s owning organizational unit is automatically added to the list of display organizational units.

A server-side job, refresh_carousels.srfsh, is available to periodically refresh the contents of automatic carousels.

Staff Interface

Each carousel has a record bucket associated with it. Library staff can add titles to a carousel’s bucket, and for the manual Carousel Type, that is the only way to populate the carousel. Records added to an automatic carousel’s bucket will be removed whenever the carousel is next refreshed.

Public Catalog

A new Template Toolkit macro called “carousels” allows the Evergreen administrator to inject the contents of one or more carousels into any point in the OPAC. The macro will accept the following parameters:

  • carousel_id

  • dynamic (Boolean, default value false)

  • image_size (small, medium, or large)

  • width (number of titles to display on a “pane” of the carousel)

  • animated (Boolean to specify whether the carousel should automatically cycle through its panes)

  • animation_interval (the interval (in seconds) to wait before advancing to the next pane)

If the carousel_id parameter is supplied, the carousel with that ID will be displayed. If carousel_id is not supplied, all carousels visible to the public catalog’s physical_loc organizational unit is displayed.

9.6.2. Item Tags Now Display Tag Type Labels

When item tags display in the catalog, they will now include the label from the item tag type. For example, for a tag of type "Digital Bookplate", here is a comparison of the old and new display:

  • Old output: "(Tag Value Here)"

  • New output: "Digital Bookplate: (Tag Value Here)"

The type label is wrapped in a new CSS class copy_tag_type_label that allows it to be styled separately from the tag value or hidden entirely.

9.6.3. New Column in Items Out Display

A new column, Owning Library, is now optionally available for the OPAC Items Out display which shows the owning library of the item (not necessarily the library at which the item was picked up). Clicking on the library name will provide contact information for that library. This is useful for When a patron has run out of renewals and the owning library, not the patron’s home library, is the one with whom the patron will negotiate additional renewals. If the patron will negotiate additional renewals with their home library or the checkout library, then display of this field is superfluous.

The display of this column is controlled by the organization setting opac.show_owning_library_column.

9.7. SIP

9.7.1. Fine Item Detail Enhancements

SIP now suppports enhancements for the Fine Item Detail returned by by Patron Information Response (code 64). Different manufacturers of self-check systems specify the format of the fine item detail differently. A new option allows you to select the format to return.

Configuration

After installation of Evergreen and SIP, in the Evergreen configuration directory (typically /openils/conf) the SIP configuration file oils_sip.xml awaits your modifications to use this feature.

In the <accounts><login> sections, you can add an attribute of the form av_format="__<value>__"

where <value> is one of thsee values:

  • 3m

  • eg_legacy

  • swyer_a

  • swyer_b

For example:

<login id="sipclient" password="password" institution="gapines" av_format="3m"/>

If you omit the option, eg_legacy will be used as the default.

Currently, the behaviour of eg_legacy is close to, but not precisely that of 3m. The eg_legacy produces the pre-enhancement behavior in Evergreen. Currently, the swyer_a behavior is identical to that of 3m, but there is no guarantee that this will always be the case.

If you change the brand of your self-check equipment, you may need to change the value of the option to be consistent with the new brand.

9.7.2. Option to Limit Hold Items to Available

A new option has been added to the SIP2 implementation configuration, msg64_hold_items_available. When set, this option will limit the count and list of hold items in the SIP2 patron information response message (64) to only those holds that are available for pickup. When not set, the full list of the patron’s holds will continue to be sent. This option is useful because some self checks expect to receive only the list of available holds in the hold items and have few settings to control the display of holds.

10. Acknowledgments

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

  • BC Libraries Cooperative

  • CW MARS

  • Georgia Public Library Service

  • Indiana State Library

  • King County Library System

  • MassLNC

  • Pennsylvania Integrated Library System

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

  • Felicia Beaudry

  • A. Bellenir

  • Jason Boyer

  • Mark Bucholtz

  • Christine Burns

  • Eva Cerninakova

  • Galen Charlton

  • Garry Collum

  • Jeff Davis

  • Bill Erickson

  • Jason Etheridge

  • Rogan Hamby

  • Abdul Munif Hanafi

  • Kyle Huckins

  • Sam Link

  • Kathy Lussier

  • Terran McCanna

  • Andrea Buntz Neiman

  • Dan Pearl

  • Mike Risher

  • Mike Rylander

  • Geoff Sams

  • Jane Sandberg

  • Chris Sharp

  • Ben Shum

  • Remington Steed

  • Jason Stephenson

  • Josh Stompro

  • Meg Stroup

  • Cesar Velez

  • Dan Wells

  • Liam Whalen

We also thank the following organizations whose employees contributed patches:

  • BC Libraries Cooperative

  • Calvin College

  • Catalyte

  • CW MARS

  • Equinox Open Library Initiative

  • Georgia Public Library Service

  • Grand Rapids Public Library

  • Greater Clarks Hill Regional Library

  • Indiana State Library

  • Kenton County Public Library

  • King County Library System

  • Linn-Benton Community College

  • Roanoke Public Library

  • South Carolina State 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.