Release date: June 7, 2023
Summary: This release includes three new features, two enhancements, a few bug fixes and a number of non-functional changes.
New features
Overhaul of pull slip functionality
A new WMS Host LMS adapter is available that provides expanded NCIP integration for WMS. With the WMS2 adapter ReShare can send and receive the following four messages with WMS: Lookup User, Check Out Item, Accept Item and Check In Item. Several settings changes are required.
FOLIO temporary location now analyzed for requestability by the autoresponder
If a value is returned in the temporary location field in the z39.50 response from FOLIO, this location will now be analyzed for requestability by the autoresponder.
Note that the first time a new temporary location is encountered by the autoresponder, the system will allow requests to be placed against it. If the temporary location added to the Host LMS shelving location table in Settings>Resource Sharing is not requestable, please update the entry to set its Supplying priority to -1.
Voyager API calls Voyager system to pull item barcode to replace itemId
ReShare now uses the Voyager API to pull an item’s real barcode from Voyager
Enhancements/Improvements
Voyager Host LMS adapter takes into consideration the temporary location when determining requestability
Values returned in the temporary location field in the Voyager z39.50 response are now treated as Host LMS locations and added to the Host LMS location table. The first time a new temporary location is added it will be considered requestable. Staff will need to mark the new Host LMS location with a supplying priority of -1 if they wish that temporary location to be not requestable.
ItemID / barcode now populates the ‘selected item barcode’ field through the Voyager and Horizon Host LMS adapters
The value returned in the itemID field in the Voyager z39.50 response will populate the ‘selected item barcode’ field in the patron request. This itemID will appear in the item barcode field in the Supply app queue, in the Flow screen and at the bottom of the pull slip before the pull slip is printed for the first time.
Sierra Host LMS adapter was updated to include ‘CHECK SHELVES’ as an available status
The Sierra Host LMS adapter now considers items with a public note of CHECK SHELVES to be considered available for requesting.
Symphony and NCSU Host LMS adapters prepend ^C to the localID of the bib record so the autoresponder can correctly find the unique bib record via Z39.50
Symphony assigns a unique record ID to their bib records that is not necessarily output to a MARC tag and indexed in Z39.50. In order to effectively search and retrieve a single match on these unique record IDs, a ^C must precede the unique number before being sent by the autoresponder in the search URL.
Volume info moved to display more legibly between the title and author on the pull slip
Volume notes added to a request were previously displayed at the end of the author data in the pull slip , and were very hard to see. The Volume: field is now placed between the title and author fields at the top of the pull slip and displays more clearly now.
Bug Fixes
Responder state transition from Overdue to Return Shipped not occurring
Previously, when a request in a state of Overdue is marked return shipped by the requesting library, the state would not update on the supplier side so the supplier could not complete the request. This has been corrected.
Duplicating a notice template or notice policy breaks the original
Duplicating a notice template or notice policy no longer breaks the original template or policy used to make the copy from.
The sort order of the Supply app queue not maintained after printing pull slips and returning to the queue
After printing pull slips and returning to the Supply app queue, the sort order of the Supply app was not maintained. This has been corrected.
Voyager Host LMS adapter unable to handle NCIP Accept Item message when request lacks an author
In Voyager, an NCIP Accept Item error is no longer returned if a request does not contain an author
Unable to find rota entry at position 1
The error "e.EventSendToNextLenderService : Unable to find rota entry at position 1 (Size=1) 1. Try next,", was addressed.
GenericCodeNameService should guard against null code
An issue with searching on null codes against the Host LMS locations, shelving locations and patron profiles tables was corrected.
URL to list of pull slip results causes error in UI (1.11.1 patch)
After the upgrade to release 1.11, the error “e.split is not a function” when following the URL in a pull slip notification email was corrected.
Pull slip population problems when batch printing from Supply App (1.11.1 patch)
Using “Print pullslips” to print a batch of pullslips from the Supply queue caused the “Contact … or …” text to be empty, and the “To:” field displayed the ISIL symbol instead of the institution name. This problem was corrected.
WMS autoresponder lookup problem (1.11.1 patch)
After the upgrade to release 1.11, the WMS autoresponder was unable to process the values returned, causing the request to be marked “cannot supply”. This problem was corrected.
Unread messages time out problem (1.11.1 patch)
An inefficient query behind the “unread messages” filter in the Request and Supply Apps caused a timeout error for libraries with a large number of active requests. The query was optimized.
Unable to cancel requests in a state of “Invalid Patron” (1.11.1 patch)
Cancelling a request in a state of “Invalid Patron” caused the request to go to “Cancel Pending” rather than “Cancelled”. This includes requests from patrons whose Host LMS patron profile cannot place requests. This problem was corrected.
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