The Upgrade has been postponed until Saturday, August 21 to give PTFS time to fix an issue with Holds, specifically with reviving the “Please return THIS BOOK to Home Library” prompt after all of the holds have been filled. (Just a note, all of the patrons shown are fictional.)
PTFS-Master 1.1 Release Notes (.pdf)
New or Enhanced Features
Turn Off Item Type/Collection Code Search Section in Advanced Search – We will leave the Collection Code Advanced Search sections ON in both the Staff Client and OPAC. This, with the addition of the Shelving Location limits, should assist in all of your searches. Read and Watch more about Searching.
Add XSLT Support for Staff Search Results and Record Details – We have turned on this feature, which will display the 245 subfields h, b, n and p in the Search Results list in both the Staff Client and OPAC. However, due to some ugly looking code, we will NOT turn on this display in the Staff Client Details Display. So, make sure you selected the correct Go Diego Go or Naruto before going to the details page, because the sub-title will magically disappear.
Use Slave Database for Reports – We have asked PTFS to setup our system to run Koha reports against a backup database rather than the primary database. We are still trying to determine if this means running MySQL command line (uber geeky) reports, or just using the Circulation Wizard, which is what we want.
Fixes and Functionality Enhancements
Written by PTFS or picked from “other Koha codelines,” with details available in the Bugzilla report.
- Translate ampersand (&) in XSLT title display. (Note: You still need to remove punctuation from searches). But, now titles display will go from this:
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- Bug 3344 – Hold priority list needs additional status for items assigned but not waiting. We made this enhancement request, which Galen Charlton picked up and ran with. So, when an item has been confirmed and is “In transit” to fill a hold, that item will no longer be a numbered hold in the Holds priority list, but will be down with those ‘waiting’ holds!
- Bug 4224 – Holds queue (Pick List) report includes items already allocated. This fix should remove extraneous entries. We need to wait until we are ‘live’ to really test this.
- Bug 4372 – Transferring an item does not update date last seen. Adds a date update to the Circulation History table for items when transfers are initiated, items are checked out AND when transfers are completed. This was a bug we reported and our good friend Chris Cormack fixed!
- Bug 3299 – Sticky calendar renew date doesn’t work. The calendar gadget in the patron checkout/renewals column should work now! Thank You to Galen Charlton for patching this for us.