Koha Upgrades

Koha 18.05 Upgrade Notes and Webinars

by Kelly McElligott on Sep 26, 2018

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OPAC

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Patrons & Circulation

Patrons and Circulation Webinar - recorded 10/23/2018

Q & A from Upgrade Webinars

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OPAC

[19287] Add ability to mark an item ‘Lost’ from ‘Holds to pull’ list
[11976] Add column settings + new column “Publication date” to the subscription table that staff can determine which columns should be shown by default
[15794] Add emoji picker to tag entry in OPAC
[18083] Don’t show ‘library’ selection on popular titles page for single-branch libraries
[18313] Remove Delicious icon from OPAC social network links
[19573] Link to make a new list in masthead in OPAC only appears / works if no other list already exists
[19708] Printing code improvements in opac-basket.tt
[19989] opac-memberentry.pl has a FIXME that can be fixed
[20155] Improve readability of OPAC header language menu
[20181] Allow plugins to add CSS and Javascript to OPAC
[20400] Add routing list tab to the patron account in OPAC
[20432] Add black version of small Koha logo for use in the OPAC
[20497] LibraryThing: always use https instead of http
[18915] Creating a checkout note (patron note) sends an incomplete email message
[18975] Wrong CSRF token when emailing cart contents
[19496] Patron notes about item does not get emailed as indicated
[19808] Reviews from deleted patrons make few scripts to explode
[19843] reviews.datereviewed is not set
[19911] Passwords displayed to user during self-registration are not HTML-encoded
[19913] Embedded HTML5 videos are broken
[19975] Tag cloud searching does not working
[19978] Fix ITEMTYPECAT feature for grouping item types for search
[20218] Tracklinks fails when URL has special characters
[20286] Subscribing to a search via rss goes to an empty page
[20363] Privacy management shows misleading “No reading history to delete”
[20479] Superlibrarians cannot log into opac

Course Reserves

[15378] Remove ‘lost’ items from course reserves
[19230] Warn when deleting a course in course reserves

Patrons

[9302] Add ability to merge patron records
[18626] Add ability to track cardnumber changes for patrons
[19471] Show creation date in patron restrictions list
[19801] Display messages on user details page as well as on check out page
[19988] Change ‘sex’ to ‘gender’
[20100] A non-superlibrarian should not be able to add superlibrarian privileges
[20516] Show patron’s library in pending discharges table
[20524] Make columns of pending discharges table sortable
[20526] Show and sort by date of request in pending discharges table
[19488] Add borrowernumber to brief info on patron details pages in staff client

Holds

[19287] Add ability to mark an item ‘Lost’ from ‘Holds to pull’ list
[18382] action_logs entry for module HOLDS, action SUSPEND is spammy
[18474] Placing multiple holds from results breaks when patron is searched for
[20167] Item hold is set to bibliographic hold when changing pickup location
[11512] Only allow to override maximum number of holds from staff as other overrides would never be filled
[19533] Hold pulldown for itemtype is empty if hold placement needs override
[19972] Holds to pull should honor syspref “item-level_itypes”
[20637] Holds to pull: filter shows two itypes on the same line if a biblio has two items of a different type
[20707] Permissions for circ/ysearch.pl override specific page level permissions and delete sessions improperly
[19494] Add reservedate to Holds awaiting pickup
[19769] ‘Pickup library is different’ message does not display library branch name when placing hold
[20724] ReservesNeedReturns syspref breaks “Holds awaiting pickup”

Cataloging

[9701] Configure default indicators
[11046] Better handling of uncertain years for publicationyear/copyrightdate
[18417] Advanced Editor – Rancor – add shortcuts for copyright symbols (C) (P)
[18878] Improve item form display / labels too far from input fields
[18904] Advanced editor – Rancor – Add authority support
[19267] Advanced Editor – Rancor – Add warning before leaving page if there are unsaved modifications
[19538] Advanced editor – Rancor – Move syspref from labs to cataloging and remove experimental note
[16427] Direct link to authority records missing in staff detail view (MARC21 6xx)
[18198] MARC21: Further improve handling of 5XX$u in GetMarcNotes
[19939] Move cataloging Z39.50 results actions into menu

Circulation

[16735] Replace existing library search groups functionality with the new hierarchical groups system
[15752] Automatically switch from circulation to new patron when a cardnumber is scanned during circulation
[15492] Stand alone self check-in tool
[11210] Allow partial writeoff
[18786] Add ability to create custom payment types
[18790] Add ability to void payments
[18816] Make CataloguingLog work in production by preventing circulation from spamming the log
[20343] Show number of checkouts by itemtype in circulation.pl
[19494] Add reservedate to Holds awaiting pickup
[19752] Improve authentication response in offline_circ/service.pl
[19804] Suspension calculation doesn’t honor ‘Suspension charging interval’
[19831] Turn on EnhancedMessagingPreferences by default for new installations
[20322] Circulation page layout and design update
[2696] Fine payments should show what was paid for

[4319] waiting and in transit items cannot be reserved
[19204] Fines in days restriction calculation is not taking calendar into account
[19444] Automatic renewal script should not auto-renew if a patron’s record has expired
[20562] issue_id is not stored in accountlines for rental fees

Acquisitions

[19289] Allow configuration of the fields on the ‘Catalog details’ form in the acquisition baskets
[10032] Uncertain prices hide ‘close basket’ without explanation
[17182] Allow Keyword to MARC mapping for acquisitions searches (subtitle)
[17457] Use SearchWithISBNVariations in acquisition advanced search (histsearch.pl)
[19479] Price display on a basketgroup
[18593] Suggestions aren’t updated when one biblio is merged with another
[19030] Link order <-> subscription is lost when an order is edited
[19694] Edited shipping cost in invoice doesn’t save
[20303] Receive order fails if no “authorised_by” value
[20426] Can’t import all titles from a stage file with default values
[3841] Add a Default ACQ framework

Serials

[7910] Batch renewal of subscriptions
[18327] Add the ability to set the received date to today on multi receiving serials
[18426] Subscriptions batch editing

Reports

[9573] Ability to download items lost report
[9634] Allow for parameters re-use on SQL reports
[11317] Add a way to access files from the intranet
[13445] Clean up options for scheduled reports, remove URL, add HTML and Text/TSV
[16782] Display JSON report URL in staff client report interface
[19233] Add ability to send itemnumbers in report results to batch modification
[19664] Reports sidebar menu should match list of reports on reports home page
[19716] Add option to send header line for CSV output with runreport.pl
[19856] Improve styling of reports sidebar to match tools sidebar
[19957] Allow continued editing after saving a report
[20345] Put saved report keyword search form on reports home
[20350] Add column configuration to table of saved reports

Staff Client

[19488] Add borrowernumber to brief info on patron details pages in staff client
[19806] Add class to items.itemnotes_nonpublic
[19953] Add column for invoice in acquisition details tab
[20291] Add a StaffLoginInstructions system preference to add text to the staff client login box
[20404] Extended patron attributes should always be on

Tools

[19554] The inventory table should jump to detail instead of MARCdetail
[19584] Inventory: Trivial interface improvements
[19585] Inventory: Allow additional separators in a barcode file
[19837] Add multiple patrons to a list by cardnumber
[20081] Enable uploaded pdfs to be viewed inline

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