URSUS, MINERVA, and MILS upgraded to Sierra 3.3

This morning each ILS (URSUS, MINERVA, and MILS) was updated to the latest version of Sierra 3.3, which will include features and known issue fixes from Sierra 3.2, as well.

New features and known issue fixes:

Sierra 3.3

• WebPAC (OPAC) warns patrons 20 seconds before timing out or closing popups, in compliance with W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines for Timeouts
• Permission 191 (Restrict user to status 1 order creation) no longer overrides 132 (Create order records)
• Continued performance improvements for Create Lists
• Continued performance improvements for Delete Records
• New API Endpoints
• New API features
• Known Issues fixed that you may have experienced:

• • CATALOGING
    • Create Lists searches on the MARC tag field using the wildcard “?” (question mark) fail.
    • If the wildcard character is in the far right position (xx?), results are as expected. If wildcard is in the middle position (x?x), some records that should meet the search criteria are not found. If wildcard is in the left position (?xx), search results in error occurred processing query message.

• • CIRCULATION
    • Using Email to Patron, due slip emailed to wrong patron under certain circumstances  When using Email to Patron, the date due slip emailed to the wrong patron when staff check out an item in Circ Desk and then switch to the Check In tab (without closing the first patron record) and check in an item from another patron.
    • The patron telephone number no longer displays in the Patron browse screen.
      The patron telephone number (the t-tagged field in the patron record) no longer displays in the Patron browse screen.  Reported in Sierra 2.0 SP1.

• • WEB MANAGEMENT REPORTS
    • Web Management Reports – some Fund Reports fail to load
      Web Management Reports – Fund Reports will not load certain URLs containing fund or hierarchy names.  When trying to view certain fund reports, users may get pop-ups for “Opening table_1x1”, “Opening tool_1x1”, and “Opening logo”.
    • Web Management Reports:  “Remove Existing Tables” button
      The “Remove Existing Tables” button in Web Management Reports does not work.  When you click on it, nothing happens. You see the progress indicator, but no change.

Sierra 3.2

• New API Endpoints
• New API features
• Known Issues fixed that you may have experienced:
  • CATALOGING
    • Sierra Statistics on checkin and order records is not working
      Sierra Statistics cannot generate Field Statistics, Periodic Statistics and Cross Tab Statistics on a review file or range of checkin/vendor/order records.
    • Incorrect material type label displayed in Z39.50 remote search results
      The correct material type and icon should display in the search results
    • Statistics: no option to select PTYPE or ITYPE when you run a Cross tab report on Patron or Item Records
      It seems like it is not possible to select PTYPE or ITYPE when you run a Cross tab report on Patron or Item Records in the Sierra Statistics function
  • CIRCULATION
    • Partial payments recorded as “previous paid”
      In Fines Paid, the amount paid is sometimes written to the “Previous Paid” field instead of to “Amount Paid.” This happens when staff check in an overdue item, assessing an overdue fine, and then partially pay that fine in the same session.
  • SERIALS
    • Navigating between Routing function in Serials workflow and all other functions and workflows is crashing Sierra
      In Sierra’s Routing function, doing an initial search here and then trying to move to another function will freeze the initials search box and make all other indexing options from the drop down menu disappear completely