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    2019 RN 11 Issues

    • November 2019 Analytics SF: 00622887 URM-101539
      In Analytics, in the Fulfillment subject area under the Loan Details folder, the Loan Note field contained no data even when the loan had a note. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment - Course Reserves SF: 00633268 00650354 00702102 00702106 URM-105263
      An error appeared when adding a Network Zone item to a reading list. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Analytics SF: 00654719 00633640 00654656 00632700 00721014 URM-107119
      Adding the Portfolio URL Type field to a report causes the portfolio URL to appear incorrectly. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Analytics SF: 00654361 URM-111386
      Deleted/archived was added as a possible value for the Leganto Publication List Visibility field.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00590990 URM-102353
      Renewal reminder field was not saved to PO Line template. This was fixed and now the renewal reminder is part of the PO line template.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00618926 00694448 URM-111989
      There was a problem with the indexing of the vendors. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00686375 URM-113247
      Label changed from Order lines to PO Lines to align other acquisition pages.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00652405 URM-109998
      Previously, the electronic resource editor allowed a user to enter free text into the PO Line field. This has been corrected, and only existing PO Lines can be saved in that field.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00698981 URM-111558
      When exporting a PO line's invoice lines list to Excel, the subscription from date and subscription end date are now populated.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00571428 00712691 URM-94740
      An error was displayed when selecting the Amendments tab of a license. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00710006 00686458 00666128 00732123 00699674 URM-113553
      The Electronic Activation job created extra collections due to a problem caused from restarts on the server. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00676281 URM-110625
      When executing the new PO Line - Claiming job (Process Automation), the status for some PO Lines was not set to Claimed, so they were not added to the claim list. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00673267 00712680 00686704 00650575 00690182 URM-107257
      When creating an invoice line with a negative expenditure, and a poline attached, if the calculation of the disencumbrance is negative or zero, the disencumbrance will not be created.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF: 00725601 00660235 00666341 00722750 URM-108173
      In import EOD process, there was an issue in the fund balance calculation. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF:
      When refreshing the page for some reason, the unsaved fields will not be deleted.
    • November 2019 Acquisitions SF:
      In case of missing or wrong credentials, there will be an error message.
    • November 2019 APIs SF: 00706335 URM-108394
      The request-options API returned results more than once. We now dedupe the GES codes if there is one that is in both GetIt and ViewIt.
    • November 2019 APIs SF: 00722604 00703508 URM-114343
      The Pick-from-shelf API (/task-lists/requested-resources) ignored copies when 2 holding records share the same call-no. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 APIs SF: 00684540 00510675 URM-115241
      Update/Create Vendor APIs: it was mandatory it have at least one preferred emails. It is now possible to have the vendor without any preferred emails.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00230064 00363496 00578159 00201016 00549248 00462294 URM-56767
      It was not possible to decimal amount in Fines/Fees Notification Profile. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00693454 00660163 URM-106316
      Due to faulty value of fine currency the displayed Active Balance wasn't accurate, this was fixed by updating the currency value to correct one.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00582602 00405979 URM-75385
      For users, First Name, Last Name, and Email Address were not mandatory when other fields were configured as mandatory. This was fixed, and now they are always mandatory.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00589457 URM-97072
      Proxy Of tab in User Details didn't support pagination for more than one page of proxies of. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00729996 00671358 URM-108002
      'Force password change on next login' failed with the new IdP. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00699956 URM-112450
      For customer who use case-insensitive user identifiers, the SIS failed to identify an input of of a user as a duplicate when the case in the additional-identifier wasn’t the same of it’s duplicate. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00696699 URM-113682
      Expired library cards cannot be renewed on the Patron Services page if the patron is part of a user group with a defined renewal fee. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00673006 URM-108210
      When Holding does not have subfield 'c' in field 852, the item editor failed to save the new location. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00696578 URM-113570
      Running Export Bibliographic job in French results in error when choosing set on some rare cases. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF:
      For member institution when adding a reminder on Network title from menu RM -> Reminders -> Network tab -> Add reminder and the title contains non Latin or diacritic characters. The reminder successfully added. 'successfully added' message appears with incorrect display of the special characters. Issue has been fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00702938 URM-115189
      In some cases a slow loading for Manage Deleted Repository searches occurs. Issue has been fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00699766 00696051 00701041 00702606 00695740 00693601 00694971 URM-108076
      Item availability appeared incorrectly when 'chronology I' includes multiple years, for example, '2010-12' . This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00723554 00674138 00717807, URM-108837
      Oops error occurs for Add location to PO Line and Internal error occurs changing the location in the PO Line. Issue has been fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00678384 URM-112143
      Subfield $t with value “0” (zero) is redundantly added to field 852 of the holdings record (created for the target – preferred – bib record) when merging two bib records via the “Merge Records & Combine Inventory” action in the MD Editor. This has been corrected.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00696528 URM-112907
      Analytics displayed truncated values for internal notes, Description and location storage id fields of physical items (internal notes 1,2 and 3, Description, Location_Storage_Id). This was fixed and these fields are now displayed correctly, up to a length of 4000 characters. The change will be applied *gradually* during December and January.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00698666 URM-113090
      When trying to relink itemless holdings to different bibliographic record, in some cases an error message appears. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 
      Items that have some value, appeared twice in the physical item list. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 
      Avoid duplicates in the flatting table by merges in the save flow. add distinct to the selected queries. override existing bib instead of create new one in each contribution.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00513704 00712102 URM-107855
      Some portfolios have Bulk::BULK in their parser parameters, that was not expected. A data corrector was added to fix these portfolios. It will appear in debug mode, in 'Alma DB Status' page and it's called'getLocalPortfolioWithParseBulkBulk'.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00563992 00653886 00700960 URM-97131
      In the RSS publishing job, in rare cases the Max Days parameter in the RSS publishing profile was ignored by the job. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00671194 URM-113821
      'Publish your Local Holdings Records (LHRs) to OCLC' publishing job: holdings records are published as “updated” when, in fact, nothing has changed for these holdings records. This issue occurs when the bibliographic records to which the holdings records are attached were published as new, have no historical records (such as being created and never edited again), and have changed. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00683070 00701007 00420703 URM-108982
      In the MD Editor when using suggestions that included the Eszett character in 260 $a or 264 $a, the result did not sort correctly. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00420703 URM-108984
      In the MD Editor when using suggestions that included the hyphen character in 260 $a or 264 $a, the result did not sort correctly. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00594131 URM-97548
      The Send Requests to Remote Storage job sometimes exported at the same time multiple requests which were attached to the same item. Now, if multiple requests are in the 'Waiting for remote storage' status and they are all waiting for the same item, the export job will only export one of them, the rest will remain in the waiting status. The job report will list these requests under the failed requests event. The job will attempt to export these requests again on its next runs. Only when the 1st request completes and the item becomes available again, the job will export the next request on the item.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00582085 URM-112083
      Export Physical Items job: The first four columns of the csv output file - MMS Record ID, HOL Record ID, Item PID, and Barcode - are now enclosed in single quotes, to prevent corruption of long numbers when the file is opened by Excel.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00576039 00690916 00522280 00534267 00690192 00710169 00578636 00717951 00716931 00638837 00582873 00532675 00511470 00532836 00511961 00612883 00600236 00604804 00541661 00576313 00565728 00583305 00605430 00567327 00675477 00679993 00669433 00514093 00700906 00701279 00700688 00525091 00611113 URM-86865
      Sometimes null value is displayed in search index dropdown. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00665722 URM-110126
      Export to Excel - no possible to choose 'all fields' if the columns display is not customized. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00652697 URM-108789
      'Search bibliographic records matching this value' Created a Wrong Query. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00583137 00573733 00571629 00577708 00578111 00608408 URM-94989
      When you open related records in NZ tab, and then search on IZ you get error and ui corrupted. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00575442 URM-97702
      When using Browse Bibliographic Headings, it presents an incorrect display of series. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00656682 00632391 00646131 00656681 00658200 00619787 00658285 URM-109060
      Previously, when creating an item level request from Primo, the Material Type and Loan Period request attributes were automatically selected with the requested item's attributes. Now, the optional values for these fields include also the 'Empty' value which is now the default value.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00627889 URM-106881
      When using the IE/Edge browser, the ViewIt portfolio directs to a blank page. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00663795 URM-107630
      The page load time has been improved for the Resource Sharing Lending Requests task list.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00695132 00693028 00653241 00724246 URM-108049
      In some cases, the FulHoldShelfRequestSlipLetter was sent twice to the printer. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 
      Performance improvements were done in the Patron Services-Loans page.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00683416 URM-111398
      When an item was returned via a self-check machine and the check-in was rejected/fails, for instance because the item could not be returned at this location, Alma responded with a screen message (AF) indicating the reason for that, but the title identifier (AJ) was missing. This was fixed. The title identifier (AJ) now returns even in case of an error.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 
      The Course Activation Job sometimes failed. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00692965 00691870 00702571 00690896 URM-112232
      Setting Expiry Date for user throught Update/Notify Job will from now on assign the end of day to the date.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00634501 URM-112581
      The 'Request/Process Type' field In the 'Manage In Process Items' page was not translated. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 
      The Course Activation Job failed if there existed any course with end date = 31-DEC-9999. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00694029 URM-111838
      A performance improvement was introduced to the re-loan checks for Self Check.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00694029 URM-112746
      In some cases, when a self check machine sent a series of 63 messages, an error occurred. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00670083 00643356 00683892 URM-106877
      In some cases, when a self check machine sent a 64 message, an error occurred. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00657570 URM-108504
      Previously if a request was cancelled while it was in status 'Waiting for remote storage', the request was sometimes exported by the Send Requests to Remote Storage job event though it was cancelled. In this case, the exported request was missing the Barcode, MMSID, and item ID XML fields. Now cancelled requests are not exported by the job.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00686404 URM-112032
      The count of request on the item, in some scenarios, is not equal to the number of actual requests which appears after clicking on the request number. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00653309 URM-107021
      Previously, the locate job did not check if the location of the item is suppressed or not, so items from suppressed locations were retrieved. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00667231 URM-110379
      The barcode field displayed in the lending request is now displayed in the lending requests task list as well, under Requested Barcode. In addition, it was added to the excel report when exporting the list, and to the slip report (xml/excel).
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00685196 URM-110427
      Previously, when a lending request received a negative conditional reply, the attached move request was not canceled. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00686288 URM-110429
      Previously, when a lending request is received a positive conditional reply, the status was changed to Created lending request, even when a move request was already created and attached to the lending request. This was fixed and now, if there's a move request, the status will be changed to Being proceeded.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00670566 URM-114121
      A validation error message that appeared when a BLDSS request was sent did not contain the status message that was received in the response from BL. This was fixed, the status message is now added to the History of the request.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00711746 URM-114495
      Previously, the list of the blocks the user has were displayed in the user popup, in the Blocks field. Now, instead, there's an indication weather the user has active blocks or not.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00709245 00731881 URM-117304
      In some cases, Fulfillment Services Managers and Fulfillment Services Operators could not reactivate resource sharing requests. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF:
      Borrowing requests created by the open receipt service will be created with the status: 'Request sent to partner'.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF: 00732766 00728611 00722133 URM-118179
      Change in xml made a regression. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Fulfillment SF:
      Export Bibliographic Records Finish Job notification email message has incorrect instructions. This has been fixed and now the message indicates that he exported file(s) can be found at 'Admin > Manage export'.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00681838 URM-112305
      When flipping fields by using a normalization rule, the field's indicators were not flipped. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00159498 00535286 00110864 00513516 00647341 URM-39242
      Some bibliographic records had a future creation date. These records were fixed. You can ask Ex Libris to run a data corrector if you experience this problem in the future.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00567767 URM-93555
      Adding controlled vocabulary values did not work properly when adding fields from a template. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00653246 URM-105990
      Deleting a bib network record from the MD Editor, by a member institution took a long time (sometimes as long as 30 seconds). This has been corrected.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00681242 00686352 URM-109422
      There were no possible values for field 006's positions in the MARC21 bibliographic profile. This issue was fixed according to the MARC standards.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00674818 URM-109559
      In the MD Editor, when using F3 to browse MESH subject authority records with hyphenated text, they were found only without the hyphen. (Example text: 'Evidence-based medicine' can be found only without hyphen.) This was fixed. Note that since the customer uses the German search and browse settings, when browsing a local (or NZ) authority, hyphens are stripped and are not replaced by space (e.g Evidence-based medicine is treated as 'Evidencebased medicine' The behavior described for searching for authorities which contain umlauts is the expected behavior when using the German settings.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00687149 URM-109996
      In the MD Editor when testing a normalization rule that modifies the holding fields 866, 867 and 868 fields with the MD Editor's Preview feature the record's 853 fields will sometimes be highlighted as though they were affected by the normalization rule (even though they shouldn't be). Issue has been fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00696292 URM-111887
      In the MDEditor the 'Refine Search' when searching external resources is not translated. Issue has been fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00701365 URM-112648
      In the MARC21 bibliographic profile, position 03 was missing from field 006 for 'Serial/Integrating resource' (s) form of material. this was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00687655 URM-113799
      When doing a crosswalk for Unimarc bibliographic records to Marc21 records, In field 606 only sub fields y and z were converted to field 650 sub fields. This has been fixed and now all sub fields are converted.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF:
      When editing an authority record from Bib > F3 the record is opened as Bib instead of Authority. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00706029 URM-112858
      An Error has occurred while trying to load authority view in the MD Editor for NZ records with local extension fields edited by IZ. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00654399 URM-105903
      The following fixes were made in the MARC21 authority profile, according to the MARC standards: 1) In field 008, position 9, the value '|' was added. 2) In the LDR field, position 18, the field's description and values were updated. 3) In the LDR field, position 19 was added. These changes apply to customers that have not configured the LDR. For customers that have configured the LDR, the fix will take place from November 2019.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00659343 URM-109184
      Bib heading appears as if they are linked to a wrong Authority in the MD Editor for NZ records with local extension fields edited by IZ. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00681274 URM-115239
      Doing F3 on a Chinese name would not find the correct LCNAMES authority. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00593476 00648644 URM-99420
      Updates for Bibliographic Marc21 Crosswalk to Unimarc. Map Marc21 710 to Unimarc 712. Set 2nd indicator to 2. Map Marc21 246 to Unimarc 517. Copy 1st indicator as is. Set 2nd indicator to blank. Sub field mapping: $$a to $$a, $$b to $$e Map Marc21 852 to Unimarc 852 as is. Map Marc21 541 to Unimarc 345. Sub field mapping: $$a to $$a. Map Marc21 650 to Unimarc 606. Sub field mapping: $$0 to $$3 copy the value of 650 $$0 to 606 $$3 Currently, $3 is also mapped to $3. This has been changed so that MARC21 650 $3 will not be mapped at all.
    • November 2019 Resource Management SF: 00584992 00584695 URM-96542
      Duplicate records appeared after updating from the central catalog. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00656217 00668227 00590725 00648393 00697253 00655322 URM-107613
      The Exlibris footer sometimes appeared in the middle of the page. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00210326 00568180 00696281 00483886 00705243 00689444 00365765 URM-107950
      Physical Items Sort Routines list was not translated according to the interface langue of the customer. A fix was implemented for new customers and customer which did not customize the sort routines. Customers which already customized the sort routines: In order to have the list fully translated, please restore for the Physical Items Sort Routines.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00461784 URM-80906
      The scroll-bar for drop-down lists is not displayed properly. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00611194 URM-100185
      Alma Release Schedule display overlaps Help menu. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00671675 URM-113157
      'Tasks' List is not Alphabetical. This was fixed.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00643584 00646138 00639708 URM-106331
      Setting the language of reset password form is now possible.
    • November 2019 Administration and Infrastructure SF: 00744730 URM-119029
      When exporting the letter list to Excel, the Enabled column was not included in the download. This was fixed.
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