Fulfillment - June 2017 Enhancements

The fines/fees notification profile now has options to suppress a message being sent to a patron if the patron has an active loan or if the patron is expired. See Configuring Fines/Fees Notification Profiles.

The fee generated from Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles may now be generated per letter rather than per loan, which allows institutions to charge a fee for sending the warning letters. The profile contains a new check box, Create Overdue Notification Fee, and a new field, Notification Fee Amount, which appears only when the Create Overdue Notification Fee check box is selected. These fields are visible only when the aggregated notice format has been enabled (i.e. the switch_to_overdue_and_lost_loan_new_job parameter in the customer parameters mapping table is set to true). Additionally, the existing check box, Create Fine, was changed to Create Overdue Loan Fine. For more information, see Adding an Overdue and Lost Loan Profile. 

The Overdue and Lost Item job report section, previously named Fines Created - by profile, was renamed Overdue Loan Fines Created - by profile. A new section of the job report was added, Overdue Notification Fees Created - by Profile Type, to list the new notification fees. Additionally, the job results summary contains two new fields, Total failed to created overdue loan notification fee and Total succeeded to create loan notification fee.  

• You can now configure rules for automatically creating purchase requests when adding or editing a citation, depending on certain criteria. See Configuring Automatic Purchasing Requests from Citations.
• Start Page and End Page are now also available as resource information fields for books, as well as articles.
• When rolling over a course using the Course Loader integration profile, any creative commons declarations are rolled over as well. See Configuring Course Loading. In addition, if citation tags are copied, section tags are copied as well.
• You can run a job to see suggested alternate editions for citations. The job suggests electronic editions for physical citations, as well as FRBR related editions (if any are found). See Finding Alternate Resource Suggestions for Citations.
• Field 300$$a is set to the number of pages if the item is actually a monograph. Field 773 remains the number of pages in other cases. In addition, Alma normalizes 300$$a (to a sum in digits) for copyright records.
• When editing a citation with a copyright record and clicking Save and manage approval (see Managing Citations), the Approve Requests List is now opened filtered by ISBN/ISSN instead of by MMS ID.
• The Reading List Information area on the Edit Reading List page was moved to a tab. (Note that this was then reverted for the June HF release.)
• A new daily scheduling option was added for the Overdue and Lost Loan job to run overnight.
• An item's inventory number was added to the available items section of the print slip.
• An option to sort on the Library column in the loans list of the Manage Patron Service page was added. The sort function is only active when All Loans is selected for the loan display. See Loaning Items.
• When an item has a booking or physical request that is active and the description is changed, a warning pop-up on an item's edit page is invoked.
• In the Send Overdue Message to Resource Sharing Borrowing Partner job, if an active borrowing request cannot be found, the overdue message is only sent once, rather than sending each time the job runs. The error message was also fixed to reflect the actual error. See Viewing Scheduled Jobs.