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Ex Libris Documentation

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• Alma August 2024 Feature Release Notes
• Leganto August 2024 Release Notes

General

Enhancements

• The UI for active facets was redesigned for better clarity and efficiency in narrowing down and viewing results. This applies to PO lines, resource sharing requests, sets, and relevant searches such as physical holdings. 
• The collapsed facets panel now indicates the existence and the number of active facets. This applies to PO lines, resource sharing requests, sets, and relevant searches such as physical holdings.

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If you hover over the collapsed facets bar, a tooltip displays the selected facets. 

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Acquisitions / Finance

Enhancements

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• An option was created to copy the PO line price to the item's Replacement Cost field. The price is copied upon PO Line creation, change of PO line proce price and addition or removal of items in the PO ineslines. 

Resolved

• The Public Access Model field did not update when adding an additional PO line with the "License Upgrade" type. This was fixed.

• Access models were not assigned to electronic portfolios when the PO lien was created via a template. This was fixed. 
• When creating a PO line type of Electronic Book - One Time, the material type field in the PO line was empty. This was fixed. 
• Invoice payment information fields were editable when accessed from the Receive New Material page for users who did not have the relevant privileges. This was fixed. 
• Invoices with Closed status could not be saved when editing the payment information fields. This was fixed. 
• When creating a new PO line using a template that contained the license value, the license was not copied to the created portfolio. This was fixed. 
• When an item with an illegal character ("&", "%") in the title was "Saved and Received" from the Item Editor, an error was displayed. This was fixed. 
• The Interested User field was not populated in PO lines when loaded through EOD with the user email address. This was fixed. 

Analytics & Reporting

Enhancements

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• It is now possible to add a Custom link to LMS help URL (Configuration > General > External Systems > Integration Profiles > Integration Type: LTI Tool > Actions tab) to direct users to a specified link for help using a link to a section or item in the LMS. When the Custom link to LMS help URL field is blank (default), users are directed to the Ex Libris Leganto help. For more information, see LTI.
• Based on customer feedback, it is now possible to manage collaborators from the Edit list page. Previously, it was only possible from the Manage list page.
• Based on customer feedback, the tooltips that appear on hover were adjusted to appear and disappear more quickly as the mouse moves across the page.
• When deleting sections or adding/removing section tags in bulk, these events are now included in the Notifications list.
• Analytics: The Link to PDF field was added to the Citations dimension of the Leganto Student Usage and Leganto Instructor Usage Events subject areas and the Reading List Citations dimension of the Course Reserves and Purchase requests subject areas. It displays the URL of the PDF of the citation.
  

E-Resources

Enhancements

ResolvedResolved

• An error that occurred when moving some portfolios to a different electronic collection was fixed.
• The Inventory tab in all title searches displayed the old name for the electronic collection, even though the collection name was updated in the Community Zone. This issue has been fixed and the correct public name is now displayed. 

Fulfillment

Enhancements

• (NERS 8338): The Change Physical items information job can now be set to remove the Transit For Reshelving status from items. This makes it easy to correct the status of items that are incorrectly marked as in transit.

• The following fields are now available to activate in the physical items search configuration. For more information, see Customizing the Search Results Record Fields.

  • Public note
  • Fulfillment note
  • Internal notes

• The following columns are now available to activate in the physical items list table. For more information, see Working with Table Columns.

  • Condition
  • Public note
  • Fulfillment note
  • Internal note 1
  • Statistics note 1

Resource Management

Enhancements