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Ex Libris Documentation
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- When searching in sets, the Created by option now allows for search by the user name (First or last name). Truncated searches are supported so that users can use an asterisk wildcard to search for a string that begins with the searched characters.
- The Simple and Advanced search now support recent searches for all search types, including Order lines, Holdings, Users, Licenses, Reading Lists, Requests, etc.
- PHYSICAL ITEMS SEARCH: the following fields are now available to activate in the physical items search configuration:
- Public note
- Fulfillment note
- Internal notes
- Statistics notes
- Receiving date
- Receiving operator
- To activate these fields, click the gear icon at the top right corner of the results
- LIST OF ITEMS VIEW
- When viewing a list of items, such as on a bib or holding, these additional fields are available for display: Condition, Public note, Fulfillment note, Internal note 1, Statistics note 1
- To activate these fields, click the gear icon at the top right corner of the results
Acquisitions / Finance
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.
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Resource Management
Enhancements
Creating multiple items for a holding using item templates- When using the "Add item from template" feature, you can now specify the number of items to add.
- New Cloud App on sandbox for testing: Item Creator by Excel
- This CloudApp facilitates the creation of new physical items from Excel files, ideal for scenarios involving multiple holdings or titles, varied enumeration/chronology fields, or when item data is provided in Excel format (e.g., from vendors). Minimum input requirements are MMS ID and Holding ID.
- Contact LTS to become a registered user for this app in production.
- Metadata Editor Linked Data feature
- For a linked author heading, when you click on the binoculars to see the authority record at the right, you will see a new button for "Contributor Page." This button will open a panel that exposes information from LC and Wikidata if available.
. Full support for generating a new search based on the ID of the authority will be fully functional after the November 2024 indexing.
- For a linked author heading, when you click on the binoculars to see the authority record at the right, you will see a new button for "Contributor Page." This button will open a panel that exposes information from LC and Wikidata if available.
- Authorities search
When an authority record has a 5XX field mentioning a related authority, the authorities search results now contains a link to easily search for that term. If the authority vocabulary does not base these pointers on authority ID, clicking on the "See also" link generates a search for the term entered in the 5XX field. This search was enhanced to give more accurate results and will now:
Use the "equals" search operator
Limit the search by originating system, so that only authorities from the same system as the authority record the search originated from will be retrieved.
Before, the entire 5XX field was included in the search, often resulting in not finding the relevant authority. Now, only subfields indexed for search in the relevant source code (subject, personal name, corporate name, and so forth) within the 5XX field are included in the search.
Institutions that prefer the previous keyword-based “See also” search behavior (for example, who work mostly with vocabularies where doing a fuzzy match is more desirable), can select to opt out of the new system by setting the customer parameter aut_see_also_link to ‘false’ to retain the old behavior. (Contact LTS to inquire.)