2021 Release Notes

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Stacks 3.3.0 Build 337 | Released December 14, 2021

NEW FEATURES & FUNCTIONS

Administrators can now determine which Collection Fields can be shown or hidden in either detail view or list view.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that could alter the font color of Collection accordion titles when filters were selected.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 336 | Released November 30, 2021

NEW FEATURES & FUNCTIONS

IHS Markit Bento Search integration.s
Enhanced RSS Feeds have a new keyword tag field.

FIXES

Fixed an issue that caused images to be misaligned in Resource Flow descriptions.
Fixed an issue that prevented Event signups from displaying in the Events block of the My Account page.
Fixes to the height and width of the footer section.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 335 | Released November 16, 2021

FIXES

Resolved an issue that prevented images from displaying in Directory Listings when added using the WYSIWYG editor.
Resolved an issue with the Easy Form webform builder that prevented field properties from being saved
Directory Listing labels now correctly reflect custom labels when configured.
Fixed an issue that caused images in the footer to display only in their default size.
Resolved an issue that caused the same book jacket to be displayed for all Sierra Bento results.
Resolved an issue that prevented a Moderator from Booking a Room.
Resolved an issue that could cause a website encountered an error when attempting to add a new RSS block.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 334 | Released November 2, 2021

FIXES

Removed the requirement of an alternate email address on event signups.
Added Holdings information to EDS details view.
Fixed the featured databases block to display Databases in alphabetical order.
Resolve an issue that prevented addition of filter vocabulary terms when importing events.
FIxed an issue that prevented the Default Saved list from appearing on in the my-account saved list summary page.
Modified the date picker field in Easy forms to only show current and future years.
Resource Flow item location limiter was not clearing the transparent background when escaping the Sierra Item modal.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 333 | Released October 19, 2021

EHANCEMENT

When using an Alternate email for event signups, all emails will be sent to the alternate address instead of the user's default email address.

FIXES

Fixed the Location Bar & Today's Hours modal so that Closed dates are displayed.
Validations in place to prevent unwanted leading and/or trailing spaces from being saved in Email fields.
Mini sliders now display correctly when set to 'Emphasize Center Mode'.
Resolved an issue that could prevent the ILS button from appearing when ILS is set as a secondary auth method.
Correced the behavior of Soflink ILS Bento results .

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 332 | Released October 5, 2021

NEW FEATURE

New Authentication Method with Patron Functionality - Softlink ILS

FIXES

Resolved an Ajax error that appeared while attempting to add a Bento box when no feed options were available.
Resolved an issue that prevented the calendar picker from functioning properly on Sierra hold requests.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 331 | Released on September 21, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

New functionality for the Sierra ILS integration allowing patrons to identify a "needed by" date when requesting holds.
The Link checker feature will now scan RSS Feeds, Items, and Blocks.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that displayed all RSS feed items for 'see more' when the RSS Block was configured to show only upcoming items.
Resolved an issue that caused internal site Bento search results to return zero results when an apostrophe was used.
Fixed an issue that could prevent the target properties of an image from saving.
Resolved an issue that would only display one author in EDS Bento search results when multiple authors exist.

Stacks 3.3.0 Build 330 | Released on September 9, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

The following improvements to the Resource Flow feature:
- A location limiter option has been added and will appear when using the Sierra ILS integration.
- A Call number field has been added and will appear when using the Sierra ILS Integration.
- Addition of a description field that will display above or below Resource flows.
The following improvement to the Events feature:
- Book rooms for a single occurrence, all occurrences or occurrences within a date range for reoccurring events.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that could cause the main menu drop-down to render behind other elements.
Resolved an issue that caused a CAPTCHA challenge to appear on an event detail page when the signup form was closed.
Fixed an issue that prevented custom page titles from displaying.
Resolved an issue that caused unwanted HTML tags to display within search results.
Resolved an issue that prevented URLs in Sierra Bento results from encoding correctly.
Fixed a cropping issue that affected Resource Flow printouts.

Stacks Build 329 | Released August 24, 2021

MPROVEMENTS

Updates made to the font used in the Resource Flow print preview.

FIXES

Fixed the helper text on the room bookings dashboard page to reflect the correct maximum number of hours setting.
Resolved an issue that all displayed RSS feed items when the RSS Block was configured to show only upcoming items.
Resolved an issue that caused closure times to conflict with room booking closures.

Build 328 | Released on August 11, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

Updated the font that displays in the print view for Resource flows.
Updates to the Base theme for accessibility.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that ignored the custom page title for the Database page.
Resolved an issue that prevented the help article link from appearing on the Events Management tile.
Resolved an issue that caused a "Website encountered an error" when performing a Course Reserve Search
or navigating between Course Reserve pages. (Build 328.3)

Build 327 | Released on July 28, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

Enhanced the Web of Science search integration to use a consistent search type.

FIXES

Adjusted the Statista Bento so that links in the Bento Summary header behave in a consistent manner.
Resolved an issue that could cause the configured room hours to clear when editing an existing room.
Adjusted the Resource Flow Print button to open in a new tab.

Build 326 | Released on July 13, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

The Event Slider heading text now links to the /upcoming-events page.
Removed unusable feature types from the Bento content selection tool.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that prevented the selection and display of the fax number field on directory listings.
Resolved an issue that prevented the correct BrowZine libkey link being accessible from the Search results button.
Set restrictions to prevent filter vocabulary lists from being unintentionally deleted.

Build 325 | Released June 29, 2021

FIXES

Fixed an issue that caused the previous week to load on Room bookings grid view.
Fixed an issue that caused the Room bookings grid view to generate errors when all rooms are unpublished.
Resolved an issue that caused Sliders images to appear outside of the the configured visibility dates.
Updated the base URL for Polaris Resource Flows.
Resolved an issue that caused incorrect hours of operations to appear on Directory Listings.
Resolved an issue that could prevent the Request Item button from appearing for Sierra customers.

IMPROVEMENTS

New option to configure different base URL for resource flows and Bento Search results for Sierra.
Header of the News 5 Latest article teaser block now links to the News page.

Build 324 | Released June 17, 2021

NEW FEATURES

Introduced the Derwent Search Integration.
Introduced the Web of Science Integration.
Added a printable view for Resource Flows.

IMPROVEMENTS

Modified the Calendar view to display the full names of Days.
Addition of a new delimiter for Collections.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that prevented the Term filter drop-down list from appearing on the Course Reserves page.
Resolved an issue that could prevent the Statista bento link from opening in a new tab when configured to use outbound links.
Resolved an issue that prevented the Read More button from using the custom URL override.
Resolved an issue that could cause mobile devices to incorrectly generate a search string when searching a custom external catalog.
Security fixes.
Modified the link to the Stacks Support page on the Admin Dashboard modal.
Performed a Novelist ISBN hotfix.

Build 323 | Released June 1, 2021

NEW FEATURES

Stacks now allows for multiple SIP2 connections.
New Events Slider Feature allows Administrators
New External Catalog settings created for Goldfire

IMPROVEMENTS

New option to sort the order of Room Bookings and Groups

FIXES

Resolved an issue that could cause additional whitespace at the bottom of Questel & Statista Bento search result boxes.
Resolved an issue that prevented Stacks from reconginizing custom delimiters used when importing a CSV user list.
Modified Stacks to keep Filter Vocabulary in side-bar sorted alphabetically
Modified the EDS Everything Bento to remove search filters.

Build 322 | Released May 18, 2021

NEW FEATURES

Statista Catalog Search Integration

FIXES

Fixed the Calendar .ics file to adjust for Daylight Saving time changes.
Fixed the Calendar .ics file to retain body text / description formatting when viewed in a Windows calendar applications.
Fixed an issue that could cause EDS Autocomplete suggestions as empty white space.
Fixed an issue that caused incorrect rendering of a resource flow when items had empty fields.

BUILD 321 | Released May 4, 2021

FIXES

Resolved an issue that could cause Safari to block external links in Bento search results.
Resolved an issue that prevented Event Email confirmations from being sent when registering as an authenticated user.
Resolved an issue that cause a child menu items to cover parent menu item when expanded.
Modified the OCLC Bento Box to match the appearance and functionality of other Bento boxes.
Resolved an issue that caused newly created accounts to ignore the defaults for Bento cover art.
Removed the Refine Mintel Results button from the Bento Search results page.
Resolved an issue that could prevent Topic blocks from displaying correctly when custom styling is introduced to the site.

BUILD 320 | Released April 20, 2021

ENHANCEMENTS

Addititon of SSO Prefix configuration for Mintel
Option to Direct users to Mintel to see more results

FIXES

Resolved an issue that caused author information to display incorrectly in EDS record detail view.
Resolved an issue preventing main menus from being navigable using a keyboard.

BUILD 319 | Released April 8, 2021

ENHANCEMENTS

KOHA ILS added to the Secondary Authentication list allowing OA authentication with KOHA ILS Support

FIXES

Resolved an issue that generated an incorrect error message when trying to renew items in OCLC.
Resolved a display issue in EDS Detail Record view that failed to separate Authors with a semi-colon.
Removal of the broken Online Access Button from Bento Search results page.
Users authenticating via OCLC are now redirected to the correct page when clicking the Read Online Button after logging in.
Fixed an issue that caused apostraphes to be interpreted incorrectly in HTML when used in a Field label.

BUILD 318 | Released March 23, 2021

FIXES

Resolved an issue that could cause an HTML tag to appear next to a logo when using the Pyramid theme.
Fixed an issue causing 'NaN' to be displayed in the 'See More' link of Euromonitor Bento Box search results.
Resolved an issue that redirected patrons to the My Account page when prompted to a user login while on Easy form pages.

BUILD 317 | Released March 10, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

Filter Vocabulary counts have been added to Collections.
OCLC ILS Integration updated to work with OCLC's new API.
Online Access Link is now available as a button in the EDS Detail view of a record.

FIXES

When a user clicks the See More results button in a WMS bento box a new browser tab will open with the full search results.

BUILD 316 | Released February 23, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

Dashboard navigation improvements to using anchors to direct administrators to specific sections of a page.

FIXES

Events that start and end on different dates after the start date will now appear in the Events list view until the event ends.
Resolved an issue that prevented filter vocabulary terms from displaying correctly on the Events list view when filter terms had translations.

BUILD 315 | Released February 17, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

Database titles using foreign characters will now be sorted into accordians based on the first character of the name
Database titles using diacritic characters will now be categorized into the approporate character family (for example: database name begins with Ü will appear in the accordian labelled “U”

FIXES

event confirmation email settings for new events will default to the settings in the system configuration.
Resolved an issue that prevented Search form labels from observing the custom labels in Multidomain environments for the appropirate subdomain.
Resolved an issue that caused an error when using EDS Publication date filters without having the correct limiter set in the EDS Profile.

BUILD 314 | Released February 9, 2021

IMPROVEMENTS

New External Catalog configuration added for Alexandria.
KOHA added to secondary authentication method drop-down selection.
News and Events sort by date ascending by default.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that prevented EDS Autosuggest and EDS Autocomplete features from displaying results.
Resolved an issue that caused dashboard tile help text from displaying.

BUILD 313 | Released February 4, 2021

FIXES

Resolved an issue that would prevent a Sierra Bento search results from displaying results.
Resolved an issue that would prevent the Request Item button setting to save when adding new items to resource flows.

IMPROVEMENTS

Addition of directory listing fields added to indexing and are now searchable on the Directory Listings Page.
EDS API performance improvements.

BUILD 312 | Released January 28, 2021

NEW FEATURE

New OpenSesame integration with Bento Search and management of the eLearning course catalog.

ENHANCEMENTS

Improved Collection import functionality.
Collections can now be exported to a csv file by site administrators.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that prevented Topic blocks from saving when special characters were part of the entry.

BUILD 311 | Released January 20, 2021

NEW FEATURE

New Bento Fallback feature to display a custom block or easy form in place of a bento box when 0 search results are returned.

FIXES

Resolved an issue that caused the PubMed Bento box to ignore the "Turn buttons into links" setting.

BUILD 310 | Released January 6, 2021

FIXES

Resolved an issue that caused bento box search results to fail when custom EDS bentos had special characters in the title.
Resolved an issue that caused the search fields in the Admin dashboard to cache previously used search terms.
Resolved an issue that caused the Latest 5 News Article teaser block to display some text in.
Modified the Site Logo to correctly reflect Alt Text and Title text for improved Accessibility.