• New Textbook Tracker reports. Damage Code Barcodes, Refunded Payments, Overdue Items Notice, and more! Take a look at the complete list in the Reports section below.

• Clear the Custom Label Reports template. That's right. Now you can start your label customization with a clean slate! Just click on the new, handy-dandy clear button.

• Search by URL link descriptions. Filter your Search results by URLs for things like lesson plans or Overdrive links.

Important

• If you self host on a Mac, hold off updating to macOS 10.15 Catalina. Alexandria will be 64-bit compatible in an upcoming release.

New & Improved

Circulation

• Patron Details receipts are no longer doubling the replacement cost of the printed items.

Import

• Fixed a bug that caused matching on ISBN to fail for Textbook imports.

• Imports now properly respect the site preferences when determining the status to apply to newly imported copies.

Management

• Fixed a bug that was preventing the duplication of title records.

• Corrected an issue that could prevent new patrons from being created via SIF.

• Updating titles via SmartMARC Title Assistant now respects the preference to Preserve Existing Call Numbers.

Preferences

• Closed and Period Due days no longer revert to open days when renaming a calendar.

Reports

• Custom Label Reports now offer a Clear button, which allows you to set up your label from a blank slate. 

• Added several new reports to Textbook Tracker, including: Damage Code Barcodes, Manual Checkout Sheet, Item Policies, Patron Policies, Policy Exceptions, System Analysis, Refunded Payments, Patron Payment History, and Overdue Items Notice.

• Fixed a bug that was causing the inventory reports to display with an abnormally large and incorrect font in some installations.

• Statistics reports no longer fail to populate when using a date range selection for a single day.

Search

• Added support for searching URL link descriptions. This is available via the ((link::value)) search string query type and is also included as an option in the advanced search.

Self Service

• Adjusted the Self Service timeout to be longer, like it is for the Librarian modules.

System

• Improved performance and reliability.

• There have been substantial internal changes to the Alexandria Configuration Engine. Administrators need to be aware that certain configuration information must be stored outside of the database so that it is accessible during startup. This must also be the case before the web server, database engine, and other components can be brought online. This information is now stored in the GlobalConfig.json support file. The Configuration.txt and Config.txt support files have been deprecated. We suggest that you modify the contents of this file ONLY under the direction of COMPanion Customer Support, and when doing so, be aware that this file is sensitive not only to correct keys and values but also to proper JSON structure.

Utilities

• Enhanced the Forgive Charges utility with an option to specify the transaction date range for when the charge was applied. Also added options for forgiving overdue charges separate from lost fees.

• Improved the Utilities Operation Summary Files, which now include more complete and consistent information regarding the selections and options used.