Sierra upgrade 12th March

Lots of new functionality and fixes when we upgrade Sierra on Tuesday morning. Here are some of the highlights.

Sierra passwords

Sierra passwords will be required to be 8 characters. This will be enforced when a user changes their password.

Cancelled holds

You can create a new hold from the Cancelled Holds table and put the hold at the end of the hold queue or in order by the original hold placed date.

Copy and paste MARC fields

You can copy an entire field including MARC fields and subfields to the clipboard for pasting

Find text within record

You can use keyboard shortcuts to find text within a record (under Edit> Find).

Sierra web supports 30 concurrent users

The number of concurrent users of Sierra web increases from 5 to 30.

Easier Sierra insallation

The Sierra installation and download page simplifies the installation process

Sierra PINs support punctuation

Patrons using barcode and PIN authentication can now add punctuation in their PINS

Scheduler export

Scheduler can export the same fields as Create Lists

Create Lists default view

Each user can set their own default view in Create Lists

 

Security updates

SIP2 supports encrypted connections

This will allow us to increase the security of our self-check machines by connecting to Sierra via a ‘stunnel’.

Increased encryption of Sierra desktop

We can configure Sierra to use a ‘stunnel’ for increased security.

HTTPS for web management reports

Web management reports wil load on a secure connection

Privacy policy for WebPAC

We can add a privacy notice to the WebPAC (Library Account)

Forced HTTPS for WebPac

You can force WebPac to use HTTPS. Up to now HTTPS has been allowed but we could not force HTTPS access.

 

Bug fixes

WAM proxy 502 errors

No more 502 upstream proxy errors  when accessing databases via WAM. Yay!

Incorrect barcode in Sierra Offline Circ log

The last 2 digits of the barcode were repeated in the offline circ report.

Data Exchange export

Fixed the problem where you can’t export if there were only 1 or 2 records in the review file to output.