• User interface:
  • Add the language facet translations.
  • Add a button to expand or shrink the number of facet items displayed.
• Circulation:
  • Notifications are based on templates for the different languages and communication channels.
  • Upgrade invenio-circulation from v1.0.0a14 to v1.0.0a16
• Search and indexation:
  • Revert to default boolean OR operator and set the ranking order.
  • Add a new display_score=1 URL parameter to display the ES (Elasticsearch) score, in order to improve ES debugging or configuration.
  • Improve ES mappings and JSON Schemas for documents:
    • Documents have two schemas, one for harvested data, one for internal records.
    • eBooks no longer have their own mapping in order to have a single mapping for all documents (to make searching consistent).
  • Add indexation class property to IlsRecords, in order to get a different indexer for each resource.
• Data model:
  • Implement new data model for identifiedBy and language:
    • dojson transformation from MARC21.
    • Update JSON Schema and ES mappings.
    • Update user interface views and editor.
• Consortium:
  • Implement views by organisations and a global one, with content filtered by the URL parameter.
• Tests:
  • Extract external service tests to a specific test battery.
  • The external service tests are made optional in the run-tests.sh script.
  • Rewrite Pipfile to ensure a clean dependencies graph.
• Instance:
  • Upgrade to Invenio 3.1.1 (security updates).
  • Replace the deprecated invenio-records CLI by a invenio fixtures CLI.
  • Make use of pipenv sync in installation process to be consistent with Invenio 3.1.
• Documentation:
  • Fix a wrong docker image in the INSTALL.rst file.
  • Add an issue template to the GitHub repository.
  • Change license from GPLv2 to AGPLv3.
• Fixed issues:
  • #87: Add a button to expand or shrink the number of facet items displayed.
  • #89 : Implement a minimal JSON schema for harvested document but map all documents into the same index for searching. Add a boolean key to identify harvested documents to disable editing functionality.
  • #263 : Take library closed days into account as computing the due date.
  • #357 : Display the correct patron when checking in a requested item if the pickup location is equal to the check-in transaction location.
  • #378 : Compute due date based on the transaction library opening hours and calendar.
  • #384 : Restore default boolean operator OR for search engine query, but improve order of results (form most to less pertinent).
  • #407 : Improve confirmation message after item deletion.
  • #417 : Compute due date, beginning at the end of the transaction day.

This patch also fixes #367.

This patch also fixes #367

This patch fixes #367

• Release version number following the Semantic Versioning recommandations
• Circulation:
  • "Notification" resource added (schema, mappings)
  • Notification parameters added to the "circulation policy" resource (number of days before due date, number of days after due date)
  • Automatic creation of four types of notifications: recall, availability (request), due soon, overdue first reminder
  • Celery task cron to create and send overdue and due soon notifications
  • Notification dispatcher created in order to send notifications to the proper patron, in his preferred language, through the appropriate channel
• Search:
  • ElasticSearch template mechanism implemented
  • Analyzers applying to resource fields configured
  • Field boosting configured
  • Query parser using the boosting configuration
• Consortium:
  • New role: system librarian
  • System librarian is granted full rights within his or her organisation
  • Librarian allowed to edit, add, delete librarians of his or her library only
  • Librarian cannot edit, delete system librarians
  • Librarian allowed to manage users of his own library only (when edition is not authorized, the buttons are not diplayed)
  • The selector of affiliation library presents only the authorized libraries
• Permissions:
  • Permission factory improved
  • Permission data added to the REST API:
    • Links to actions (create, update, delete)
    • Reasons why a permission is denied
• Fixtures: fix dojson transformation to adapt to RDA changes in the RERO data source
• Instance: upgrade invenio-records to version 1.2.1, in order to enable dedicated table for each resource
• Code quality:
  • Improved users fixtures for tests, with relevant roles
• Fixed issues: #52, #217, #349

• User interface:
  • Web notification using bootstrap toast component
  • Pickup location name replaced by pickup library name
  • Pickup location name column removed from patron profile (checkouts tab)
• Professional user interface:
  • Patron type and library IDs replaced by names
  • Improved opening hours editor and validation
  • Optional description fields for item and patron type
  • Improved exceptions (holidays) editor
  • Add item shortcut button removed from the professional document result view
  • Re-ordered professional menu categories and subcategories
• Circulation:
  • New due date after renewal computed from current date instead of current due date
  • Renewal removed from list of actions if new due date is shorter than the current one
  • Check-out of in-transit items enabled (under specific conditions)
  • Renewal of requested items disabled
  • Corrected item status after checking in a requested item
• Consortium:
  • Multiple organisations support added
  • Fixture data contains two organisations
  • REST API result lists filtered by organisation
  • REST API access restricted by organisation (read, write, delete, update)
  • Item generation rewritten to comply with the two organisation model (item type, location)
  • Loan generation rewritten to comply whith the two organisation model (item type, patron type, circulation policy, location, … )
  • Action buttons on professional documents view disabled for items not belonging to the current logged in librarian organisation.
• eBooks:
  • Cantook platform harvesting using the API (provides richer data) instead of OAI-PMH
  • Cantook JSON transformed to Invenio MARC21 JSON (dojson)
  • Invenio MARC21 JSON tranformed to RERO ILS JSON (dojson)
  • Cantook cover art displayed if available
• Instance:
  • RERO ILS upgraded to Invenio 3.1
  • Error level logs sent to a RERO hosted Sentry service for monitoring purpose
  • RERO EBOOKS upgraded to Invenio 3.1 (webpack implemented)
  • RERO EBOOKS v0.1.0a1 released
• Code quality:
  • Increase test coverage to 89%
  • Fix all missing docstrings
  • Commit message template updated accordingly to Invenio recommandations
• Fixed issues: #58, #38 #155, #222, #223, #224, #230, #231, #232, #235, #254

• User interface:
  • Upgrade to twitter bootstrap 4.1.3 and fontawesome 4.7.
  • Simplification and harmonization of the user interface (public and professional views).
  • The menu moved from the sidebar to the header, with an improved responsive behaviour.
  • Favicons added.
  • The document type is also displayed in the item detailed view.
  • Fix subjects facets issue (mapping).
  • Hide facet when it's empty and remove date range facet.
  • Professional views are now an angular application:
    • Circulation ui, circulation settings, library edition, all editors.
    • Library and circulation policies are custom editors, the others are built with the form options, JSON shema, through angular6-json-schema-form.
    • Search for resources (libraries, patron types, item types, circulation policies, documents, patrons).
    • On the fly translation mechanism implemented for angular application.
    • A new modal dialog added in the professional views for resources deletion.
  • Circulation user interface compliant with invenio-circulation and circulation policies mechanism.
  • Public search view rewritten in angular6.
  • Autocomplete dialog during search (documents and persons) with direct links to authorities.
  • Remove invenio-search-ui from the dependencies.
  • Reorder professional menus in a modular structure that should make sense to the professional.
• Editors:
  • Selector menus in the editor are dynamically populated (ie. PID are replaced by actual names).
  • Library editor: completely rewritten:
    • Opening hours can be set, as well as holidays and exceptions.
    • Fields are dynamically validated.
• Links between resources:
  • Use the JSON reference resolution ($ref) supported by invenio, for MEF Person authorities too (through APIs).
  • All PID links are JSON reference.
  • Many search and detailed views have been updated correspondingly.
  • Library facet is now based on the library PID.
• API:
  • New replace function, different from update.
  • is_open function to determine if the library is open.
  • Resolvers added, especially a global one.
  • A global can_delete function added, to identify if a resource can be deleted or not, also for item types and patron types.
• Circulation:
  • Integration of invenio-circulation and refactoring of circulation APIs.
  • Circulation ui refactoring to make use of the invenio-circulation API and the $ref mechanism.
  • Circulation policies can be added, edited in a custom angular form.
  • Circulation policies taken into account for each circulation transaction and for the display of the request button.
• Fixtures:
  • Libraries with opening hours, holidays and exceptions.
  • Data importation has been updated after the $ref refactoring, especially for links between bibliographic records and MEF Person authorites.
• Tests:
  • All tests are now compliant with invenio-pytest.
• MEF:
  • Document brief and detailed views display MEF authorities as a link.
  • MEF Person detailed view provides a list of documents whose author is that person.
  • MEF Person detailed view data are dynamically fetched from the MEF server (mef.test.rero.ch)
  • During indexing, data of the MEF record is injected into the document index.
  • Improve the mapping and indexing of MEF records, in order to display the person's name depending on the language interface.
• Fixed issues: #37, #43, #48, #70, #126, #114, #137, #164, #215, #221, #234

⚠️ This note lists the changes that occurred since the v0.1.0a18 release, ie. including the v0.1.0a19 release.

• Cataloging:

  • New rero-ils resource for authorities (MEF records), for now only for persons.
  • Authorities for persons harvested form the new MEF RERO service.

• Interface:

  • Document covers displayed, when available.
  • Facets:
    • Reordering of facets.
    • Replaced "locations" by "libraries" facet.
    • Facets are foldable and extendable.
    • New "sources" facet for the persons results page.
  • Persons are searchable (only by logged-in librarians yet).
  • Two detailed views implemented for persons, displaying data sources.
  • New administration sidebar menu.
  • New sticky autohide header bar, with new menu.

• Editor:

  • Deletion of record is verified: when the record is linked to other resources, the delete button is disabled and a message is shown.

• Circulation:

  • The librarian can define patron types.
  • The librarian can define item types.
  • The librarian can define circulation policies.

• Harvesting: added a parameter to limit the number of records to harvest by OAI-PMH or API.

• Refactoring:

  • reroils-app, reroils-data, reroils-record-editor modules merged together and renamed to rero-ils.
  • Module structure and script helpers updated using the new released version of invenio-cookie-cutter.
  • New installation process and contributing guidelines documented.
  • In the consortial structure, member renamed to library.

• Issues closed: #71, #20, #53, #44, #94, #109, #103, #111, #127, #125.

• Known issues: the sidebar partially hides the content; this will be fixed in the next deployment.

• eBooks records from external services are imported and synchronized; from the detailed view of these eBooks, the users can bounce through a link to the source.
• The search has now AND as a default boolean.