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--- videos:vufind_9.1_-_what_s_new_what_s_changed [2023/10/05 18:42] – demiankatz
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+all right so this is the vufine 9.1
+what's new what's changed
+video uh we've got a minor release
+coming this month and this will cover
+everything that is new here so first of
+all a few new features uh we've had a
+couple of new search backends
+contributed one for the Eco publication
+finder which lets you search uh titles
+in the Epco knowledge base and one for
+the databases a toz portion of lib
+guides uh both of these are essentially
+new features related to existing
+backends but they add a little bit more
+flexibility and are particularly useful
+uh in multicolumn search if you have
+subscriptions to these services or for
+uh displaying recommendation
+modules uh We've also had a few new uh
+ILS driver methods added so there are
+some new features that drivers can
+support of course these are not
+implemented for all of our driers yet
+but if it's a feature you need uh it
+could be added to your driver as long as
+the underlying ILS supports it uh they
+are get proxying users which uh is used
+for getting a list of users that have a
+proxy relationship with uh the current
+user uh get URLs for record uh which is
+used for getting links related to a
+specific record ID uh it's specifically
+being used in order to link
+from
+viewfinder history which supports a new
+feature to purge user transaction
+history uh there's also a new ILS driver
+feature that's been implemented which is
+the idea of an uncertain availability
+status so historically availability
+status was binary but sometimes you
+don't know and so now that can be
+represented in the view find system
+uh Beyond those new features there's a
+whole bunch of improvements uh We've
+enhanced some of our command line tools
+so uh for example the import Mark script
+can now accept multiple files in a
+single call which can be a huge
+timesaver because there's a lot of
+overhead in starting up and shutting
+down solar mark But if you provide a
+whole series of file names you save on
+all of that
+overhead uh also the util deletes tool
+for removing records from ER now has an
+ID prefix switch so if you prefix your
+IDs and you want to delete all of the
+records in a mark file you can specify
+the prefix and it will work as
+desired uh We've also had several
+improvements contributed to combined
+search uh you can now turn on advanced
+search links uh in each column of
+combined search results there's a new
+grid layout uh which is an alternative
+to the uh current distributed layout
+that does a better job job of keeping
+the columns in the configured order uh
+when they react and reformat on smaller
+screens and uh there's the ability to
+turn on a jump menu at the top of the
+page to jump down to particular
+columns uh there have also been some
+improvements to the cache system uh now
+when you have uh record caching turned
+on in fallback mode uh it can be set up
+to display a warning that you're viewing
+a cached version of a record which might
+be helpful for providing context to
+users uh and also the entire file based
+caching system can now be turned off
+through configuration uh if you want to
+be sure nothing is being cached this
+could be useful for example when
+troubleshooting
+things uh there have been some other new
+configuration improvements and new
+settings uh one significant thing is
+there's support for a new config file
+called dur
+locations. which can be put inside your
+local settings directory in the root and
+this specifies where inside the
+directory some of your files are found
+and can be used to set up a chain of
+inheritance to other directories uh
+which offers a lot more flexibility if
+you have you know many instances of view
+find that you want to share uh
+configurations between them in complex
+ways uh another new setting is the
+ability to specify more than one fave
+icon in a theme uh previously view find
+supported just one but sometimes it's
+useful to specify many so that you can
+offer different sizes and formats that
+will be used by the browser in different
+contexts uh and finally uh there are now
+config settings in searches. that can be
+used to configure solar's uh
+highlighting parameters so for example
+uh I ran into some problems where
+Snippets were displaying in weird ways
+and the easiest way to fix that was to
+give some more specific highlighting
+parameters to solar to to uh shorten the
+size of the
+Snippets uh there have also been some
+significant improvements to
+internationalization uh there's a new
+language code supported called debug uh
+and if you turn on the language debug
+you will see all of the raw translation
+strings and Associated parameters
+instead of anything being translated
+this could be useful if you're trying to
+figure out where in the language files a
+particular string in the interface is
+coming from um there's also a new
+setting called fallback languages which
+can be used to control language
+inheritance so if view find tries to
+translate a string and it's not
+available in the currently active
+language previously view find would
+always then default to English but with
+this setting you can specify different
+fallback languages instead and in order
+of
+searching and we have a whole new
+interface language uh Northern
+Sami uh there have also been
+improvements in updates to a few ILS
+drivers for Alma folio and Sierra rest
+so if you use these systems uh check the
+change log for more details
+um additionally some other miscellaneous
+improvements uh if you have search tabs
+turned on and you have filtered tabs and
+you apply a hidden filter that does not
+match any of the tabs uh you will now
+get a custom search tab displayed to
+differentiate that uh and this can be
+turned off through configuration if you
+don't want
+it uh you can specify a custom solar
+port at installation time so uh if you
+don't want to use the default
+there's now a way you can set that
+up without having to manually edit a
+whole bunch of files you just specify a
+different port numberers through the uh
+install.php script at the command
+line and there's been a lot of
+accessibility improvements so um many
+templates have changed and that's
+something to be aware of if you're
+upgrading your custom themes I don't
+think any of these changes are too
+shocking but some of them are impactful
+because you know they involve things
+like using more specific semantic tags
+and so forth could cause some conflicts
+with your local customizations that
+you'll need to reconcile when you
+update uh there have also been some
+dependency changes uh we've raised our
+minimum PHP version to 8.0 since the
+php7 line is no longer Ed uh We've
+upgraded solar to
+.3 uh as always with a solar upgrade uh
+fully re-indexing everything is thus
+recommended and we've upgraded solar
+Mark to version
+.5 and while we're talking about solar
+Mark let's talk about uh indexing
+changes because the upgrade to the new
+solar Mark does have one significant
+impact which is that older versions of
+solar Mark uh required translation maps
+to be stored in Latin one encoding which
+was really problematic because
+everything else in
+viewfinder and now uh translation maps
+are expected to be in utf8 but that
+means that if you have custom
+translation Maps containing special
+characters and they're in Latin one
+encoding you will need to convert them
+to utf8 before doing further indexing or
+else uh you might get some weird
+characters in your
+index uh additionally and this isn't
+related to solar Mark but is related to
+indexing uh you should reindex all of
+your XML records I mean you need to
+reindex anyway because of the solar
+upgrade but it's particularly important
+to reindex XML uh because one of the
+significant bug fixes in 9.1 is that we
+discovered that the uh title sort field
+was being populated using different
+normalization algorithms between solar
+Mark and our XML import tool and this
+was resulting in uh some problems in the
+alphabetical browse and some
+inconsistent sorting so we changed all
+of our XML import to uh match solar Mark
+uh so you need to reindex to take
+advantage of that and similarly if you
+have custom XML Imports you should
+review uh the changes in the main
+project to title sort indexing and make
+sure that your code matches if you want
+title sorting and alphabetical browsing
+to work
+consistently uh We've also made a few
+changes to Integrations with external
+Services uh for Epco Discovery service
+um there's been a new configuration
+setting added to EDS inii uh so that it
+uses uh separate URLs for accessing the
+API and establishing new sessions in
+most cases these values are the same but
+there are some situations where they
+need to be different so if you've
+customized the API URL setting in your
+eds. inii you might need to uh take a
+look at the session URL setting as well
+and make it match I don't think this
+affects very many people if any uh
+additionally when the Epco publication
+finder backend was added it utilizes
+some of the Eds code and that led to a
+bit of refactoring so if you have
+low-level custom EDS code you might want
+to review the changes but again this
+seems like an unlikely
+situation uh and a few other things have
+been revised the uh cover loaders for
+Google and orb have been Rewritten to
+add caching support again this shouldn't
+impact anyone unless you've customized
+these which seems
+unlikely uh and the view fine service
+recapture class was significantly
+Rewritten because the laminas recapture
+Library it depends on changed
+significantly as well so if you've
+customized that another area where uh
+work may be needed but it's unlikely
+that you've customized
+that there have also been some user
+interface changes we did a little bit of
+uh rerouting so Blended search used to
+be uh at the search Blended route but in
+order to add more functionality it was
+moved out to its own controller so that
+other route has been deprecated uh it
+still works and redirects but you don't
+want to rely on it in the
+future and similarly historic
+transaction support has been given its
+own uh method in the checkouts control
+instead of being part of the My resarch
+Controller uh and a few other things
+hierarchical facet displays have been
+totally rebuilt to improve accessibility
+and eliminate uh the use of JS tree so
+if you've customized any of that you'll
+want to review our
+changes and uh icon helper templates
+have been adjusted to fix some
+inconsistent escaping behavior um so if
+you've created your own icon format for
+some reason uh you might want to review
+this otherwise it shouldn't matter to
+you and um many of our translation
+strings and the formatting of our
+language files have been adjusted to
+support uh integration with the
+localized internationalization platform
+so if you have custom language files you
+can just use the command line uh
+normalized language tool and it will uh
+bring everything up to spec but if
+you've overridden your strings might
+want to review the details in the change
+log to see if if any of the strings that
+you've overridden have been renamed or
+adjusted uh there aren't a whole lot but
+there's a a little list
+there finally uh some deprecations and
+removed features the viewfinder commmand
+search object class has been deprecated
+in favor of viewfinder commm abstract
+search object this has always been an
+abstract class it just seemed to uh be
+clearer to include abstract in the name
+for consistent see with other parts of
+the code so we uh we added it in a
+Backward compatib Compatible way in 9.1
+we'll finish that Cleanup in
+.0 uh we also removed a few things
+because oclc discontinued some services
+without replacing them so the worldcat
+identities recommendation module is gone
+and the oclc identities autocomplete
+Handler is also gone uh if you use these
+in your configuration you won't
+encounter any errors but they'll just be
+silently ignored
+uh and finally there was a file in one
+of our themes called bootstrap
+custom.css uh which was basically an
+example of how you could override some
+things with CSS but we never used it and
+it was confusing people so we just
+deleted
+it and that's it so just a reminder of
+some resources uh if you are going to
+upgrade my recommended method is to do
+it using git and there's a video on how
+to upgrade viewfinders in git so you can
+can see the process that I use for all
+of my
+viewfinders uh and also there's this
+blog post about automatically updating
+local custom files with Git um this is
+the method I use to synchronize changes
+in the core code with uh custom
+templates it saves me a lot of time and
+trouble I encourage you to do this too
+if you have a lot of custom templates
+and that's it so if you have any
+questions or comments you can always
+reach out to me at the usual email
+address damian. cats villanova.edu or
+you can find me on The View find slack
+and that's it thank you very much
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