Today we’re pleased to announce the release of some new features as part of the continuous development of Prism 3.

As usual, live customers have been able to preview these new features – this gave them a fully functioning view of their own catalogue and data but using this new version of the software.  Since Prism 3 is Software as a Service, the new features are now available to all Prism 3 customers without having to do anything.

You can see the features that do not require a user login in our demonstrator.

Spelling Suggestions
Spelling suggestions are a familiar and valuable part of the search experience on the Web. This first step in spelling suggestion functionality in Prism gives English language suggestions when there are no results for the user’s query. It gives suggestions for single and multi-word queries. As a starter, try ‘digitl photograpy’. The suggestions in this version come from a dictionary, so it may suggest a word that retrieves no results.

Change PIN
As a library user, you can sign in to your account and select an option to change PIN, near the top of the page. On the change PIN form page, you can confirm your current PIN and enter your new PIN twice to confirm it. Your input is checked and error messages are given as appropriate. Your new PIN is effective the next time you sign in.

Advanced Search Clear Form Button
On the Advanced Search page (also known as Search Options), there is a new button labelled ‘Clear Form’. This clears all the fields on the form.

In addition, as  normal, this release includes enhancements that consolidate the robustness, reliability, scalability, and flexibility of the Prism service for the benefit of all current and future customers.

We’d love to hear what you think of Prism 3, either in comments to this blog post or in the Prism forum.