We’re pleased to announce that the next release of Prism is now available for preview.

This release includes:

• Reservation queue position
• Fix for EDS facets being cleared when changing pages
• Improvements to the Prism Pro ILL module

Reservation queue position

It’s clear from Prism user feedback and comments from customers that it would be helpful to have some indication of how long it will take for a reservation to become available. To satisfy this requirement we’ve added a new column, ‘Position’, to the Reservations page in ‘My Account’. This shows your current place in the reservation queue, or for multi-work reservations, your place in the queue of the first work that will become available.

Because we’re showing more data on this page we’ve also made a small tweak to the way we handle titles here to prevent things looking cluttered, especially on mobile devices. The statement of responsibility is no longer displayed and long titles are truncated. To see the entire title (and statement of responsibility) you can click the title or cover image, which takes you to the item detail page.

Fix for EDS facets being cleared when changing pages

In the Prism Pro EBSCO Discovery Service integration feature there was an issue where selected facets didn’t persist when changing pages; this has now been rectified.

Improvements to the Prism Pro ILL Module

The Prism Pro ILL Module has a feature that searches Prism and other local discovery interfaces before placing a request, to ensure the item isn’t already in stock. We’ve tweaked the way this search is conducted to ensure more relevant results are presented to your users.

Making the most of your preview

This release is now available for you to preview. Please do make the most of this opportunity to gain familiarity with the new features and ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected.

If you identify any issues with your styling please raise a Support case.

As with every release, please also ensure that your extensions continue to work correctly.

To preview this release, please precede your tenancy URL with ‘demo.’, like this: demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. If you have your own host name, you’ll need to use demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk instead.

Release to the live service

The release of Prism to the live service will be during next week, w/b 11th August 2014.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Prism blog, on the Prism forum and Prism Ideas or contact your Account Manager or the Prism team directly.