We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this  release notice and include the following:

• Prism Single Sign-On Metadata – old certificate removed

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, on Prism Ideas or contact our support team directly.

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

• Prism Single Sign-On Metadata – old certificate removed

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this  release notice and include the following:

• Accessibility changes

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog, on Prism Ideas or contact our support team directly.

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

• Accessibility changes

Accessibility changes

We have improved our support for visually impaired users adding and clarifying labels in a number of areas of the system including:

• The borrower joining form
• The advanced search page
• The help page

Further changes include:

• An improvement to the Prism Pro Stock Purchase for search result tagging to ensure screen readers are able to easily handle the page content
• The skip link at the top of each page now takes you to the main content of the page
• When autocomplete is in operation, the screen reader will report the correct  number of suggestions offered rather than no results

Release Procedure

Making the most of your preview

Please review the preview version as early as possible, to familiarise yourself with the new functionality and check that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of functionalities, including extensions, and styling.

You can preview this release by inserting ‘-demo’ into your tenancy URL after the word ‘prism’, like this: prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} . If you have your own host name, you’ll need to use prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk instead.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to live service on Tuesday 21st September 2021.

Comments and contact

Please get in touch if you have any comments, questions or suggestions. You can comment here on the Prism blog , or contact our support team directly. Please visit the Prism Ideas Forum to suggest and discuss additional features.

Hello

We sent out an email on Friday 30^th April 2021 (see the end of this post) advising that the domain names and URLs that are being used to access our systems are changing.

We have now added the new URL to the Prism preview environment to enable you to test it in this context. You can still use the old URL to access this environment as well – demo.capitadiscovery.co.uk/{your tenancy name}. If you have your own host name, you’ll need to use prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk instead.

What do I need to do?

We recommend that you use the preview environment to:

• Test access to the new Prism URL using a browser from different locations, as soon as you can

To access the new URL

To access the system via the new url append your tenancy name to the end of it –

• https://prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name}

Please remember that it accesses your live data.

Note: If you find you cannot access https://prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} contact your IT department initially to see if this needs to be whitelisted.

Other things to do:

1.Customers using Prism SAML single sign on (SSO) authentication

If you offer single sign on via Prism SAML SSO then please arrange for the following meta data to be added to your SAML implementation:

https://prism.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/<tenancy-name>/saml/module.php/saml/sp/metadata.php/default-sp

https://prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/<tenancy-name>/saml/module.php/saml/sp/metadata.php/default-sp

You need to create entries for each of your tenancies using Prism SAML SSO e.g. for any sandbox tenancies you may have.

2.Contact any partners

We have contacted the partners we are aware of but please contact any partners that you work with to remind them about the URL changes for Prism e.g. Talis Aspire, Bolinda, ProQuest (Summon), Kortext (CLA Keys – was Rebus list).

Next steps

In the next few weeks we are planning to work our way through the following items:

• Add the new URL to the Prism live environment so that both URLs operate in parallel
• Add the new URL to the Admin console environment so that both URLs will operate in parallel
• Add the new URL to the Soprano live environment so that both URL will operate in parallel
• We are creating new google analytic accounts for the new URL so you will see both URLs in your google analytics console.

Starting from the w/b 14^th June to support the remaining work to amend URLs, for the next four weeks we will be using additional maintenance windows every weekday between 6 and 8am from Mondays to Thursdays inclusive. There is a small possibility that there could be an impact on the live system but if we find this is the case we will backout the changes prior to 8am.

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Email sent on Friday 30th April explaining the changes

Following the sale of Education Software Solutions (ESS) announced by Capita back in December 2020, we have updated our brand to reflect the new business.

We are delighted to announce that Capita Libraries has become Library Management Cloud. Our new brand is being applied to all aspects of our services, including the domain names and URLs you use to access our systems.

The following URLs will be updated:

How will this affect me?

There will be some local updates needed to enable the changes to be fully implemented. We will be in touch again to provide more detail about when and what will be involved.

In the meantime, please prepare for this change by advising your IT department about what is going to happen, reviewing any whitelists you have and thinking about communications for your users.

In addition to the URLs, we’ll be in contact again soon regarding upcoming changes related to the EDI Gateway and Base.

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and includes the following:

• E-pay using Pay360 Hosted Cashier API enhancement

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment on the Prism blog, on Prism Ideas or contact our support team directly.

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

• E-Pay in Prism using Pay360 Hosted Cashier API
• Extra field on the Stock Purchase form
• Update to the Accessibility page

E-Pay in Prism using Pay360 Hosted Cashier API

Prism has been enhanced to enable payments with the Capita Pay360 Hosted AP Portal payment provider. This allows E-Pay in Prism to use the Pay360 Hosted Cashier API

Extra field on the Stock Purchase form

The stock purchase form now includes an extra optional field, format. The format field is free text, up to 30 characters. Users can type in the format of the item they require. The format is recorded in the notes field under the notes tab. This feature requires LDS 2.9.12.

Update to the Accessibility page

The accessibility page (https://capitadiscovery.co.uk/birmingham/accessibility) has been updated to reflect that Prism conforms with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.1 (WCAG 2.1).

Release Procedure

Making the most of your preview

Please check the preview version as early as possible to become familiar with the new functionality and to ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of functionalities, including extensions, and styling.

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 now be on Tuesday 29th September 2020.

If you need an LDS upgrade

Your current LDS version number is displayed in the footer of Soprano pages. If you require an upgrade to LDS 2.9.12 mentioned for the above feature, please raise a support case through the customer support portal.

Comments and contact

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment here on the Soprano blog or contact our support team directly. To suggest and discuss additional features please visit the  Prism Ideas Forum.

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been released to the live service.

The details are described in this release notice and are summarised as follows:

• Click and collect

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment on the Prism blog, on Prism Ideas or contact our support team directly.

We’re pleased to announce that the version of Prism that has been in preview recently has now been released to the live service.

This release contains:

• Summon integration – option to display a limit by library location facet

Details are described in the release notice

If you have any comments, questions or suggestions please get in touch. You can comment on the Prism blog, and suggest and discuss additional features in Prism Ideas or contact our support teams.

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

• Summon integration – option to display a limit by library location facet

Summon integration – option to display a limit by library location facet

In this release, it is now possible to display a new facet for Summon: Library Location. This allows the end user to limit the display to titles where there is at least one item at the selected location. The facet is enabled through the Admin console in the Facets section.

Making the most of your preview

Please check the preview version as early as possible to become familiar with the new functionality and to ensure that your tenancy still behaves as expected in terms of functionalities, including extensions, and styling.

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 on Thursday 30th May 2019.

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 or Prism Ideas or contact our support or sales admin teams directly.