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Prism release 18th October 2022

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

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

  • Fix to WorldPay E-Pay provider for LCC

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.

Prism release 8th March 2022

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

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

  • Enhancement to WorldPay E-Pay provider for LCC

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.

Prism release 6th January 2022

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

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

  • Changes to the Overdrive eBooks integration

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.

Prism release to preview 16th December 2021

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

Changes to the Overdrive eBooks integration

Within Prism we have an integration with Overdrive eBooks (including eAudio) that allows users to borrow or reserve these items and see their downloads account directly within Prism.

Overdrive have introduced a change to their software that enables the end user to choose the format of the item they wish to read from the Overdrive interface after they have borrowed it, as follows:

1.When a full record is displayed in Prism and the user is authenticated, a ‘Borrow’ button is displayed:

2.Clicking this opens the Overdrive interface where the user can select their preferred format:

As before the loan appears in My Account> eContent and users can access it as many times as they wish during the period of the loan, choosing the format each time they access it.

Reservations are unaffected by the change. Users can also continue to return their loans from the Overdrive library as before.

This requires a Connect for OverDrive licence. Please contact Sales  (lmc-sales@educationsoftwaresolutions.co.uk) if you would like more information about this.

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 to check the existing functionality (including other eContent providers), extensions and styling still work as expected.

It is necessary to use the prism-demo.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/{your tenancy name} URL to preview a release, even if you have your own host name for the live service.

Release to the live service

Prism will be released to live service on Thursday 6th January 2022.

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.

Prism release 3rd November 2021

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

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

  • Enhancement to WorldPay E-Pay provider for LCC

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.

Prism release to preview 23rd September 2021

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

Prism Single Sign-On Metadata update – old certificate removed

Now that the updated certificate is in operation for SAML based authentication systems such as Shibboleth, CAS or Open Athens, we have removed the old certificate from Prism.

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 28th 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.

Prism release 21st September 2021

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.

Prism release to preview 7th September 2021

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.

Prism release 16th August 2021

We have identified an issue with our SSO Certificate for Prism. To rectify the issue we have generated a new certificate which is available from https://prism.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/<your-tenancy-name>/saml/module.php/saml/sp/metadata.php/default-sp

and further information can be found here: https://blogs.librarymanagementcloud.co.uk/prism/2021/07/29/updates-to-the-prism-single-sign-on-metadata/.

Please download the update when you next want to use SSO.

If you encounter any issues, please contact ESS support on 0333 0150 212.

Traditional sign on access has been available in this time. We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused.

 

As part of this release to live we also included this item:

  • EBSCO moving to https

Please see this release notice for further details on this point.

Prism release to preview 11th August 2021

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

  • EBSCO moving to https

EBSCO moving to https

EBSCO is updating their API to use https rather than http. They have implemented the https change in parallel with http at the moment and will be switching off http access to the API on 1st September 2021. Details can be found here.

To ensure continued service after 1st September, we have updated Prism to use https to access the EBSCO API.

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 Wednesday 18th August 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.