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by Rebecca Malinowski

To All Library Staff: As reported earlier today, the issues with dynamic indexing in Symphony have been resolved. This means that added records should be immediately searchable in Workflows as expected. SWAN and SirsiDynix are continuing to make batch updates to records as part of our migration cleanup. The large volume of these changes affects our overnight processes, which must run completely and in a specific sequence for Workflows and Enterprise to function correctly. In order to prevent these processes from running too long (effectively getting in each other's way), updated records will be run through the processes in sized nightly batches over several days. What this means for library staff is that some changes that have taken place in Workflows may not be picked up in Enterprise as quickly as expected. We have also seen On-Order items back in the Onshelf Item Wizard today, which we think was related to the indexing issues we saw today, and anticipate will be resolved tomorrow. We have seen a number of tickets come in with example barcodes, control numbers and/or screenshots, which have been very helpful in identifying and resolving issues. Thank you all again for your reports. Please continue to send reports and questions to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> or open a ticket at http://swan.railslibraries.info/otrs/customer.pl. Rebecca Malinowski SWAN Special Projects Coordinator Reaching Across Illinois Library System Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630.734.5157 Fax: 630.734.5056 rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info> http://www.railslibraries.info

11 years

*Concluded* Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm

by Steven Schlewitt

SWAN Member Library Staff: Our maintenance on the Symphony server has concluded and WorkFlows is once again available for use. Thank you for your patience. Steven Schlewitt SWAN IT Manager Reaching Across Illinois Library System Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630.734.5130 Fax: 630.734.5056 steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info> http://www.railslibraries.info From: Steven Schlewitt Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:47 PM To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net Subject: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm Importance: High SWAN Member Library Staff: After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:45pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 6am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows. We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages. Steven Schlewitt SWAN IT Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5130 Fax: 630.734.5056 steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

REMINDER: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm

by Steven Schlewitt

Just a quick reminder - maintenance on the Symphony server will begin in just a few minutes. Thank you, Steven Schlewitt SWAN IT Manager Reaching Across Illinois Library System Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630.734.5130 Fax: 630.734.5056 steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info> http://www.railslibraries.info From: Steven Schlewitt Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2015 2:47 PM To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net; swantech(a)list.swanlibraries.net Subject: Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm Importance: High SWAN Member Library Staff: After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:45pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 6am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows. We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages. Steven Schlewitt SWAN IT Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5130 Fax: 630.734.5056 steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Issues with searching/indexing in WorkFlows

by Karen Bar

SirsiDynix reports that the issues with dynamic indexing have been resolved. Please contact us if you encounter any problems. Thank you for your patience. Karen Bar SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5138 Fax: 630.734.5056 karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Symphony Production Server Maintenance TONIGHT (4/23) After 9pm

by Steven Schlewitt

SWAN Member Library Staff: After the close of our libraries this evening, we're planning a scheduled system maintenance, beginning at 9:45pm, which will leave the Symphony WorkFlows production server unavailable until tomorrow morning around 6am. During that time, the Enterprise OPAC will still be accessible and fully functional for patrons and staff - this maintenance will only affect WorkFlows. We apologize for the inconvenience and greatly appreciate your patience during these scheduled outages. Steven Schlewitt SWAN IT Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5130 Fax: 630.734.5056 steven.schlewitt(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:steven.schlewitt@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Issues with searching/indexing in WorkFlows

by Karen Bar

There is an issue with WorkFlows and indexing right now. When searching for titles entered on 4/22 and 4/23, these titles may not appear at all or you may receive the message 'headings keys need to be indexed". We have opened a case with SirsiDynix and we are working to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience. Karen Bar SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5138 Fax: 630.734.5056 karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Migration Update - Something For Everyone

by Rebecca Malinowski

To all library staff: Thank you for your continued reports, and working with us to provide examples and recreate scenarios. SWAN staff are monitoring and processing tickets, and resolving issues in house and with SirsiDynix. Please continue to open tickets or email help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net>. Having all of your requests and reports in one place allow us to work together to resolve issues and better monitor progress. Please review the updates on previously reported issues below. This is not a comprehensive list, but focuses on the issues that multiple libraries have reported. Circulation · PIN Changes: Between 9 AM and 2 PM today, a number of previously updated PINs were reverted to the last four digits of user phone numbers. Approximately 51,000 users were affected. This change has been reversed, and users who have updated their PINs between go live and this morning should see those updated PINs are functioning again. · SMS Hold Pickup Notices: At 9 AM today, approximately 3,000 users received hold pickup notice via SMS indicating that all of their holds were currently available on the hold shelf. The issue has been identified and corrected. The notice counter has been adjusted so that when these holds do become available, the users will receive a notice as expected. · Email Hold Pickup Notices: SWAN staff were testing email hold pickup notices today, and email hold pickup notices were successfully sent at 3:00 today. · Notice Preference: Many users have an incorrect or blank notice preference on their user account. We cannot make a batch change to users with an incorrect notice preference without impacting actual selections made by patrons. Records without a notice preference will be double-checked and populated with the notice preference from Millennium. · Bills for Lost/Replacement Items: Bills with a bill reason of REPLACEMENT should have been loaded with a reason of LOST. The LOST bill reason has special functions in Workflows-when the item is checked in, the LOST bill is removed and the processing waived or not depending on library policies. SWAN and SirsiDynix have tested a fix to change REPLACEMENT bills to LOST bills, so that if an item is returned, the automatic processes happen as expected. SirsiDynix will be implementing that change soon. Please expect to see some changes to bill reasons. Cataloging · Call number subfield c: All call numbers with a subfield c migrated without that subfield. Those records have been identified and are being corrected. Because of background processes, these changes will be made over 3 days. Please expect to see updates to your call numbers today, tomorrow, and Friday, if applicable. · Call number subfield e: Where present, subfield e mapped to a staff note instead of the call number field as expected. This has been reported and we are working on a resolution. · On Order and In Process: Some items with a status of On Order or In Process in Millennium did not map properly during the migration. These are being remapped, and will be checked out to the corresponding system use user. Serials · Daily and Weekly Serials Missing Dates: Daily and weekly serials were missing subfield k. This information has been added, and you should now see dates as expected for daily and weekly serials. Enterprise · Scheduled Maintenance: SirsiDynix has just announced there will be scheduled maintenance on Enterprise tomorrow, April 23rd at 11:00 PM. They anticipate there will be about one hour of downtime. This is regular system maintenance, and not related to the SWAN migration. · More information required View All: In some cases, clicking "View All" on a facet will not display all facets as suggested. We have reported this issue to SirsiDynix, and they have escalated the case to development. They are asking for additional information. If you have encountered this issue and not reported it, please send an email to help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net?subject=View%20All> with the subject View All, and include any information relevant to your search, how often you've seen the error, which browser you are using, etc. SirsiDynix asks: I'm hoping you can provide more information as to when it occurs. Is it on the first search of the session or subsequent ones? Do any search terms consistently get the problem? How often do you see this? Every 20 searches, or more or less? · Logos: The issue with logos overlapping log in and my account links should be resolved for all libraries listed below. If you are still seeing this issue, please clear your browser cache. After clearing your cache, if you are still having trouble, please email help(a)swanlibraries.net<mailto:help@swanlibraries.net> with the profile, which browser you are using, and if you are using a computer or mobile device. · Log In Box: On mobile devices, the log in box sometimes disappears or moves off-screen. We have reported this issue to SirsiDynix. It seems to work better in landscape mode. · Diacritics: Diacritics and special characters were corrected on over 140,000 records in Workflows. These changes are being indexed over several days. As they are indexed, the changes will be picked up in Enterprise. Until then, you may continue to see special characters displaying incorrectly in Workflows. Corrected Enterprise Logos * AMS * BFS * BPS * BRS * BVS * BWS * BZS * CAS * CCS * CRS * CTS * FMS * GWS * HAS * JDS * MDS * MKS * MPS * MTS * NRS * PCS * PFS * PHS * PSS * RFS * RGS * ROS * RPS * RS * SFS * SHS * SPS * STS * SVS * TFS * TPS * WOS * WRS Rebecca Malinowski SWAN Special Projects Coordinator 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5157 Fax: 630.734.5056 rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Serial Updates Clarification

by Karen Bar

11 years

Serials Updates

by Karen Bar

+++ Please route to appropriate personnel +++ For libraries that do not use Serial Control module Please use this document for entering serial call numbers: Symphony Serial Call Number Entry Guide<https://support.swanlibraries.net/system/files/Members%20Only/Acquisitions/…> For libraries using Serial Control module We are experiencing a large call and ticket volume concerning Serial Control. Many of the reported issues are related to known migration issues that require cleanup. Please refer to this document<https://support.swanlibraries.net/system/files/Members%20Only/Acquisitions/…> for step-by-step instructions on how to conduct this cleanup. Please also keep checking the Serials section of the Migration FAQ<https://support.swanlibraries.net/content/migration-faq> as well as the general SD Serials<https://support.swanlibraries.net/content/sd-serials-0> Documentation page. Before submitting a ticket, please check these pages to see if what you are reporting is a known issue that can be easily addressed. We will continue to address tickets, calls, and emails as quickly and efficiently as possible. Thank you. Karen Bar SWAN Bibliographic Services Manager 125 Tower Drive Burr Ridge, IL 60527 Phone: 630.734.5138 Fax: 630.734.5056 karen.bar(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:karen.bar@railslibraries.info> http://support.swanlibraries.net

11 years

Migration Update & System Restart at 9:30 PM

by Rebecca Malinowski

Onshelf Items Wizard · The wizard has been updated to exclude On Order, In Process, and other similar locations. You may still see items in your pick list with a call number of ON ORDER if the current location is not On Order. We cannot eliminate those items from the list. · The Export Onshelf Holds helper should be active tomorrow. You may use this helper (it looks like a safe and a spreadsheet) to download a CSV file of your pull list. This export will include Current Location, Call Number, Author, Title, Item Type, and Item ID. · Your list in Onshelf Item Wizard will be updated twice daily, at 7:15 AM and 3:15 PM. System Restart: Symphony will be restarted at 9:30 PM tonight. At this time, any users still connected will briefly lose their connection. This is required to accommodate a configuration change. Diacritics Fixed: Diacritics (ñ, Ă, ö, etc.) did not migrate properly, and were causing searching issues in both Workflows and Enterprise. This issue has been corrected in Workflows, and will push to Enterprise as the harvest process plays out. Users Missing Expiration Date: A number of users were missing an expiration date on their records. This has been added back in for many of those users, and the cleanup continues. Rebecca Malinowski SWAN Special Projects Coordinator Reaching Across Illinois Library System Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630.734.5157 Fax: 630.734.5056 rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info> http://www.railslibraries.info From: swancom-bounces(a)list.swanlibraries.net [mailto:swancom-bounces@list.swanlibraries.net] On Behalf Of Rebecca Malinowski Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2015 9:29 AM To: swancom(a)list.swanlibraries.net Subject: [SWANcom] Migration Update Onshelf Items Wizard: The wizard should be populated this morning, but we are still working to prohibit items in an On Order, In Process and other non-holdable locations from appearing. We are in consultation with SirsiDynix on this issue, and hope to have a resolution this morning. You may choose to work with your Onshelf Items report as it stands and work around those items, or you may wait for another update from SWAN to work with a cleaner list. Notices: Courtesy, Overdue, and Hold Pickup notices are now running regularly. “Y” Override: The Y override has now been changed to allow checking out of items with holds. Enterprise Logos: A number of libraries have reported that their Enterprise logo overlaps the login and my account links on Enterprise profiles, especially when viewed on a smaller screen such as mobile devices. SWAN staff have checked each profile and identified a list of potentially affected profiles, and our SirsiDynix consultant is in the process of correcting the error. The profiles below have been identified, and those with checkmarks have been corrected. The remaining profiles should be corrected by the end of the day. *Users will need to clear their browser cache to see the changes in effect* • AMS • BFS • BPS • BRS • BVS • BWS • BZS • CAS • CCS • CRS • CTS • FMS • GWS • HAS • JDS • MDS • MKS • MPS • MTS • NRS • PCS • PFS • PHS • PSS • RFS • RGS • ROS • RPS • RS • SFS • SHS • SPS • STS • SVS • TFS • TPS • WOS • WRS Rebecca Malinowski SWAN Special Projects Coordinator Reaching Across Illinois Library System Burr Ridge Office Phone: 630.734.5157 Fax: 630.734.5056 rebecca.malinowski(a)railslibraries.info<mailto:rebecca.malinowski@railslibraries.info> http://www.railslibraries.info

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