Aeon 5.0 Release Notes

Sara Juel

Updated July 08, 2021 13:09

Important Update Information

Release Date: 05 August 2019

Highlights

As promised on the Aeon Roadmap, here are the main features/enhancements of Aeon 5.0:

Staff Configurable Scheduled Date Calendar (Blackout dates)
LocalInfo Support per Site
Updated Staff Interface with Large Font Support and Ability to Change Themes
New, Fully Accessible, and Responsive Web Pages

Considerations Before You Update

Updating During Normal Working Hours

Please consider running updates and installations during standard support hours 8 am - 5 pm eastern time (business days Monday - Friday) so that help is readily available if any issues are encountered.

Updating from Version 4.0

If you are updating from Aeon 4.0 or a previous version, please check out the Aeon 4.1 Release Notes and FAQ since all the password change requirements will impact you after updating to version 5.0.2. You will need to update the server and the client on each machine to 4.1 prior to updating the server and clients for Aeon 5.0. You don't need to login or change any passwords until after you've updated to 5.0.

For any questions on the Aeon 5.0.2 features & fixes, please see the Aeon 5.0 FAQ. For all other questions, please contact support at support@atlas-sys.com.

Bug fixes and new features are added periodically as point releases:

19 Aug 2019 (5.0.2) Client Release
20 Jan 2020 Aeon Default Web Pages Release
27 Feb 2020 (5.0.3) Client Release
14 Apr 2020 (5.0.4) Default Web Page Release
2 June 2020 (1.3) Atlas Auth Portal Release
7 July 2020 (1.3.1) Atlas Auth Portal Release
8 July 2020 (5.0.2) Web DLL Release
12 August 2020 (5.0.3) Web DLL Release
23 Sept 2020 (1.3.0) Aeon API Release
23 Nov 2020 (5.0.18) Default Web Page Release
3 February 2021 (5.0.47) Default Web Pages
02 June 2021 (5.0.73) Default Web Page Release

Aeon 5.0 Features & Fixes

Addons

Changes	Addons are no longer installed by default during installation.

Administrative

New	Updated staff interface (Client, Staff Manager, and Customization Manager) with large font support and the ability to easily change the appearance by selecting one of the eight new themes from the main drop-down menu. For more information, see Theme Selector.

Miscellaneous

Changed	All knowledgebase links in the Client, Customization Manager and Staff Manager have been redirected to new support landing page https://support.atlas-sys.com.
Fixed	Fixed the Azure database permissions by excluding the default 'sys' view that caused the update scripts to fail when granting permissions to sites. Bug# 3407.

Printing & Email

New	Added the ability for sites specific LocalInfo entries that would populate email and print templates. For more information, see The Local Info Table.

Security

New

Added support for FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) 4.1.0 compliance.

If you're an existing site that staff users from prior to the 4.1 update and are required to be FIPS compliant, please contact support@atlas-sys.com for further instructions.

New

The SLLoginFailed status line Customization Key has been added to appear if a user attempts to login with an invalid username and password. The default verbiage is set to say "Login failed. Please check your username and password before trying again.".

The Customization Keys SLUsernameNotInDatabase and SLPasswordIncorrect have been removed and replaced with the new SLPasswordIncorrect key.

New

The DLL will now check to ensure that a user entering the system through a remote authentication endpoint matches an existing Aeon user in both username and authentication type. In the case where a new RemoteAuth user's username has already been taken by a user created with the basic Aeon authentication type, the RemoteAuth user will be redirected to the Error.html page upon the initial login attempt and the text configured in the new SLSingleSignInUsernameInUse Customization Key will appear. See RemoteAuth: Authentication Process for more information.

Staff Client

New	The CloneScheduledDateInClient customization key has been added to the Customization Manager under System \| General to determine if the scheduled date is copied over when cloning transaction in the staff client. Default value is set to "No".
Fixed	Enabled Group By Option on user search form (FormUserList). Bug# 3416.

Staff Manager

Fixed	When a Field Customization is removed in the Staff Manager, the Activity Requests Grid will reflect the changes (e.g., removed custom column names). Bug# 3638.

Web Interface

New	New fully accessible and responsive web pages that adhere to WCAG 2.1 AA compliance. The new web pages are not installed automatically to prevent overwriting any customizations your institution may have created. The complete set of webpages are available for download on the Aeon Downloads page. For more information, see Aeon 5.0 Fully Accessible and Responsive Webpages.
New	Added cookie notification in accordance with the EU cookie law to provide a link for institutional privacy policies. See the FAQ for instructions on setting up the link.
New	Added support for a more configurable schedule date calendar with a new "Scheduled Closures" database table in the Customization Manager under Web Interface \| Schedule Date \| Scheduled Closures and 3 new blackout date customization keys: ScheduledDateMinimumDays- Determines the minimum enabled date for the Scheduled Date calendar on web request forms in the terms of days. For example, if staff requires 48 hours to process a request the minimum should be set to 2. Default value 0. ScheduledDateMaximumDays- Determines the maximum enabled date for the Scheduled Date calendar on web request forms in the terms of days. For example, if staff doesn't want patrons requesting items 6 months in advance, the maximum should be set to 180. Default value 0. ScheduledDateDefaultSchedule- Determines the weekdays that should be enabled as operating days for the Scheduled Date calendar on web request forms. Default values Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday. For more information on how to utilize the new Customization Keys and the Schedule Closures database table to schedule blackout dates, see Blackout Date Calendar for Aeon Requests. For more complex reoccurring closures, you'll need to modify the scheduled-closures.js. To support this change an AJAX endpoint was created to receive a JSON file containing all active scheduled closures. For more information, see Blackout Date Calendar Configuration for Aeon Request.
Changed	Improved ability to customize web alerts. For more information, see Performing an AJAX Request to View Web Alerts.
Fixed	Fixed an issue where the "Download XLS" button would show the error message "Error processing method" after failed attempt to download the Activities from the Aeon 5.0 Web Pages. Bug# 4566

Aeon 5.0 Point Releases

19 Aug 2019 (5.0.2) Client Release

Fixed

Fixed issue where the System Information tags (e.g., the site field value) from the LocalInfo table was not being pre-populated into email templates.

20 Jan 2020 Aeon Default Web Pages Update

A revised set of default web pages are now available for download in the Aeon Downloads article with the following change incorporated:

Changed	Removed the Main.css page since the file is no longer used and moved the EAD CSS rules to the Aeon.css page.
Changed	Added a blank Custom.css page to the default web pages for site-specific custom CSS changes.
Changed	Updated the EditEADRequest.html page to have the same style as the rest of the default web pages.
Changed	Removed the RSS feature from the ViewNotfication.html page due to the notification option no longer being supported in web browsers.
Changed	Removed one of the duplicate include_footers in the default FAQ.html page.
Fixed	Fixed the Status drop-down on the NewUserRegistrationForm.html and ChangeUserInformation.html to populate with information. Bug# 4804
Fixed	Fixed the checkbox functionality for sharing research topics with the NewUserRegistration.html, ChangeUserInformation.html, and NewAuthRegistration.html pages. Bug# 4551
Fixed	Fixed a typo in the NewUsersRegistration.html page. Bug# 4542
Fixed	Removed the extra space in the ChangeUser.html that was causing the alternative address information section to ignore the settings in the Customization Manager. Bug# 4549
Fixed	Fixed an issue where the NewAuthRegistration page would not fully render because of a tag error. Bug# 4861
Fixed	Fixed an issue where the PayPal CreditCardPayment.html page would not properly submit payments. Bug# 4600
Fixed	Fixed an issue where the Aeon WebAlerts may contain HTML tags in both the title and the body of the message. Bug# 4540

28 February 2020 (5.0.3) Client Release

The 5.0.3 Client Release requires Admin Privileges for the patch install as a result of the new signing certificate. After downloading the installer, please right-click and run as administator.

Fixed	Fixed a bug that would prevent custom layout changes in the Activities grid from saving/loading after the Client has been restarted. Bug# 4499
Fixed	Fixed an importing issue that would prompt a validation error if the Format, ServiceLevel, and/or ShippingOption fields were blank when importing a request from a spreadsheet. Aeon will now import those fields as NULL if they are left blank. Bug# 4369
Fixed	Fixed an issue where date values would be export as a plain text string instead of the date format when exporting transactions from the grid to Excel. Bug# 4432
Fixed	Fixed an issue where the "Modified By" field was being set to the username of the Staff User whose password was changed instead of the username of the logged-in user who reset the password. Bug# 4258
Fixed	Fixed an issue that would prompt an error message when Staff attempted to clone a request by clicking the arrow icon next to the 'Clone Request to Another User' button in the Client. In conjunction with this fix, the 'Clone and Finish' button will only be available when applicable. Bug# 4541 & 4022
Fixed	Fixed a searching issue in the Aeon Client's Activity form that wouldn't account for compound search terms when matching first and last names in a username search. For example, a search for 'Von Neumann' would return results if Von was in the FirstName and Neumann was in the LastName but a search for 'Von Neumann' would not match if Von and Neumann were both in the LastName. The search algorithm has been fixed to correctly return matching users for compound searches provided all search terms were included in the user's FirstName or LastName. Bug# 3959

14 April 2020 (5.0.4) Default Web Page Release

To implement these changes, you can either:

Download the 5.0 web pages and replace your existing pages.
If you have customizations, find and replace the code changes outlined in Implementing the 5.0 Web Page Changes article.

Changed	Removed unnecessary redundancy of the target="_self" tag. The targets will still open within the same window as usual.
Changed	Removed the old search feature from the EditEADRequest.html page and replaced it with the new search feature included in the include_header.html page.
Changed	The ID's for the Password and Re-enter Password divs have been updated to Password1 and Password2.
Changed	The EADRequest.html page input elements have been updated to use "FormDataField" and matching IDs.
Changed	The double quotations for the alternate address section have been changed to single quotes in NewAuthRegistration.
Changed	The WebAlert functionality has been updated to display alerts for logged out users as well as authenticated users. Non-authenticated pages have been updated with the WebAlerts div and linked to the webAlerts.js to properly display.
Changed	"Remove from Hold" has been updated to appear as an option for transactions currently in a status of "Item on Hold" or "Item on Hold for Activity".
Fixed	Fixed a bug which prevented the Remove from Hold button from appearing.
Fixed	Added closing tags to all elements on the include_nav.html and GenericRequestSerial.html.

02 June 2020 (1.3) Atlas Auth Portal Release

This release includes changes to the Atlas Auth Portal in an effort to close a potential redirect vulnerability that will require some modifications to the index.cshtml and web.config files. The Atlas Auth portal installer can be obtained from the Aeon Downloads. For step-by-step instructions on implementing the 1.3 release, see Atlas Auth Portal 1.3 Release Configuration.

Changed	The redirectUrl parameter has been replaced with the authType parameter. The accepted authType values are AtlasAuth and RemoteAuth. For details, see the Using an Authentication Portal Landing article under Automatic Redirect Feature.
Changed	The RedirectUrlCookieName setting has been removed and replaced with the AuthTypeCookieName which defaults to AtlasAuthType.

07 July 2020 (1.3.1) Atlas Auth Portal Release

The Atlas Auth Portal has been updated to support some additional redirect URL configurations for sites for who are not currently on version 1.3.0 of the Atlas Auth Portal. This change is backwards compatible with v1.3.0; therefore, there is no reason for sites who are currently on v1.3.0 to update the Atlas Auth Portal. They can just add the changes to the Web.Config file.

The Atlas Auth portal installer can be obtained from the Aeon Downloads.

Changed	When adding a key for an AuthType in the Web.Config file, two new specifiers ({$QueryString} and {$EncodedQueryString}) are now supported to help designate where the URL query parameters will be inserted into the target URL. For instructions on adding the target URLs in the Web.Config, see Atlas Auth Portal 1.3.x Release Configuration.

08 July 2020 (5.0.2) Web DLL Release

Changed

Support added for specifying the 'delimiter' attribute used to separate TransactionNumbers by the PARAM tag. Default value: ",". Bug# 6941

For example, the following will output a semi-colon delimited list of transaction numbers:

<#PARAM name="TransactionNumbers" delimiter=";">