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New Transfer Automation Options & Multi-Location Improvements – May 2025 myTurn Updates
Release Highlights This release introduces a powerful new Advanced Transfer Workflow system for organizations with multiple locations, offering fine-grained control over how and when items move between locations: New Transfer Options: Automate or manually confirm each step in the logistics process: Automatically receive transferred items Automatically mark items as ready for fulfillment when received Automatically transfer items on check-in Always
Rich Text Warnings & Other Improvements – April 2025 myTurn Updates
Release Highlights This release introduces enhanced user warnings and continues improving reservation accuracy and reliability: Rich Text User Warnings: User warnings now support formatting, including links and lists—making them clearer and more actionable. Smarter Reservation Logic: Further refinements to item selection and optimization ensure more accurate fulfillment, especially when reservations are close or buffers differ across items. Important Fixes: Duplicate
Smarter Search & Reservation Item Selection – March 2025 myTurn Updates
This release improves search capabilities and makes item selection for reservations more reliable and efficient: Advanced Search: Use Boolean operators (AND, OR), plus/minus symbols (+term, -term), and get better, more relevant results in both public and admin search. Improved Item Selection for Reservations: We’ve revamped how items are selected for reservations. This includes prioritizes items that are available, not in
Improved SIP SSO Support, Privacy & Notifications – February 2025 myTurn Updates
This release adds new privacy options, better control over reservation emails, and clearer maintenance notifications: SSO/SIP Enhancements: You can now block syncing specific personal data via SIP and improve SSO integration behavior. Better handling of users that no longer exist in main ILS (expire them in myTurn) Sync data from main ILS via SIP in more places Email Controls: New
Smarter Report Filtering & Faster Performance – January 2025 myTurn Updates
This release includes major improvements to reporting, performance, and admin workflows. Transaction Report Filters: You can now filter transactions by type, payment method, and more—making getting important financial information easier. Other Loan Report Improvements: Loan reports now handle multi-location data better, support filtering by expired members, and more consistent exports. Performance Improvements: Pages using the item type hierarchy are significantly
Search, Reporting, and Self-Renewal Improvements – November 2024 myTurn Updates
This release introduces powerful substring, include/exclude, and boolean logic search capabilities for public inventory. Reporting enhancements include new export fields for the last use report and additional filters for loan reports. Improvements to self-renewals allow free memberships to renew without Stripe, alongside expanded audit logging and better translation support in the admin cart. Other highlights include performance boosts for key
More reservation improvements and other enhancements – October 2024 Updates
This release brings additional improvements reservation workflows and other admin fucntionality including: Reservations: Export reservations and the items on each reservation: This can be done from the Reservation report or List Reservations Link from a reservation to the transaction that fulflled that reservation and vice versa Allow a short comma separated list of multiple email addresses on the reservation email
Reservation workflow and reportimg enhancements – September 2024 myTurn Updates
The latest release of myTurn brings an array of updates designed to enhance user experience, streamline administrative processes, and modernize the platform’s technical infrastructure. Notable features include the abilty to check out an reservation from the pop-up in the admin cart, a refined reservation report, and options for more comprehensive reservation and project data exports. Updates also include major frontend
Single Sign On Improvements and Performance Updates – August 2024 myTurn Updates
In this release, myTurn brings significant improvements to Single Sign On functionality, especially for SIP connections in use (primarily) for public libraries. Key updates include support for dual SIP connections—one for patron login and another for administrative syncing (required for Sirsi based ILS systems)—along with improved parsing of address fields to more completely sync user data, as well as synching
Improved new user flow and reporting options – July 2024 myTurn updates
New features and imporovements LEND-8643 Improved new user and membership purchase flow, including taking users to inventory browse so they can see and reserve items right away LEND-8693 Improve sorting of items in the admin cart LEND-8698 Increase max file size for images and attachements LEND-8651 Allow the transfer and receive reports to be exported LEND-8646 Allow renewal of items