It’s been a while since the last post here on the site, so it’s time to present a rum round-up of the updates made to ABCD in the month of January 2024.
One of the biggest changes can be seen in the Reports screen.
New functionalities have been added, such as
- Elimination of the pop-up window for editing the display format;
- Added options to specify separator for “Delimited columns” when exporting to CSV;
- Added option to delete saved search expression;
- Added option to send data to printer;
Functional changes
- Databases with 16-60 architecture cannot handle very large display files (pfts). A warning will be issued if the file size exceeds 31,000 bytes;
- The automatically generated display format has been adapted to generate less code and the same or better report output;
- Code generation for subfields has been redesigned. Acted on the FDT “Pre-literal” field. This field is obsolete and disappeared from the UI a long time ago. The code will now generate the correct output for repetitive fields;
- New generation option: optional prefix subfield values with subfield ID (^a);
- New generation option: enclose csv fields in inverted commas (“…”);
- These options are stored in.dat formats, so an edit of a format has the same generation options;
- Some bugs have been fixed (e.g. failure of the db mark in French).
Small changes:
- Text translations added/replaced
- Report generation layout uses coloured background blocks
- deprecated, obsolete and unused code removed
- header_display.php has correct language and doctype header
In addition to the changes to the report generation process, other improvements have been made elsewhere in the system, such as:
- Deletion of the unused file: default_create.php
- Correction of HTML in scripts:
- ingresoadministrador.php: add correct end tags (</…);
- inicio_main.php: corrected the value in the last iframe;
- Improved display of last modification date;
- Time in 24-hour format – added a script to avoid similar code replicas;
- Show the correct number of Operator and Date entries;
- Improved calendar function;
- Fixed some typos and formatting errors;
- Improved footer display;
- Shows only a div-helper/toolbar if an unformatted edit is made.
The next changes to be incorporated into the ABCD will be in the generation of statistics and in the OPAC, which is undergoing a complete overhaul.
To follow the changes in real time, visit: https://abcd-community.org/dev-latest-updates/
