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CapiraMobile release notes, February 2025

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Release Date: February 11, 2025

Introduction

This release of CapiraMobile provides new features and enhancements in addition to numerous bug fixes for users on the newest version of the app with Staff Dashboard access.

  • Improvements to Android mobile checkout scanning
  • Improvements to library scheduled alerts and notifications

Many of these enhancements are the direct result of your feedback.

Recommended actions

Select enhancements and bug fixes require users to update or restart their app. If your users do not see one of the changes made, please ask them to ensure they have updated their app and ask them to force close the app and restart it.

New features and enhancements

Improvements to Android mobile checkout scanning

Your users will see improved barcode scanning on Android devices for mobile checkout scanning. Additionally, the following helper text has been added to help your users adjust the camera for better scanning results: Pinch to zoom, tap to focus

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Improvements to library scheduled alerts and notifications

Your library can now send short-term alerts

Your library can now set the expiration date of a Staff Dashboard alert to end shortly after it is sent. Previously, the alert needed to be set for 24 hours or longer in order to save properly.

Alerts now allow for line breaks

Your library can now add line breaks to your scheduled alerts and notifications. Previously, messages with line breaks displayed Unicode characters, causing illegible messages.

Patrons with iOS devices now receive required notices

Your library patrons who use iOS devices will now receive their required notices. Previously, users needed to visit their alert notification settings and re-save them in order to trigger receiving a new alert notice. 

To schedule alerts for your library 

  1. From the left navigation, select Alerts/Notifications > Create Alert.
  2. For the alert type you want to add, fill in the information:
    • Alert Title - The title that users will see when receiving the alert.
    • Alert Message - The message associated with the alert (e.g. "Branch is closed for an emergency").
    • Select Delivery Types - The type of alert. For more information, see Manage alert types.
    • URL (Optional) - A URL leading the user to more information about the alert.

       Note: If your website links are not working in the app, please try adding or removing http://www. from URLs entered in the Staff Dashboard.

    • Start Date/End Date - The applicable dates associated with the alert.

       Note: The Start Date/End Date must be a time period of at least 6 hours, or the alert will not save.

  3. Click Save Alert.

 Note: Alerts have a 255 character limit.

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Review our Alerts and Notifications Help documentation for further guidance. 

Bug fixes

Wise libraries now see item details when viewing items via their Reading History

When your patrons are looking at their Reading History and click on the View Item button, they are taken to the Item Details screen. This screen now displays the full item details for the material. Previously, the item details were missing when visiting the Item Details screen from their Reading History.

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SpringShare LibCal event description improvements

HTML line breaks display correctly

The app now correctly displays HTML line breaks in your library's event descriptions. Previously, line breaks were not recognized, resulting in text that appeared mashed together without spaces.

HTML tags do not appear

Event descriptions in the app are now correctly formatted and do not display HTML tags.

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