Polaris 7.8 Highlights

Aug 14 2025 | 2 - 3pm


The ODIN Office conducted an informational session highlighting some of the new features that were added with our upgrade to Polaris 7.8. 

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Agenda:

General Updates

  • Installed in our Test environment on July 16th
  • Installed in our Production environment on August 13th
  • Includes 2 MEEP enhancements voted through by the Polaris user community
  • Additional Sys Admin settings added to the web

Acquisitions

  • New views in Leap workforms
    • Item records may now be opened from POs and invoices
  • Copying an invoice
  • Checking for duplicate segments in POs
  • New process EDI invoices workform in Leap
  • New EDI integrations

Cataloging

  • New views in Leap workforms
    • POs and invoices may now be viewed from item records & opened from bibliographic records
  • Creating and managing MARC import profiles

Circulation

  • Using tertiary (3rd) Request to Fill (RTF)
  • New statistics for renewal counts in Leap and Simply Reports
  • Direct to Printer Feature

Reminder: Enhanced text notifications, supported by Shoutbomb, will be officially rolled out on Monday, August 18th.

Additional information about the new service: https://www.odin.nodak.edu/events/announcement/odin-sms-informational-session