Known Issues List
The following is a list of outstanding defects as reported by customers to the Help Desk. Please contact the Help Desk if you have questions about a Known Issue or wish to receive updates on its resolution.
For resolved issues, see release notes.
Known Issues meet the following requirements:
- The issue was reported by a customer to the Help Desk and sent to our Software Engineering team as a product defect.
- Our staff can replicate on an Innovative test system, or a significant number of libraries have reported the issue.
In all cases, we aim to provide consistently updated information that includes a description of the issue and when it was reported.
How to read Known Issues information:
- Description: The symptoms of a particular issue, related features or configuration, and the cause if known.
- ILS: ILS associated with reports of the issue (Polaris, Sierra, or any).
- Key: The unique ID for the Known Issue. Can be used to reference a particular issue with Support staff.
- First Reported: The date when the issue was first reported. Many issues are not found immediately, so this may be some time after the issue was first introduced.
- Date Added: The date when the issue was first posted to Supportal.
DISCOVER
| Description | ILS | Key | First Reported | Date Added | Resolution |
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| Checkouts and holds show due date and pickup date one day late Polaris libraries report that due dates and hold pickup dates in Account Portal display 1 day late. If the item is due on May 7 in Polaris, Discover displays May 8. | Polaris | VEGAENG-5504 | 2026-05-06 | 2026-05-06 | Unresolved |
| Fine payment via PayPal failing Several libraries report that fine payment via PayPal has started failing. The libraries have made no changes to their payment configuration either in Discover or PayPal. Libraries see an Inquiry in PayPal transaction logs with status "Original transaction ID not found." This issue was caused by a change in PayPal's API that they made without giving advance notice. PayPal has rolled back their changes for Vega libraries' accounts, and Discover will be updated to support the changes to the PayPal API. Libraries newly implementing fine payment via PayPal before the permanent resolution will need to request PayPal to roll back their changes for the library's account. | Any | VEGAENG-4306 | 2026-02-17 | 2026-03-23 | Unresolved PayPal has a workaround they can implement on Vega Discover libraries' PayPal accounts. |
| Account Portal: Unable to check out ready to borrow Overdrive holds Account Portal offers no Get It button for Overdrive holds that are ready to borrow. | Any | VEGAENG-4327 | 2026-02-13 | 2026-02-19 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: Passcode policy message and errors not displayed The Change Passcode function in Account Portal does not display guidance messages to patrons, including the “Passcode policy message” configured in Vega Staff Admin and any errors returned from the ILS. | Any | VEGAENG-4293 | 2026-02-12 | 2026-02-13 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: On smartphone, Manage Hold button is off screen to the right | Any | VEGAENG-4211 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-11 | Unresolved |
| Promoted patrons see a "Staff" button for Vega Staff Admin Promoted patrons (logging in with patron barcode) have no roles for Vega Staff Admin and should not be offered a link to Vega Staff Admin. | Any | VEGAENG-4212 | 2026-02-04 | 2026-02-11 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Bookmarks: Cover images fuzzy or cropped | Any | VEGAENG-4223 | 2026-02-04 | 2026-02-11 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Overview page showcases: "Unknown Author" for works without author | Any | VEGAENG-4236 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-11 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: No option to close popup warning for failed renewals | Any | VEGAENG-4239 | 2026-02-04 | 2026-02-11 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: "Change Passcode" text is too small | Any | VEGAENG-4242 | 2026-02-04 | 2026-02-11 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: "holds" not capitalized in Overview section | Any | VEGAENG-4243 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-11 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Several dates display 1 day too early Expiration date, hold placed, hold ends, and fine transaction dates display 1 day earlier than the actual date in the ILS. | Any | VEGAENG-4171 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-10 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: Checkout & Request Format Filter Repeats and Omits Format Options In the new account portal, the Checkout & Request format filter offers the same 13 options for all libraries from the drop down menu. The menu lists DVD twice, and Audio CD is listed 3 times. Other formats in the library's Material Types in Vega Discover are missing. | Any | VEGAENG-4138 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-05 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Edit Pickup location for held items Patrons patrons are presented with the option to change the “Pickup location” of a held item. The change is not successful, but patrons do not see an error message that this action is not permitted. | Polaris | VEGAENG-4143 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-05 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Renew and Manage Hold buttons don't meet accessibility requirements | Any | VEGAENG-4144 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-05 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: Address display issues and inability to save Account Information When patrons view their Account tab, city/state/zip fields don’t display on the screen. When editing their account, city/state/zip show in line 2. This is due to difficulty in parsing Sierra's free-text address fields. These parsing issues also prevent patrons from saving other changes in the Edit Account Information panel. Discover shows an error for empty address fields, e.g. "City is required." When patrons are not allowed to edit their own address, address parsing issues should not prevent patrons from saving other changes to their account. | Sierra | VEGAENG-4127 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-05 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Can't freeze OverDrive holds | Any | VEGAENG-4084 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-04 | May 2026 |
| Account Portal: "Checkouts & Requests" count includes reading history The "Checkouts & Requests" count on the left sidebar includes up to 50 reading history entries. For example, if a patron has 2 checkouts, 4 holds, and 123 reading history, the count displays 56. | Any | VEGAENG-4104 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-04 | Unresolved |
| Account Portal: Bills/Fines page fine payment issues Libraries are reporting a number of issues with this page:
| Any | VEGAENG-4096 | 2026-02-03 | 2026-02-04 | Unresolved |
| Can't remove empty format group from showcase list If a library adds a format group of vendor records via Econtent Management to a showcase list, and later those vendor records are hidden as in VDIS-34207, staff are unable to remove that entry from the showcase list. No errors display, but the entry does not disappear from the showcase. | Any | VEGAENG-329 (VDIS-34842) | 2025-08-12 | 2025-09-18 | Unresolved |
| Browsers cannot translate Discover When a user users browser translation tools to translate Discover into a language the library does not offer, the page is not translated. | Any | VEGAENG-288 (VDIS-34424) | 2025-06-13 | 2025-07-09 | Unresolved |
| Duplicate titles on author page, one of which links to an empty resource card If a library both ingests vendor records via Econtent Management and also creates ILS records for those same resources, Discover suppresses display of the vendor record. However, if the vendor record doesn't roll up with the ILS record (which could be for expected reasons, like different title data), a separate format group will exist for the vendor record but will not display any format tabs or edition information. The empty format group doesn't appear in search results, but it manifests in two ways:
| Any | VEGAENG-246 (VDIS-34207) | 2025-05-14 | 2025-05-27 | Unresolved |
| Social media sharing omits some accented characters When a patron shares a record to social media, some accented characters are omitted from the record information in the social media post. Examples of affected characters include "å", "ä", "ö", and "ü". Other characters (for example "â" and "é") do appear in social media sharing. | Any | VEGAENG-302 (VDIS-34106) | 2025-04-30 | 2025-05-27 | Unresolved |
| Cannot add staff user with name containing diacritics When creating users in User Management, the system will not accept first or last names containing characters with accents (e.g. "é" or "ü"). "Invalid First name" appears beneath the field. | Any | VEGAENG-272 (VDIS-33635) | 2025-02-11 | 2025-05-27 | Unresolved |
| Cannot delete collection or kiosk site that has payment configuration When a kiosk or collection site has a payment connection configured at the site level, that site cannot be deleted. The error displayed in Staff Admin is "There was an error deleting your site." To delete the site, first edit the payment connection and click the trash can to delete the payment connection. Then you will be able to delete the site as a whole. | Any | VEGAENG-251 (VDIS-33263) | 2024-11-19 | 2025-05-27 | Unresolved |
| Pay Fines button uses HTTP url, not HTTPS (Safari displays an error when patrons attempt to pay fines) When a patron clicks "Pay Fines" in Discover, the URL that opens is (plain-text) HTTP, not (secure) HTTPS. In most browsers, the page automatically redirects to HTTPS, but Safari in particular may not redirect and may instead display an error as if Safari is unable to connect to the server. Plain HTTP is increasingly deprecated, and we should be using HTTPS consistently. | Any | VEGAENG-256 (VDIS-33165) | 2024-10-31 | 2025-05-27 | Unresolved |
| Checked-out items with another status display only "Checked out" If a checked-out item has a status code (for example "BILLED"), Discover displays only "Checked out" as the status, with the due date. | Any | VEGAENG-255 (VDIS-34095) | 2025-04-29 | 2025-05-16 | Unresolved |
| Duplicate checkout count in green banner When a patron checks out an ebook, the green banner shows 2 patron has two checkouts when they only have 1. Refreshing the browser then shows the correct number of checkouts. This behavior has been reported with OverDrive, Hoopla, and BorrowBox. | Any | VEGAENG-290 (VDIS-31782) | 2024-03-20 | 2025-05-16 | Unresolved |
| Showcases in collection sites include materials with non preferred locations When a showcase based on a saved search is viewed within a collection site, the showcase displays materials that don't match the collection site's preferred locations. (A similar issue existed previously with saved searches displaying materials outside the collection site. That issue has been resolved.) | Any | VEGAENG-245 (VDIS-33469) | 2025-01-08 | 2025-01-29 | Unresolved |
| Forgot my passcode: "Cancel & Go Back" button does nothing If a user clicks "I forgot my passcode" on the Log In dialog, a new tab opens with a Reset Passcode screen. If the user clicks "Cancel & Go Back on the Reset Passcode screen, nothing happens. | Polaris | VEGAENG-279 (VDIS-32937) | 2024-09-24 | 2024-10-02 | Unresolved |
| "Resource ... is not available" for OverDrive checkouts or holds If a patron has a checkout for OverDrive material with an ID that is not in Vega's database, Discover displays "Resource for checkout <UUID> is not available" in the patron's bookshelf. A similar message displays for holds with unrecognized IDs. This issue has been reported by libraries who do not load all OverDrive records into their ILS (either manually or with econtent management), or whose ILS records for OverDrive materials lack the correct 037 data. | Any | VEGAENG-284 (VDIS-32240) | 2024-05-20 | 2024-06-05 | Unresolved |
| Link to "See all librarian lists" leads to "Server Error" If a resource is added to more than two showcases, the full resource card displays a link to "See all [number] librarian lists." Following this link results in a "Server Error" page. | Any | VEGAENG-300 (VDIS-31734) | 2024-03-06 | 2024-05-21 | Unresolved |
| Custom Links unexpectedly reordered Saving edits to Custom Links unexpectedly reverses the order in which the links are displayed. Work around this issue in one of two ways:
| Any | VEGAENG-262 (VDIS-31648) | 2024-02-23 | 2024-06-06 | Unresolved |
| Confusing error message when blocked patron attempts hold When a patron with a manual block (MBLOCK field set to any value other than '-') attempts to place a hold, Discover displays a "Backend service response error" message. This message looks like the issue is with the software, not with the patron's record. | Sierra | VEGAENG-299 (VDIS-31467) | 2024-01-29 | 2024-02-26 | Unresolved |
| Clicking on "Next" stays at the bottom of the search results page In Chrome or Edge, when a patron clicks on a page number or "Next" at the bottom of search results, the view remains at the bottom of the page. The patron must scroll up to see the top of the page. In Firefox, the display lands at the top of the next search results page. | Any | VEGAENG-247 (VDIS-33960, VDIS-31109) | 2023-12-04 | 2024-01-22 | Unresolved |
| Discover displays pickup location labels from Branches instead of Hold Pickup Locations If a pickup location code's has different labels in the Hold Pickup Locations table and the Branches table (e.g. "Main Circulation Desk" in Hold Pickup Locations vs "Main Library" in Branches). In addition, pickup locations are sorted alphabetically by Branches description instead of in Hold Pickup Locations table order. | Sierra | VEGAENG-2142 (VDIS-31098) | 2023-11-29 | 2024-01-22 | Unresolved |
| Differences in diacritic encoding prevent bibs from rolling up together If two bib records have the same title except for a difference in diacritic encoding, they will not roll up in Vega. For example, if e-acute (é) is coded "\u00E9" (single-character Unicode) vs "e\u0301" ("e" followed by Unicode acute accent), these titles will not roll up together even though the displayed characters are visually indistinguishable. This issue can also affect author fields or text that omits the diacritic. For example, "John le Carré" and "John le Carre" will not roll up. | Any | VEGAENG-267 (VDIS-32108) | 2023-05-30 | 2024-05-21 | May 2026 |
| Bookmarks and saved searches disappear after changing patron barcode in Polaris When a Polaris patron's barcode changes, their bookmarks and saved searches disappear from Discover. | Polaris | VEGAENG-313 (VDIS-29611) | 2023-05-03 | 2023-09-29 | Unresolved |
| Email from Discover does not arrive Several libraries report that when patrons attempt to email themselves the citation for a title in Discover, the email never arrives. | Any | VEGAENG-2156 (VDIS-29569) | 2023-04-26 | 2023-09-29 | Unresolved |
| Overdrive titles display "0 copies" when all copies are checked out When all copies of an Overdrive title are checked out, Discover displays "0 copies." This gives the impression that the library owns no copies. | Any | VEGAENG-2149 (VDIS-28925) | 2023-02-22 | 2023-09-29 | Unresolved |
LX STARTER
| Description | ILS | Key | First Reported | Date Added | Resolution |
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| Cannot reset LX Admin password When staff click "I forgot my password" on the login page for LX Admin and enter their email address, they always see "Invalid username or password" even if their email address is associated with a current LX Admin login. | Polaris | VEGAENG-2691 (VE-3014) | 2023-06-14 | 2023-09-29 | Unresolved |
GUIDE
| Description | ILS | Key | First Reported | Date Added | Resolution |
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PROGRAM
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PROMOTE
| Description | ILS | Key | First Reported | Date Added | Resolution |
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| Unsubscribed contacts not removed from segment After staff unsubscribe a contact from a segment, the contact displays "Unsubscribed" in the contact's Segments tab but is still listed in the segment's People tab. This issue has been reported primarily for non-cardholder contacts. | Any | VEGAENG-3722 | 2026-01-08 | 2026-04-03 | Unresolved |
WEBBUILDER
| Description | ILS | Key | First Reported | Date Added | Resolution |
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