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coutts oasis widget to search on title rather than ISBN
The coutts oasis widget links on ISBN which limits its effectiveness for searching for later editions, it would be better if it searched on title.
27 votesKeji Adedeji responded
We had some discussions with Coutts towards the end of last year about this and they need to do some work. As they are migrating to a new version of their site iPage, they advised that they would make the changes for the new site. We will need to touch base with them again to catch up on their migration and plans for implementing the requested change
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Report on number of lists linked to higher levels in hierarchy than node list is linked to
We have a requirement to report on the number of lists linked to a faculty and number of lists linked to a department. Our hierarchy goes faculty>department>module. Lists are directly linked to modules. The Hoerarchy Snapshot Report allows us to report on number of lists attached to amodule but not number of lists attached to a higher level in the hierarchy.
8 votesThis is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog while we focus on items in the development focus.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Display sections on their own
Related to the idea of compressing/opening sections (in this idea: http://ideas.talisaspire.com/forums/32805-talis-aspire-ideas/suggestions/3160575-compressing-sections) I'd like some facility to be able to link/jump to a specific section or sub-section of a list, and display it in a way that is uncluttered by the rest of the list.
Ideally this would mean jumping to a section and the display automatically compressing all the other sections. The user could expand / navigate to them if they wanted.
Alternatively the user is taken to a version of the display that only contains the specific section, with a hyperlink back to the full list.
The reason…
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RSS feeds needed to show academics/students availability of new items added to their lists in "Recent Changes"
In "Recent Changes" we can view the changes made to a particular list and this can be accessed via RSS feed. However, currently it does not include exact resources added to/removed from a list; it simply gives some indication of when a list has been edited.
Please could you include resources in the RSS feed and set this up for the whole site, thanks.
Min Allen, University of Roehampton5 votesThis is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog while we focus on items in the development focus.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Lists will automatically be added to the list owner's "My Lists" tab
Many of my academics are forgetting/not realising that they need to add lists into "My Lists". This is especially an issue after rollover when they are attempting to edit lists from previous years instead of the current one. They expect the lists that they own to automatically appear in "My Lists", which I probably would if I were them too! Is there any chance this could be possible? It would make my academics' lives a lot easier and avoid some frustrations and confusions with the system.
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Ability to turn off LTI search box defaults (course name)
LTI to Blackboard:. When setting up the content block the name used in the search box defaults to the name of the blackboard course. This often is not the name of the list in Talis and so no match is found. Turning off that default and prompt the user to complete the search field would be a better option from our point of view.
We have had several calls where it was not clear to the user that they needed to enter the list name in the search box mainly because the users don't realise they can over type the…
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Batch assign list ownership
We should be able to make a user an owner of multiple lists at once, selecting lists by school/department/a search (e.g. MB1* in the module code), with them appearing in a list so we can untick any necessary (i.e. don't just offer us the chance of "all lists in this department" or nothing - we always have to bank on there being exceptions!).
5 votesBulk editing is not in our near term development focus, so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Improve usability of list searches from the Aspire homepage
This idea comprises:
• Ability to filter or refine list searches
• Changes the behaviour of pagination in list search results
• The option to change the terminology on links which appear in the course of searching
• ‘Back to the school of XYZ’
• ‘Others’ label in the search result*Ability to filter or refine list searches
If you’re not searching for a specific list, a search may bring back many results. With the page limited to displaying 10 results you may have to page through several screens.
Can filters be introduced to help refine this? For example bringing…
2 votesThe search facility is an area we would like to review further. Some great examples of how search could be used and would be great to see other use cases added to this idea.
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Extending the Bookmarking API to recognise Chapter Author
Extending the Bookmarking API to recognise Chapter Author.
Currently the Bookmarking API does not recognise Chapter Author, so that any author included in the API is considered to be the Book Author.
It would be useful if a Chapter author could be included which would appear in the Chapter part of the record and therefore also be displayed on the full list.7 votesthis idea remains under review as we are about to start investigating and prioritising API use cases
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Copying bookmarks
This suggestion relates to an extension of the facility to copy over bookmarks, as it would be usful to have the option to copy over the notes (associated with any bookmark), in addition to its importance level.
1 voteWe are reviewing copying options alongside our list edit changes and we will monitor this idea closely to understand if there is a use case for this functionality.
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Differentiation between Chapters and Extracts in Reading lists to enhance integration with TADC requests
We use Chapter/books in reading lists, then when digitisations are requested it is assumed they are complete chapters when we might only want a small section. or sections of the book. We would like the option to add extracts/sections here. At present we can only add one page range and we would also need multiple page ranges to be added
. When we then request a digitisation, the correct section rather than complete chapter would be selected thereby hopefully lessening the number of referrals needed in TADC.3 votes -
Editing the note on a bookmarked item
At present it is possible to add a note to an item at the point of bookmarking, but it isn't possible to edit or delete that note after the bookmark has been created. It would be useful to be able to do so.
2 votesWhilst we would like to make this improvement, it is currently not in our near term focus, so I’m moved it to the backlog to reflect this. idea has been moved to our backlog Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Display the total number of students associated with a work across all current Reading Lists
The calculated total across all courses will better inform the acquisitions decision. For instance the library may have a guideline to provision 1 book per 50 students. Book ABC is then added to Course X which has 100 students. The Librarian sees that we have 1 book in stock so orders a second copy. A little later Book ABC is added to Course Y which also has 100 students. The Librarian sees that we have two copies which covers the Course Y students, and ignorant of the Course X requirements does not acquire any more copies. The end result is…
12 votesWe’ve introduced this capability in the new reviews area and we will review how it can be exposed elsewhere in the system
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Alternative authentication schemes for APIs
We would like to be able to directly access reports and other authenticated data from scripts without the need to web-scrape through the login process protecting them.
It would be good if the existing APIs implemented an API-key style scheme, e.g. accepting a header "Authorization: api_key <customer-api-key>" with each request.
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Dashboard - New edition notification opt-in
At the moment there is an option to request an email notification if any alternative resources are located for a specific item within the Dashboard.
One of our Academic Support Librarians suggested it would be useful if course organisers could opt-in to be notified via an email when the Dashboard feature picks up a new edition of any book on that list.
2 votesKeji Adedeji responded
Looking into as part of wider investigations into notifications across the system
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Allow customisation of List Owner email
When you make someone owner of a list, we need to be able to know what is sent to them and be able to customise this notice. The invite system allows customisation of part of the message (I have a separate request in here to allow full customisation and to be able to set a different default text), and the list owner alerts should also be customisable - both by setting a new default in an admin console, and on the fly when a particular list is given an owner.
7 votesWe do intend to investigate the introduction of a dictionary tool which would enable configuration of local messages. This will be reviewed and prioritised following the completion of the Db re-architecture but is not a current priority
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Customisation of the submit for publishing dialogue box
when submitting a list for publication we would like to customise this message box (see attached) to prompt the list creator to submit the list for review. We would like both to be able to customise the text and for there to be a box to click through to review.
5 votesWe do intend to investigate the introduction of a dictionary tool which would enable configuration of local messages. This will be reviewed and prioritised following the completion of the Db re-architecture but is not a current priority
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Add publication date in bookmarks list
Year of publication is not displayed in the list of bookmarks. This is particularly important to academics as units often use various editions of the text book and need to be able to differentiate between the editions. Is it possible to add a column for Year of Publication in the bookmarks list?
Related to this, in My Lists, the date of publication needs to display in the bookmarks in the right column, to easily differentiate between editions when adding bookmarks to lists.
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Edit dropdown menu for teaching periods when creating a new list
When a new list is created, the options to select the teaching period are arranged in chronological order from oldest to newest. Given the large number of teaching periods that we currently have in the Monash tenancy, this makes it a slow task to find the latest, relevant teaching period.
At Monash, our preference is to be given edit rights to add and remove the teaching periods from this drop down menu at will rather than submitting a Support Task; which is easy to forget to do.
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Hierarchy - grey out empty lists
Many libraries have lists of every module, many of which are empty. If empty modules in the hierarchy were greyed out (faded) then it would be very very obvious which are those modules with content. This would then encourage students to pester those staff who have not got with the programme.
4 votesThis is a similar request to this idea which is planned: http://ideas.talisaspire.com/forums/32805-talis-aspire-ideas/suggestions/1637573-show-lists-linked-to-units-within-the-hierarchy.
This is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog while we focus on items in the development focus.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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