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Report on number of copies in the library
A report that shows the number of copies of each title in stock without having to check each title individually. this would be useful for acquisitions if you use a formula. You could see quickly if you had the right ratio of copies for the number of students on the course
1 voteWe have reviewed this item and due to availability being a live feed and constantly changing it is not possible to report on the number of copies you have in stock in a report format.
We have though as part of the reviews refresh displayed the library stock in the reviews screen so when making purchasing decisions you can quickly see how many items you have and the format they are available in, this also provides you with the current availability of those items. You can then use this information in line with your formulas if you use them as part of your ordering process.
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Sorting Reports by Date Created and Last Edited
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We'd find it usefull if you could sort the "All Lists" report by Date.1 voteAll llists can be sorted by last updated date
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To be able to assign/change time periods from the 'edit' drop down tab
I am currently going through a big batch of lists that need a time period for the rollover. At present I have to open the edit screen to change or this.
It would be great if this was an opion under the 'Edit' button along with 'Assign List Owner' and 'Link to Hierarchy'
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Reviews screen - load dynamic action buttons on list selection
A significant overhead on the loading of the Library Review screen is the dynamic calculation of the relevant Action button items. As the page loads, this calculations are made iteratively for each and every list under review. As it is not possible for an individual to open multiple lists for review, only one of those actions will be initiated for one list at any one time. That means that all but one of the calculations of appropriate actions are loaded unnecessary in a 'just in case' fashion. It would be preferable if the list of lists loaded without the action…
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Remove 'Article'; remove 'chapter'
Could you include the option to 'Remove 'Article' / 'Chapter'' in the same way we have the option to Remove ..'Is part of'.
Once you add 'Is part of' as a field, you can easily create your article or chapter title. If you change your mind and want to remove 'Is part of ..', you can, which is great, but youare left with the article title, which you can't remove.
1 voteWe introduced a small improvement that addressed this in March
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suppress googlebooks preview icon if the equivalent e-book is in stock
We have a pretty healthy collection of (paid-for) e-books - and these show in the list as they should. But if there is also a googlebook for the same title, the googlebook preview icon also shows. Not only is this confusing for the student, but it diverts them from the paid-for resource
1 voteSince the introduction of the Online Resource button (whose appearance will also be improved – see top idea), where a resource is an ebook, the google preview is now suppressed.
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Allow searching and sorting across the whole report
It would be much more efficient if we could search and sort across the whole report, not just the displayed screen
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Export whole report
Currently, only the displayed screen is exported, not the whole report. It would be much easier and time efficient to export the whole report at once
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Add 'archived by' to Archived Lists report
The Archived Lists report would be more useful with additional information, namely "archived by" and hierarchical information (being able to sort/filter it by school/department lists would be beneficial).
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Show course code and department in 'List Length' report results
Would it be possible to show the course code and department in the results of the List Length report?
1 voteThe List Length report is has now been retired and has been replaced by what is currently called the All Lists report. This includes the list length information and also now includes the linked hierarchy node(s) codes for each list in the report. It is also possible to filter the report by the required hierarchy node code.
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Reports function - Departments with no lists attached
In the new Reports function, there are options to show 'Modules without lists' and 'units without lists' - is it possible to have the same for 'Courses' as at Sussex we link the reading list to the Course title in the hierarchy. It would be very useful to identify which courses did not have a reading list attached.
Annette
1 voteI’ve added a “Courses with no lists” report – let me know how you get on. I wasn’t sure from the Idea whether you meant courses or departments – but guessed you meant courses. Let me know how you get on.
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Move existing node to be child of another
If you have an existing node (e.g. Module A) associated as a child to another node (e.g Faculty Y) which you want to move beneath another node (e.g. Faculty Z), it is not possible to do with current functionality.
This is something that can occur at times, and the only way to achieve this currently is (using the above example) to delete module X after disassociating any lists, and recreate it under Faculty Z.
1 voteThis capability is in the system with the ‘Move To’ button
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check which lists and nodes exist on a tenancy from within the system
We would like to able to check what lists and what nodes exist on our tenancy from within the system
1 voteThe recently released Management Reports should let you do just that:
http://support.talisaspire.com/entries/20331882-introduction-to-on-demand-management-reports
Chris
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Extend item-on-lists API to include ISSN
For the developments that we're working on locally, building utilities to support the Acquisitions process, it would be really helpful if the items-on-lists API could be extended to include ISSNs values (as well as the current ISBN, DOI and LCN values), to support requests with the following syntax
http://[tenancyurl]/issn/09552359/listsAs with the other item value look-ups, an ISSN look-up should match against 'Is part of' metadata as well.
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list creators (and Aspire administrators) to be able to gain stats on usage of their resources.
list creators (and Aspire administrators) to be able to gain stats on usage of their resources.
1 voteI think Dashboard has satisfied this requirement.
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Hide page header / footer when Aspire is embedded e.g. within VLE
Allow secitons of the page (i.e. header and potentially footer) to be hidden when the Aspire page is embedded within another page e.g. inside the VLE
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"Borrow this" - change to "Find this"
At least one user has interpreted the "Borrow this" button in the Availability applet to mean "Reserve this". Could this be clarified by rewording it to "Find this" instead?
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Free text within lists
Could we have the facility to add free text between items in a list. This might be used eg when a listowner wants to comment on a few books without creating a section for them.
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Print formatted list directly from browser
To enable academics and students to print out appropriately formatted Resource Lists for physical reference and annotation, additional print CSS configurations should be added to the appropriate Aspire page views to support a correctly formatted print presentation, rather than a simple print-out of the fully rendered web page.
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Library Availability and electronic content
When electronic material records are pulled from the Library Catalogue, the $856 URL is extracted to become the URL of the resource in Talis. In the absence of Holdings data for these items, the Library Availability look-up is reported as unavailable. It might be preferable if the look-up script checked (against a set of rules) the presence of certain values in the Aspire record for the resource (such as a Web address or electronic resource format) and then not attempt the look-up, but instead present the end user a message such as: "This electronic material is available online. Access it…
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