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Adding an item whilst in search filter
We sometimes need to add a new edition, or e-book to a list that already contains an item. We've discovered that when you search to find the existing item in the list, you can't then add your new bookmarked item and it's quite frustrating. So, we'd like to be able to add items when in the search filter for a list.
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make the publish button persistent
When editing long lists it's would be helpful to have the publish button always visible on the persistent toolbar so you don't have to scroll back to the top of the list. It would also help people to remember to publish if they can see the button at all times while editing.
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Change/hide the Copy List button
Since we moved to the new Student Interface we are experiencing a surge of numbers of academic staff creating copies of their lists. Previously we didn't have too many instances of this but since the wording of "Copy" has been changed to "Copy List" and lines have been inserted into the dropdown to break up pthe list, they seem to have gone a bit mad!
It is much more evident in the list now and we really would like it removed/hidden or changed back to Copy as previously.
This is creating a bit of a headache for us now and…9 votes -
Adding a bookmarked item to multiple lists
It would be really useful to be able to add a bookmark to several lists at once. For example a new edition is being added to a list but they still need to keep the old edition as well, being able to add the bookmark to several lists at once (and publish the changes) would be wonderful.
This was an idea someone else submitted back in 2014, but we've had requests from academics and also as part of some changes to our acquisitions processes that have meant i'd like it to be reconsidered.
9 votesTo be able to find and replace all instances across lists is something we are considering within our continuous improvements. We are keen to understand the importance of such a feature across the user group so encourage others to consider this idea and support if it is something that they feel strongly will have a positive impact.
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DOIs in Reviews 2.0
We've recently moved to Reviews 2.0, and a colleague spotted that DOIs in article bookmarks do not have hyperlinks in the new review screen (screenshot attached to illustrate). We thought this was a bit strange since elsewhere in Aspire Reading Lists DOIs are hyperlinks (such as clicking on bookmarks) and I believe DOIs were hyperlinks in the old Reviews 1.0 screen.
When completing reviews, our staff check all links to electronic resources for functionality, so the inability to follow a DOI through to the article seems to defeat the point of the review. It would be lovely if this could…
9 votesThis is something that we hope to address. As a temporary work around you could use the Open URL in the review to be checking links.
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Students sharing notes about reesources
One of our academics has suggested that it would be useful for some of his students to collaborate with each other when going through their reading lists. He thought that it would be helpful for students to be able to share comments they have made about resources or to add comments to the reading list itself. Students have access to collaborative tools in the VLE but this would be specifically readings-based.
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Suggested improvements to My Notes & Reading Intentions
The summary list of "my notes" and "my reading intentions" displayed on one's username profile page do not expire or archive. Further they seem disorganised and are without a date stamp to indicate when a note was left. Instead the lists grow to contain notes and data from every old list. The lists would get very long and disorganised due to intentions and notes left from past reading lists, leading the profile summary page to become of little use to students.
For the My Notes and Reading Intentions sections, I recommend:
1) sorting (e.g. by date);
2) display the date…9 votesImproving this for students is something we would like to do, but is likely to need a theme in this area.
This is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
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Allow the default invite text and subject line to be set at tenancy level
At the moment the default email invite text and subject line are fixed - on completion of this story, they will be configurable at tenancy level.
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Integrate Reviews within the Talis list interface visible to users
By making everything editable from the user interface but with extra options for reviews, you would address the problem with to-ing and fro-ing between the two interfaces and having to check links that don't work in reviews but do work from the user interface, because the link resolver doesn't work and we would also see the list in the order in which it appears so editing it would be much easier and straightforward.
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Deleting multiple readings
When editing reading lists, it would be good to have checkboxes to mark to do bulk editing on a list. Similar to the "Actions" menu on the Lists report.
This would be handy to be able to delete multiple readings and save 3 mouse clicks for each deleted reading. Gets a bit tedious when there are a few and when the list hasn't been sectioned,
Would be also useful for changing the importance of multiple readings, bulk "add to my bookmarks", etc.
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Dashboard view in TARL
Can we have a dashboard in TARL similar to the one in TACC, to monitor reviews, or to see at a glance how many reviews are in progress?
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Prioritising editing window size for smaller devices
At present on smaller devices the editing window only accounts for about a quarter of the screen height only.
In an example I received only two of the editable fields are visible, making working on them difficult - while the tenancy header and Item title take up the majority of the screen.
It would be great for future development in this area to bring the editing window to the fore
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Bulk assign list publishers to lists
We need the ability to bulk assign list publishers to more then one list.
For example, we have departments within the university where the populating of material within reading lists is done by one team within the department, rather than the individual module leader. When new members of staff start with this team, we are often asked that they be assigned as a list publisher to around 100 lists at a time. There is no current option to do this other than go through each list manually. This is time consuming at a particularly busy period for us.
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Make the 'Request a new digisation' window draggable
In List edit we can see a student note to e.g. read certain pages. When the request digisation window opens it obscures the note section of the list. Can you make the window draggable so the note can be referred to and details checked?
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We need to be able to see a complete list of items removed from lists within a given period, with full details
We can currently see changes made in the last few days, or search by list and then see changes, but the details are very sketchy. We need full detials of items that have been removed
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Notes for students in new list view
Although accompanied by a mortar board icon to indicate that there is a note for the student, as the font of the text is similar to that above many students are not spotting the note.
It would be helpful if this was in bold, a different font, or colour. Maybe even giving academics and library staff the ability to select a font option to make these notes more noticeable.8 votes -
Pairing Identical Physical & Digital Items
Many lists show a physical copy of a book or journal with a digital version of the same document directly above or below.
It would be greatly beneficial to users to immediately notice that the two entries are the same item, one physical and one digital.
A simple pairing/linking feature of adjacent entries would do this.
This could also solve the issue of copy/pasting the Student Note from one to the other, by immediately copying the Student Note to the paired entry.8 votes -
Importing RIS files into existing lists
We would like to be able to import bookmarks created from RIS into existing lists rather than just new lists
8 votesWe are working on bookmarking functionality alongside our List Edit improvements, this will reduce the reliance on the bookmarklet feature and enable more resources to be accessible in the List Edit context. When this feature is released, we will revisit this idea to understand if it still has relevance.
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Creating a bookmark and adding item (direct) to a list
When creating a bookmark and adding item (direct) to a list, enabling either ‘search’ function for the list or list them alphabetically or by most recently used. If you have many lists it can be hard and time-consuming to locate your list.
8 votesWe are working on bookmarking functionality alongside our List Edit improvements, this will reduce the reliance on the bookmarklet feature and enable more resources to be accessible in the List Edit context. When this feature is released, we will revisit this idea to understand if it still has relevance.
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Preset metadata fields for 'Has Part/Part Of'
Would it be possible to have a number of preset fields that were automatically generated after selecting resource type?
For example, after selecting chapter or article, could Aspire automatically generate fields for author, pages, date, web address? And then adding volume and issue when selecting article.
And also have a different set of preset fields for book, journal etc in 'Is Part Of' if creating a bookmark from scratch.
It would be a great time saving feature for our team here if it was possible. It would also encourage accurate and complete metadata on every bookmark.
8 votesWe are considering this as part of the bookmarking improvements we hope to make and can see this would be a valuable time saver. We will feed this back to our UX and Product Development teams.
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