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Create a filter for Aspire role in All User Profiles report
The All User Profiles report would be improved with a filter for Aspire role. There's no way of knowing who has what role unless you export the spreadsheet and filter it that way, or look at individual users
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Reporting from live data
I doubt this will be possible given your current architecture but we would really like to be able to report on live data. All our other systems can handle reports running on live data and it is especially important in certain situations, e.g. after roll over or any other batch functions (when they become possible) so we immediately know what happened and can continue working - or request an undo if we spot that we've messed something up!
(It would also be useful given that recent problems in transferring the data to the system that we report from haven't always…
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Have the Table of Contents for long lists open by default
Have the Table of Contents for long lists open by default (without having to use the [show] link). Perhaps there could be two links:
[show] [show always]
(or when open)
[hide] [hide always]
This could describe the default open/close status of the list, as set by the list publisher.
2 votesWhilst not addressing this particular suggestion i.e. opening by default, the ToC improvements should alleviate the issues underlying this suggestion. The ToC is now clearer, stays docked and will can remain open and visible while scrolling through a list
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Including Time Period in list name
Now we have rolled over I have been handed a few queries around the problem of having 2 lists of the same name in the My Lists page. When using the 'Create and Add to list' function and the dropdown to attach a list to a node, it simply lists the modules by name, no indication of which year the list is for, making it hard to tell which list you are adding things to.
I think that in these situations (i'm sure there are more but these are the two I have come across) the timestamp should be tacked…
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Convert / export items into popular referencing formats (Harvard etc)
This is done by many resources - Summon for example. The formatted record can be copied or e-mailed.
2 votesThe list bibliography view which has been introduced converts a list into a citation style which can be copied.
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Reports with more fields
Could we please have some fields within reports as standard. If reporting about items I would like a a baseline to see the ISBN/ISSN/LCN number for stock held in the Library and ISBN/ISSN for items not held. Also, any reports that show titles should also conatin the code so that it is easy to match.
2 votesI’m closing this as most of the suggestions have been addressed in the newer reports. The exceptions are: The acquisitions report was retired some time ago. We are currently unable to report on user activity (log-in information), whilst we are unable to ‘nest’ the hierarchy report at this point.
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Linking Aspire to Alto
This suggestion has come from one of our Subject Librarians who wondered if it possible to connect Alto and Aspire so that items that appear on an Aspire reading list are noted as such in Alto? This would be useful when withdrawing items/updating editions.
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Resource Type - Film
We have a large film collection and also subscribe to BoB.
It would be great to have a resource Type for Audio-Visual materials as book can be misleading as we may have a film and book of the same title.
If can it also default to appropriate fields then that would be even more efficient.
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Screen design for license
At the top of every list we have a large prominent diaply for the license consisting of both the logo, including the conditions, and then another spelling out of the conditions again. This is both heavy on the eye (why repeat it twice?) and an incitement for academic staff to quibble. Could we just have the logo without spelling it out twice?
2 votesThis was completed back in October last year, just updating ths
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Need ability to link module to multiple departments
In our hierarchy we have some modules which are taken across various departments within a school. We can currently only create a new module under one department, we can't link it to multiple departments. We need this ability.
2 votesThis has now been implemented as part of the Hiearchy API theme. See this week’s release notice: http://support.talisaspire.com/entries/21668311-aspire-release-9th-july
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retaining student numbers
We've just discovered that the student numbers data is removed when a review on a list is completed. We need this information to be retained, it's no use having it there just for a review and then when looking back for alterations etc it's no longer there. It should be retained and displayed on the list page for the appropriate logged in users (i.e. those with list publishing rights over that list/the tenancy).
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This feature is in the product.
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allowing attaching lists to modules without using My Lists
Library staff need to attach all the loaded lists to modules and need to attach academics' lists to modules currently too. At the moment they have to go to the list, Add to My Lists, go to the module, choose that list, go back to My Lists and remove it again. Could there be a 'list search' box for the library staff role so that they can search for the list and attach it to the module without having to add it to their My Lists and then remove it again? Thanks.
2 votesThis was addressed in a recent release
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Managing Invites
I would like a management tool to see who invites have been sent to, if they have been successfully accepted and what roles have been assigned to them
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Update an item record from DOI, ISBN or LCN
At present, Aspire offers the ability to populate a blank Bookmark from a DOI. Once a Bookmark has been Saved, the populate-from-DOI option disappears.
There are several use cases in which the ability to update (effectively to overwrite) an Item/Bookmark record from a DOI (and also an ISBN or local LCN) look-up could be very useful.
Case 1: An academic has created a poor quality Bookmark from a journal web site not supported by the Bookmarklet. The relevant DOI is identified, and this is added by a librarian (or other reviewer) to an 'Update' value field. Full metadata is extracted…
2 votesWe released this on 22nd July 2011
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Library Availability - 'not yet available' statuses
Many resource lists will trigger new Acquisitions activities, but at present the Library Availability display in the Item record is premised on items already being in stock. If items are on their way to being in stock, the Availability look-up fails. It would be good if the Availability display could cope with a range of 'in process' statuses (which customers could assign on a Tenancy by Tenancy basis). In our case, those statuses would include 'On order', 'In processing', and 'In Cataloguing'
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Move "other formats" link outside availability box
We have a lot of items where the availability section is not displaying for a record (mostly due to data, we don't use 001s and I think that's required for it to display).
In these cases, the "search for other formats/editions" link would be really useful as a title search on the catalogue will often find something, but because this link is within the availability box, it doesn't appear either.
Would it be beneficial to be moved outside? It seems so to us at the moment, but there are probably downsides/complications in doing this, so what do others think?
Thanks.
2 votesThe recent enhancements to the library availability area implemented this improvement.
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Additional metadata fields in the Acquisitions Review screen
Our Liaison Librarian team have requested that additional metadata fields be added to the Library Review Acquisitions report (namely Author(s), Publisher and Date of Publication) "to help differentiate between items with the same title". As this has an impact on screen real-estate, perhaps a basic item citation could be formatted in a single cell?
2 votesYou can now click through to an overlay screen on the acquisitions review screen to show the item metadata. Unfortunately there just isn’t enough room to show all these fields on the display table.
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Library availability - search alternatives link
Increase text size/create button for links to both of the following...
- View in library catalogue
- Search the library catalogue for other formats/editions
At the moment these links are too discrete.
2 votesThis has been done as part of the Phase 4 improvements to the item view
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Hi Hazel,
The good news is that uou can already edit module titles if you have the node-administrator permission. Users with that permission will see an Edit link on the module page. Clicking on this link will allow you to edit the module name and description.
If you do not see this link then you probably do not have the correct permission – in this case, you need to contact the project team at Manchester.
Thanks,
Chris
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