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★ Make the 'Unpublished changes!' warning bar float as you scroll down a list

Unfortunately our users tend to miss the 'Unpublished changes!' yellow warning bar. If it floated as you scrolled down the list (like the 'Back to top' button and Table of Contents/Filters do), it would be more visible and obvious to users. Also c...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 4 Shipped

Filter reading list to items with library notes

We use Library notes to document if a unit will be moving to another edition or title in the following offering. It would be useful to be able to filter the reading list to show only items with library notes, so that post rollover, staff can quick...
Bex Carruthers 11 months ago in Edit List 3 Shipped

Add 'View availability' button to print resources on lists that are held by the Library

Currently, if a student wants to view the library availability of a print resource they need to click the title. This is not entirely obvious! Students who do not know to do this may think the item is simply not available at all if there is no but...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Accessibility 10 Shipped

Show in the Reviews screen whether the Online Resource button in a bookmark has been ticked

When reviewing lists, we very often find that academics adding an online resource have forgotten to ensure that the Online Resource box in a bookmark is ticked (to enable the VIEW ONLINE option on the list). Aspire varies in whether or not it mana...
Guest 9 months ago in Reviews 6 Shipped

Exporting PDFs from an archived or draft list

Most of our unit assessors don't manage their own lists, so new ones often ask for a copy of the list so that they can work on any changes they need. The ability to download a PDF of an archived or draft list would be great. Otherwise we have to d...
Guest 9 months ago in  4 Shipped

Please make the onboarding guides in Talis Aspire appear each year or when we need.

Re: Onboarding guides in Talis Aspire – Talis Aspire, please make onboarding guides in Talis Aspire appear again each year after they are dismissed/closed. Now, the guides disappear after dismissed/closed and won’t appear again. Since many academi...
Jingyue Wu 5 months ago in Edit List 4 Shipped

Add the definitions of Importance Levels to the list details

To inform and remind students and lecturers of the meaning each of Importance Level, it would be useful if this was added to the list details eg. Next to the Course Code, and Student Number: ⓘ Importance Levels When the information icon is hovered...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Importances 3 Shipped

★ Change the wording of the 'Unpublished changes!' yellow warning bar

Unfortunately the word 'Publish' to make changes visible to students does not resonate with our users, so 'saved, but not published' is confusing. To make it clearer, the warning bar should say: "Unpublished changes! Your changes are not visible t...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 2 Shipped

Auto proxying of Web Address links in Reviews

We have recently switched to applying auto-proxying rules to specific web address domains in Aspire lists in order to add the OpenAthens Redirector prefix to publisher links stored in the Web Address field (functionality described here on the supp...
Jonathan Lucas 7 months ago in Reviews 4 Shipped

Strip out copyright symbol from publication dates, as it causes errors in bibliographies

We've noticed recently that publication dates which are preceded by a © symbol in bookmarks aren't recognised as dates when exporting from an Aspire list to a bibliography (bookmarking from OCLC WorldCat periodically gives rise to dates with © in ...
Guest 7 months ago in Bookmarking 2 Shipped