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Back-up copies of previous versions of lists

A new member of academic staff recently deleted several sections and numerous resources from two reading lists by accident. There is currently no way of reverting to the previous versions of these lists, as Talis does not keep any back-ups. We can...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Edit List 2 Reviewed - on hold

Retain copy of the 'Complete Review' comment within Review

Suggestion is to keep a copy of the text entered into the 'Complete Review' pop-up, either via the Review itself, or by providing an option for it to be emailed to a secondary email account in the process. We have a number of staff who work in the...
Guest 10 months ago in Reviews 1 Reviewed - on hold

When bookmarking books to include ISBNs with 020 |z's in RDA records as well as 020 |a's

A lot of the large record downloads from suppliers and other sources set ISBNs for e-books with |z (used for faulty ISBNs) at the front, not |a's. This is because the ISBNs are not in the actual e-book text (an absurd and pointless cataloguing pra...
Stuart Sharp about 1 year ago in Bookmarking 3 Reviewed - on hold

All bookmark resource types should have the option to change author from Dual Field to Single Field

Some bookmark types (eg Book) have the option, when first bookmarking, to change the Author field from Dual Field to Single Field. For other bookmark types (eg Document), when first adding an Author field it can only be added as Dual Field; the op...
Guest over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Enable us to change which reading list item a digitisation is linked to

Currently, once a digitisation is linked to a reading list item, it cannot be unlinked/relinked to a different reading list item. This is highly frustrating. To would very useful if a digitisation could be unlinked/relinked to another reading list...
Sarah @ AUT almost 2 years ago in  TADC 0 Reviewed - on hold

Customized cover images

Possibility to upload cover images for List items. Right now only a few resources will generate cover images in the list (mainly paper books), we would like to have an option to upload images. This would be a lot more visually attractive for stude...
Niels Holtkamp over 1 year ago in Edit List 3 Reviewed - on hold

Ability to set an institutional level retention period for storage of bookmarks by list editors and creators

We've had a number of problems related to bookmarks over the years, where our list creators and editor have used older bookmarks without checking whether the links work. This is particularly a problem when switching suppliers, such as when Dawsone...
Jill Hazard about 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Bulk delete lists

We should be able to bulk delete lits. Our archived lists are mounting up and after a few more years there will be even more!
Katy Maydon almost 2 years ago in Edit List 1 Reviewed - on hold

View other formats/editions - search with editor

Currently the View other formats/editions search only uses the Title and Author. Where a work has an editor, not an author, our EDS search fails to find any results. If you do title and author search, using the edit as the author, it locates the a...
Bex Carruthers 12 months ago in  2 Reviewed - on hold

Limiting academic permissions in Editing List Details

Currently, academics have the permission to modify the time period and change the title (course code) in the "Edit list details" section. We suggest that academics should not have permission to edit list details, including changing the time period...
Grace Fu about 1 year ago in User roles and permissions 1 Reviewed - on hold