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Site configurable label text for 'Add Resource' search function

We would like the wording for 'Search by title, author, or ISBN-13' to be site configurable so that it is clear to instructors/staff what exactly is being searched. For instance, a more useful label text for Douglas College might be 'Search OneSea...
Kristina Long about 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Hierarchy parent codes included in All List reports

Hi Talis, It would be really useful for us if the All Lists report included both the list's Hierarchy and it's parent Hierarchy in the report's results. This would help us divide the list data by subject schools much easier utilising the hierarchy...
Andrew Manton-Maund about 1 year ago in Reports 3 Reviewed - on hold

LTi search screens seen by academics

Hello, we have LTi 1.3 now embedded in our VLE blackboard environment. We have had experiences some issues where there was no RLO for the module in our system and when staff saw the search box an not knowing what to do about it and what it means. ...
Jill Hazard about 1 year ago in LTI 1 Reviewed - on hold

Custom footer in branding console

As a library wanting to follow its visual identity guidelines we would like to be able to add a custom footer either above or below the standard Talis Aspire footer or in place of it. The standard footer for our institution includes Indigenous fla...
Suzanne Bailey about 1 year ago in Branding 2 Reviewed - on hold

Make the 'Report Broken Link' button only appear as an option for electronic resources

We have recently activated the 'Report broken link' feature. However we are surprised to see it appears as an option for both electronic and print resources. This has confused students, with many assuming online access to a print resource is broke...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Accessibility 1 Reviewed - on hold

Add OCR status of digitisations to the Advanced MIS data

It would be really useful to be able to run a report on digitisation requests where the PDF has not been OCRd. That information doesn't currently exist in Advanced MIS, but Consulting can run a custom report to generate a report.
Bex Carruthers over 1 year ago in Advanced Mis 1 Reviewed - on hold

Improvements to the User Profiles data -- last login sortable, add profile status and creation date

Currently there is no quick way of telling if a profile is new, disused, or defunct. It would be very helpful if: the 'Last Login' column in 'All User Profiles' was sortable profiles were labelled as 'active' by default when they are created profi...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in User Profiles 3 Reviewed - on hold

★ Change the 'Copy list' function to 'Backup list' and make list-creation/coping Admin-Only

Academics keep using the 'copy list' function to make unnecesary duplicate lists, or 'create new lists' -- abandoning their existing list and starting new ones. Sometimes they do this because it reassures them that they have made a 'back-up' befor...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Rollover 0 Reviewed - on hold

Display Author names with consistency

I've noticed that when you create a manual entry in Talis you are given a format to enter the author names as: Author (first name, surname) But this then causes a mismatch in how the author details are displayed when you use the Add Resource butto...
Guest about 2 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Remove the Gravatar integration from the user profile options

I believe that the Gravatar integration is not widely used and is a historic integration that didn't appeal to the masses. We have added instructions to our user information documentation about it but would rather we didn't have to if no one uses ...
Guest 3 months ago in User Profiles 2 Reviewed - on hold