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Compare All Institutions in the NZ

The Network Zone can be made more useful if it were possible to use it to quickly compare institutions by setting. A common time consuming task is to check to see which institutions have one setting or another configured and which do not. To accomplish this currently, it is necessary to either log in to each institution and click around or log in to the NZ and then using the drop down to choose an institution and click around. Either way, staff need to open up all the institutions.

Alternatively, it would be great if, for configurations that lend themselves to this, there was a button to "Compare all institutions" that would open a table listing all the institutions and the value of the chosen configuration. Making this table exportable would also be useful.

For example, the configuration, "AI Usage Profile" under Configuration -> General -> AI Features could have a "Compare all institutions" button next to Cancel and Save.

Another example, any of the "Other Settings" tables under Configuration -> Fulfillment/General/User Management/etc -> General Configuration could have a "Compare all institutions" option in the ellipse next to each row.

Having a spreadsheet that shows what value is configured at each institutions would allow consortial staff to quickly know which institutions need to be updated without having to open every institution.

The Network Zone can be made more useful if it were possible to use it to quickly compare institutions by setting. A common time consuming task is to check to see which institutions have one setting or another configured and which do not. To accomplish this currently, it is necessary to either log in to each institution and click around or log in to the NZ and then using the drop down to choose an institution and click around. Either way, staff need to open up all the institutions.

Alternatively, it would be great if, for configurations that lend themselves…

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