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Extend Auto-Logout Time on App Manager

I’d like to suggest increasing the time before the system automatically logs users out of the App Manager. At the moment, it logs me out quite frequently, which can be frustrating—especially when I'm in the middle of tasks. A longer session timeout, or ideally no auto log-out while users are actively working on the page, would greatly improve the user experience and workflow.

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This was included in the September 2025 release.
For more details see: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/campusM/campusM_Release_Notes/2025/campusM_2025_Release_Notes?mon=202509BASE#:~:text=Increased%20Session%20Timeout%20for%20App%20Manager
Nested Smart Tile - Improvements

Review the development of the Nested Smart Tile to deliver a simpler, more usable feature with the following abilities:

• It should display as a normal single tile (with the same styling properties available/parent config inheritance) but enable other tiles to be ‘assigned’ to it. On clicking the single tile (or the Sidebar instance), it should open up another view within the Home Page, where the assigned ‘sub-tiles’ can then be seen. This is the expected nature of a ‘grouped’ tile.

• It should have the ability to react to Role allocation, so that only Users with Roles assigned to the Nested Smart Tile see it (as now), but when clicked, only the sub-tiles assigned to the Users roles should be displayed (with no gaps). Our own management would ensure that every Role assigned to the Nested Smart Tile had sub-tiles available within it.

At present the Nested Smart Tile seems to deliver a way to create ‘quick links’ to things, instead of being a way to group tiles as originally requested by customers.

If this is not possible, the existing Nested Smart Tile feature requires much improvement:

• The ‘Action (URL)’ field does not offer the ability to browse for the link to any tile we wish to nest within it. At present we have to go into Content and create a fake link in a test page to be able to identify the tile URL required.

• The Nested Smart Tile does not pick up any of the ‘parent’ App/Profile configuration set in App Builder. Neither does it offer any of the same styling properties as normal tiles, allowing us to match this to our platform branding.

• Nested items are placed within a circle and we are unable to change this shaping to match our platform branding/style (of square tiles). As a result, the icons we use for our current tiles do not fit properly.

• As above, an element of Role referencing is required, otherwise we can only use this tile for users/Roles who are able to access all the items/tiles assigned to it. At present, all sub-items/tiles show for all Roles assigned to the Nested Smart Tile, but when an item is clicked that they don’t have access to, a ‘Page Not Found’ error is presented which is not a good user experience and will lead to unnecessary enquiries.

• The description of any nested item/tile cuts off after a very small number of characters, making it unclear where it leads. A larger/longer space is required for this.

• Use of an arrow to scroll through the items/tiles in the Nested Smart Tile is not a good user experience. Users should not have to scroll to see what’s in there. It should be clear and up-front. The sizing of this tile should allow a double layer if more than 4 items are nested, to enable them all to be visible.

In addition, The Nested Smart Tile does not work with the Sidebar feature in the Web App - When clicked, nothing happens, so would require hiding.

Review the development of the Nested Smart Tile to deliver a simpler, more usable feature with the following abilities:

• It should display as a normal single tile (with the same styling properties available/parent config inheritance) but enable other tiles to be ‘assigned’ to it. On clicking the single tile (or the Sidebar instance), it should open up another view within the Home Page, where the assigned ‘sub-tiles’ can then be seen. This is the expected nature of a ‘grouped’ tile.

• It should have the ability to react to Role allocation, so that only Users with Roles assigned to…

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This idea has been implemented and will be part of the December 2025 release!
For details see:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/campusM/campusM_Release_Notes/2025/campusM_2025_Release_Notes?mon=202512BASE
Home Page Banners - Timeframe

At the moment, Home Page Banners have to be manually removed in App Manager at the end of their 'life' to take them off-show front-end. This is done either via full deletion or removal of Roles.

It would be useful if configuration was available when adding a Home Page Banner to set a timeframe/window for its lifetime (in a similar way to Quick Polls).

The addition of an End Date/Time, at which point the Home Page Banner auto-deleted or the assigned Roles were removed, would remove the need for users to diarise manual removal at the appropriate time and ensure that outdated Home Page Banners do not remain on-show to users, presenting a poor experience.

The addition of a Start Date/Time would also allow early creation of Home Page Banners, in a similar way to how we can currently pre-schedule Alerts & Quick Polls.

At the moment, Home Page Banners have to be manually removed in App Manager at the end of their 'life' to take them off-show front-end. This is done either via full deletion or removal of Roles.

It would be useful if configuration was available when adding a Home Page Banner to set a timeframe/window for its lifetime (in a similar way to Quick Polls).

The addition of an End Date/Time, at which point the Home Page Banner auto-deleted or the assigned Roles were removed, would remove the need for users to diarise manual removal at the appropriate time and ensure…

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This is expected to be part of the July 2026 release. See release notes starting June 7th for more details: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/campusM/campusM_Release_Notes/2026/campusM_2026_Release_Notes?mon=All
Users - Date Last Logged In

To enable us to manage App Manager User account access more efficiently, it would be beneficial to have a ‘Date Last Logged In’ column in the Users table.

This would remove the need to have to request these details from Ex Libris by Support Case before we can undertake our security audits to remove users with no recent engagement (according to our internal policies).

I’m thinking of something along similar lines to that recently introduced for ‘Registered Users’ which states ‘Date Last Used’.

3 votes

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This enhancement will be included in the October 2026 release.
Home Page Banners - User Controls Colour

At the moment the background circle of the Home Page Banner user controls (Left/Right Arrow & Play/Pause) is transparent, which limits us in terms of the images we can use in our banners as the controls can fade into the background, making them inaccessible.

It would be useful if App Builder configuration could be added (either in the Properties or its code) to allow us to amend the default colours of the user controls (Icon | Background) and potentially add a distinct border.

If these were solid white for example, with a black icon & border, this would enable them to stand out to users on top of whatever image we used in the banner beneath.

This would also bring this feature in line with Alerts, Surveys & Quick Polls, where we already have the option to amend the colour of the ‘badge’ presented in either App Config code or the Product Integration.

At the moment the background circle of the Home Page Banner user controls (Left/Right Arrow & Play/Pause) is transparent, which limits us in terms of the images we can use in our banners as the controls can fade into the background, making them inaccessible.

It would be useful if App Builder configuration could be added (either in the Properties or its code) to allow us to amend the default colours of the user controls (Icon | Background) and potentially add a distinct border.

If these were solid white for example, with a black icon & border, this would enable them…

3 votes

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This is expected to be part of the July 2026 release. See release notes starting June 7th for more details: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/campusM/campusM_Release_Notes/2026/campusM_2026_Release_Notes?mon=All
Enable Banner Tile Ordering

Banners cannot be ordered, new ones can only be added last in the order.

Would be great to define the order when adding eg 1st, 2nd etc or even better, drag up and down in order.

10 votes

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This feature was sneakily included in one of the Q4 campusM releases, as preparation for another feature.
Delete/recall a notification once it has been sent

Because typos, linking errors, bad display, etc. can always occur in notifications, even if notification managers have been very careful, admins should have the possibility to recall or delete a Group or Individual notification from the Notification Center once it has been sent. Once deleted from the Notification Center, then the notification should also be deleted on the end-user side, in the app (Android, iOS or web).

18 votes

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Completed · AdminMatt Sherlock (Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

Released as part of March 2024 Release
Home Page Banner Configuration

Would it be possible for App Settings > Home Page Banners to have a function to activate/de-activate each Banner?
At present we have to delete banners from here that we no longer wish to display in our portal and just have entries present for those we wish to show.
It would be useful if we instead had the option to de-activate to allow us to temporarily remove a banner from the front-end, giving us the option to reactivate it for display at a future date, rather than having to recreate it from scratch.
Being able to deactivate, rather than delete also allows us to retain a history of what was previously presented to users in case of enquiry.

Would it be possible for App Settings > Home Page Banners to have a function to activate/de-activate each Banner?
At present we have to delete banners from here that we no longer wish to display in our portal and just have entries present for those we wish to show.
It would be useful if we instead had the option to de-activate to allow us to temporarily remove a banner from the front-end, giving us the option to reactivate it for display at a future date, rather than having to recreate it from scratch.
Being able to deactivate, rather than delete…

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Completed · AdminNeta GT (Product Manager, campusM, Ex Libris) responded

This is expected to be part of the July 2026 release. See release notes starting June 7th for more details: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/campusM/campusM_Release_Notes/2026/campusM_2026_Release_Notes?mon=All
App Settings > Content > Menu Options - Alphabetical Order

Is it possible to list the content areas appearing in App Settings> Content > Menu Options in alphabetical order? Or at least display an option enabling users to sort like this?

At the moment, with a number of content area tiles in use, it can be difficult for users to easily find the tile they are looking to update.

7 votes

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Completed · AdminMatt Sherlock (Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

Completed July 2023 release
App manager API

Can we have an API for doing certain tasks in the app manager. For example, for process automation, it'd be great if we could access the asset manager via an api, rather than through the web gui.

for example, if we have bulk map data, that we extract from our map datasource, and we automate the process of uploading the map data, it would make our automation much less risky, if we can call an api to create and/or remove folders from and upload position images to the asset manager.

This would remove my automation from relying on screen clicks and key strokes.

Can we have an API for doing certain tasks in the app manager. For example, for process automation, it'd be great if we could access the asset manager via an api, rather than through the web gui.

for example, if we have bulk map data, that we extract from our map datasource, and we automate the process of uploading the map data, it would make our automation much less risky, if we can call an api to create and/or remove folders from and upload position images to the asset manager.

This would remove my automation from relying on screen clicks…

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Completed · AdminMatt Sherlock (Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

we have a wide range of APIS available to programmatically configure components of the app and user experiences.
Want to see the groups a notification was sent to or is scheduled to go to.

Once you've scheduled or sent a notification to a group, there's no way to tell which group you've sent it to. It would be extremely helpful to be able to see that - so you can check that you sent it to the right groups.

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Send notifications to list of e-mail addresses / student names

Please look into the possibility of optimising the notification functionality, so that notifications can easily be sent to individuals based on name / Id / e-mail address, rather than groups. The only way to currently do this is to manually search for a name / e-mail, and add users 1 by 1, but we'd like the ability to do this as a bulk add, based on a list of multiple inputs.

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Send notifications to users who are in one Group AND another Group

We are keen to use Notifications to target groups of students like:
All second years in a department
All UGs in a department
Students who are in the second year of a programme
Students who are on a module
Students who are taking at least one of a set of modules

Currently we have groups based on our departments, year groups and level of study. We can send a notification to a single group of these but we don’t have a use case for this.

What we need to be able to select groups using AND. So the notification goes to people who are in the Art group AND the 2nd year group.

We are keen to use Notifications to target groups of students like:
All second years in a department
All UGs in a department
Students who are in the second year of a programme
Students who are on a module
Students who are taking at least one of a set of modules

Currently we have groups based on our departments, year groups and level of study. We can send a notification to a single group of these but we don’t have a use case for this.

What we need to be able to select groups using AND. So the notification goes…

7 votes

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Role Logic added to Send notifications completed in the June 2024 Release
Have the ability to create notifications in advance and schedule a time for them to be sent

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Completed · AdminMatt Sherlock (Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

The new Notification Center allows you to set expiry dates against the alerts you now send.
Restrict Creative Studio templates and components to institutions branded templates

In Creative Studio the template library should be restricted so that editors can only see and use the branded templates that institutions have created.

The drag and drop elements should be restricted as well to only show our branded components.

3 votes

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Ability for a tile to start hidden so that users can choose whether to enable

All tiles are enabled by default. It would be useful to have the option for a tile to start hidden, but still be available in the Arrange list so that individual users can decide whether to activate (similar model to app stores). The new hide option, unfortunately, doesn't make the tile available under Arrange.

Our University is now using CampusM as our portal with many links being single sign-on links to other systems. People love the ability to customize and want tiles for their favorite often-used systems, which will have a huge impact on real estate since tiles are active by default.

All tiles are enabled by default. It would be useful to have the option for a tile to start hidden, but still be available in the Arrange list so that individual users can decide whether to activate (similar model to app stores). The new hide option, unfortunately, doesn't make the tile available under Arrange.

Our University is now using CampusM as our portal with many links being single sign-on links to other systems. People love the ability to customize and want tiles for their favorite often-used systems, which will have a huge impact on real estate since tiles are active…

3 votes

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Manage notifications

It would be helpfull to see the notifications we have sent until a specific date, and to have the ability to resend them.

9 votes

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Completed · AdminMatt Sherlock (Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

Our Notification Center allows you to search for previously sent notifications, along with understanding who has read the notification itself.
Ability to upload a spreadsheet into AppManager to set alert population

In App Manager Alert Group subscriptions page

https://appmanager.ombiel.com/notifications/CampusM/alertgroupsubscriptions

You can currently select people individually or as a whole ALL group.
It would be much more practical to be able to upload a spreadsheet of email addresses to add to the group.

We often have campaigns or targeted groups that may contain up to 10,000 subscriptions but this is not ALL of the group and searching through the list for 10,000 specific emails is not practical.

Could you amend this method to allow upload of files which would solve a big problem for us.

Thanks
Claire

20 votes

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External authentication for App Manager

As an app manager administrator, I would like to be able to configure the app manager to use an external authentication store (e.g. AD), so that I don't have to maintain a separate user list just for the app manager

It should be possible to use an external authentication store for access to the App Manager (https://portal.ombiel.co.uk/)

Having to maintain a user list in oMbiel's DB as well as our main user store (AD) is both a pain and a potential security risk.

Suggest at least LDAP provision, but should also consider Shibboleth and similar (Open Auth etc.)

46 votes

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Position Actions not tying to positions

We would like to be able to set up position actions, for QR codes etc, without them appearing on the position.

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