In Q1 2019, we plan to have some modifications to the Leganto "send list" functionality.
SEND LIST button in Leganto will only be enabled when a change made to the list after the last time it was send for review. If no change made in the list, the send button will be disabled.
When SEND LIST is enabled and active, it will be more visible (i.e. animation) to attract the eye of the instructor.
As part of this enhancement, we plan to entirely separate the Send List to Library functionality from the Publish List functionality.
Currently, publishing a list also sends the list to the library for processing: it changes the list and citations statuses from Being Prepared to Ready for Processing, updates the list’s Requested for Review On date, and creates a task for the library.
The new functionality is that the above changes will happen only if the instructor selects Send List. Publishing the list will change only the Publication Status.

We wanted to update you and to receive any remarks you might have on this change of functionality.

Miriam, Leganto BA

We've recently gone live with Leganto and Ex Libris have advised we come here with this issue. Students cannot use the Permalinks function to link to individual lists/items, and we expect users are going to just copy or bookmark Leganto URLs from the browser bar instead, but those URLs don’t seem to work at all unless the user is already in toLeganto. If they're not already logged in, trying to access a Leganto URL just makes the browser try unsuccessfully to load the page, and the browser eventually times out and produces errors. This is apparently expected behavior due to safety reasons. We submit that it would be a far better user experience to present the user with a valid webpage, if necessary a login page which then routes the user to the requested page once authenticated.

From feedback we received from Instructors, they would like the ability to add students as collaborators on specific reading lists. This would enable course students to collaborate on the compilation of materials and sharing of comments on them as part of learning and research activities.
To date it seems the ability to add students as collaborators is limited to Alma-side changes - see the idea which was added to production in May 2018 in https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/395697-leganto/suggestions/33076474-adding-a-collaborator-needs-to-assign-instructor-r

We can see there may be data privacy concerns from some 'free searching' of users without a role, but wondered whether either the LTI aspect (Instructor role in the course), or else the Roadmap's suggestion of uploading student cohorts with course affiliations would enable a second look at this functionality.

The suggest functionality doesn't seem to get a lot of uptake and Instructors are wanting to open up the creation/editing of shared lists, but the only way we can easily do this is manually, name by name, which is not very scalable/flexible.

A newly duplicated reading list remains attached to the same course as the original from which the duplicated reading list was made. We would expect that when a list has been duplicated a prompt box is generated which gives the user the option to associate the reading list with the original course or re-associate it with an updated course for a different academic year.

User story

As an academic I would like to duplicate the current year's reading list which is attached to a course for 2016/17 and create a reading list for 2017/18. Within this list duplication process I would then like to have the option to change the course to 2017/18 at the same time. A prompt box at the point of reading list duplication giving me the option to re-associate the duplicated list to an alternative course would ensure that I associate my reading list with the correct virtual learning environment for that academic year.

By default un-associated reading lists are attached to the Exlibris default course, and currently any reading lists imported by Exlibris - ie from Equella, require that the courses already exist, in order to associate properly.

However, what happens if you want to change the association of a reading list to a course or courses? There is currently no API mechanism to do this, and the reading list import by Exlibris can't be run in 'resynch' mode where the courses may have been created after the reading list import.

What we're suggesting is that a job can be run using a spreadsheet as import, containing either reading list + course IDs or reading list + course codes, and the association operation, and that this job can (re)connect courses with reading lists, or disassociate lists from courses .

This would allow for:

- readings lists to be associated with multiple courses
- currently un-associated lists be attached to courses
- the association between a list and course be removed if the operation is (dis/un)associate.

There should perhaps even be an API added to allow courses and readings lists be (dis)associated one-by-one ie something like:

https://api-ap.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/almaws/v1/courses/234257254060001771/reading-lists/234257254150001771/associate

using a similar associate/disassociate operation keyword.

When you create a new list using a blank template and want to add some sections you are able to add the first section however when you want to add a second section a pop-up appears which tells you to add items to the first section and this pops up in front of the add section button, also there doesn't seem to be a way of closing the pop up unless you click to add an item.

It would be good if there was an 'X' in the pop up so we can continue to add sections or an option to configure in Alma that this pop up doesn't show any more.

We have an open search page for Leganto and make our lists open as well. Because of this people will often find lists in different ways i.e. not just following the link from the VLE.

If you find a list that is open and then log in, or if you are on the open search page and log in, you are always taken to the "My lists" screen.

I propose that when you log in you are returned to the page you started on i.e. if you are on a list page and log in you are returned to the list.