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Make the "Disable Resolving" feature in the Citation details reportable in analytics
Please make the "Disable Resolving" feature (from the Citation details tab in Alma) reportable in the Course Reserves area of Analytics.
This would allow institutions to ensure appropriate citations have resolving disabled. This is essential in cases where publishers do not allow direct linking in any way to their content for course readings.
It would also allow institutions to do a tidy-up of citations which required resolving disabled at some stage but where it's no longer required.62 votes -
Show all user IDs where more than one user reports broken citation link
The Edit Citations area in Alma only shows the user ID of the most recent user to mark a citation link as broken. If more than one user has marked the same link as broken then this is shown by a number, but you cannot see the previous user IDs.
This is hugely problematic for our team as we try to follow up with all users by email, either to let them know that a broken link has been fixed or to ask for more information for troubleshooting purposes.
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Add option to edit source URLs in bulk
The option to manually add static URLs to citations is extremely helpful. We use it in various ways, but mainly to point users directly to the resource when it is not possible to do it automatically. However, managing manually added URLs is a nightmare due to the lack of functionality in this area. Whenever an URL needs to be changed (e.g. an EZproxy prefix has to be removed etc.), it must be changed manually.
We would like to have a possibility to search for and replace/delete part of the citation's source URL by running a job on a set of…
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HTML in list notes and list and sections' description fields
In some cases, an instructor needs to provide extra information to their student by referring to an external website.
Use case: "All the citations in this section cannot be booked through the library but can be found in the compendium. More information <a>here</a>."It would be very useful to use HTML in the list notes, or in the description field of the list or sections. Both so instructors can use links, but also to make the information more visible if it comes after a long list of citations (in the case of a list note).
57 votesAvailable in the new UI in the March 2024 release.
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DCS Synchronise job to run more frequently
The DCS Synchronise job can currently only be scheduled to run once every day at 23:00. It would be helpful if this job could be scheduled to run more frequently throughout the day, for example every 4 hours. This would streamline the DCS integration and allow requests to be updated and made available more quickly.
For example, if an urgent digitisation request has been processed via the DCS, it will not update on the reading list in Leganto until later on in the evening, unless staff manually update the citation using the Update DCS status action. If the job could…
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Make the list and section sticky in CiteIt
This idea from an instructor - with agreement from other instructors in a focus group.
When preparing reading lists I tend to work on one list at a time often using CiteIt. It would be really time-saving if CiteIt could remember the list and section that I was just working on rather than force me to choose those options each time I add a new citation
52 votesAvailable in March release
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Allow instructors to add/remove tags to citations in bulk
This would save a considerable amount of staff time spent adding tags to citations individually, and would encourage instructors to make use of the tags we have provided.
51 votesAvailable in Nov
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Who published the list should be displayed in Reading List Information in Alma
Information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level and placed next to the Review Requester field.
We need this solution for better reporting and list management. We believe that this should be an easy fix, as all of the information is already available in the system.
Information about person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject…
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Allow bulk update to material type of citations
When adding citations that are ebooks, it is common that the material type is not correctly populated as 'ebook'. The material type often presents as an empty field or as a 'book'
Statistically our institution is tracking analytics to monitor how many citations are print books vs ebooks. In order to perform this reporting accurately, the material type of these ebook citations needs to be updated.
There are additional situations where material types could be consolidated (For example citations can come through as 'Video','Streaming','Streaming Video') and we would like to consolidate these into a single Video material type.
Currently this…
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My Collection enhancements
Our instructors are big fans of My Collection but they are missing features that are available for lists:
1) Sections or folders. Having tags is nice but in no way the same thing
2) Drag & Drop citations to re-order the list. Goes together with 1) - at the moment there is no way to bring structure to My Collection which makes it cluttered and takes the joy out of working with it.
3) Separate the menu options into "Suggest item for a list" and "Add item to a list" so that there is a clear distinction between adding something…
47 votesWe are closing this idea. Parts 3-6 are available in the new UI. Please open a new idea if you would like additional changes after using Favorites in the new UI.
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Filter "My lists" by course
Some instructors have many lists. It would be useful if they could filter based on year and semester in addition to the existing sorting options.
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Create brand new courses during rollover
When we import course data into Alma, we use a program that extracts all the courses from our course database and produces a ready-to-use import file for any given institution. The course ID in this file is typically something like COURSE-AUTUMN-2021 (Course code, semester and year).
We use the same file if we want to run a rollover, with some manual changes to it. We don't check if the courses we extracted are new, or if there is an existing course in Alma for the year before. Our starting point is the COURSE-ID column, and in OLD-COURSE-ID we write the…
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Association of multiple courses to one reading list (HLD)
Please find attached high level design which describes the suggested solution to support the ability to associate multiple courses to one reading list in Leganto.
The suggested solution is based on feedbacks we already got from some of you previously.
Please review the document and reply back with your questions or issues you might find.39 votes -
Add information about who published the list to Course Reserves SA in Analytics
Information about the person who published the list should be added to Course Reserves Subject Area in Analytics. We need this solution for better reporting and list management.
Right now, information about the person who published the reading list is poorly accessible. It can be found under Recent Changes in the Reading List in Alma, but it can disappear if the log is too long. We would like it to be clearly visible on the Reading List level (registered as a separate idea https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/395697-leganto/suggestions/43545540-who-published-the-list-should-be-displayed-in-read) and available in Analytics.
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Add option to add multilingual 'Guided Videos' links
There is only one Video URL field in the Guided Videos mapping table. We are a bilingual library and users switch the interface depending on which language they wish to use.
To add bilingual guided videos to Leganto, the only option we have is to add Welsh and English links in the same table so that users will see a long list of both options rather than just the links that correspond to their preferred language.
We would like to see an option to add multilingual video links.
38 votesAvailable in the new UI as of the December 2023 release.
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Email notification function for mark as broken
I'm writing about Leganto's "mark as broken" feature.
Since it is difficult for librarians to notice when a user marks as broken, we request a function that sends email notifications in real time.38 votesThis is available in the February 2024 release. It was a NERS development.
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Allow to disable welcome/help/instructor highlights
For instructor login, they will see the Welcome messages for the first time. The same message can be accessed via the Help menu. There is also a "Instructor highlights" which links to the release note.
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We tried to customize the welcome/help message. But it is very rigid that it must have 4 pages, and on the "Help" page, "Workflow" tab, it is hardcoded to have a fixed number of bullets, and some bullets must have more than one paragraph. Actually we don't want to show some information to the instructor and it is very strange there are some blank…38 votesAvailable in August release
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Automatic status according to material type
At the moment it's possible to define automatic statuses for a bunch of citation types (electronic, digital, resolved, resource located, etc.)
What we not yet have is a parameter allowing us to decide the citation status according to material type.
For example: We'd like citations of type website, audio, database, other, video, etc.) to be set to 'Complete' automatically because this would spare us a lot of time and work as those are not citations we check up on as library.
This could be solved via a new parameter in the 'Course Reserves Automatic Statuses' table with the parameter value…
37 votesDone for Dec release.
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Searching for citations within a list from Leganto
When searching within a Leganto list for a citation, all sections display even if they don't contain citations which match the search terms. This makes the results screen cluttered and difficult to scan, especially in lists that contain lots of sections. To identify whether any section contains a search result the user has to look for a section which contains a number other than 0. This is very unintuitive. We would expect after the search is conducted that only sections which contain search results would display and all other sections would be hidden.
36 votesAvailable in July release
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Add an instructor role in Alma for additional roles in LTI launch request
Ex Libris completed an enhancement to add an instructor role to an Alma user via LTI. This is great but we need this for instructional staff who support teaching staff, but have canvas system level permissions rather than individual course permissions.
There are additional roles in Canvas (and perhaps other CMS systems) that should add an instructor role in Alma, as well:
| Canvas Role | LTI String | Desired Alma Role
| Teacher | Instructor | Instructor
| TA | urn:lti:role:ims/lis/TeachingAssistant | Instructor
| Designer | Content Developer | Instructor
| Account Admin | urn:lti:instrole:ims/lis/Administrator | InstructorWe would…
36 votesThis request was developed as part of the Leganto October release.
Thank you for contributing the idea!
Kind regards,Gal
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