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Please allow administrators to share permissions with other administrators to add to their already existing curated lists.
Please allow administrators to share permissions with other administrators to add to their already existing curated lists. I work with a team of three and each of us are administrators who would like to not only curate our own lists, but have permissions to let other administrators add to or make changes to these lists when necessary. I understand that others that are "users" can see curated lists with no editing rights, but we really want to be able to have other administrators add to our curated lists so this is a "team effort" in curating the best lists for…
54 votesWill be live with the February 15 release.
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Exporting Funding Opportunities
Currently there is no method to export funding opportunities into a nicely formatted PDF or Word document. It would be very helpful to be able to export funding opps into these formats in order to share with a group of faculty in a meeting. An actual document to pass around the table for discussion and planning would be great.
51 votesApologies for the long delayed change of status from planned to complete. The ability to export to a Word Document has long been in the product which allows for easy customization and conversion to PDF as well. If additional functionality is needed, please suggest via a new idea exchange entry.
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Dismiss an opportunity
It would be great to be able to dismiss an opportunity and have it hidden from view for the future. For example, if I search for limited opportunities for my campus, I get many hits and most are irrelevant. If I search again a week later, I get them all again. I would like to be able to check a box on an opportunity that will hide it from me or delete it from my future searches.
48 votesThis was a complicated feature but finally released.
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Offer a flat file (spreadsheet/database) of our institution's profiles, for download.
I would love to be able to download spreadsheet of each of my institution's Pivot users' profiles I would then send them a survey that would ask for new keywords, recent publications, new areas of expertise, etc, and update the spreadsheet accordingly. (It would be made clear that responding to the survey would serve as consent to update respondents' Pivot profiles.) Then, I wonder if Pivot could use the data to automatically update profiles? If we not, we could do this in-house (again, with permission).
34 votesApologies for the delay, but this is just a long overdue update of the public status in the idea exchange from planned to "complete." For a few years now we do make a downloadable report available in the Admin Dashboard --> Reports --> Downloadable Profile report. The downloadable report includes information on users with user accounts and a list of researchers with profiles and includes information on user activity. If additional features are desired please open a new idea exchange idea.
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Filter opps by anticipated or confirmed
In funding searches, allow us to include or exclude opportunities based on Pivot's "confirmed" or "anticipated" deadline categorization.
32 votesConfirmed/Anticipated Filters were added to the results set with our September release.
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1 button access to a proxied, persistent URL for Pivot searches that all users (not just admin) can create and share
Easily obtain (through 1 click or 1 button) a proxied, persistent/stable URL for a Pivot search that can be shared with others at our institution who sign in via IP authentication. We are looking for an option to share Pivot searches that does NOT require Admin privileges, does NOT require specifying the email addresses of the folks with whom the search will be shared with, and also does NOT require users to create a separate Pivot account to create/share their searches (although they will need to sign in through our university). It is also very important that the provided permalink…
26 votesPersistent URL link is now available on all search results page in the upper right (next to the search box). Please note links expire after 30 days.
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Allow multiple administrators of newsletter
Allow for a newsletter to be accessed from multiple admin accounts.
25 votesNewsletter can be shared between Admins using the assign co-owner feature. When you "Create a Newsletter" step #6 allows you to choose any other Admins (with manage newsletter access) the ability to be a co-owner and co-administer of a newsletter.
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Add a search parameter for "Last edited" date or "New" listings
Each listing in Pivot has a "Last edited" date but there isn't any way to search on this date. Alert results give a breakout for "Recently added in the last 7 days" but that is the only option. Searching by posted date would be useful to know what is new overall not just for a specific search.
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RSS feeds
Allow users to create RSS feeds for created searches that can be embedded in a user's website.
23 votesSimilar functionality is covered with our Embedded search widget which allows you to add Pivot results to any webpage.
For help visit: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Pivot/Training/E_Features_for_Pivot_Administrators/04_Embedding_Pivot_Search_Results
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Extend multiple result export feature to regular users
Currently admins can export multiple results as Excel, HTML, etc., but regular users can't. Please extend the feature to them.
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Curated Search: edit after published
Once a curated search has been published, Pivot does not allow it to be edited (title or search criteria). It can be unpublished and deleted, but that will affect the html link that appears on our website, or the bookmarks of users. I would like to make changes without disturbing the web-link for these searches.
19 votesSee March release notes for more details
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Allow a global message for Limited Submissions
Allow for a message with a specific note on how Limited Submissions are handled. This would be applied only to opportunities which are tagged as Limited. Currently we manually edit each opportunity which we track internally for our Limited Submissions.
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Make Single Sign-On (SSO) Login More Prominent on Login Page
I have to do a lot of outreach on campus to remind faculty to set up their account using the Single Sign-On (SSO) option, due to the fact that the login page makes it appear that you should "Sign-In Using Your Pivot Account". If the login page listed SSO as the first and most prominent option, ahead of "Sign-In Using Your Pivot Account," then I feel we could avoid much of this confusion and I wouldn't have as many faculty setting up an unnecessary second account. And users who don't find their institution from the drop-down menu could move on…
17 votesThis was completed with our March release earlier this year. The SSO/institutional credentials option is now the first option users see on all login pages and is much more prominent than before.
We have explored an option for institutions to force users to only be able to login via SSO, but this is currently on hold because if SSO ever goes down (which can happen more frequently than we would like and for a number of reasons both on the Pivot side or institution side) then users would have no alternate option to access the service. We feel offering both options is beneficial.
If you would like to suggest further improvements in this area, please open a new idea exchange idea.
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Have private but sharable curated lists
I'd like to be able to save my own curated list that is not openly available to everyone who has access and allow to share with just key individuals. If I can pull some key information and create a list just of that topic, it would be helpful to me to share with collaborators.
15 votesThis feature is now live. You can view details in our November release notes:
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Need NIH NOSIs included in Pivot
Please find a way to include NIH Notices of Special Interest (NOSIs). These are becoming more and more critical because NIH is phasing out Program Announcements and replacing them with NOSIs. Major funding announcements are not being picked up by Pivot. For example, this urgent NOSI related to the coronavirus: https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-AI-20-030.html. Researchers will get very annoyed if these are not included in Pivot and will have to go directly to NIH to set up separate email alerts. It makes it more difficult for me to market Pivot to encourage them to use it if it’s not picking up these…
13 votesHi All – thanks for raising this issue. NOSI’s are now being consistently included in Pivot as of March
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Improved email alerts with Limited Submission label
Current email alerts for tracked opportunities (both for updates and for upcoming deadlines) do not specify if the opportunity is a limited submission or an internally coordinated opportunity. One must click on the link of the opportunity and open Pivot page to see if it is LS. We use the upcoming deadline email alerts as a way to know it is time to add our own internal deadline to the opp, and it is extremely inefficient to not be able to quickly see which opps are LS, and which are not from within the email message itself.
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Intermediate Proxy Admin Feature for Support Staff
Administrative personnel need the ability to help faculty in their respective areas or departments, to help faculty update their profiles on an on-going basis. Currently, Pivot offers this as an admin feature on a global scale, where anyone with this capability can make changes to ALL our institutional accounts. Can this feature be modified to narrow down the scope of access?
Please refer to InfoReady's proxy feature. It has been extremely useful to us. Can you apply something like that to Pivot?
12 votesThis is now live. Let us know if you have any feedback.
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Add the option of rolling deadlines or no specific deadline for internal funding
Some internal funding opportunities accept applications year round. Currently, the only option is to select a set date but once the set date is passed, the funding opportunity disappears. Instead of constantly projecting the date or resetting it, it would be helpful to offer the option of setting deadline to "Open or year round"
12 votesThis feature will be live with our December 2018 release (currently scheduled for Dec 4). Stay tuned for release notes for more details.
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Add Fields in the Internal Funding
An 'Eligibility' field would be helpful. Also update the citizenship/residence drop down to include "Other" or "Not Required"
12 votesThis feature will be live with our December 2018 release (currently scheduled for Dec 4). Stay tuned for release notes for more details.
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Add the ability for users to add items to the deadlines dropdown list
Internal Funding - include the ability to add types to the dropdown list in deadlines. (i.e. items that are specific to the institution.) For example, prior to the grant application, we have a required deadline for faculty to create a Box folder within the Office of Sponsored Programs Box so we would want to have the option to select OSP Box deadline instead of selecting Other, which is generic and not specific enough.
12 votesThis feature will be live with our December 2018 release (currently scheduled for Dec 4). Stay tuned for release notes for more details.
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