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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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Customize Newsletter Times
Right now, newsletters can only be scheduled to go out in AM / PM. This is confusing because the system doesn't specify what time AM and PM is. It would be great if the system could allow people to schedule newsletters to go out at specific times (e.g. 10 AM),or at least specify what times AM and PM are (e.g. is AM is 9 AM, PM is 12 PM, etc). It would also be great, though this is less of an issue, if people were able to send newsletters on the day of creating them.
1 voteThe on-screen instructions around timing will be clarified with our December release to specify when newsletters are sent in EST/GMT time zones. Newsletters are sent in batches twice daily depending on the time/date selected by the admin.
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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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When users view a public curated search, it should function like a search result page so that they can further narrow the opps
Publicly-viewable curated searches would be much more useful to our users if, when they viewed the search, it looked more like a regular search results page, where users can further narrow and manipulate the results based on their own needs. They could use the narrowing features to the left (like only seeing opps in the list from federal agencies, etc.), and also if they could narrow to the last seven days to see what is new in the search.
This could hopefully also improve the newsletter feature and embedded search feature, because you could have the embedded search and the…
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Please add "Sort by Relevance" as an option for an embedded search
I think it would be a good idea to have the embedded search appear exactly the same as a saved search so the "Sort by Relevance" option should be implemented
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Improve phrase searching
When using quotes, include all terms, including stop words. For example, currently team and research are stop words, making a search for “team science” or “collaborative research” impossible.
Funding Type: Collaboration or Cooperative Agreement is a good start for this particular topic, but it’s not sensitive enough for our needs. For example, it misses Collaborative Sciences Award (Opp ID 169472), which is tagged only with funding type:Research.
6 votesThis is now upgraded. You can search phrases as: (team w/2 science) or “team science” – returns items that have the word team within two words of science or that contain the exact phrase mouse genome.
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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…
27 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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Include "Sponsor Type" information in what can be exported in funding results.
Include "Sponsor Type" information in what can be exported in funding results. We can search by sponsor type but not see what types of sponsors are showing up in the results.
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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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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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tracked opportunity deadline reminder
For tracked and set to active alerts, I would like to be able to set the deadline reminder to 4 months before the deadline. Currently you can only set the deadline reminder up to 3 months before the deadline. Limited competitions that require the institution to hold an internal selection process require more than 3 months to conduct the internal selection process and then submit a well thought through complete proposal,
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Bi-weekly (twice monthly) newsletter option
Currently there is only a weekly or monthly option for a newsletter. Weekly may bee too frequent for some faculty while monthly could cause an opportunity to slip through the cracks.
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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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Add sponsor name to shared opportunity
The email that goes out when we share an opportunity has the title of the funding program only. I suggest you include the sponsor name as well.
For example, I recently shared an opportunity from a large company that was called "University Research Awards". If the name of the company was included, researchers would have a clearer idea of what the opportunity was about. In this case, many assumed it was an internal competition.1 voteThis was resolved with our last release. When sharing a single opportunity you should see funder/sponsor names in addition to the opportunity title.
If you are sharing a batch of opportunities, you will see a link to view all opportunities in Pivot-RP. We don’t list out all the opportunities in the email body.
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Automatically remove "Expired" listings from curated lists.
Currently the only way for an expired listing to be removed from a curated list is for an Admin to sort through the list, find all that have expired, and manually "delete" them. If an opportunity expires and is removed from Pivot it should also automatically be removed from a curated list, or at least an admin should have the option to turn on automatic deletion if desired.
4 votesAs of our last release, there is now a “delete all expired” option on tracked opportunity lists and curated lists.
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Customize Newsletter Logo
I'd like to be able to customize the logo in the Newsletter function. Idea 1: I'd like to use a college logo (vs. the university logo) at the top of the newsletter. Idea 2: I'd like to have two logos on the newsletter, for example, the university logo AND the logo for the Research Development Office.
1 voteAs part of the new UI you can now add a custom logo or newsletters. Once set this custom logo applies for all newsletters institution wide
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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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Split Citizenship/Residency into two separate Criteria
For the sake of our many international faculty and students, Citizenship and Residency should be two separate criteria so that Non-Us Citizens do not have to weed through those opps that are tagged as US even though they allow nonUS citizens to apply.
10 votesThis feature is now live. You can set “applicant/institution location” and “citizenship” as different filters. See December release notes for more details.
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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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