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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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RSS feeds
Allow users to create RSS feeds for created searches that can be embedded in a user's website.
24 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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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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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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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 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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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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Select which (and how many) opportunities display in a newsletter from a curated list
The newsletter feature is very helpful, and attracts attention. By default it displays 25 opportunities in alphabetical order. These 25 displayed items may not be the most prioritized in the list. The ability to select a 'Top 10' items to be displayed in the newsletter would help to further customize this tool.
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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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9 votes
This was part of our public groups feature. We have had this live for a while, so apologies for not updating the status sooner. Please let us know if you need more information on “public groups.”
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Allow Institutional Admins to Delete User Accounts
It would be great if admins could have more control over user accounts for their institution. Specifically, I would like to see admins be able to remove user accounts. At our institution, we have duplicate accounts, as well as accounts for users who have left the institution or are deceased.
9 votesThis is live after our July release.
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Add CFDA numbers or other Grant identifiers to Export reports of tracked opportunities
When we export reports of tracked, active, or saved opportunities we would like to see the Excel spreadsheet include CFDA numbers or other Grant identifiers. We think this might help us match opportunities found in Pivot with what opportunities researchers have applied for.
7 votesCFDA numbers do show up when exporting to Excel. Use the “Select your fields” option and then select CFDA to include in your report.
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Create a preview window to display a created search that can be embedded into a user's website, à la, the Twitter preview window.
Create a preview window to display a created search that can be embedded into a user's website, à la, the Twitter preview window.
7 votesThis is included with our Embedded Search feature. We had this for a while, so apologies for not updating the status sooner. If you need assistance with “embedded searches” or more information please let us know.
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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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Enable multiple curated lists to be sent using the Newsletter feature. Current selection is limited to one list
We want to send our Healthcare Sciences faculty a monthly newsletter using opportunities from 2 or 3 curated lists, all at once. Can only select one curated list to send at present, and want to avoid sending multiple newsletters by discipline at least for right now.
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We would like to have our logo in custom branding link to our homepage
We have added our logo using the custom branding functionality in Pivot, but we would like to be able to add a custom link so that clicking on the logo would take users to our homepage.
4 votesBy default the logo now links to the Pivot home page when in the Pivot application. (It does not link from alerts or newsletters) Please comment or open another idea if more specific functionality is desired.
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Offer Administrators the Ability to Delete Accounts/Profiles
There are many duplicate accounts at my institution that were created in error by a researcher that did not know they had an account already. This leads to many login errors and general confusion.
3 votesThis was released with our June release. In case you missed it, release notes can be found here: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/75018/2019_Pivot_July_2019_Release_Notes.pdf?revision=3
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Access Pivot from Cayuse. This would allow single sign on.
Currently we can access Cayuse from Pivot (if we find an opportunity in Pivot we can download it into Cayuse for submission) it would be nice if we could access Pivot from Cayuse, that way our family could use their single sign on and only have to manage one password instead of two.
2 votesThis has been completed by Cayuse. Pivot is accessible from within Cayuse.
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