Ares Ideas
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Quickly and easily print a list of items from a queue.
Staff would like a quick and easy way to print a list of items in a queue within Ares, without exporting a file to another program like excel. Perhaps first identify (a limited number of) columns desired in the printed list, as there are so many. If this could all be done in the client, with just a few steps, it would be great. Items would not necessarily have to be updated to another status, just printed. Or maybe update would be a toggle on/off option. the most important thing is to print the list. We have staff doing screenshots…
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Accessibility for the client
Would like ability to tab through options in staff client and customization manager and possibly accommodate a screen reader.
6 votes -
Ability to import citations from an Excel or Word document
Submitted by ALA attendee: Many instructors drop off or email their syllabi. It would be nice if Ares could import the citations automatically from either Excel or by doing a screen scrape of a Word document, the way that Zotera does. This would save staff time on having to create requests from scratch.
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Enhance Custom Search / Grid Batch Options: Email, Tags, & Flags
Staff users should be able to send batch emails from custom search results and other search result/appropriate grid lists. Staff users need to be able to remind large numbers of users about retrieving inactive reserve items and responding to unfilled "I will supply" items. These should be sent to the instructor and proxies designated with the course that owns the item record.
Staff users should be able to batch assign and remove tags in these same grids and custom search results.
When staff users assign custom flags to multiple items and then look at a result list in Custom Search,…
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Keep all tabs open when moving between processing sites
We use multiple processing sites. If I have a search or an item record open, they automatically close when I switch to the other site. It would be great if that search or item record stayed active despite what site I'm on.
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Need more granular staff permissions for the Ares client.
This has been a pressing need for us for many years, and never seems to make it into the development priority list. Collections librarians, as well as learning/curriculum support librarians are constantly asking for access to the Ares client in order to understand what kinds of materials instructors in their subject area are adding to their course lists. But there is no way currently to provide client access without also giving access to user's information as well. Also, we really want them to have "view only" access - not to be able to change or delete materials that instructors have…
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Allow "% of work" as column option
Add "% of work" to the column chooser for staff client queues, and in particular, course items grid view.
Often, we have multiple chapters of a single work created as individual items. Having this % displayed would allow us to quickly total the % of the work to determine if it is in compliance with copyright policy. At present, we need to open each individual item record.
14 votes -
Allow staff to edit sort order from the client
Currently, when an instructor adds materials from the web form, they are given a default sort order of 0*. When we add materials from the client side, they are given no sort order at all and there is no way to add them. This ultimately creates two lists of materials, the ones with no sort order and then the ones with a sort order of zero. There is no way of fixing this, short of deleting the materials added from the client and uploading them again from the web form.
*When custom sort is enabled, the sort order will be…
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Improve the performance of the link checker process
Currently, the link checker routine loops through a list of all the URLs it needs to check and sends them requests one at a time. Since this blocks the process while it waits for a response from the web server, we could improve the performance of the link checker significantly by testing multiple URLs in parallel asyncronously.
This will require some research to determine how many web requests we can make at once, since the limit may differ depending on the system, its configuration, or the domain name of the links being checked.
17 votes -
Spell check within Client
Spell check indicator in the client to flag words that are misspelled.
--submitted on behalf of Johns Hopkins13 votes -
Option for staff to get email when a new item is created
Not at the beginning of the semester (which would overload staff), but later on when items are just trickling in.
14 votes -
8 votes
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Show item usage count from custom search
Make it a part of the custom search but not in every grid result in the client.
Sites seem to want this for reporting purposes versus processing.
6 votes -
Show usage count in grid of items on clone course form
When viewing items in a course to decide which ones to clone to a new course, seeing the item usage is helpful.
3 votes -
Add Loan Period description field to all grids in the client
It is missing from the Course record's items grid.
5 votes -
ADA compliant staff client
Staff would like to be able to change the size/font without the screens being squished. Currently, increasing the font size or resolution on Windows makes certain buttons and menu options not visible.
9 votes -
3 votes
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Show which staff member added a user note
Have an "added by" field for user notes like there is for item notes.
4 votes -
Create a secure file upload method for client (using web platform)
Currently the client uses FTP and it should use another method to increase the security and not rely on FTP protocols.
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Change item deletion process to be safer and allow some form of undelete/recovery.
If a staff user deletes an item, it would be good to have that delete "delayed" until the end of the day in case it needs to be recovered immediately.
1 vote
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