Ares Ideas
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Flag duplicate items
Add functionality that would flag items that appear to be duplicates to avoid scanning the same material multiple times.
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Bulk edit Proxy field for items and search on location
Ares bulk edit feature for item records is nice, but it does not include all the fields on the item record. We have a relatively common scenario in which we have moved a subscription database from IP Proxy to SSO for remote access. In this case, it would be nice to select items based on the URL used in Location, and then do a bulk update of the Proxy field. It would be even better if we could also do a Find/Replace in the URL in cases where the URL format changes.
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Allow Instructor Tags to be a Shared Field on Shared Lists
Our institution currently processes all of the readings for instructors. Thus, the vast majority of our processing happens in the Staff Client.
We're using a shared list to manage readings for a course that has multiple sections. Previously, if a reading changed (or a link broke), we would open each course section (since each section has a different Ares course ID) and fix the problem. Fixing problems that way was time-intensive and inefficient - sometimes we forgot to change the problem in one section, but fixed it in the others. Now with shared lists, we can go to the shared…
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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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Warning when cancelling a hard copy item if other courses still need it
When an instructor or staff person cancels a hard copy item, we need a way to know if this physical book is still needed on reserve for another current or pending course item. A popup notice or something like that would be very helpful.
For example, if a book is on reserve for several English courses, and one of the instructors decides to cancel their Ares item, we don't want to accidentally put the book back in the stacks since it is still on reserve for other courses right now.
We also wouldn't want to put a book back in…
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Search by tags
Would like to be able to search the Instructor Tags field in the staff client
--submitted on behalf of Johns Hopkins University3 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.
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Way to easily set multiple grid layouts in staff client
Currently you have to set each one up and there isn't a way to copy those settings from one grid to another.
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Add file size to the grid
It would be nice to have "file size" added to grids. Sometimes professors or staff provide PDFs that are extremely large. It would be nice to sort for these to be able to replace them with reduced size PDFs. This is helpful for students (to not have to download such huge files) and for database management. Thank you!
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Include submission date in Items table
It would be nice to include the submission date as a field in the Items table. Currently, this is only a field in the History table and cannot be displayed in the results table when you run a search
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Save Customized Grids
I would like this Aeon feature added to the Ares.
I am try to Save the grid customization I have created:"Staff users with layout customization permissions can also save grid customizations as .xml files that can be shared with other users and uploaded onto their client forms."
I want to be able to upload the file to use as my grid in every instance I needed. I want the same grid in each queue and for all my search results. We have 10 queues (or more as we add) and I have to “customize” them from scratch.
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Add CurrentStatus to the list of fields available for update in the Bulk Edit feature.ent.
There are times when I need to review all items in a course, select several from the grid view, and route several to a new status. The easiest way to identify all items associated with a course is by opening the course record and clicking on the Items tab. There is no Route button in this menu and the Bulk Update button, which seems like it should be able to bulk update items to a new status, does not give CurrentStatus as an option. There is no option to search by CourseID from the Course Information Item search on the…
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Multiple/Customizable Batch Printing Jobs and/or filters
Princeton assigns courses to particular staff users and that staff user is responsible for pulling items in batches, just for his/her own set of courses. It is an issue for all staff users to place requests in the Awaiting Stacks Searching queue, because printing pull slips would print out slips for other staff members, who might not be ready to print. Using the MSWord filter could potentially remove these slips from the print queue, but the other staff member's requests would still be moved to In Stacks Searching, causing confusion. It would be helpful if there were a way to…
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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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Tracking entries reflect more accurately if the system or staff user initiated that status change
In some cases moving an item to one status immediately moves it to the next applicable status. That tracking entry has the staff username versus a "system" username.
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Staff would like to have scanned items automatically moved to the web
Instead of having staff open the form in the staff client to process the items, they would like a utility to scan that folder and automatically move them.
This could be an issue if sites are scanning ILLiad and Ares items to the same folder.
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Include a column for last flag added
The new column would show the LastFlag added in the item grid and only display whichever flag name from the ItemFlags table that had the most recent date.
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