Ares Ideas
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Allow permalinks to course pages Currently, you can make permalinks to individual items but not the actual course pages. It would be helpful if you could link to the course pages as well.
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Add ability to increase font size in the client The font size in the client is very small and difficult for people who have visual impairment. But there doesn't seem to be a way to customize the font size in client options.
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Email templates: show instructor names as First Last (or separate first & last names entirely) rather than Last,First Starting in Ares 5.0, item-type email templates no longer draw from the User tags, and we must use either Course.Instructor or Course.InstructorDisplayName to insert an instructor's name in the email template. However, the default display for these fields is Last, First, so our emails now read "Dear Smith, Susan," rather than "Dear Prof. Smith" or "Dear Susan Smith" or "Dear Susan." Both Course.Instructor and Course.InstructorDisplayName show the same thing; if we change the display name in the course, both fields change. We'd like to be able to pull the instructor's name(s) into Item-type email templates as First Last (or separate…
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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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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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Allow admins to mark some fields as required on item screen in staff client One use case we have now: We want the "Nature of Work" on item screen to be required in order to enforce staff's input in this field. It should allow admins to configure in the system which field should be required.
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Make copyright fees based on "clicks" versus enrollment Currently, Ares copyright through the CCC has fees based on enrollment in the course. That value can be determined by a number supplied for the course or actual Ares users signed up for the course.
However, there is no guarantee that all of those users will click on the item and view it. Several sites have requested that Ares use the "pay per click" model of copyright fees so that they are only paying for actual views.
It's possible that the per click payments could be higher than the "bulk rate" of course enrollment. I'm not clear if we could…
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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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Flag/re-route items with current status "Item Available on Electronic Reserve" that have a blank Location field. Occasionally an item with no URL or file will accidentally be routed to "Item Available on Electronic Reserve," for a variety of reasons. There should be a process that would run each day to flag these items or move them to an error queue so that they don't sit empty in a queue that appears to be finished.
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Allow the Note field from the ItemNotes table to be chosen from the mail merge fields in print templates. We'd love to be able to include notes in our printed pull slips, but it's not an option that can be selected from the Insert Merge Field on the print template.
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Allow instructors to submit multiple requests at once How would sites like this to work? Would the instructor need to create an Excel file? Or would they paste a series of citations and staff would have to interpret them?
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Would like to organize items in folders versus tags on the web Sites who used to use Docutek miss the option of organizing items in folders. Tags don't seem to be as desirable.
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Allow for sorting by Article Title instead of Journal Title in the web Currently, Article Title is appended to the Journal Title field for displaying in the web, making it impossible to sort on instead of Journal Title.
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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.
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Option to rename and hide queue names for routing in staff client Perhaps, an enhancement is what we need to remove:
Route to Acquisitions
Recall Item
Awaiting Acquisitions Notification
Awaiting File Type Resolution
Awaiting Recall Processing
Awaiting ILL Processing – unless it can be edited to show as “In ILL Processing”4 votes -
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Enhance course cross-listing to include more course info and ExternalCourseIDs Currently, course cross listing only shows a name and is accessible by students searching for that cross listed course number/name and finding it under the other name. It's not clear to the student that both courses are the same.
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Allow LTI to create course in Ares if a student clicks on it first LTI will create the course if an instructor clicks on the link but if a student clicks on the link it says "course not available - contact your instructor"
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Update ARES Api to get Reserve Item to include Instructor tags Ares Reserves API for get a specific course id list of reserve items there is not a field for "Instructor Tags"
However the Ares Soap client to get classes and reserve items does allow for retrieval of filed for "Instructor Tags".
I understand the Ares Soap client is older technology and is expected to be deprecated.
Can the Ares Api for a specific course get reserve items be updated to return the "Instructor Tags"?3 votes
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