Ares Ideas
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Allow custom web tables to highlight specific request statuses
UMBC has a custom queue called "Awaiting Instructor Response" and would find it helpful for the items included in the default tables to to be customizable OR to be able to create new tables and define which fields and statuses are displayed. Being able to group this status into the Awaiting Supply By table or giving it a separate table that could be displayed on ihome.html would help remind the instructors that they had outstanding communication.
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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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Email templates in multiple languages
U Ottawa needs to support French and English communication for its patrons. Currently, there is no way to send more than one version of the automatic email templates, like ItemSubcription. To get around this, a single template must include both English and French. It would be preferable to send French emails to French-speaking customers and English emails to English-speaking customers.
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Breakdown Clone Item Notes Options to allow by Type
Clone Item Notes currently is YesNo and applies to Copyright notes, User Notes, and Staff Notes. Would like the ability to toggle per note type.
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Add Routing button to the Shared List Item form's ribbon
Add a Routing button to the Shared List Item form's ribbon. That way if a request is processed from this form, it can be fully processed and made available right from here. The idea is that if this is for a physical item, and a book is on reserve, then the books for all those individual shared list items would also be at the same status. Or if it was a link to a PDF or a website, then again, all of them would be at the same status.
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Cloned items should inherit pickup location of new course, not pickup location of original item
Cloned items currently inherit the Pickup location of the original item, not the pickup location of the new course. Most of the time this is fine, but when the location has changed it is inconvenient and easy to miss.
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Allow Full Proxy users to import courses from CourseValidation in the web
If the Instructor is unavailable to import upcoming courses from Course Validation, it would be best if their Full Proxy users were able to see those courses that are in CourseValidation for the instructors they're associated with. Right now these courses do not show at all to the full proxies unless the have already been imported either by the instructor or by staff via the client.
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Option to display course date and time in Ares
Is there an enhancement to be able to view class times in Ares? We want the ability to view when the class is offered in the quarter. Is it once a week class for 3 hours or do they meet twice a week for 1 hour? Students want the ability to check-out a book but keep during class and we are thinking about extending our check-out period to 4 hours to accommodate users who have 3 hour classes. When our IT imports the data into Ares for reserves, we want to see the class day and time they meet. It…
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Sort in the “Import Items” view in the web application
It would be great if end users could sort in the “Import Items” view in the web application.
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It would be helpful if the 'ValidationUser' could display as TBD or TBA instead.
It is confusing on the staff side, and occasionally, current courses might not have an assigned instructor yet, so students see the ValidationUser displayed on the course details page.
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Update copyright fees for items under the annual copyright license as well
So that a site can say "it would have cost us $X if we hadn't used the annual copyright license"
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Convert Ares to use UTC time
This would allow the times to display correctly for each site's time zone regardless of where the SQL server is hosted.
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Interact with purchasing model to cover electronic course packs
As a staff user I want Ares to allows users to pay for access to electronic reserve items to offset the copyright costs.
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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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instructor ability to export more than one citation at a time from web
They would like for the instructor to be able to export more than one item citation .ris file at a time - perhaps something like a checkbox could be available in the items grid on the course details page where the instructor could check the items to export, and then click on an export button.
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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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Allow ItemInfo fields to work on webpages with CustomDropDown
Allow CustomDropDown and the optional ItemInfo fields, 1-5, to work on webpages so we can have custom requirements.
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