Allow staff to batch change tags in the client (add new ones and remove old ones)
Genie Shropshire
shared this idea
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Chrissy
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Chiming in from Johns Hopkins as well! I asked about this in the webinar yesterday. It would be a hugely time saving feature. I work for a different school than Jenny within JHU; we also often have to change week tags, but sometimes it's more complex. For example, I recently had a course in which the instructor had us tag a large number of items as "Marketing" but then decide to switch about half of those items to "Social Media Marketing." It would be much easier to select all items and change the tags at once.
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Jenny Gelman
commented
At Johns Hopkins, only library staff can add and change items in Ares. We do not use the web version for instructors at all. Therefore, we definitely would like STAFF to be able to make batch changes to tags in the Ares Client. This would include changing tags.
The use case for this - we use tags to identify the "week" that a reading is assigned. From year to year instructors often rearrange weeks within a course, especially if there are guest speakers. It would be great to be able to change all of the tags for readings in a particular week at once.
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Colin Bragg
commented
I agree that batch changing or removing tags would be excellent.
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Jenny Gelman
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Is this a duplicate of being able to edit multiple items at once? Because actually tags is the reason that we'd like to change multiple items at once. Ideally there would be a check-box for items in a course, and you could select the items and then change the tags of those items all at once.