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Ability to create reports with charts and graphs
I came across this report using a bar chart to reflect the Total Number of Items Added. Our staff would love the ability to create statistical reports and display them as bar, line, and or pie charts.
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New Item record status - logical deletion
It would be useful for administrators and reporting if item records were not physically deleted from the database. Maybe the introduction of an additional item record status that leaves the record in the database but excludes it from all aspects but reporting and administrator access?
In our case we need to report periodically on item records being deleted. Once the record has been double deleted by a branch, I can no longer see it in Polaris, so I am relying upon spreadsheets captured at different points in time to capture the necessary data. Having a status of "logically deleted" could…
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Circulation by Loaning Branch at the Bib level
Currently the preview screen in Client and the Bibliographic level statistics screen in Leap provides circulation by Owning Branch. It would be more helpful in determining where a title is popular (and more useful for acquisitions) to have this data based on Loaning Branch. Use on a specific copy would still be accessible on the item record. If circulation by loaning branch can't be provided there, having it accessible elsewhere from the Bib record would be great.
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Ability to Edit Automated Purchase Order Numbering
I would like to have the ability to edit the "Last Used Purchase Order Number" field. I have a FY** prefix attached to each PO I create and would like to restart the numbering at 1 at the beginning of each fiscal year. Currently, our Site Manager has to reset it for us.
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Limit patron initiated INN-Reach holds at point of placement
Currently Polaris "Patron Loan Limits --Total Holds or Total ILL" value is not checked at point of INN-Reach webpac hold placement. This means Polaris users can place limitless INN-Reach holds which wastes staff time and courier resources. Please develop Polaris/INN-Reach connector to block further patron initiated INN-Reach holds once total holds and/or total ILL value is reached.
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Allow Staff to Select City/Town When Multiple Locations Share the Same Postal Code
Currently, there are two options for handling postal codes, which I like to term: “Wild West” and “In Lock Down”. The postal codes are collected and managed within the Postal Code table in Administration>Explorer>Database Tables. Staff functionality is governed by the permission Patron registration: Modify postal address fields.
The Wild West option is to allow staff the permission to enter any address information provided by patrons, resulting in a table populated with a lot of incorrect city/town to postal code data. This way lies madness and continuous clean-up.On the other hand, removing the permission from staff logins, puts them…
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Allow Floating's Load Balancing option to be set at the Library-Level
Currently, Floating's Load Balancing option can only be enabled at the System-Level in Polaris. I am on a shared Polaris server where one library system wants Load Balancing and one library system does not want it. This leaves us with not turning the feature on. It would be nice to allow Floating's Load Balancing option to be set at the Library-Level.
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i would love to see the ability to search by birthdate by just typing in the birthday without triple clicking
i would love to see the ability to search by birthdate by just typing in the birthday without triple clicking
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Improved Deny workflow needed in Leap
In Picklist, when you click deny next to a checked INN-Reach item, it disappears from the picklist. If the item is being denied because it was not on the shelf, we need a way to mark it as missing but can't get back to it when it disappears.
If we open the item record to change the status to missing and then return to picklist to check it and mark it missing, we get the attached error. Can you add another picklist view for items marked Denied so that staff have an easy way to do follow up? Thanks for…
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Seperate Hold Preference Settings for Primary and Secondary Sequences
In a consortium setting or just a large, multi-branch, library system, the most efficient hold preference setting may not be the same for both sequences.
We currently have to pick the hold preference setting that is necessary to meet our consortium’s policies in the secondary sequence, but is redundant in the primary sequence. It would improve patron experience and reduce unnecessary shipping if we could impose different settings for each of the sequences.
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Enter manual patron notifications (esp calls) into the Notifications History
Calls to a patron to notify them of books on hold can't be added to Polaris.
It would be especially helpful if we could manually add notifications (even if we manually email a patron) and the appropriate reason/time into the notifications history. I've seen a "dated notes" suggestion here but don't feel these are the same.
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Add a filter to the Power Pac Availability screen to show checked in items.
After selecting a title and clicking on the Availability button, a list of items is shown with their check out status. On that screen it would be great if there was a check box to turn on a filter that would only show the checked in statuses. Currently, the customer sees a very long list of checked out items and may not see the one item that is available to have now.
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Language Editor for Saved Search Results Emails
Patrons set up "saved search results" and can receive email notifications on a regular basis.
Unfortunately the language within those emails are misleading for patrons where the top of the email says "New items of interest at your library" , the middle of the message "The following saved searches returned these new results", but then at the bottom of the email the message says "this search found no new results" (See pictures). When reaching out to customer support reps, they informed us this is hard coded and cannot be changed in sysadmin or language editor.
In a future upgrade, it…
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Export all ILL request from every branch location at once
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In Circulation Request Manager include the option to be able to export every ILL Request from every branch location at once. Libraries will benefit from having the export all ILL Requests option, being able to retrieve all ILLs at once, instead of having to select each branch individually and right-click to export each item.8 votes -
Add a note when declaring an item lost on a customer account
When declaring an item lost on a customer account, there is no way to add more to the note on the resulting lost item charge. All that is in the note field is "Declared Lost". It is sometimes important to give more context to the charge and that is why being able to add a note would help!
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Activate arrows on a keyboard
Whenever there are menus like "Yes", "no", "cancel", it would be nice to use arrows and enter buttons on a keyboard and not a mouse. Right now arrows don't work.
7 votesJust a quick note that because these are button elements, you can tab or shift+tab to move forwards and backwards between the options.
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Allow 3M SIP 2 Port for the branch to be viewed
Information about which 3M SIP port that is tied to each branch is only available if you have SQL. This request is to allow that port to be viewed in Sys Admin. Even if it was just part of a a branch's properties that would be fine.
It could also be in a table view format (like Fine Codes, etc.) but it would just be nice to see that information somewhere outside of SQL.
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Improve Visual UI of Leap screens
Many screens in Leap are awash with 1px borders, which make it difficult to visually distinguish different areas of the system because of the "noise".
While there are lots of ares for UI improvement across Leap, this one might be an easy win, as shown in the side by side screenshots.
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When logging into Leap make the focus on the Continue button
When you are logging into Leap on a machine where you've already logged in, a cookie is set that pre-fills the Branch and workstation. However, you canNOT simply hit enter to continue through this screen because the focus is on the workstation drop down.
This is a request to make it focus on the Continue button when you've already logged in on this browser to make the login process more seamless.
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Damaged item notices
Could we add an print notice option for items checked in using the 'Damaged' option?
7 votes
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