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Add 'Hold Activated/Created" to item history
It would be useful to have in the item history when a hold was activated. I had an instance where an item was put on hold for the wrong account, and it would have been useful to see who had placed the hold or where it had been added. I figure you can see this from the hold record, but the staff member who had received the accidental holds cancelled them before we got a chance to look at it.
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Generate patron barcodes outside of self-registration
Polaris should be able to generate barcodes outside of self-registration. Sometimes you want to generate barcodes without relying on a physical card that already has a barcode printed on it. Polaris already can do this because it does it for self-registration cards. So it should be able to occur on demand.
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Custom keyboard shortcuts / hotkeys
It would be wonderful to be able to customize keyboard shortcuts per user.
I don't typically use 90% of Polaris features, and the other 10% I use very frequently, and most of those features don't have any hotkeys associated with them.
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Patron Barcode as Subtext in Current/Recent menu (last4) in Leap
We have found it hard to work with the Current and Recent workfrom menu when working with lots of Patron Records, or more commonly, Duplicate Patron Records.
Names work, but when names are similar or the same it can be hard to figure out which records are which.
Sometimes staff are working with Barcodes as a reference vs. patron names.It would be nice to have a subtext under the Patrons name in the Current and Recent workform list that shows the last 4 digits or the full barcode underneath the patron name.
I have 2 images attached that demonstrates…
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Include Active Directory in web-based System Administration
The current method for changing a Polaris Staff Member's password is clunky and not ideal if part of a large library system. Additionally, all SA management is moving towards the web-based interface. It makes sense to incorporate staff password management into the SA web-based interface.
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Include 024 tags in ISBN index
Please expand the search functionality to include searching and pulling results for both the 024#a MARC tag, as well as 020#a
Functionally this will improve searches as results will include hits on an ISBN whether it's in 020 or 024
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Include patron preferences such as billing notifications in PAPI patron update/create
The Jacksonville Public Library leverages the Polaris API to manage student records. Currently we have to take an extra step in the LEAP UI to set the communication preferences. We don't bill students or send their accounts to collections, so we have to do a bulk update of all the records with the UI after already touching every record with the API. This is cumbersome because there are over 100,000 student records that need to be updated. Most updates are smaller, but at the start of the school year we do a full refresh.
We would like to be able…
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Improve Hold Duplicate Detection
Hold duplicate detection has a flaw that allows duplicate hold requests to be placed on the same titles. The detection seems to apply on title and author information stored with the hold request (apparently on the SysHoldRequestSearchTerms table), which stores point-in-time title/author details that may change if the bib record is overlayed or edited.
This idea is for improving the duplicate detection to fix this gap, but also any similar gaps I may be missing where title-related data is stored separately when the hold is created, and referenced by the dupe detection (I'm not seeing separate tables storing elements like…
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Allow volume level AND item level requests
We were told that in order to activate volume level requests in the PAC and in Vega, we would have to turn off the ability for item level requests to be placed, since it's an either or setting (see attached). However, we need to be able to offer our patrons both options. In the case of volume level requests, we can't have patrons getting a random volume that they might not even want when they place a title level hold. Since we also have patrons that use item level requesting, we can't just turn that off in favor of volume…
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Alert Sound Effect
I'm guessing Leap being web-based makes this difficult to outright impossible but a warning sound effect for Leap's modal alerts would be nice.
Something like:
var audio = new Audio('audio_file.mp3');
audio.play();Assuming alerts in leap use Bootstrap's modal function calling the audio function after the shown.bs.modal trigger fires might work.
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Separate Reader Services and Reading History permissions
There is currently just one permission (Patron status: Display reader services) that controls access to both the Reader Services and Reading History tab in a patron account in Leap. This should be split into separate permissions so that staff can be granted access to Reader Services without having access to Reading History.
Our consortium policies don't allow library staff to have access to patron Reading History, so while we would love to offer the Reader Services functionality to staff, we can't do that currently without granting them access to patron Reading History. The only theoretical workaround is setting up distinct…
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Prevent PatronRegistrationCreate from Reusing a Postal Code Record with the Wrong County
When
PatronRegistrationCreateis configured to allow creation of new postal code entries, the API should consider an explicitly supplied COUNTY when determining whether an existing postal code record is an appropriate match.Currently, if a ZIP code, city, and state already exist in the
PostalCodestable, the API will reuse that record even when the COUNTY supplied in the registration request is different.If a county is explicitly supplied, the matching process should require the county to match in addition to ZIP code, city, and state. If no EXACT combination exists, the system should create a new postal code record…
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How to add released PO Items to an Item Record Set
In some cases, we would like to monitor the items we have ordered. If these items can be loaded into an Item Record Set, it would make them easier to access and track.
In Polaris, users can add items from a released Purchase Order (PO) to an Item Record Set.
Is there a similar function available in LEAP?
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Prevent Out Items from Being Changed to Withdrawn When Approving Weeding Record Sets
When staff bulk change items in an item record set, items with a status of Out are not changed to Withdrawn. We would like weeding record sets to follow the same logic during approval.
When a weeding record set is approved:
-Items that are currently Out should not be changed to Withdrawn.
-The remaining eligible items should be processed normally.
-Staff should receive a block stating that “[number] item(s) were not approved because they are Out.”Use case:
Several items were checked out between being added to a library’s weeding record set and the set’s approval. During approval, they were…
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Improve Toast management
Toast messages can sometimes be difficult to catch if they fade too quickly or can get in the way if they accumulate on the screen. It would help if the toast appeared, then was reduced to a smaller indicator that could be cleared. Aso allow staff to open the history of toasts for their current session, so they can refind a message once they have finished what they were doing.
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LEAP: Supplier Record Reminder - Needed for Miscellaneous-Type Invoices
Miscellaneous invoices are created and used to pay for materials that are not linked to bib records. These invoices always need to have a Supplier record chosen for our finance purposes. Misc. invoices can be saved and payed without a supplier, however, Polaris always gave a reminder prompt if one is not chosen. In LEAP there is no reminder. We would like the same prompt to be added to LEAP. Making these invoices happens infrequently for some staff, so the reminder is helpful.
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link to specific copy to fill hold
There have been many times when we've needed to know which specific copy(barcode) is in transit to fill a hold. Currently the only option seems to be going thru each item record to see which is attached to the customer record. Very annoying and time consuming. Perhaps on the Holds Queue screen could include a column (Item Assigned) to list the barcode filling the hold when a hold has been trapped. Or on the Hold Request screen, on the Satisfied By menu a indicator of which item is being used for that hold. Or both.
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Suppress RFID dialog during slip printing.
QZ Direct to Print has helped streamline slip printing in Leap but one annoying dialog we didn't have to deal with in the staff client remains. During an RFID operation, if Leap is asked to print a receipt, RFID processing is paused (suspended) to allow the receipt to be printed. A pop up message appears to allow the user to continue RFID processing of any remaining items once the receipt is printed. There is currently no way to suppress this message.
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Non-blocking Note limit Increase
We have recently been coming up against an error when adding additional notes to the Non-blocking notes field. There is a current character limit of 4,000 characters that's not noted anywhere I could find on the help section. Can this character limit be updated, as there are many instances where notes need to be kept for historical purposes?
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Messaging and/or reporting for patrons updated by age
With the new option to update patron codes based on age criteria (which we're excited about!), it would be useful to be able to send notices to patrons whose account type was auto-updated and/or to pull a report we could use for sending out messaging to the impacted patrons in our newsletter platform.
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