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  1. We would like to enhance /PolarisAdmin (Web Admin) so that leading and trailing spaces are automatically trimmed from the Username and External ID fields upon entry.

    Problem Statement
    Currently, if administrators accidentally enter a username or external ID with a leading or trailing space, it is saved as entered. This creates login and authentication issues for end users, since the system considers the space a part of the credential. This can be difficult to troubleshoot and frustrating for both administrators and end users.

    This is especially likely to happen when copying/pasting from certain user management platforms.

    Proposed Enhancement
    Automatically strip…

    14 votes

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  2. When changing settings, it is critical to make sure you're changing them in the right place.

    The /PolarisAdmin should also pick up the color coding and client alerts. Currently, the /PolarisAdmin does NOT pickup the client color changes or wording, which means you need to do extra work to make sure you are changing the settings in the proper system.

    3 votes

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  3. When you are adding an account or changing information on an account and the system detects a duplicate, it won't let you proceed. However, it won't give you any information on the conflict account.

    It would be super helpful to have the conflicting ID shown in the popup message to make tracking down the other account easier.

    Especially if the dup happens to be because of something weird like a space or non-printable character.

    This seems to happen more as locations move to SSO and fill in their external ID field.

    6 votes

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  4. Allow multiple selections of Organizations & Patron Codes to populate Material Type list (lower table) on the Patron / Material Type Loan Limit Blocks, Policy Table.

    21 votes

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  5. I'm specifically looking for a great integration between the cataloging tool BTCat and Polaris.

    Libraries use tools like BTCat and Skyriver to search for new bib records and update/edit existing records. After making changes, the records currently have to be exported from the cataloging software, then imported into Polaris. These tools have the ability to "push" records into other ILS systems, skipping the need for a manual export/import of records. Adding this functionality would aid libraries in transitioning away from the Polaris desktop client (as bibliographic editing in Leap is a tedious process, at best).

    23 votes

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    We actually added an endpoint to support this integration in Polaris 7.6 (BibsPost). We've been working with BTCat to consume the endpoint in their application.


    I'm going to set this to "Planned" for now because the integration is not live with BTCat yet. But the development piece required for Polaris has been done. Please let BTCat know you are interested!!

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