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provide indication when there are new/cancelled orders to be posted
Staff are often confused by the need to post in order for new/cancelled orders to be reflected in their funds, particularly as the system does not provide an indication that those changes need to be committed. These are included when you select post all within the pay an invoice function (which staff won't look at if they aren't actively paying an invoice) but they do not appear listed within any of the 10 payment sessions or under funds adjustments.
Adding an entry for perhaps some more prominent indicator that funds may not reflect current totals will help greatly to remind…
11 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Module data on the library catalogue (Online Reading List)
We are using Talis Aspire as our Online Reading List.
We are looking for ways to synchronise module code and module name data from Talis Aspire with our library catalogue so that we can easily identify whether a book on our catalogue is on a reading list.
Attached please find the example that captured from other library.
1 voteProduct Management has reviewed this request and determined that this idea is too narrowly focused to be included in the product roadmap.
This idea will be archived for future reference.
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Spine Labels: Make it Easier!
Convert current Sierra print templates for spinelabels to something like what is available for email notices in LX Starter. We need an easier, more user friendly way to customize spine labels in Sierra. It is way too cumbersome and time-consuming with current print templates in Sierra and requires a third party application.
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This will benefit the already-crunched for time and resources for Acquisitions and TechServices teams as well as PublicServices and ultimately benefits Patrons.39 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering. The development of a replacement system for printing spine labels (and potentially other forms used in Sierra) would require resources that have been committed to other projects in the near-term roadmap.
Product Management will archive this idea for future reference and may re-evaluate this enhancement for a later release.
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Retain SDA Search Terms Within Patron Session
Prior to Sierra 5.3, when placing a series of holds for a patron in the Sierra Desktop App, the search terms would be retained from one title to the next. For example, if a patron wants holds placed for all seasons of the TV show How I Met Your Mother, a staff member with the patron's record open will click Add Holds, type the search terms "how i met your mother" in the Browse dialog and click Search. A suitable title is located and a hold is placed on it. All good so far.
The undesirable behavior is observed when…
18 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Manage Holds (view outstanding holds reports) should include INN-Reach items.
Currently to find a list of all INN-Reach items located on a branches holdshelf, not just expired ones is a difficult task. The Received Too Long report only allows you to sort by Patron Home Library which may not correspond to their hold pickup location. A person would need to run this report and look up each INN-Reach item to see if they are actually at the patrons home library, or a different branch. For library systems with multiple branches this is a time consuming process.
The Clear Expired Holds and Holdshelf Function only allows you to view expired INN-Reach…
26 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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New material type icons
The current icons available for the OPAC for material types are woefully lacking. There's no icon for audiobooks (the modern digital type), but you have icons for cd-rom books and books on cassette. The icon I'd most like to see added is a streaming video icon. This is a very common collection item in the 21st century, but our only option is a film (reel-to-reel), dvd, or internet resource (which isn't helpful at all). Any chance we could get more modern material type icons? For ideas, simply google "streaming video icon" and look at all the options!
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Users…62 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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FTS File Saving Printing - Include Login
As it's recommended to regularly delete old files after printing to FTS File Save, it would help to know who the owner is of the files that need to be deleted, much like you know the login/owner of old Statistics result files and Create List review files. While the system administrator may have an idea of who owns what files, staff may ignore naming conventions, etc., making it difficult to determine whether it's okay to delete an old file or if it it's something that should be kept for record keeping purposes. If this could be expanded to all files…
19 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Make Sierra User Profile Imports Additive, at least Optionally
In the Sierra web-based admin utility, in Authorizations and Authentication Admin, when importing permissions from one Sierra user to another, the "donor" settings overwrite those of the recipient user. I propose adding a checkbox to allow these to be imported in an additive manner.
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Recently two of my coworkers in Technical Services and Collection Development received promotions and shifted into different roles. When using the feature to assign the permissions of users similar to the new roles, old but still valid permissions were lost due to the way the feature overwrites the recipient permissions with those of the…37 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Sierra User Accounts - Globally Apply Options, Settings & Preferences
Make the management of Options, Settings and Preferences operate the same way as Applications, Permissions, Workflows and User Groups, where you can drag and drop users, making it easier to set these globally.
Today I had to disable the cover images being displayed in all of our user accounts. Had to click in one-by-one, go to their Settings > Display and uncheck the box, "save," and do this for over 50 user accounts. It would be so much easier if I could have just selected/dragged all our users over to this setting, much like I do for permissions, etc.
While…
30 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering. The architecture of the Admin App makes this idea difficult to implement. Product Management will archive this idea for future reference.
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Messages/Blocks on Patron Accounts - Option to Apply to Linked Accounts
Would like Sierra to flag/make it obvious when there are issues with linked accounts. Ideally, when you insert a message in one linked account, you then have the option (yes/no) to apply that message (insert it) on all linked accounts. Same for when you delete a message that has been applied/added to all linked accounts.
If it's a serious issue (billed item, large fines remaining after billed items, etc.), we apply a family block, which acts as an alert to staff to look at the details of linked accounts. For other cases, we use the message field to note something…
17 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering. Although the ability to manage messages and blocks across linked accounts would have benefits to patrons and staff, the ability to keep these messages and blocks synchronized across linked accounts would be very difficult.
This idea will be archived for future reference and may be reconsidered for a later release.
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Auto Trim trailing spaces from varfields
It's quite easy when entering data into varfields across the record types of Sierra to inadvertently include some trailing spaces, particularly when cutting and pasting text. I don't believe there is any value in retaining those excess spaces and they can cause problems with various tasks such as SQL searches and global updates if those invisible characters are not accounted for.
I'd like to suggest that whenever text is entered into a varfield and the record is saved, that a right trim is performed upon that field to remove any trailing spaces.
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Excess spaces and they can cause…25 votesThis idea would need to be refined to be implemented in Sierra. The idea would need to be implemented on a system-wide basis and thought would need to be given to whether there are use cases where trailing spaces would need to be retained.
This idea will be archived for future reference and may be re-considered for a future release.
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Let patrons enter a thaw date for frozen holds
Customers have the ability to freeze holds currently, but after the time has elapsed from them to be frozen, there is no message or alert, or automatic way for the holds to be "unfrozen".
Make a way for the holds to automatically unfreeze, or at the least for the customer to get a notice that the time has expired, so that they can unfreeze the hold themselves.
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Our staff look at holds and how they are progressing as an indicator for purchasing additional items. the frozen holds show up in this list as well, and it is challenging…60 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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