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Search box in top right corner defaults to last search option..
Here is the scenario: You do a search by title from the main search bar in Vega Discover. You scroll through the results and then decide to do an author search. Instead of scrolling back to the top of the page to use the main scroll bar, you just click the orange search icon in the top right corner and enter your author's name. The results will be that you get no results. The top search icon defaults to the last search option: All, Author, Concept, Series, Title. Users may/do not understand this and are confused by the lack of…
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pickup location
Instead of only allowing a pickup location to be set as closed in Vega Discover for all libraries/branches, it would be helpful to be able to show a specific pickup location by a specific library/branch only. For example, we are a cooperative location. We are not a library. But our staff place holds to be picked up at our location. However, patrons accidentally choose our pickup location. On our old system, we were able to set it up so a particular pickup location would only display by OPAC profile (login). Can this functionality be added?
PO NOTES: This would require…
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New Advanced Search Facet: Loan Period
Allow patrons to search results based on Polaris items' loan period codes.
This will also allow Vega showcases to be created for popular items with unique loan periods.
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Simplify Location Icons
We have a patron request to simplify the number of location and availability icons. Patrons are often confused and upset by the icons. They are upset at being confused, and eating up their time. The in-house availability icon is too small and gets lost on the page. The larger, initial icon causes a lot of confusion with seniors, parents, infrequent library uses.
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Recently Returned: What Patrons See Doesn't Match What Staff See in Polaris
We’ve noticed that Discover doesn’t display the “recently returned” shelving status that comes from Polaris even though "Recently Returned" appears as an option in our Item Mapping list. "Recently Returned" is not a true item status in Polaris. The item status for recently returned items is actually “In” (which is how these items appear in Discover), but the database flags an item depending on whether or not it is also considered "recently returned."
Discover offers its own perfectly good “recently returned” functionality, but it would be nice if the “Recently Returned” message that patrons see in Discover could match the…
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Integrate Program and Events into Vega Discover search results
Integrate program and events into Vega Discover search results, not just on main Homepage.
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7 votes
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Item record detail in popup - show status
Requesting to view the Item Status (Checked Out, On Shelf) on the popup when viewing Item details. This would be helpful for creating screenshots, which may be used for staff workflows, instruction sheets and support tickets.
Repeatable effort:
Open record in Vega Discover.
Click arrow for Edition Information.
Click arror for desired edition.
Row includes: Location, call Number, Status, Due Date (if applicable) and Message (if applicable).
Click (i) Item Details.
Popup includes: Title, Location, Call Number, Item ID, Barcode. *Requesting Item Status in this view.6 votes -
Vega - Payments made via Polaris API / PayPal Payflow Pro integration should show up as Credit Card, rather than Debit Card
clarivate arbitrarily selected a PaymentMethodID of "13 - Debit Card" for all Vega Discover Fine/Fees payments. This makes all payments show up under the Debit Card category within Polaris Reports (e.g. "Financial Transaction by Payment Type"). The PaymentMethodID should actually be "12 - Credit Card," as all of these Vega transactions are actually processed via PayPal as credit card, regardless of whether the card is actually a debit card or a credit card.
6 votesNote that: PayPal does not deliver the payment card type used by the end user payee. Whatever is implemented here potentially in the future must be an all or nothing toggle for all payments received from paypal.
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Allow Vega Showcases Created From Saved Search to Appear on Record Pages
Reopening an idea that was closed for lack of activity, but is still important to us:
Currently, only Vega showcases that are created from a set of bookmarks can be displayed on Record Pages, which is NOT an option for showcases from saved searches. In some cases, we prefer using saved searches vs. bookmarks, as they are easier to maintain. We still want to see those showcases show up on record pages. The documentation (https://documentation.iii.com/vega/admin/admin/Create_Showcase.htm) doesn't call out this limitation in the "To create a showcase from a saved search" section. We found out the hard way, after…
6 votesThis work was not done previously because it was deemed to be too much of a performance hog. In order to deliver a Saved Search showcase or 4 on a Full Title View we would need to run said searches and load the results within the view each time it was loaded.
We can see if there are new options to achieve this enhancement now if chosen by the MEEP group.
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Integrate Ebsco Discovery Service or Explora into Vega searches
Our state has recently signed a contract with Ebsco to provide all libraries in the state with access to their Explora database system. It would be wonderful if this could be integrated into Vega searching. I have two academic libraries that would really like to see integration with EDS (Ebsco Discovery Service) as well.
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Promote Relevance Button
In Encore there was a button for staff to manually promote the relevance of certain titles to appear at the top of search results. We'd like to see something similar implemented in Vega to ensure titles that we expect patrons to want to see first are listed first. Example below, of Ulysses by James Joyce being fourth in the results for a basic search of "ulysses"
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import saved searches from PowerPAC as well as saved lists
During implementation, saved searches should be imported as well as saved lists when a library requests it. We recently went through Vega implementation and patrons are very disappointed that their saved searches aren't in the Account Portal. While they can recreate the searches, this discourages Vega adoption by a large number of our patrons. They would rather say within the PowerPAC and continue running their searches there.
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Adding patron notes to fines and fees section
We would like the ability to post notes in the fines and fees section of the patron account to alert patrons of exceptions (in PayPal) when paying via credit card. There is confusion when payment do not go through and there is no reason given (void, incorrect credit card number entered, American Express not accepted...)
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marc record
MARC record visibility: Give libraries the ability to suppress the Full MARC record link. Our MARC records contain information that could be used to identify specific staff members.
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Add an integrated Book Tips feature
We would like to propose for a new feature to be developed that our librarians can use to publish book tips directly on our Vega Discover homepage.
Ideally, on the homepage a title image can be displayed with a short, descriptive blurb written by the librarian and clicking it would lead to the actual a dedicated Book Tips page where the full entry is displayed, as well as earlier entries. The destination page itself can either be fully integrated part of into Vega Discover itself or link out to an a customizable external website URL (the URL should in that…
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Add a URL option that opens the Patron Login popup but sends the patron to search or home page after login.
We are using the "Link to Patron Accounts" URL options from the documentation to send our patrons to the Login Popup when they link to login to their account. Documentation: https://documentation.iii.com/vega/admin/admin/Link_to_patron_accounts.htm
When we do this their profile screen, checkouts, holds, etc displays automatically. These screens should be visible only when selected by the customer. This is especially problematic when a customer is logging into their account in a public area. It is a privacy issue.6 votes -
Support custom Header and Footer code on the 404 (page not found page)
We would like any custom header and footer code to be active/enabled on the 404 page. This would add a seamless user experience no matter where the patron ends up on the website.
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Editing eMaterial Vendor Information
Sometimes patrons can be confused concerning eMaterials not displaying the app that they receive the materials on. Being able to edit the vendor name under Edition Information (Additional Information in our case) would be helpful in mitigating that confusion.
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Claims/Lost Information
Claims/Lost information (as seen in the PAC) should probably be replicated in Vega patron accounts.
6 votes
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