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Easily clear/remove items from My reading intentions & My notes

We recently had a feedback ticket raised by a student asking how to clear the "Will Read" section of the "My reading intentions" tab in their profile (See screenshot). After exploring the functionality of this part of Talis (as the students experi...
Kia Owens about 1 year ago in User Profiles 0 Reviewed - on hold

Ebook cover images

We find the book cover images useful for new users in making the lists more attractive to the eye. These work fine when we are including physical books on the list, but as we are increasingly moving to an e-first policy the ISBN no longer has a co...
Ian Haydock about 1 year ago in Edit List 3 Reviewed - on hold

Pre-set text in Complete Review box

Would it be possible to have pre-set text options after clicking the Complete Review button? At the moment we copy and paste a standard message into the box following a review, so having this already set would be very helpful.
Guest 4 months ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Remove the 'Copy list' functionality from list publisher role permissions for academic staff users

We often have academics who will copy existing lists for different (or sometimes unknown) purposes, e.g. to rollover a list, make copy of the list for their own records, to create a list for a different module, which we see as unnecessary and agai...
Guest 7 months ago in User roles and permissions 2 Reviewed - on hold

Select All/Deselect All for setting bulk outcomes in reviews

We are so excited that the option to bulk set outcomes has launched for Reviews! As we started to play around with it however, we realised that we would really benefit from the option to Select All or Deselect All resources, once we've set some fi...
Emily Streeter 6 months ago in Reviews 1 Reviewed - on hold

Adding custom images to list items

There are many items in lists that are not just books. There is currently no way of adding an image to a list item. These items all look very unintuitive and bland without an image attached to them and it remains difficult to foster engagement in ...
Scott Riley 3 months ago in Edit List 1 Future consideration

When bookmarking books to include ISBNs with 020 |z's in RDA records as well as 020 |a's

A lot of the large record downloads from suppliers and other sources set ISBNs for e-books with |z (used for faulty ISBNs) at the front, not |a's. This is because the ISBNs are not in the actual e-book text (an absurd and pointless cataloguing pra...
Stuart Sharp 5 months ago in Bookmarking 3 Reviewed - on hold

Pin the yellow "Unpublished Changes" bar so it is visible when scrolling down list

The yellow "Unpublished changes!" warning bar is a great idea in theory, but when list editors scroll down a long list, it quickly disappears from view. We still get huge numbers of lists inadvertently left by academics with unpublished changes (w...
Guest 3 months ago in Edit List 3 Will not implement

Warning message for deleting items with active/pending digitisation request

Recently an academic deleted a number of reading list items with digitisations attached, but there was no warning for them (beyond the standard item deletion message), and no indication to us that this had happened until we were checking the link ...
Chantal Tucker 10 months ago in  TADC 2 Reviewed - on hold

Add ability to change icons for Library and Student notes

In consultation with stakeholders on our Indigenising Curriculum reading list, a question was raised on whether it was possible to change the icons for Library and Student notes to something less aggressively Western. The specific suggestion made ...
Kia Owens about 1 year ago in Branding 1 Reviewed - on hold