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Recent Product Updates
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- Exciting LTI & LibAuth Updates, Dec 14, 2016
- Metadata field importing
- Automagic matching & display changes
- LTI translation table updates
- Add multiple authentication methods in LibAuth
- New Gallery Box Options & Patron-Level Account Importing, Nov 16, 2016
- Patron Accounts: Importing & self-registration now available
- Accessibility improvements
- Gallery box includes new features & content types
- Search Box Improvements, Accessibility Updates, Private Guide Copying, Sep 30, 2016
- System-wide, Group-specific, Guide-level search box customizations
- Accessibility improvements
- Private guides can now be copied
- 1.7.8 Update, Jan 10, 2017
- Rich-Text Question & Answer Text
- Workpad Usability Improvements
- Rest Encryption for Assets & Patron Responses
- Flexible Correct Answers for Free-Text Fields
- 1.7.7 Update, Dec 2, 2016
- Color customization for forms, surveys, quizzes, assessments
- Patron File-Uploading Question Type
- HTTPS Support
- 1.7.6 Update, Oct 19, 2016
- Provide correct answer feedback
- Date question type now includes 'Time' field
- Default "Thank you for completing this survey!" message added to all end-of-survey behavior
- 1.7.5 Update, Sep 30, 2016
- Language option customization
- Patron information field types
- Improved export options
- LibCal Equipment & Spaces Module Updates, Jan 9, 2016
- Fines support is here!
- Read API for fines
- Add event - reserve multiple rooms at once
- LibCal Equipment & Spaces Module Updates, Dec 9, 2016
- Read/Write API
- Admins can create bookings of any length
- Overdue items report
- LibCal 2.6.2 Update, Nov 2, 2016
- Equipment Bookings update
- Calendars - add new registrant from admin side
- Calendars - wait list can be reordered on admin side
- LibAnswers 2.10 Update, Jan 18, 2017
- Bulk editing, deleting, status changing, and tagging for Tickets
- Bulk apply macros to Tickets
- Drag and Drop file uploads
- Instead of irreversible deletion, route deleted Tickets to a 'Trash Can' that can be purged or recovered by Admin-only users
- LibAnswers 2.9 Update, Nov 4, 2016
- Follow Me chat widgets
- Search & filterable LibChat transcripts
- LibChat accessibility improvements
- FAQ search in LibChat operator console
- Customize 'LibChat Offline' button colors
- Proactive chat extended to all widget types
- LibInsight Update, Jan 17, 2017
New 'Counts/Aggregate' Dataset
This brand-new dataset type is designed for users who currently use spreadsheets to track stuff. If you have a daily, monthly, or yearly stats spreadsheet where you type in a single number to track the number of:
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Custom Datasets Get Trend Analysis
Do you use the Trends tab in your other datasets? Well, now you can analyze trends for the numeric fields in your custom datasets, too! See how the totals of your numeric fields change year-over-year, graphically and in tables.
Write APIs for *all* Springshare Apps
Enable your in-house developers to develop exciting apps and functionality to turn LibGuides, LibAnswers, LibCal, and LibCRM into data and content repositories, letting you distribute this data and content from our apps to anywhere, at the point-of-need.
Currently Available
- LibGuides v2 A-Z List - Update and add to your database A-Z list with information from your 3rd party A-Z tool.
- LibCal v2 Equipment & Spaces - Create bookings for Equipment and Spaces via any 3rd party application.
- LibInsight Custom & Gate Count Datasets - Populate your Custom or Gate Count datasets programmatically...no more spreadsheet uploads!
We will expand Write APIs based on users’ feedback. Let us know what you want the Write APIs to do, and we’ll put it on the to-do list.