Changes in the way assets work We heard from many of you that it was frustrating that Regular and Editor-level accounts were not able to edit assets that they did not own, even on guides to which they were assigned as editors. It’s been a long time coming, but this…
LibGuides v2 servers will be down for planned upgrades for about 90 minutes on Friday, February 13th starting at 10pm U.S. EST / 7pm PST. Why the down time for this release? Well, we’re making some updates that require database changes while no one is using the system. 🙂 This…
Just in time for the holidays, we’ve rolled out a stocking-stuffer-sized update for LibSurveys! New Reports View: Data Table We’ve overhauled the initial landing page you’ll see when you head to Form and Survey Reports. The new Data Table view includes a bunch of nice-to-have updates, including: Search & Filter –…
Admin Stuff Use Your Library’s Syndetics ID for Cover Art – If you’re a Syndetics customer, you can now add your Syndetics ID to LibGuides! Any new Books from the Catalog that you add will use your images. Previously-added Books from the Catalog will stll use the default set of…
We’re excited to share our newest LibAnswers and LibChat features, rolling out today! LibAnswers Updates: URL-based Widgets – Initiate any embedded LibAnswers widgets using a simple URL! This makes it easy to trigger any LibAnswers widget using inline text – for example, create an “Email Us” link that, when clicked, pops up your LibAnswers Question Form. To use…
Import New Database Assets We are super excited to announce that it’s now possible to import database assets into your LibGuides 2 A-Z list using an Excel spreadsheet. Just go to Content > Assets > A-Z Databases List > Import Databases and choose Excel XML spreadsheet to get started. You’ll…
Great Customer Service – The Holy Grail Let’s start with a few important questions: 1. How do you provide effective online help/faqs at the point of need, for the Library’s many systems and services – everything from the Website, to the Catalog, to the Discovery/Search system, to the variety of E-Database…
We were busy beavers at Springy HQ during the late summer and early fall! Here are a few highlights from the features that have been added recently to LibGuides 2. For a full list, log into your site and check out the Known Issues / Latest Code Release guide in the…
As promised, we released a biggie over the weekend, including widgets, site search, connections to LibSurveys for Surveys & Forms, and an awesome new content type, LibAnswers 2 Widgets. Widgets – bring LibGuides 2 content into any other website (including into guides) using widget embed code. So far, you can create these…
Hey LibGuides v2 Admins – this one’s for you! We pushed out an update to our default templates (for both tabbed nav and side nav) today, which requires some work on your side. 😉 Our code update only updates the default templates – it doesn’t touch your custom templates since…
