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We're happy to provide this tool for you to enter your suggestions about Series25 applications and vote on your favorites submitted by other users. Please note that while high vote counts help guide our development priorities, they are not an automatic guarantee that any specific feature will be developed next.
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New suggestions and comments must be approved by CollegeNET before becoming publicly visible, and similar suggestions may be merged. Please keep comments on topic.
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Email system notification for APP NOT RUNNING
If the local java app is not running for an extended period of time, send a system email notification.
Distinguish between prod and test in emails
For import warning emails and academic priority emails, indicate whether the change happened in a prod or test instance.
Export Translation Tables
Allow users to export translation tables to make them easier to review and send to other departments to review.
View LYNX application logs in web interface
Let users review logs for the lynx-app in the web interface.
Add Configurable Auto-Initialization
Allow users to automatically initialize data and configure when/how often the auto-initialization runs.
One use case: if the production instance of the SIS is ...
SSO for LYNX
It would be nice to have an option to integrate SSO with LYNX.
Provide another way to download LYNX update scripts
The Confluence FTP link does not always work for some customers.
Ability to security groups specific / limited access to LYNX functions
Instead of "all or nothing" access to LYNX, give admins the ability to target access to certain functions (or at least remove those options from the LYNX menu if ...
Include a note when LYNX is disabled for the night
As described in https://knowledge25.collegenet.com/display/25HELP/Initializing+SIS+Term+Data, LYNX does not sync data with the SIS overnight. Any changes made after ...
Download system messages as excel file
Add the ability to get all system messages (within a time range) as a spreadsheet.
LYNX user in 25Live should use the permissions of it's security group
There are features we would like to use that we cannot because the LYNX user override them. For example Assignment Policy exceptions. When rooms are remodeled we ...
24 Hour Clock Timestamp Format
A setting to switch between 12 Hour Clock and 24 Hour Clock formats for all Lynx timestamps.
Reenabling Lynx Sync from a "broken" connection sync with SIS
At times, I do get emails that documented that the Syncing between Lynx and SIS becomes broken from a bad connection/timeout -- There is no Fail-Safe method, I have ...
Update remote Lynx schema based on schema version
Rather than relying on the Lynx client_patch table on the CollegeNet servers to determine if a remote schema update is needed use a remote schema version check instead.
Link to import/export messages from system messages list
When changes are detected in 25Live, link straight to the import/export messages from the system message list
Update .jar file from Lynx UI
Reduce IT overhead by putting a function in LYNX to download and install the local lynx-app updates
Email notification when system level warnings are resolved
We get an email when system level warnings happen, but not when their causes are resolved. Would be nice not to have to pro-actively check that.
Filter or otherwise mute verbose system messages
The list of system messages gets very full of updates every 60 seconds, especially when headcount is changing during registration season. An option to sort through ...