Talis Engage release to preview 2nd December
The December release of Talis Engage enhances the Reporting area introduced in last month’s release.
A new monthly report has been added, to find and disable deadlinks in records. All hyperlinks, images and file links in records are tested, and replaced with a “Link not working” message if found to be not working correctly. A report is then generated and made available to the SysAdmin user (or other authorised users) in the Create/Manage Reports area, listing the records and urls affected.
The records will still contain the original hyperlinks, images and file links, but these will now only be visible when the record is edited. Once the edit had been saved, the record will display the links again instead of the error messages.
Only the most recent month’s deadlinks report is kept, so if you want an archive copy, you should download it for local storage (reports will download as CSV by default).
We’ve also introduced Ad Hoc reporting for searches. Once a search has been carried out by an authorised user, a Create Report button will be available on the left-hand side of the screen. The report will be queued for processing, and will appear in the Create/Manage report area in Admin (under the Ad Hoc reports section) – users will only see their own reports.
The current status of ad-hoc reports is displayed on this page - to track progress, you can click on the Refresh button at the top of the screen. Ad-hoc reports are not over-written, but can be downloaded and saved locally.
Finally for this release using customer feedback raised at the Engage User Day on 17th November, text boxes have been expanded for the edit record function. (This sizing can also be changed using your CSS design).
To preview this functionality prior to the full release, visit http://trial1.talis.com/engage and login as SysAdmin with the password engage, from 2nd December onwards. Release to the live service is scheduled for the 9th December between the hours of 5:30 and 8:30 pm.
We encourage you to view the preview and feedback any comments.

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