Thanks Chris
It makes more sense to me now. I guess this is something we will be looking 
at at Sussex in due course.

Annette

--On 11 October 2010 18:47 +0100 Chris Clarke <[log in to unmask]> 
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> Hi Annette,
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> Sorry it took me so long to come back on this question.
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> Optionally, Aspire customers can pass module/course codes across from
> their Identity Provider service (Shibboleth/Athens) when users log into
> Aspire. If these codes are passed, Aspire will assume the user is
> enrolled on these modules/courses and will add the relevant lists
> automatically to the user's My Lists page. This has been part of the
> product since late 2008.
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> The change on 30th September included a notification to the user when
> these codes change i.e. at the start of a new academic year, informing
> the user that there are new lists added to their My Lists collection.
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> Thanks,
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> Chris
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> On 4 Oct 2010, at 16:49, Annette Moore wrote:
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> Chris
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> I'm not sure I know what you mean by "1. If you pass enrolled modules to
> Aspire, the My Lists page will inform the user of these new enrolments
> (and
> add them to the My Lists collection)." - could explain please.
>
> Annette
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> Annette
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> --On 01 October 2010 10:11 +0100 Chris Clarke <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi all,
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> Yesterday we released a new version of Aspire.
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> This release included extensive under the hood changes for the My Lists
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> page. Previously, users with long collections of My Lists were
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> experiencing performance issues with the screen. In addition, users were
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> not able to remove either the lists they were enrolled on, or were list
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> publishers for, from the screen - this made the first problem worse, as
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> users could not always reduce the size of their My Lists collection!
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> We've now addressed these problems in the new release. Users can now
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> remove any list from My Lists, and the page has been re architected so
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> that exceptionally long collections can load in the background. Users
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> will be able to interact with the page and perform actions on lists
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> whilst long collections load.
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> To address the performance problem, we've had to change the shape of the
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> data under the hood. So, a data conversion is performed in the background
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> the very first time a user enters My Lists (after the release). On
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> particularly long collections this might take more than one visit to
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> complete. Once the conversion has been done the loading time of the
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> As part of this work, we also took the opportunity to include a couple of
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> 1. If you pass enrolled modules to Aspire, the My Lists page will inform
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> the user of these new enrolments (and add them to the My Lists
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> collection).
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> 2. The actions column on the My Lists page was getting very untidy as the
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> amount of utility in the system grows. We've changed this to be a drop
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> down menu instead. If this proves popular, we'll be rolling it out to
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> other areas of the system.
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> In other news, we also improved the performance of the system elsewhere
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> too:
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> * Browse hierarchy: Some nodes with large amounts of children wouldn't
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> load, we've fixed this
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> * Bookmark preview screen: We've improved the performance here, too.
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> Any questions let me know,
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> Chris Clarke
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