MyAthens new features and future directions

MyAthens: New Features and Future Directions
Sarah Quintin – Software Engineer
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Overview
What is MyAthens?
New functionality
New panels
Enhanced panel configuration
Additional resources
Customisation
Branding
What’s next?

What is MyAthens?
User portal for Athens
Central point of access to a user’s resources
Customisable homepage with panels
Users can update some account details
Forum
Help section

Customised Search Panels
Enable your users to query existing search engines from MyAthens
Create search panels in the Admin area
Add advanced features such as drop-down lists and hidden fields

Web Content Panel
Create panels with the content of your choice
Use the WYSIWYG editor for simple content ( text, lists, logos or links )
Or the HTML editor for more advanced features (forms etc…)

Del.icio.us panel
What is Del.icio.us?
Social bookmaking service
Users can store, share and discover web bookmarks.
Users can tag bookmarks
How is it relevant to MyAthens?
Administrators and their users can bookmark non-Athens resources and use the existing Del.icio.us panel to display them in MyAthens

Del.icio.us panel
So, what's new?
Users can now filter their own bookmarks by tag
Simply supply their (or their Organisation's) Del.icio.us username and choose the relevant tag from the drop-down list

Additional Resources
New functionality allows administrators to add and allocate additional non-Athens protected resources
These will then be merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens
Users can flag additional resources as favourites from the MyAthens resources page

Adding Additional Resources
Additional resources added via the admin interface.
URL
Title
Description

Assigning your Additional Resources
Additional resources can be allocated to permission sets
Modify permission set page displays Athens resources and additional resources side-by-side
New resources are merged with existing Athens protected resources in MyAthens

Restricting users' panels
New functionality in the Administrator's Interface
Restrict panels available from MyAthens panel chooser
Define which panels are shown to users on first login

MyAthens Branding
Addition of organisations' logos to MyAthens
Administrators can upload an image via the Panel Options page in the Admin area

Future directions
Pre-populated Delicious panel
Notification section
Announce new panels
Organisation news
Most importantly we value your feedback, comments and suggestions!

Over to you…
Any questions, comments or suggestions?

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