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OpenAthens Ideas Portal

We're always looking for ways to improve our products, and we'd love your input to help us make that happen. Your suggestions will guide us in deciding where we should focus our future research and development.

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Here’s how the portal is organised:

  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


Guidance on using this portal

Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 31, 2025

Ability to export and import settings configurations in OA Admin

Develop support for exporting and importing OpenAthens Admin settings via XML file.


Use case #1: Onboarding

When setting up a new library, upload a file of their customizations and preferences so that less manual work (e.g. clicking, typing, searching) will be required in the UI of OA Admin.

Example: Onboarding team uploads a configuration file that instantly applies the customer's preferences to all settings and allocates all necessary resources in the catalogue. This accomplishes a ton of work on Day 1 of the onboarding, especially for libraries with lots of resources to allocate in the OA catalogue.


Use case #2: Emergency Response

When an administrator inadvertently causes an OpenAthens outage by changing vital settings in OA Admin, upload a recent configuration file to revert settings back to how they were before the outage.

Example: Download all the settings of a local authentication connector (metadata, attribute mappings, permission rules). That way, if an administrator accidentally deletes a "live" Azure connector, they can quickly restore it by uploading a previously-saved export of that connector. Or if an administrator accidentally deletes their Default Permission Set, they could quickly add it back by uploading a saved copy from before.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? No
Idea type OpenAthens support improvement, Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions, Something to improve
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