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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.


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Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 19, 2025

Improve "Save" UX across multiple features and functionality, but especially with suborg mapping

This problem is frequent across the OpenAthens admin landscape, but it is especially cumbersome in Connections>Organizations>Mapping. In the context of our consortium, we have 60 public libraries on a single connection. Those suborgs are mapped to accounts by an atrribute. I had to add to update about 30 mappings, and I kept losing work because of the necessity of having to CLOSE the work box for the mapping, then save one's work all the way back the top of the screen. Given the amount of orgs I was mapping/remapping, it was challenging to track the work, close all boxes, then save properly. I kept having to scroll to find the open box that prevented me from saving my work. If interrupted, this is especially problematic. Multiple time I lost / had to redo work.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Something to improve, Time saver, Day-to-day tasks/actions improvements, Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions
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