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  1. Provide ability to turn off the display of Related Records in Alma

    Our staff find the appearance of related records in Alma that appear as part of a search result to be distracting and add no value. I'd like to suggest that we get the ability to configure whether these related records appear at all.

    4 votes
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  2. Ability to see more of the 2 records on the match/merge screen.

    Currently, when manually handling the matches one at a time, the view of the 2 records is only using the upper half of the screen. The ability to scroll each side is great but why not be able to see more of the records by increasing the viewing area? Thank you for considering.

    3 votes
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  3. Browse Community Zone & Institution Zone

    Provide a list of browse-able collections in the community zone and institution zone instead of only being able to search for collections.

    3 votes
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  4. Add the ability to search 008 holding fields

    I would like to see the ability to search 008 fields specifically method of acquisition (purchase, gift, depository,etc. ), retention coding and lending policy.

    3 votes
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  5. Add facet for publication year for Electronic Titles results list

    When you do an All Titles search or a Physical Titles search in Alma, you get filters for Material Type, Language, and Publication Year, but when you do an Electronic Titles search, you only get filters for Material Type and Language. We very much need all the same functionality for searching electronic titles as we do for print. Please support electronic resources the same way as print.

    3 votes
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  6. Make Brief Levels more visible

    Now that we have defined our local Brief Levels for Alma bib records, it would be very helpful if we could view the Brief Levels more readily. For example, it would be helpful to include the Brief Level as a column in spreadsheets of exported search results. And it would be very helpful to see the Brief Levels in the Receiving work bench to help with initial sorting of incoming material and identifying items most appropriate for rapid cataloging at the point of receipt.

    3 votes
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  7. Allow for work orders to be placed against MMS IDs

    It would be helpful if we could apply a work order against ALL the items attached to an MMS ID in a single go, rather than go through Actions against each item. I know it's possible to create a set and do it that way but it would be much easier to be able to click on a work order option and have that applied to a whole list of items.

    3 votes
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  8. Shorter turn around time needed...

    In Cataloging/ Metadata Editor: We need a shorter than 6 hour turn around time when we make changes. An example would be adding an 856 URL link, wanting to look in PRIMO to see if the link looks correct and test it.

    3 votes
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  9. Zone tab colors

    Make the current zone tab you clicked easier to see by having the tab color change (or become darker) when the user clicks on it. This way you know what zone you are working in. Currently it is hard to see the little triangle pointer under the tab.

    3 votes
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  10. Give us more lines in the holdings record so that 866's are generated, so that our inventory shows up in Primo.

    At present when holdings records become too big, Alma does not generate the 866's neither by saving nor by enhancement (even though Alma falsely claims a successful enhancement). Because of this, our actual holdings are not displayed in Primo. This is not okay. The inventory records do not show what we actually hold in cases of incomplete volumes that have been bound: thus the need for accurate holding records. Also the 866's are NOT being updated when changes/additions/deletions to the 863's, 864's, or 865's are made. Again this is not okay, and updating the 866's becomes a time consuming manual…

    3 votes
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  11. Environmentally friendly printing

    It uses more papers to print an item record since the switch to the new UI of 2017. The fields take up quite a lot of space. And often it uses 2 sheets of paper (i.e. 3 pages) to print an item record, whereas previous it occupied 1 to 2 pages only.

    3 votes
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  12. relinking

    Relinking monographs is clumsy, time consuming, and inefficient.

    Add an option to search by MMS ID or OCLC Number in the NZ during the split screen search.

    An automatic prompt asking whether to suppress or delete the old record from the IZ zone (upon saving) would be helpful.

    3 votes
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  13. Email CZ Contributor

    When a library contributes a portfolio to a CZ e-collection and there is an issue with the portfolio, Ex Libris Support is unable to update the error because of the policy in place for local contributions. Would it be possible to have the contributor add their email address to the contribution so errors could be reported to the contributing library? A link similar to Report to Ex Libris could be added, Report to Contribution Library. It isn't easy to locate someone at a contributing library to notify them of the an error with the portfolio.

    3 votes
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  14. Run a job on a collection

    When we want to run a job on all the titles/portfolios in a collection we should be able to run a job on those contents without having to put the contents into a set first

    3 votes
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  15. More sophisticated functionality in the Duplicate Title Analysis function

    The Duplicate Title Analysis functionality does not allow you to clear previous duplicates when you run a new job.

    For example, you may run a job to find duplicate titles. You investigate those titles and decide that they are not problems for your library, so you wish to leave those titles in Alma, but you don't want them to come up on the next Duplicate Analysis title job.

    3 votes
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  16. Modify predictive pattern template season capitalization, SS chron fields.

    We are wanting to modify the template that holds the formatting for the Season - SS chron fields- so that it follows the rules in RDA and AACR2.

    21 - Spring
    22 - Summer
    23 - Autumn
    24 - Winter

    to

    21 - spring
    22 - summer
    23 - autumn
    24 - winter

    Thank you for reviewing this request.

    3 votes
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  17. Change "Open Form Editor" short cut key

    Currently the short cut key for "Open Form Editor" is Ctrl + F, and this prevents the user from using Ctrl + F to find text on the page.

    3 votes
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  18. I suggest that in Alma in the Resources area / Metadata Editor the Spanish translation to of the LDR position 6 = "a" which says "Libro" be

    I suggest that in Alma in the Resources area / Metadata Editor the Spanish translation to of the LDR position 6 = "a" which says "Libro" be modified and this word replaced by "Texto" (in the facets), because there is a lot of textual material that is not necessarily a "libro" (book).

    3 votes
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  19. Allow notes to be ordered.

    Sometimes a particular note is important enough you want it to always show at the top, but other notes need to added that push it farther and father down. It used to be if you did an edit on any note it put it back at the top, but that no longer works.
    This needs to work in both portfolios and in purchase orders.

    3 votes
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  20. Make the link to the items/portfolios attached to a title in the Collection resource editor

    In the ‘Titles list’ tab of the 'Collection Resource Editor' in Alma, it would be useful to have a link to the items or portfolios attached to every selected title. This option could be added in the contextual menu.

    3 votes
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