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Advanced Search for Citations
Enable Advanced Search for Citations along with the ability to save the Advanced Search results as a set.
As we use Leganto, the number of citations in Alma continues to increase. It is becoming increasingly difficult to wade through these citations to find the ones that need attention.
For example, we are using 3 different tags to indicate if a book needs to be temporarily moved to the course reserves collection/location of the library. In this example, we frequently need to view books with these 3 tags at the same time but currently there is no way to do this…
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""Display in Discovery" link should go to Primo view based on your location in Alma
Currently if your Alma instance has multiple Primo views, you can only choose one for the ""Display in Discovery" link to go to. This can be incredibly frustrating for anyone needing to see the display in a different Primo view, as they have to edit the url.
Every Alma user already has to choose a location when they log in. Therefore, Alma should be configurable to go to a specific Primo view based on the current location of the Alma user.
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Add Lender/Borrower addresses to Label code table in select Fulfillment and Resource Sharing letters
Fulfillment letters and Resource Sharing related letters would benefit from having an easy mailing label field, to be toggled on and off in the “Labels” section for letter editing when a Library would like to add a mailing label to a letter.
With collaboration from our Alliance colleagues, we created a shipping label directly on our Ful Resource Sharing Request letter. When we print our pull slips, a second page is automatically generated with a printed mailing label with the Borrowing Schools address information, along with information to allow our mail room to expense it to the correct fund. By…
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Create a widget from a set
It would be very useful to add the ability to create a widget based on the results of a logic set.
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Add option for inventory's title to the "Interested In" letter
When we receive items on a standing order POL, our interested users listed in the POL receive the standard "Interested In" letter notifying them that an item has been processed. However, when the standing order POL is attached to a brief bib for the series, the letter only gives the series title and not the individual item's analytic title. As a result, the interested user is only notified that a new item in that series has arrived, but not what that specific item is.
The letter's XML does pull the individual item's call number through @@callNumber@@ : <xsl:value-of select="notification_data/poline_inventory/call_number"/>". Replicating…
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Add sync option to Alma sandbox environment
Could we add a 'Sync' button on each configuration page to apply changes from the sandbox environment to the production environment?
This would be beneficial for modifications like CSS changes, terms of use, fulfillment rules, mapping, etc., and it would reduce the risk of human error during the transition.
Also, having a sync option from the production environment into the sandbox environment would be great for troubleshooting possible issues.
Thanks.
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Increase password strength requirements
Our institution's security protocols require certain password strength requirements that do not align with ExL's general password guidelines of 8 characters or greater. With the rise of identity theft and database exploits, ExL standards are not up to date with current guidelines. Our institutions minimum password requirements are:
i. Be at least 15 characters long
ii. Be no more than 127 characters long.
– Some applications limit the number of characters that can be used.
iii. Not be used for the user’s other accounts.
iv. Not consist of a common phrase.
v. Not be based on something that’s guessable by…6 votes -
(Option to) make an aborted search request permanent and prevent it from loading in the background
Sometimes you hit the search button to early by mistake, starting a request that takes quite a long time to load. If you cancel this request and make a new request, the new one will often be completed earlier, giving you the right results. Yet the original request would continue to load in the background, making the results list to switch back to the wrong results.
For example you are searching for "appendix" but hit enter after typing "a". Now you can cancel this request while it is loading, and do the right one for "appendix". Some time after you…
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Printouts Queue: Include more info in printing queue display
Idea: Include bibliographic or request information in the display of the Printing queue. (E.g. An additional column that displays Title and/or Internal/External identifier).
Rationale: There may be multiple desks/people scanning in requests at different times; it would be helpful to be able to see which item a letter was referring to at a glance. This information is available from the "preview" option, BUT, it takes a lot of time and clicks to open each to see if it should be printed or reprinted.
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A new design for the homepage of ALMA
It would be really lovely if the homepage to ALMA was colourful and bright with easy access to the major functions we use in the library. For example there could be a homepage that has different bubbles (5 in a circle with one in the middle for example) and people can drag and drop their 6 most used icons. For library assistants this would be super useful if we could open ALMA and instantly be able to issue / return books / search for a service users name / card number for easy access. It would also be great if…
4 votesThanks for this suggestion. We will review this internally and of course will wait to see if there are more votes,
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Notes for display logic rules
We would like a notes tab in the Discovery Interface Display Logic rules screen. We have over thirty rules, and some are inactive. We would like a way to record some notes as a record of our decision-making for this quite complicated area.
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Provide better bib relinking functions
Provide better relinking functions. For example, when I need to move all the items (with multiple holdings) to another record, I need to transfer one holdings record at a time. It would be nice to be able to select the holdings records we want to move and relink them one time. Also when we are moving course reserve holdings from a short bib record to a full bib record the reading list does not update to the full bib record. I have to go into the reading list and remove the old bib and attach the new bib record to…
4 votes -
Allow filtering and sorting on all columns in "In process items"
In the "In process items", some columns can be filtered (Process status, request filter, library) and some can be sorted but not all. It would be useful to be able to filter by "Modified by", "Modification date" and to sort by "Modification Date".
4 votes -
"in process items"
On the 'In Process Items' screen, the default search currently is Title. Many library staff members search via barcode and others via Title. It would mean one less click if the default search can be either changed to All or that whichever search index the staff select that it becomes sticky so that they don't have to reselect.
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Make the Library facet customizable, so that certain libraries can be hidden from search results.
We are in a consortium with a shared instance of Alma, but we do not lend materials among our institutions. Currently, the LIBRARY facet in Alma/Primo VE will display holdings from all institutions if applicable for a given search. It would be helpful to be able to select only certain libraries to display for a given Primo VE view.
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Add an option for Quick Printing to be enabled by default
Allow for users to have quick print enabled by default for their account. Currently switching to a new computer, resets the option back to unenabled.
3 votes -
Allow bulk updating of citation sources
It would be very helpful to be able to run a job to delete, add or update a set of citation sources in bulk.
3 votes -
attachement tab in e collection editor
can we have an attachements tab in e collection editor so we can attach useful docs/comms relevant to that source, thank you
3 votes -
Batch printing Labels and RFID tags in one action
I'd like to be able to select newly added (or old) purchased stock and print their labels and RFID tags. Printers are available to do both. Spineomatic app still requires manual adding of barcodes which wastes time.
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Print results of query
The print function for printing a query would be extremely helpful. I can print using the browser, but the columns are squished, so I would use 3 times the amount of paper as I would by using print from the screen, if that function is set up. It's much easier for long lists, so that we don't need to write down numbers, titles, or vendors as we check off the work we need to do - especially for the time period when Alma is new and we're working tasks to get things set up correctly.
3 votes
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