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Add warning to "Scan In Items" and "Shipping Items" for certain item policies
We would like to suggest the implementation of a pop-up for "Scan In Items" and "Shipping Items" to alert staff when they are about to process an item with a restrictive item policy (e.g. 63, 67, 68, etc.).
For example, when a request is placed at the title level and there are multiple items with differing item policies, this pop-up would be helpful to avoid processing the wrong item.
73 votes -
Scan-in items to create an Itemized Set
For many of our workflows, we have a large batch of physical materials upon which we need to perform a bulk action (e.g. place them all on a Work Order or request a Permanent Location change, etc.) The items are on book trucks and there is no Set upon which to Run a Job unless we create a new one every time as a TXT or CSV file, which then has to be uploaded to Alma. It would save a lot of confusion, plus work and training time for staff and student workers, if it was possible to use Scan-In…
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Attach multiple courses/sections to a reading list more quickly
We use a single reading list for many sections of a course, and also reuse these reading lists from semester to semester. Attaching courses to a preexisting reading list is a very slow process which must be done one at a time. I'd love in the reading list courses tab, when you click "Associate Course" and then "Select from List", you were given the option of a checkbox so that many course sections could be added to a reading list at once.
Alternatively, in bulk upload of courses, if you can attach a NEW course to an existing reading list,…
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Library level patron limits configuration
It should be possible to configure the Patron Limits table at the library level. Only Max Cash, Max Overdue and Max overdue recalls should be configurable, so that each library will be able to control when it starts blocking patrons independently of one another.
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Manage Item Returns: Send one Return Receipt Letter can be aggregated like the overdue notices.
There should be a standard configuration that would allow libraries to set it up and set a batch time so a returned receipt would reflect all of the items returned in one day for a given borrower on one "returned" receipt.
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Save Facet Settings
There are facet settings/searches we tend to run more than others. It would be really excellent and save a lot of duplicated work if it was possible to save certain facet configurations or bookmark the search so we could quickly access it again later. Would be even better if those searches could be shared among our staff, like how public sets are.
An example would be having a saved Request/Process type facet filter so we could quickly see what items were needing to be shipped physically, but there are any number of facet searches that it would be fantastic to…
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Add Fulfillment Jobs Configuration : a daily aggregation letter of returned items
The existing "Return Receipt Letter" is sent in two situation:
1. when librarian clicked the done button at 'Manage Patron Services' screen,
2. After scan each item at "retrun item"
this letter is set in Circulation Desk configuration, user recieve letters after return items each time.we suggest Alma create a new Fulfillment Jobs Configuration* to sent "return receipts", like the existing configuration "Loans - Overdue and Lost Loan Job".
The new configuration could reflect all of the items the patron returned at the same day, and list all items for the patron on one "returned receipt". Configured as such,…
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Make "Always show current location" the default
Please either make "Always show current location" checkbox ticked by default or allow a system configuration to toggle whether it is force displayed. It is always more useful to see the location than not.
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Add Library Filter to Create Fulfillment Sets
The Create Fulfillment Sets functionality would be so much more useful if we could choose to create sets by Library rather than by the whole institution.
It's a very rare case to want to see Overdue, Lost, or Claimed Returned items for a whole institution and having to export the data into a spreadsheet in order to filter the results is very time consuming.
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Add Storage Location ID to the list of customized fields on the Manage Item Returns screen
We have thousands of items in our collection that are primarily organized by the storage location ID, rather than call or accession number. For these materials, routing and reshelving activities would be more efficient if staff have the option to add the Storage Location ID to the list of customizable fields on the Manage Item Returns screen.
26 votes -
Add Patron Limit threshold block for number of lost items
It should be possible to automatically block users based on a set threshold for the number of items they have checked out that are in a lost status.
Currently, the Patron Limits table only contains delinquency threshold blocks for Max Overdues, Max Cash, and Max Overdue Recalls.
Not all institutions automatically charge a lost item replacement fine for lost materials. For some lost items, the replacement cost may be below the Max Cash block threshold for the user’s user group, but the library would still like the user to be accountable for/aware of their lost status materials; being unable to…
36 votes -
Pick From Shelf Notification for Staff
We would like to have the ability to have "Pick from shelf" send email notifications to certain staff members when a patron requests a book be put on the hold shelf for them to pick it up. This would be easier and more efficient for us, than periodically logging into Alma and clicking on "Pick from shelf" to see if anything is there. Thank you.
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Improve General Electronic Service
In each General Electronic Service, the Service Details page has a section marked "Disable Service," with radio button options for
Never, When resource is owned by the campus, When resource is owned by the campus and available, When resource is owned by the institution, and When resource is owned by the institution and available. These controls do not work. I have been told that making them work would be an enhancement. I suggest that they be hidden or removed in order to avoid wasting the time of library staff in trying to make them work.3 votes -
Make it easier to create sets of courses
The only way to create a set of courses is to get the course IDs from analytics.
This is a problem for Sandbox where we have no access to analytics - especially for those of us with generic data.
eg...
1. Include the course ID when downloading a list of courses to Excel with All Fields selected (and make the course ID an option to view in the table.
2. Enable save and create set when viewing a list of courses
3. Enable course code to be used when creating a setThis would be very helpful now that we…
19 votes -
Material types not sorted and not searchable at the title level
The item-level search for specific material types is not sorted alphabetically. This is the case in the English user interface.
A title-level search for this parameter would also be desirable.2 votes -
Library opening hours for more than 3 years
When setting standard opening hours in library calendar Alma automatically sets the field "Valid to" for 3 years. But the opening hours do not change very often. This setting also does problems by long term loans, because now the opening hours are valid to october 2024 but the library wants to loan documents to january 2025 (documents bought from some grants and the academic staff is working with these documents for a long time). In would be nice to have a possibillity to set somewhere that library opening hours should be valid for more than 3 year e.g. for 5…
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—-—-—-— Marlise Daum commented: Lieber Moritz Eigensatz Ach so… Du weisst ja sicher, dass man über “View title in Search” das Exemplar find
Barcode of item visible under requests
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Marlise Daum commented:
Lieber Moritz Eigensatz
Ach so…
Du weisst ja sicher, dass man über “View title in Search” das Exemplar findet.Aber direkt anzeigen bei den Requests lässt es sich (momentan) nicht. Welches Exemplar/Strichcode betroffen ist, lässt sich auch erst erkennen, wenn der Request einen bestimmten Status hat (zum Beispiel “On Hold Shelf).
Gerne kannst Du dazu einen “Enhancement Request” einreichen: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma
Liebe Grüsse
Marlise
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Add vendor information to Order Now Letter
Currently in the Order Now Letter the vendor information is not output in the XML, which is automatically generated when submitting an order.
With adding this feature, the ordering person could then also receive the information by e-mail from which vendor the resource was ordered.
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Expand Course Reserves Facet/Advanced Search Functionality
When working in Reading Lists and Courses the facet filtering limits staff to a single selection in a category at time. However, many institutions have multiple terms or staff liaisons serving more than one academic department. In such cases, it would be quite helpful to allow staff to select multiple facets. The inability to multi-select prevents staff and their managers from being able view the whole picture and effectively managing the work.
If that’s not possible, we’d like to request that you expand the advanced search options for reading lists, courses, and citations to make all of the facet options…
7 votes -
Display purchase request approval/rejection reason in purchase request alerts in citations
We think it would be helpful for the purchase request approval/rejection alerts for citations in Alma to include the approval/rejection reason. This would appear in the Type field of the alert in addition to the "Citation Purchase Request Approved/Rejected" text (like how the rule used to approve/reject copyright for a citation appears after "Approved" or "Rejected" in the Copyright Status field).
1 vote
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