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Restriction for privilege "change due date" is needed: for loaned items within scope: allowed - whereas outside scope restricted
"For dual layers it would make sense to be able to restrict the privilege "change due date" in CDO-roles for inventory outside own scope. It would be great to be able to allow to change due date only for loaned items whithin scope, but to be able to prevent it for loaned items outside scope. If it were additionally usable via the "circulate for" specification for the libraries for which "my library" is allowed to lend and book back, it would also make sense. It is very unfortunate that "change due date" can currently only be allowed in a role…
14 votes -
Allow lending RS locate process to fail if it cannot determine which volume from a multi-volume set is being requested
Currently, Alma's lending locate process will automatically select a single volume from a multi-volume set if it can't determine which specific volume is being requested in a title level lending reqeust. It often selects the incorrect volume, and that error is rarely caught before the incorrect volume arrives at the borrowing library. It would be very helpful if the lending locate process failed in these scenarios rather. That would give library staff the opportunity to manually review the reqeust and select the correct volume.
4 votes -
Order lines - Customize view: please add "Acquisition method"
Our colleagues are missing the field "Acquisition method" in the results list when searching for PO Lines.
Currently the field is only a facets value but this will also not add the field to the Excel export file.
Thank you in advance!49 votes -
Prevent placing different request types on the same item
Currently in Alma there is no cross check and no way to prevent a patron from placing both a Physical Item Request and the Digitization Request on a single item. The Ex Libris expectation is that requests will be reconciled through the request queues. However this adds additional time to the request process as it requires contacting the requester to confirm which type of request they need. I encountered the lack of a preventive configuration created a concrete clash as it came to our attention when a patron placed both types of requests on an item. This impacted 3 locations…
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Using Oracle Analytics Publisher to customize the notification letters
Oracle Analytics Publisher is the reporting solution to author, manage, and deliver all your reports and documents easier and faster than traditional reporting tools. Use your web browser or familiar desktop tools to create everything from pixel-perfect customer-facing documents to interactive management reports against practically any data source. We need to connect the desktop client to the Ama Analytics server to customize the look and feel of notification letters to our students and staff.
3 votes -
Pick from Shelf, sort by title
Hello,
Currently our Pick from Shelf has 4 options to sort the titles:
Location Name- Asc
Location Name - Desc
Call Number - Asc
Call Number - DescI would like to see the titles sorted into alphabetical order.
Thanks!
3 votes -
'Chat agent is available' should only appear when agents are actually available
Maybe this is a rare edge case, it just happened the first and so far only time we wanted to use the chat which is pretty off-putting. We saw the line saying the agent was available, opened a chat, it looked for an agent for a while, then said no actually no-one's here, try again later. When I went back to the start it still said an agent was available (but when trying again, no they still weren't). So how are we meant to know when we can actually chat with someone or not?
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Ajouter le bouton "Informations de liaison" pour la sélection du portfolio lors de la création du lien vers la communauté
Lorsque l'on souhaite lier un portfolio local à la communauté, on sélectionne notre portfolio puis on clique sur "Lien vers la communauté". Une sélection des portfolios de la CZ apparaît, mais parfois les portfolios sont très similaires et sans les "informations de liaison", il est impossible de les distinguer. Il est alors nécessaire d'annuler l'opération, de refaire une recherche du portfolio dans la CZ, de repérer lequel est le bon via les "informations de liaison" qui nous permettent de vérifier l'URL, et de noter son MMS. Puis de refaire l'opération de lien à la communauté.
Pour plus de fluidité, il…3 votes -
Extend or allow one to be able to extend the time it takes to time-out when on the Manage Patron Services screen.
Please extend or allow one to customise their own time-out settings for the Manage Patron Services screen.
Gets on my nerves when I'm in the middle of composing an email to a Patron about their loans and I have to keep bringing up their account because it goes back to the search screen.
I need more time if I'm dealing with: fines, loan history, and making notes on an account, whilst trying to communicate what I'm doing.
3 votes -
Add portolios from CZ Updates Task List to associated collection in bulk
The Community Zone Updates Task List displays portfolios that were added to a non auto-active collection. But you can only handle these portfolios one by one. It would be helpful to select the desired portfolios and to add them in bulk to the associated collection.
The planned solution from ExLibris to manage collections as auto-active collections is not wanted because not all portfolios that are automatically activated are interesting to the library (e. g. when the library has a specific book stock and does not provide its readers with all scientific disciplines).1 vote -
Addition of DOIs and Proprietary Identifiers as Title Identifiers to Analytics Criteria
In Analytics within the Subject Area "Usage Date" the "Book DOI" (Counter R4 Reports) or "DOI" (Counter R5 Reports) are not selectable as Title Identifiers.
The same is true for "Proprietary Identifier" (Counter R4) or "Proprietary_ID" (Counter R5).
Since this information is sometimes listed in the corresponding columns of the COUNTER Book reports, it would be helpful if this information could also be retrieved in Analytics.
9 votes -
Make Provider Account ID info available to users as an Analytics option
Need Provider Account ID in order to use the Resources report called 'My Electronic Resources by Provider' to get electronic resources counts on all providers not just the ProQuest default.
1 vote -
Internal data and all non-fulfillment data deleted from external account when accounts are loaded from external system through API
Updating users from an external source (such as Banner) using the API means that any non-fulfillment information will be deleted such as Roles (the only role left is the Patron role), barcodes, alternate addresses, emails, phone numbers, fines/fees, blocks, attachments, proxy information.
Would it be possible to make sure that an account's update from Banner through the API only affects the fields supported by Banner without wiping off any other fields?
3 votes -
Show editions of books when doing a search in either Physical Title search, or Physical Items search, not just All item search
This is a more practical and efficient way of showing book's info , as the edition is not restricted to All item search.
1 vote -
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The download page appears automatically next. You have to click on the Download tab. Select the Save or Save As tab if you see another prompt on the download screen.
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Auto-expand the UI preferences in the User menu
Our staff often don't know about the 'UI preferences' personalization options to change the font size to better suit their needs, or to see the handy list of shortcuts directly within Alma (rather than having to go to the online help documentation). This is because it's hidden behind an unnecessary dropdown arrow.
When I show it to staff, they exclaim happily to know that they have such options, but this is often quickly followed by a comment of regret that they weren't aware about this already for years.
There's a significant amount of empty space available in the User menu…
1 vote -
Block lenders from updating expired lending requests to shipped
Alma currently allows libraries to ship lending resource sharing requests even after they expire. This can occasionally create extremely confusing situations where the borrowing library receives multiple items from multiple libraries for the same lending request. Unfortunately, Alma completes both the borrowing and lending request when the lender who let the reqeust expire receives the item they shipped back from the lender. The only way to fix a problem like this is to delete the original reqeust at all three libraries and then create a brand new request. Can you please have Alma block any attempt to update a lending…
9 votes -
Send ebook access models through the autoholdings integration profile
It would be very helpful if vendors could send ebook access models (1U, 3U, UA), and Exlibris could load them into the portfolio information, as part of the autoholdings integration profile, especially for Ebook Central. Updating this manually is difficult, especially given that ebooks are added to this collection continuously through many different feeds and not all of them have PO lines where access models can be added. We want to take full advantage of this great new feature, and it would be great if it could be automatically managed for us.
33 votes -
The text font ,font size and color of Metadata Editor
1.When using Metadata Editor, the font size and color of the editing area are not friendly to the editor.
2.The text in the editing area needs to be enlarged by 150% in the browser to make it convenient for users to work for a long time
3.The text color or font in the editing area causes the black text to look like gray, which makes it inconvenient to check the bibliography
4.Can workers modify the Metadata Editor environment to make them comfortable working environment, such as the font size, font type, and font color in the editing area?
This can…
54 votes
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