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check box for items found
When looking for items at the shelf it would useful if found items could either have a check box or could be greyed out or highlighted.
some method of distinguishing the items that have been collected.13 votes -
Alma Digital: Option to unsuppress bib when mark object active
When working in Alma Digital and you change an object to Inactive, you are prompted about suppressing the bibliographic record, which is great. We want that. However, if changing it back to Active, you do not get that same prompt - you have to go into the Metadata Editor to unsuppress the bibliographic record. It would be really helpful if we could unsuppress the record when making an Digital Object active again.
2 votes -
Purge User Records – Add field to prevent purge of users with active requests.
In addition to Number of days, user record, user group, and waive threshold, an institution should have the option:
Do not purge if there is active request(s)3 votes -
Provide a configuration to limit by material type to a specific pick-up location
For institutions with multiple libraries where only one library may have A/V viewers or microform readers it would be helpful for that institution to limit the pick-up location by material type to the library that has the necessary equipment for onsite use.
This would eliminate confusion and time delay when a user makes a request to pick up a material type at a location where they cannot use it onsite.5 votes -
Allow the use of comma for decimal separator in item replacement cost.
Hello,
Instead of using a decimal point for the decimal separator, the Brazilian real have a comma. The thousands separator for Brazilian money is the period.
Alma does not allow the use of comma as a decimal separator in item replacement cost. This is causing several problems to us, as this field had comma in it from our previous system (Aleph), and every time we need to update an item record the system gives an "Item replacement cost must be a number" error. Also, it seems that any Analytics report that includes the field results in an SQL error.
Regards,
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5 votes -
Restrict circulation of reading list items to students in a course
Hello,
In Alma, our library would like to add students to a course, and then have circulation of the reading list for that course restricted to the students in that course.In other words, students who are not linked to a course would be unable to checkout items from the reading list for that course.
Ideally, this would be an option when creating or editing a course.
Thank you.
3 votes -
Standing orders - Quantitly for pricing should be "1" by default and the "Update Net Price according to item quantity" should be unchecked
This idea was opened by Ex Libris to see how the community supports it.
For standing orders - Quantitly for pricing should be "1" by default and the "Update Net Price according to item quantity" should not be selected by default (unchecked))
"The 'Update Net Price according to item quantity' is really useful in a lot of cases, but when creating a Standing Order (which doesn't create inventory), the Quantity for Pricing = 0 and this box needs to be unchecked in order to be able to add a List Price and Fund. the idea is for this box to…
2 votes -
The option for Fulfillment AND Internal notes to pop up during Check in/out
When scanning an item into the Scan In Items screen, both Fulfillment and Internal Notes pop up. However, when scanning items into the Circulation screens (Manage Patron Services & Return Items), only Fulfillment notes pop up.
We would like the option for Fulfillment AND Internal Notes to pop up for staff while using the Circulation screens at the desk. There tends to be important information in both fields that they should be aware of while checking items in and out.
3 votes -
User API order response of identifiers
When a response is received from the users API the identifiers aren't ordered.
For example our library gates system requests a GET on the user API to retrieve an identifier, in our case <id_type desc="Additional ID 1">OTHERID1</id_type>. it can only read the first hit for this identifier
I would like the response to order the values by status, with Active coming first.
This would allow us to read the active value and ignore any subsequent Inactive values
This is an example what is currently returned
<user_identifiers>
<user_identifier segment_type="Internal">
<id_type desc="Additional ID 1">OTHERID1</id_type>
<value>1234567890</value>
<status>INACTIVE</status>
</user_identifier>
<user_identifier…3 votes -
Collection Discovery: Allow several libraries to manage a collection
In the Collection Resource Editor > General tab, we would like to be able to add several libraries to a collection (instead of just one).
When the viewtolibrariesforcollection_discovery Customer parameter is set to true, this would allow to display a collection on several Primo views, for example in case of a shared collection in the IZ which does not belong to a specific library.
21 votes -
From my assigned purchase requests, allow selection of multiple requests to be assigned to someone. Doing it line by line is cumbersome.
From my Assigned Purchase Requests, allow assigning multiple requests at once to someone else. Going in line by line is cumbersome.
1 vote -
API to get and upload Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles
It would be great to have an API to get a list of all Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles as well as being able to get and upload individual profiles.
We have 300 libraries, each of which has 3 or more Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles. Being able to manipulate the profiles with an API would be of great help in keeping track of all these profiles.
1 vote -
Allow the "Type of Unit" field in the item record to be edited in the item record rather than in the holdings record
Right now you can add the Type of Unit to the item record by adding an 85X $$o to the holdings record. If you have more than one you can do this:
853 $$8 1 $$o Ten year cumulative index
853 $$8 2 $$o Supplementthe Type of Unit will become a drop-down and you can choose.
However, this is a lot of work, and not intuitive. We would like the ability to type into the Type of Unit field in the item record.
1 vote -
Alma Analytics: Usage Data Subject Area
In Alma Design Analytics, add "Fund Ledger" to the folders in the "Usage Data" Subject Area. Collections staff want to be able to look up titles they have ordered out of their "Fund Ledger Codes" and see how much they have been used, especially TotalItemRequests. The decimal-point breakdowns of usage in the "Cost Usage" folder in the "E-Inventory" Subject Area are too confusing/convoluted, and only use UniqueTitle/ItemRequests.
3 votes -
Allow Request Notes to be edited even with complex Fulfilment Rules
We introduced Fulfillment Rules to check if there are any "Process Types" assigned to an item and make them unrequestable. For example if an item is MISSING, REQUESTED, LOST, LOANED, etc.
This allows an item without a process type to be requested fine. Unfortunately, the moment you try to edit the Request Note and update the request, it ends up rechecking the Fulfillment rules and oddly cancels the request.
We were hoping we can use the edit Request Note process to mark items when our library officers have done 1st/2nd/3rd shelf searching of items before they become officially marked as…
3 votes -
Prevent drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer
When Access rights indicate to “Allow View” but not download,
Alma viewer currently allows downloading the pdf by “saving as”.The digital Viewer should prevent this option.
Preventing drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer is required to manage digital content resources in alma.1 vote -
If POline is cancelled, want to reduce the price from PO
If POline is cancelled, want to reduce the price from PO, or can this be configured per library?
1 vote -
Show when a MMS record is Suppressed on the Electronic Collection search results
When using the Electronic Collection search, the results list does not show whether the MMS record is suppressed. This Idea is to suggest that the suppressed icon is displayed on the Electronic Collection search results when the MMS record is suppressed from discovery.
This is important if the Electronic Collection has CDI results - if the MMS record is suppressed from discovery, so too are all of the CDI results. So, when trouble-shooting why CDI records are not displaying as expected, it would be helpful to see the suppressed icon on the Electronic Collection search results page rather than having…
3 votes -
Visibility of display logic rules at the Alma collection level
It would be very helpful to flag activated Alma collections when they are concerned by display logic rules.
At the moment, there is no indication and activation changes may have some impact on the discovery and fulfillment level. It would be very useful for electronic operators to be directly alerted (for example with an icon) and it could prevent collection deletions or other mistakes made due to lack of knowledge.
2 votes -
Replace the search index label "Creator" with "Author"
the label used for the author index in the title search is confusing, implying that it is the creator of the Alma record, as shown in Alma Analytics, and not the author of the title.
19 votes
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