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When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved
When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved. Right now it returns you to the top of the list each time.
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A new Community Zone Updates Task List report for when a portfolio changes vendors
CZ updates task list does not show titles switching from one vendor to another - that is a big issue for us. Eg. Philosophy of science changed from University of Chicago Press to Cambridge University. The portfolio URL is still Chicago Press, but one is redirected to Cambridge University.
Finding info in CZ updates is extraordinarily difficult. Mostly because there are thousands of titles we don't have any reason to look at.
It would be very helpful to be able to search the list by ISSN and OCLC number as well.
It would be helpful to have a report indicating…40 votes -
Enhance Shelf Report
Shelf report is a great tool but only searches for items based on permanent location and not their current/temporary location. As a result, items that are on display will display exactly as if they are missing and scanning a display shelf shows that the items were scanned but do not belong in that location, the same status as if an item from the traditional shelving was placed on the display shelf.
Additionally, it was previously posted (June 28, 2022) that it would be useful to be able to select multiple locations when performing a shelf report. It was commented that…
15 votes -
Ability to put Mailto links in electronic portfolios within a collection.
We have vendors that have lots of individual titles that are associated with different products. We create electronic collections and add the portfolios. Users must email the provider to request an ID. While you can add a URL, you cannot add a mailto link in the general electronic service.
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Make electronic collection portfolios searchable by MMS ID
Within an electronic collection, we would like the ability to search for portfolios using MMS ID. This would be useful for some maintenance tasks. Currently, it is only possible to search by Title, ISBN and ISSN.
2 votes -
auto populate the end date for an invoice
When entering a date range for a subscription, it often crosses into the next fiscal year. Having to select the year before you use the drop-down to select the month and day adds a lot of clicking. It is rare to have a subscription that isn't one year in length. It would save a lot of time and clicks if the end date (1 year later) would auto-populate.
4 votes -
Add a tab "re-loan" to Patron Services to return and re-loan items in one step
An additional tab (e.g. "re-loan" or "Wiederausleihe" in German) would be a valuable improvement to the Patron Services page.
The goal of this tab is the returning and re-loaning of an item to the patron in one step, with a pop-up warning if there are requests present in the request queue.
The option of a re-loan tab would be a big help in cases where large amounts of items are reloaned to the same person when the items reach the maximum amount of renewals. The additional tab would make the process easier, less error-prone and especially faster.153 votes -
Add Statistics note 1-3 to portfolio Note tab
The portfolio currently doesn't have enough note fields, especially for Statistics and one has to be very creative, combining reports, in order to retrieve something of value to report on.
We make extensive use of our Statistics note 1-3 fields in the Statistics Notes section of the item record's Notes tab and use Analytics to harvest the data entered in each of these note fields for various reports required for operational and management purposes. In the same way, the portfolio record's Notes tab can benefit from a Statistics Notes section with Statistics Note 1-3 fields. These notes must be harvestable…
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Suppress bib record when no active portfolios/services
If a record has zero active services, it should be automatically suppressed in Primo. When we choose to use the CDI records for a collection instead of the CZ records, there is a button to "change to CDI-only full text activation." This suppresses the service, but it does not suppress the bib records. We have to manually run a job on each collection to also suppress the bib records. Most of the time this is fine (even though it's an extra step), but if some of the CZ bib records overlap with other collections, we don't necessarily want to suppress…
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Alternative work order behavior - Usage should be departmental, not individual
We would like an alternative to how work orders work now. We want the department (or “agent”) to initiate the request, rather than an individual using their own personal account. So that usage is calculated as “departmental” or work order, rather than the individual.
1 vote -
No request cancellation with change of item description
Actually it seems that Alma automatically cancels requests when there is a change of location (not the same FU rules anymore), of item policy (not the same TOU anymore) and a change of description (as this field is to be found in the request form).
For the latter, we would like to have a possibility to choose whether the request should be cancelled.101 votes -
user - add option for dynamic purge date - e.g. 12 months after expiration date
Right now the purge date is a static value manually inserted when registering a new user. When the user renews registration, purge date must also be manually updated.
In our library regulations we'd like to purge users after a specific amount of time after expiry date. Keeping purge dates manually up to date is however quite an error prone procedure.
It would be great to have the chance to automatically update the value in purge date when saving according to specific a timespan (e.g. 10 months or 10 years after expiration date).96 votes -
Tasks Widget: Show 'Assigned to me' consistently in ALL Task Lists
In the Tasks on the homepage, 'Purchase Requests' ALWAYS show any tasks 'assigned to me' when I expand the curtain.
'Reading Lists' NEVER shows any tasks 'assigned to me' when I expand the curtain. There are often Reading Lists assigned to me, so it would be helpful to just be able to see that like with Purchase Requests, rather than having to look in on all reading lists every day.
Same with Borrowing Requests, and Lending Requests. 'Assigned to me' does not show, whereas Electronic Resources assigned to me do appear.
This variability in the conditions for display of 'assigned…
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Sorting Lending Requests
Add option to sort by Call number to Resource Sharing Lending Requests
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Allow a block to be created as part of the 'change to lost' overdue and lost loan profiles.
We'd like the ability to create a block when an item is made 'lost' as part of the overdue and lost loan profile schedules.
At the moment we can only add a block on the overdue notification types, which we do for the last overdue notification we send before it becomes considered lost.
However, as soon as the item is changed to lost by the profile schedule it removes the block automatically created by the overdue notification profile.
The advantage of using the profile block is that they are automatically removed if the item is renewed or returned and we…
49 votes -
Support full SIP2 protocol
For the communication between selfcheck kiosks and Alma, the SIP2 protocol is needed.
The full protocol can be found here: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/3M-Standard-Interchange-Protocol-Version-2.00.pdfUnfortunately, Ex Libris does not support all fields that would be available in the protocol (marked as 'not supported' in this document): https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/selfcheck/sip2/
Please make the whole SIP2 protocol available for Alma.
94 votes -
Correct "Print licence" functionality
When we print the licenses the order of licence terms is not the same one that appears in Primo and in the Licence terms details.
We would like to have a print with the same order of the licence terms details or to have the possibility to reorder its as we prefer9 votes -
Enable additional types of requests via API
The API documentation for the Create User Requests endpoint notes that "is currently NOT possible to create GENERALDIGITIZATION, MOVE or WORKORDER request." Enabling this functionality would facilitate batch processing of items for various workflows.
2 votes
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