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Add 'Portfolio Parser Parameters' as a Portfolio Loader matching option
Please add 'Parser parameters' as an additional matching option for activating CZ portfolios using Portfolio Loader.
Matching by ISBN for large ebook activations results in too many multiple portfolio matches. Since the title IDs in most vendor lists or KBART files match Alma’s parser parameters perfectly, they provide a much better unique identifier than ISBNs for ebooks.
3 votes -
Ability to see files shipped via Lending
It should be possible to see the files that a Lender ships to another library via Lending.
This feature appears in Borrowing as Show File.
When the Borrowing library complains about the quality of a file, the Lending library has no way of seeing it in Alma, only via their own local servers.1 vote -
Badges for Resource Sharing
There are two Request Types in the patrons' list of Requests:
a. "Patron physical item request" which is used for regular requests and b. "Patron physical item request (resource sharing)" which is used for RS requests.
They are very similar and this is confusing for Fulfillment staff when checking Requests, especially when both types appear.
See attached file with two examples of requests: the first one is for Resource Sharing, and the second one is a regular request.
Proposed solutions:
1. We would like to suggest creating a new Resource Sharing Badge so that Fulfillment staff can clearly differentiate between…7 votes -
Feature Request: Add Vendor Filter for "Acquisitions > In Process Items"
We would like to request the addition of a Vendor filter in the Acquisitions > In Process Items screen.
Currently, we organize processing items by distinguishing between purchased and donated materials. However, there is no way to filter or sort processing items by vendor, making it necessary to open and check each individual item to identify its vendor information for purchased materials.
Adding Vendor as a filter option would allow users to quickly view and organize processing items by vendor, significantly improving the efficiency of the acquisitions workflow.
3 votes -
Allow institutions to add custom descriptive names for Reporting Codes
We recently updated some of our reporting codes. It would be great to be able to add descriptive names. As an example, rather than having to remember that the 1st Reporting Code is for "Collection Area" we would like to customize the label so that "Collection Area" appears in the POL, invoice, and related components of Alma and Rialto instead of "1st Reporting Code".
3 votes -
Allow faster 'All titles export' in UI by adding option to only download titles' MMS ID
We are grateful for 30 local parameters in Alma Analytics, but frankly could use way more (i.e. as many as the number of MARC fields that we use that are not already available in Analytics. For example '035' is available in Analytics via 'Network Number'). Sometimes to get Analytics to output what we need, we must run the search in Alma first. However, the 'All titles export' is intolerably slow for as few as 5K bib records. Possibly, if the Tech team thinks that 'All titles export' UI time could be shortened by adding an option to output/export only MMS…
8 votes -
Add ability to inventory attachments in Alma Analytics for vendor records
Add attachment field to Analytics reports, so we can see if we are missing quotes, invoices, VPATs, etc.
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OAI publishing profile - Add portfolio provenance field to Enrich Electronic inventory section
In a OAI publising profile, Data Enrichment tab, section Enrich Electronic Inventory, it is not possible to choose Provenance Field, we need it to be available via OAI for integration with third party systems. Thanks
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Add publishing year field when creating new local portfolio
The current workflow for adding the publishing year for local portfolio is not comfortable. The year can only be added when manually editing the record in the metadata editor. Furthermore, the default date is set in the "default template for creating e-journals/e-books" in the metadata editor. That means, if you create a local portfolio, it silently sets a default year. If you don't change the default year in the default template, you will accidentially have a default year from 2022 or earlier etc. (depends on what is set in the default template) because it doesn't update itself year by year.
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3 votes -
Change bibliographic (bib) references for PO lines with job
We have thousands of pre-migration suppressed bibliographic records attached to orders. We need to be able to attach these orders to their current unsuppressed bibliographic record with a job. We request a new job that would allow us to upload a list of POLs and the MMS ID of their corresponding new bib records. It would behave the same as the manual "change bib reference" function on a PO line, and should provide details in the report for any relinking that was not successful.
Other than cleaning up pre-migration data, this is necessary for any large-scale change in bib record…
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Provide more info on bulk fine waiving confirmation screen
Bulk fine waiving has been enhanced to allow waiving from a set or from an uploaded file, which is great. However, before running the irreversible job, a moment that is typically a bit fraught for the user, it would be very helpful see the number of fines that the job will waive with the current parameters applied. Currently no info is given by the confirmation screen and this leads to uncertainty as to whether the indicated set / file was being properly recognized. The confirmation screen should be more in line with the standard manual jobs or the portfolio loader,…
3 votes -
Short Loan Letter Timing
It would be great if the trigger timing for the Short Loan Letter was modified or an option was added to only trigger after 1/5/10 minutes of transactions.
Example right now it is triggered by each item scanned, so I can check out 3 short term items at the same time, and then get 3 emails back to back, one for each item. It would be better if there was an option to send the notice for all short term items checked out in 1 minute or 5 minutes.
1 vote -
fine free return
It would be great to have an option to fine free return items when they are found.
Currently we only have the option to backdate returns, which requires us to look up the original due date to ensure there are no fines. This would skip that step
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MDE: same behaviour for all languages/scripts which are written from "Right-to-Left"
Hi,
There are several scripts that are written from "Right-to-Left":
Arabic, Aramaic, Azeri, Divehi, Fula, Hebrew, Kurdish, N'ko, Persian, Rohingya, Syriac, Urdu.When typing a Hebrew letter in the Alma MDE the direction switches automatically from "Left-to-Right" to "Right-to-Left". Same for Arabic, Azeri, Modern Aramaic, Kurdish, Persian, Urdu (see attached file: Alma-MDE-Scripts-written-from-right-to-left.pdf).
Please provide us the same behaviour for all the languages/scripts concerned.
In our library, we are especially interested that when typing a Syrian letter the direction also switches to "Right-to-Left" automatically.
Thank you in advance!
63 votes -
Improving Participant Management and Anonymous Feedback for Database Trials
We recently used the Database Trials feature in Alma and would like to suggest the following improvements:
Anonymous Participant Feedback
It would be very helpful if participants could submit their feedback anonymously. Experience has shown that anonymous feedback encourages more open and honest evaluations, thereby providing a better basis for decisions regarding the acquisition of electronic resources.Improved Participant Management
Currently, participants can be added either individually or via a set. However, once they have been added, the options for managing the participant list are very limited. Participants can only be removed one at a time. If the wrong set…
41 votes -
Quick printing of Loan receipt in requests for personal delivery
In the workflow for items requested for personal delivery via the GetIt tile, all documents are sent to Quick Printing except for the one needed most to ship the requested item, namely the Loan receipt containing the delivery address (quick printing means: opening it in the browser’s print dialog). When scanning in an item picked from the shelf, the loan receipt is not sent to Quick Printing but only to the email address configured as Fulfillment printer and to the printouts queue, where our staff must then locate it and send it to a local printer.
We work in a…
8 votes -
Analytics Authorities Locals Deletes
We need an analytics report for deleted authorities in which we can determine the type of vocabulary it belongs to. We made an incident on the Alma support portal "10583316", and they gave us this explanation and suggest us to report a new idea:
"The Analytics behavior for authorities is that the vocabulary code is not displayed for deleted authority records. This is because the MMS ID is taken from the MMS record table, which preserves information on both live and deleted records, while the Vocabulary Code is taken from the authority heading table, which preserves information only on live…
1 vote -
Sorting of Call Numbers correctly on Alma
When sorting books by Call Number on Alma, the ordering is slightly incorrect. It takes into account punctuation but it shouldn't when doing the ordering. So for example, if ordering in ascending order, 309.54 D47 appears BEFORE 309 B282 because of the full stop, but it should be the other way around because XXXB should be before XXX5.
It would be good if there was configuration to allow correctly sorting of the Call Number, similar to how you can use 'Normalized Call Numbers' in Analytics.
3 votes -
Allow to start the "Import PO Approvals" job via the Alma API
The "Import PO approvals" job from the Finance integration can only be executed in 2 ways as far as I know:
- either by scheduling: daily at 2AM, 11AM, 4PM, 6PM or 7PM; 2 of which are within business hours
- or by clicking the "Run" button next to it manually for which you need the "General System Administrator" role in Alma (not an option to give to regular staff)
Alma does allow us to set up the Finance integration multiple times (up to 5) to have it run on more than one schedule but that is not nearly enough.
When our…
3 votes -
Title: Allow Custom Scheduling Options for the Fines Transfer (Bursar Integration) Job
Title: Allow Custom Scheduling Options for the Fines Transfer (Bursar Integration) Job
We would like the ability to define custom schedules for the Alma Fines Transfer (Bursar Integration) job, rather than being limited to the predefined scheduling options currently available.
At present, this integration profile does not support the flexible Edit Scheduling functionality that is available for many other Alma jobs. Institutions can only select from a small set of fixed schedule options, which do not always align with local business processes or external finance system requirements.
For example, our institution needs to run the Fines Transfer on the 21st…
12 votes
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