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POL and its communication must be sent to account provider email
At the moment in ALMA, if a POL has a communication:
• the POL is sent in a first notification to accound provider email
• the communication (with its file attached) is sent in a second notification to provider email.
This behavour is not logical and doesn't respond to our need.
Our request : POL and communication (with files attached) must be sent to accound provider email in one notification.
Thank you to support our request.14 votes -
Make the "Has Content" indicator responsive not just to tables and lists, but also to fields and drop-down options
The "Has Content" indication appears only when a table or list on the tab contains contents, but not if it has information in the "form section" (https://www.screencast.com/t/F7G5uKmvcnh). Some tabs (e.g., Licenses> License Details > License Terms) only have a form section though, so the "Has Content" indicator will never appear regardless of whether it contains populated fields.
3 votes -
Allow filtering of the task list by invoice number
This will enable a more streamlined workflow. All the tasks on an invoice number can be quickly identified without needing to enter each individual title.
1 vote -
Receiving items without creating a barcode by location
We have a location for our current periodicals. We check in a current issues here but will normally not add a barcode to these item records. We looked for a way to set this location to not ask about creating a new item without a barcode. We found a seeting in Acquisitions -> Receiving Department Validations, which can be set as not check if item has a barcode. But it will remove barcode validation from ALL locations.
That is not what we need. I would want to make sure that books being received get barcode validation and bound periodicals as…
1 vote -
Possibility for turning off Auto-Assigning in task list when opening or editing an item without completing the task in the Alma Config.
When working in several different task-lists in Alma, you are automatically assigned to any Item that you open and/or edit and exit out of without completing the task. This applies to items in the Purchase Request, Invoices (in Review) and Electronic Activation Task list and more.
This may be perfectly logical for certain institutions' workflows, but for others it may be cumbersome to have this across all task lists.
It would be great to have the ability to turn this auto-assigning on or off for the different task lists in the Alma Configuration so that people could open/edit and close…
50 votes -
Purchase Requests: Create 'Archived' Tab?
Purpose: Purchase Request Management. To retain complete request history, whether approved/ordered or rejected, in a group separate from new, not-yet-assigned requests.
Controls needed: 'Archive' operation added to the Row Action Menu. Full ability to move archived requests out of the archived condition and back into the 'unassigned' state and condition, or to delete.
22 votes -
Re-assign a SUSHI 5 account
Suppose you assign a COUNTER 5 SUSHI account for a specific vendor. You discover later that the SUSHI account should be set to a different vendor. You delete your vendor account and remove the SUSHI account. When you try to assign the SUSHI account to the correct vendor, you get an error message. The SUSHI job runs for the account regardless of whether or not it is on the correct vendor record. Please make it possible to re-assign a SUSHI account to a vendor record when you make a mistake. See SF# 00809337
7 votes -
Add "PO Line Owner" as a input parameter for Purchase/Invoice Review Rules
Would like to be able to use "PO Line Owner" as a input parameter for Purchase & Invoice Review Rules, so that the rule could be applied by location, rather than just vendor
6 votes -
Setting a pickup location for interested users
It would be nice to set the pickup location as you do with requests. Currently the item goes to the "owning library" and the pickup is set there. We have Faculty that prefer different libraries for pickup so if a book is purchased but we allocated it to a Science Library but the faculty goes to a different library we can't set the pickup for that item.
72 votes -
Link holdings when creating an order for an existing physical standing order.
Currently when a new order is created for an existing standing order, with "Assign inventory manually" checked, the user has to create the POL then exit before entering the supplier, price, fund code, and other information.
The POL then has to be linked to the holdings, which is an entirely separate process. Only when this is done can the necessary order information be entered.
Allowing the user to link to existing holdings as part of creating the order would make this a much more seamless process.1 vote -
3 votes
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Hyperlink and give status of invoices that are listed under a particular vendor the same way they are when In Review or In Approval.
Invoices are currently hyperlinked when they are listed in a In Review or In Approval queue. Not so, when you are looking at invoices under a certain vendor, nor is their status indicated if they are In Review, In Approval, Waiting for Payment or Closed. When researching a certain vendors invoices, it is sometimes necessary to look at a number of invoices in a row, which is not currently possible, because you have to cut and past and when you look at one invoice and try to go back, it bumps you into a queue totally unrelated to your search…
3 votes -
Add the function of un-receiving items in bulk
It takes a lot of time to un-receive item one bye one; we need to find POL including un-received item and click ‘Manage item’ menu next to the item and then un-receive the item. It would be better that there is some way of proceeding the un-receiving process in bulk.
14 votes -
add next year as option in serials subscription date range picker
As many serials subscription ranges begin with the next calendar year, add NEXT YEAR as an option in the Subscription Date Range date picker. NEXT YEAR would start 1/1/[NEXTCALENDARYEAR] and end 12/31/[NEXTCALENDARYEAR].
38 votes -
Activating Ebooks - moving the done button away from the delete button
Could you move the DONE button to the top of the list when activating ebooks? Having the DONE and DELETE buttons next to each other means it is easy to click on the wrong button by mistake.
1 vote -
Duplicate licenses
When duplicating licences give the option to include the attachments. Sometimes we want the license to appear with a different name on different orders but still want the attachment to remain the same.
3 votes -
Ability to store & track VPAT® documents
As part of the procurement or licensing process, many libraries may request that a vendor provide a VPAT® (Voluntary Product Accessibility Template) in order to indicate their compliance with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act. It would be desirable if functionality could be developed somewhere in Alma that would allow libraries to track & report whether/when a VPAT was requested and received, which VPAT version was used, and local notes related to accessibility testing.
104 votes -
Claim
When I place a claim, I add a receiving note that itemizes which issue I have claimed. I remove this receiving note when I have received the claim. It would be great if there was a way for me to automate a note when I have claimed an issue, and if the note could be automatically deleted after the issue has been received.
1 vote -
Adding PO lines when creating a licence
We would like the ability to link the license to a PO line in the license details. To open the PO line tab and add the PO here.
1 vote -
Add EOD FILE Information and Alma Job number to POL Notes Tab
When a EOD is used it would be helpful if the EOD job information was added to the POL Notes tab within each pol file. Whenever I need to fix a EOD load issue I often have to sort through multiple loads to find the correct one. Having the file name and the Alma Job number on the notes tab would greatly speed up this process.
1 vote
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