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  1. Currently in Technical Services Until...

    In Acquisitions: When we use the "Post-Receiving Processing" scan to "Set Status To" a particular technical services area, it would be fantastic if we had the ability to give each area a specific default number of days the item will be in that area. For example: we're setting an item's status to be pam-bound in-house and when we scan that item's barcode to set its status to Pam Binding, the Alma system would automatically give it a certain number of days to be there. Alternatively, when we set a status for sending another item to our out-of-town bindery, the default…

    1 vote
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  2. manual orders: adding the possibility of selecting/deselecting the POLs for an invoice

    a. an invoice arrives:
    b. as very often is the case, it is referred to only a few POLs of a big PO (a PO containing a lot of POLs)
    c. we use the function “create invoice” with parameter "invoice from PO";
    d. all the POLs are automatically assigned to the invoice, then you have to choose the relevant ones, and that’s OK.
     In order to choose POLs, it should be necessary to have the possibility of selecting/deselecting the POLs with a check: now it is not possible, and you have to cancel the POLs one by one: this…

    8 votes
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  3. Ensure invoice lines always appear in the right order on the Purchase Order Lines page of the new UI

    There is a tendency of the new Alma UI to scramble the order in which invoice lines appear on the Purchase Order Lines page. We would like to request a permanent rectification of this.

    Scenario:

    1) Staff member searches for an PO Line.

    2) They click the Edit option for the search result, and from the Purchase Order Lines page which comes up they select the Invoice Lines tab.

    3) The invoice lines are correctly ordered with the latest invoice at the top and the previous payments follow going back in time.

    4) They then click into a different tab…

    4 votes
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  4. Colour/shade gradients to tell the different between license statuses (Active, Retired, Deleted)

    In the list of licenses it would be useful to have a colour/shading gradient difference between active and inactive licenses.
    For example, when you delete a license it still remains in Alma, it is just given the status deleted. This is fine as it provides a history, however, as the deleted licenses in the list look exactly the same as active licenses, apart from the status note it can often be difficult to tell the active and deleted licences apart, especially at a glance.

    It would be useful to change the colouring/shading gradient, for example, grey out the text, for…

    64 votes
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  5. Work with more vendors who provide SUSHI to make them Alma-certified

    Factiva and PLoS both provide SUSHI credentials, but they do not work with Alma, and are not currently an Alma-Certified SUSHI vendor. Please work with them so that we can draw our Factiva and PLoS usage via SUSHI.
    Thanks,
    Amy

    11 votes
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  6. Vendor contacts need phone extension added

    When adding a new contact to the vendor location, there could be numerous people using the same base number, but with different extensions. Can you add a space to allow entering the extension?

    35 votes
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  7. Item's inventory price

    a) Instead of clicking Allocate every time to assign the item’s inventory price from the PO line, the process should be automated as was the case in Aleph.

    b) The final price from the PO line should be converted to our local (and default) currency automatically and written to the item’s inventory price field.

    c) When an invoice is paid in Alma, the item's inventory price should be updated automatically with the final amount in our local (and default) currency.

    All of the above is required for reporting to our financial department and library management.

    25 votes
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  8. Enable customization of Receive New Material columns

    We would like to have the ability to completely customize the data elements in the Receive New Material columns. Vendor name, for instance, which is not a current column option, would be helpful. Our library, like many others, combines Receiving and Copy cataloging functions, so Brief Level would be an extremely useful column to see at point of receipt, in order to enable easy identification of bibliographic record quality.

    9 votes
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  9. Include the same details in an Acquisitions Placed HOLD as for a Patron Request placed through the repository search

    Currently, we cannot use the checkbox to hold an item for an interested user in the PO Line to place an item on hold. This is because the information provided when this option is chosen is so much more minimal than what is seen if we put a request on the book from the repository search, that our Fulfillment department often does not expect the hold -- it does not show up when the scan the item in, and it does not indicate who it is for. As a result, items where we use the hold item checkbox from the…

    9 votes
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  10. Add percentage to reporting codes

    Now that ExLibris has added the secondary and tertiary reporting codes, it would be really helpful to be able to add a percentage to each of the additional reporting codes so that PO lines and invoices will show the percentage split, just like the fund codes do. This would be especially helpful with ERP so invoices that are split across more than one reporting code/fund would not have to be dealt with manually.

    4 votes
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  11. More Configuration for Work Order Type Statuses

    There is currently limited functionality for configuring Work Order Type Statuses. It would be helpful to be able to do more than just Add and Remove statuses. Being able to edit/rename, rearrange the order, and set a default would be useful.

    11 votes
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  12. Enable embedding fund balance graphs and data on Alma Home Screen

    Fund balance data from Analytics is inaccurate as data is piped in to Analytics on a daily basis, making fund balance widgets created in Analytics less useful for checking available balances. We would like to request the ability to quickly access up-to-the moment fund and available balances available under each fund under Acquisitions > Funds and Ledgers > Fund > Reports in home page widgets. This would enable staff placing order to check live fund balances easily on a regular basis.

    34 votes
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  13. Display local price in addition to the foreign currency price

    We need the display of the local price in addition to the foreign currency price on the Invoice Lines tab and in the POL summary tab. That's very important for us.

    60 votes
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  14. Automated Invoicing for Amazon

    Amazon is a common supplier of materials for many libraries and the current process of needing to manually enter invoices in Alma is very slow and tedious. I don't believe Amazon supports EDI, but they do provide invoice/order information in CSV format. It would be really great to have the ability to automate or batch load Amazon invoices.

    14 votes
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  15. Allow different configuration of Interested User emails for ebook orders

    Currently the automatic email for the Interested User of an ebook order isn't triggered until the status of the order changes from 'Sent' to 'Waiting for Invoice'.
    It would be beneficial if we could configure the emails differently to allow an alternative trigger eg the activation date.

    This would eliminate the current considerable delays between the ebook being available and the sending of the email.

    41 votes
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  16. Add fund rules fields to Tools>Excel export in Funds and Ledgers search results screen

    Support have confirmed that it's not possible for an Alma user to access reporting on the fund rules fields e.g. over expenditure allowed, over-expenditure limit etc.

    They suggest the quickest way to achieve this would be to add these fields as columns to the Tools>Excel export function in the fund and ledger search results screen.

    8 votes
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  17. Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record

    Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record
    Description Hello,

    This is an enhancement request.

    Even when an electronic collection is linked to a bibliographic record in the Additional descriptive information field of the collection record and when an Electronic Collection PO line is linked to the collection, it currently is not possible to get to the PO line when we look up the title as "All titles" and click on the "More info" link. We have to use an Electronic Collection search to get to the title…

    10 votes
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  18. Invoice - Vendor account - Mandatory field configurable

    The vendor account field in the invoice details should be a mandatory field. This is not configurable. We have not a choice here in the vendor field and the vendor account field will not filled in automatically. Please, change this.

    4 votes
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  19. Change the parameters in "Item Search in Amazon"

    Change the parameters in "Item Search in Amazon" to include media (specifically DVD's and music CD's) and/or an "all" option so that all materials can be processed through this one workflow instead of just books or magazines.

    5 votes
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  20. Add other participants to trial after initial trial email is sent

    There is only one opportunity to send out a "participate in trial' email. This means that although it is possible to add a participant to the trial, no email is sent out to this person if the initial trial email has been sent.

    It would be great to have the option of sending an email to individual or all participants again.

    6 votes
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