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Update details of multiple SUSHI accounts at once
Currently to make changes to a SUSHI account you must do each account individually. This means if some detail of our SUSHI credentials changes for a vendor we have to manually make that change on each SUSHI account we have set up for that vendor, which could be 8+ accounts.
It would be really good if we could select multiple SUSHI accounts and then make a change across all of them, e.g. updating the URL or RequestorID etc.
5 votesHello All,
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Please allow adding multiple sequences with numeric prefix.
Now only one sequence with numeric prefix is allowed; if I want to add multiple sequences with numeric prefix, I have to add a random alphabetic prefix and then remove it. Please allow adding multiple sequences with numeric prefix.
3 votesHello All,
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Allow a default setting for "Assign Inventory Manually".
When several orders for items with existing holdings are being created it would be helpful to be able to have "Assign inventory manually" automatically checked.
This most often occurs with serials when new orders are being created because of a vendor change. We close the old PO in order to preserve the history and create a new one with the new vendor.0 votesHello All,
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Purchase order line details (subscriptions)
Under the note tab gets filled up with "The PO Line has renewed automatically on (renewal date) by the system" as each year passes. This note should be in the history tab. The note field should be about important information pertaining to the subscription only.
8 votesHello All,
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Expand the options for rolling over different types of PO Lines differently
We would like to be able to differentiate how print and electronic POLs roll over.
If either of the following could be done to address this, it would be great.
Expand the roll over only certain types POLs list from
One Time
Continuous
Standing Order
To the full list of POL types, or at least to factor in print vs electronic.OR, alter the option to roll a single POL over to instead let you roll over the POLs in a public set.
3 votesHello All,
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Stop POL lines closing from Receiving?
Currently when receiving an item back ordered item (ordered 4 but received 1) the process is you receive just the one and the invoice just the one item. But when the other 3 items have been received Alma is closing the POL once they have been received? This is causing issues as the Supervisor must then delete the invoice and unreceive the item and start again. After checking all the learning material and ex-Libris/Alma videos there is no way for a person to be doing this and the Pals from the area have even watched the whole process and it…
8 votesHello All,
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the closed pol cannot be modified
Currently the POLs could be modified even if the status is closed. In order to prevent the mistake we wish that the closed pol can not be modified and have a view function for the closed POLs.
2 votesHello All,
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Allow inventory to be linked to multiple licenses
We would like inventory to be linked to multiple licenses. Some resources are licensed with two entities...the content provider and the access provider. An example of this is APA. If we choose to have our APA content hosted by another provider (which is an option), we must have a license with both APA (content provider) and the access provider.
Currently, we need to choose only one license to link the inventory to. Which one do we choose?
100 votesDear Community,
Thank you for submitting this idea.
Per Alma module it is possible to link one license for a portfolio / collection.
Changing this module is complicated and raises questions such as what to display in discovery and more.
We will not be doing this for now.
Thanks,
Tamar Fuches
Alma product manager
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Apply Reporting Code from Encumbrance to Disencumbrance
In a disencumbrance transaction, Alma does not apply the reporting code assigned to an encumbrance to the disencumbrance. Because we use the reporting codes as a part of funds allocation, this practice causes the disencumbrance to be ignored thus overreporting the encumbrance for the reporting code. Please apply the reporting code of the encumbrance being disencumbered to the transaction of the disencumbrance.
4 votesHello All,
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Confirmation message when receiving items for continuous titles
Please consider adding a confirmation message when an item for a continuous title (e.g. print serial) has been successfully received. This messaging--which would be similar to the "success" screen when checking in serials in Aleph--would make the process much clearer for student workers who often handle this task in academic libraries.
Thanks for considering!
13 votesHello All,
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Option to receive from items list
Please make it an option to receive an issue, without having to navigate away to the specific "Receiving" page, if you are looking at it on an items list. Often I'll be working on items and notice that one of them is not received when it should be, but I can't change that without interrupting my workflow or opening a new window.
16 votesHello All,
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Add option to use hyperlink in license terms
Add functionality to license terms displayed in Primo under "Show License" to include a hyperlink, or clickable link. It would be helpful to be able to include a URL in the list of license terms, that patrons are able to click. Our institution uses an external tool to help determine terms of use and would like to direct patrons to the tool using a link in the License Terms.
4 votesHello All,
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Allow for Gift Acknowledgement Letters
The Legal Deposit method of acquisition allows for letters of acknowledgment to be sent to the vendor by automatic email from Alma after the item is received on Alma.
This functionality is lacking for the 'Gift' method of acquisition. As standard we like to send an acknowledgement to all of our donors and it would be ideal if Alma could automate this process as it does for Legal Deposit acknowledgements. The functionality to send an 'order' letter for a gift is there - but not for acknowledgement of receipt, which is actually the wrong way around for our requirements.
4 votesHello All,
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采购查重
由于ISBN查重仍有问题，会产生大量复本图书，所以ISBN查重不能满足实际的需求。还有系统的模糊查重配置是去精确比对100和245字段，在系统中放在100字段的只能是单个的创作者creator，而多个中的其他创作者、还有所有贡献者都会放在7XX中，在我们导入订单时，不论是何种责任方式，我们都放在了100字段，所以，如果系统是直接将我们导入的100字段和系统的100字段比对，这是不科学的。正确的比对方式应该是将我们的100字段和系统的1XX和7XX一起比对才是。再者245字段，由于某些老师给的题名不完整或者不规范，所以，在245的比对时，也不应该是一对一精确匹配，而是应该将导入的245去符号，和系统中已有的245去符号进行比对，只要系统中245完全等于或者全包含我们导入的245，就当做重复给予显示，才完美。比如导入的245是xxxx：xx，系统的是245xxxx:xx 再比如我们的245是xxxx：xx，系统的是245xxxx:xxsssss；这两种情况的重复提示，才是需要的。并且90多条数据，人工查了77条重复，说明了永久检索框中实现了上述我说的245题名查重，但是订单创建那边模糊查重却没能做到。希望订单创建查重那里进行优化，从而完善查重需求。
1 voteHello All,
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Vendor Contacts (Contact People tab) should not be internal contacts in Alma
When you enter Vendor Contact Details in Alma (Contact People tab) the internal contact form is used and the vendor contacts are stored as internal contacts. This form is inappropriate for Vendor Information. It asks for non-applicable fields such as gender and birth date and there is nowhere to add important information such as the contact's name, title and company they are associated with, work phone number, cell number, fax number, etc
3 votesHello All,
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Shopping cart color change depending or open or closed orders.
Currently the shopping cart, indicating order/s, is green. It would be helpful if all the orders were cancelled or closed if the cart were another color, say red. If the order or even 1 order of may are active then the green cart.
7 votesHello All,
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Configure issues to appear in chronological order rather than alphabetical order for recieving
For titles (especially newspapers but some others) that don't have a volume number, ALMA lists them in alphabetical rather than chronological order when receiving new issues. This is highly inconvenient as well as illogical. It means clicking through page after page of issues for newspapers, which are predicted a year out. Surely there must be some way to arrange them chronologically? If not, then it would be helpful if ALMA could show more than twenty results per page.
7 votesHello All,
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Can ALMA give a warning msg when a duplicate barcode has been assigned?
Sometimes duplicate barcodes can be assigned manually. Can ALMA give warnings?
8 votesHello All,
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5 votes
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Display of licence terms in View It tab from PO lines
We have turned on the display of licence terms in the View It tab in Primo.
We have noticed that the licence terms only display if they come from the portfolio or electronic collection.
If the licence is only attached to a PO line, the terms do not display in the View It tab.
It would save time if the terms could display from the licence attached to the POL as well.2 votesHello All,
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