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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 votes -
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?
101 votes -
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 votes -
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 votes -
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.
17 votes -
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 votes -
delete pol
We really have the requirement to delete a POL attached to a PO in our daily work, we will have to reopen the POL and then cancel it and then delete it, it’s kind of complicated and can we delete it directly?
12 votes -
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 votes -
Search more than one POL at a time
The new feature of the october 2018 release made it possible to receive several POLs at once by selecting the desired POLs. We usually have a very large number of POLs and can't filter them by any more details. That makes finding the wanted POLs difficult.
We would like to be able to search for more than one POL at that point.32 votes -
Searching for a title with "&" should also search "and" when searching for PO lines and invoices
When searching for a title in any of the Acquisitions (i.e. Order Lines, Invoices, Vendors, Funds, etc.) filters, searching for a title containing "and" should also pull up any results with an ampersand (&) in the title.
e.g. Searching the title "Law and Inequality" will not find the title's PO line unless it is spelled as "Law & Inequality."
134 votes -
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 vote -
EDI check in for print journals
Alma documentation states that Alma supports the following Edifact message types – INVOIC, ORDERS, OSTENQ, ORDRSP, ORDCHG. However our old LMS Aleph supported an additional Edifact message type called DESADV.
This allowed our serials agent, Ebsco, to check in our journals in on the LMS remotely via EDI once our monthly consolidated deliveries of print journals were despatched from the warehouse.
Provided our prediction patterns matched the PIA line this worked efficiently. An example of EDI text is as below:-
LIN+1'
PIA+5+0001-4788(2012)42?:1;1-9:SI::28'
IMD+L+050+:::ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS RESEARCH'
QTY+12:1'
RFF+SNL:52280023'
RFF+SNA:52280023'The above essentially means that for order no 52280023 (linking to…
24 votes -
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 votes -
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 votes -
Receive on order
The only way to receive an item on order is to go into the Receive function within Acquisitions and this requires that you have a known POL or browse through the list but that is not a viable option for the amount of orders we have open. The bulk of our materials come on approval so the POL is created in the load process and therefore not noted on the invoice and unknown. In order to receive, staff first search Alma for the correct order record and write down the POL. Then they have to go into Receive and search…
28 votes -
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 votes -
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 votes -
Eliminate the confirmation step when editing item records.
The process of receiving journal items is unnecessarily slowed down by having to confirm every single edit. Clicking on "Save" should be enough to get the job done. Breaking out Receive as a separate step has already added a step to the process. Please consider any and all ways of reducing the amount of time spent looking at blue spinning circles. Thank you.
19 votes -
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 votes
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