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Enhance Display Logic Rules to incorporate the same full functionality options of General Electronic Services
Display Logic Rules options are limited in allowing only Hide options by User Group, ownership by campus or institution, or presence of another service. They also have hardcoded display depending on the service, such as displaying only when a user is logged in, and only in Get It or View It (some of which are understandable per service).
In contrast, General Electronic Services are extremely powerful with Show / Hide options by true or false default rule, choice of display in Get It and/or View It, allowing display when not logged in, as well as by ownership by campus or…21 votes -
Add the Item call number in the Reading list
Courses > Reading lists : On the “Edit reading list” screen, it should be possible to see the Item call number too (and not only the Call number). In our library we sometimes have several copies of a document which means that we have multiple items in one holding.
In situation A, only one of the items is added to a Reading list.
In situation B, different items are added to different Reading lists. But since you don't see the Item call number on the "Edit reading list" screen, it is not obvious which item is in which Reading list.1 vote -
Change override return date and time default value.
Hi,
Hope that there has a way to change the default time that comes up on "Override return date and time" from 00:00 to 23:59?
Otherwise, it's an extra step for our staff backdating returns.
8 votes -
Offer letter/notice digest option for users
Currently, every book checked out and returned (if loan receipt and return receipt letters are enabled in Alma) will trigger an email notice to a patron. The option to set a daily digest of fulfillment activity would cut down on the number of letters received by patrons, which would help ensure that they're not overwhelmed with information and potentially miss a detail in the flood of emails.
4 votes -
Remove "Valid Until" in calendar entries
The current behavior in Alma is that any calendar entries have an effective date and a valid until date, that is automatically 3 years beyond the date the event was last edited.
The effective date does not in my mind serve any purpose and creates puzzling and frustrating situations for fulfillment services staff if the current date approaches any of these valid until dates, because patron loans will start being shortened, seemingly for no reason.
For exceptions, date ranges are called explicitly. For standard hours there either should be no valid until date, or this should be specified explictly, to…
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Holds on behalf of patron
We would like staff operators (perhaps with certain roles) to be able to place holds on behalf of patrons regardless of TOU settings.
Additional information: we don’t allow our undergraduate user group to place holds on items that are currently available in our local collection, just on items that are checked out. In the testing I’ve been doing, configuring that TOU option also prevents staff from placing a hold on an available item on their behalf.
To remedy this we’ve allowed undergraduate students to place holds in the TOU but hid the hold request service on the Discovery Display Logic.…
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Ability to remove default suppressed filter from resource locate
When using resource locate within reading lists to link a citation to a title the default search filters out suppressed title records.
This could be changed by adding mms_tagSuppressed to the Locate Citation By Fields table (Fulfillment Configuration > Courses > Locate Citation By Fields). Allowing it to be disabled.
This would be useful for us as we regularly use suppressed records where the physical item is not held but a representation of a chapter or article is and the representation will not be discoverable by primo. This prevents a title with no holdings appearing.
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Library opening hours - prolong the "valid to" field in bulk
It would be very helpful to have a possibility to prolong library opening hours in bulk. We have more than 40 libraries and now the only possibility to prolong library opening hours is to open each line with opening hours, save it and run the "Apply changes" job. With so many libraries with many lines for opening hours in the library calendar will be this change for many hours of clicking.
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More circulating rules and displays
The display of the elements of the Conditions of Use (TOU) in Primo VE offers only one choice: "loanable" or "non-loanable" (or other local labels). This poses a problem for us for the elements which we wish to communicate on site during the day and which must therefore not appear as borrowed to avoid misunderstandings (cf. computer equipment) but which we wish to lend without "override". At the other end of the spectrum, we have the confidential copies which must not appear with a mention as "communicable ..." either. These conditions of use should be displayed according to 4 modalities:…
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More information on Process Type Transit
In 'Item history', you can see when an item was checked in and out of transit, but not for whom or whereto. If something goes wrong with the transit, you can't get any information about the inactive/completed request.
59 votes -
Include loan and fee information in the "User Notifications Letter"
We would like to be able to use the "User Notifications Letter" for end of the school year cleanup. When seniors are graduating we want to let them know what they need to return and/or pay off in order to graduate. We can use a fulfillment job to send the User Notifications Letter to patrons in a set. However, it doesn't currently include the information about each patron's circulation activity, so we can't use it for this purpose.
Adding the loan and fee information into the xml for that letter would allow us to access it and include it in…
14 votes -
shortcut for "Write to RFID and save"
Dear Ex Libris
There is already a shortcut for reading RFID tags (Alt+A) when scanning in an item.
It would be very helpful and speed up processes, if there was also a shortcut for "Write to RFID and save" in the physical item editor for quick tagging items.
With Kind regards
Daniel3 votes -
Add the Override Return Date and Time option to Individual Returns from Patron Services (rather than just from the Bulk Returns page)
The current (11/2021) Returns tab in Manage Patron Services does not display an option for Override Return Date and Time.
Please add cross-functionality so that the override can be performed from this screen in addition to its current location in the bulk Return Items function.
In this way, a single item can be returned with the corrected date (preventing a letter being issued for overdue fines) without having to specifically route in through the Return Items function, which is listed in documentation as being suited for bulk returns.
For a library with lower circulation numbers or individual items returning through…
3 votes -
Display logic rules coverage year
When using display logic rules for full text, it would be great if also the coverage year where consideredt
4 votes -
Ability to delete/remove redundant copyright records from the Approval Requests list
We would like the ability to delete/withdraw or otherwise remove pending copyright approval requests in the Approval Requests list.
There are a few reasons why a Library may wish to do this:
-Associated citation has since been deleted
-Patron digitization request has been cancelled
-Citations with copyright records that require manual approval were added to the Approval Requests List as part of the rollover. However, some of these units will not be using Leganto and will never submit a reading list.
In these cases, rejecting copyright is not appropriate as there was no genuine request for copyright approval. Rejecting will…14 votes -
Identifiers label - show the identifiers in the user language
We would like Alma shows the different Identifiers in the user language. For example, if we have the Spanish configuration, we would like to see the name of the Identifiers in Spanish (not in English)
Thank you!3 votes -
Patron discovery activity should be viewable in Manage Fulfillment Activities
It would be very useful to be able to access a dashboard via "Manage fulfillment activities" that would show stats for the Patron's Discovery activity -- for example, the number of times they have signed into their account, etc.
3 votes -
Item Policy Sorting in Drop-down Lists (including Rialto)
When selecting values from a drop-down list of item policies, scrolling through a list to find a common one (say, "Books") is onerous. The documentation states that drop-down sort order can't be defined by up/down arrows or default values in the table in Fulfillment Configuration. In Rialto, the options aren't even presented alphabetically.
I would like to see options to sort Item Policy drop-downs by either or all of these:
a. most-used first
b. most-recently-used first
c. alphabetical
d. configurable based on up/down arrows in Item Policy Configuration Table5 votes -
Clear Process Type (Transit) of all Items in Set with Job
Often books get skipped during scanning-in and are reshelved while still having a process type of "Transit." This leads to hundreds of materials over time in the stacks showing as not in place. A set with only these items can be created, but a bulk clearing of this field isn't yet possible.
Any of these would work:
1. create a job that clears the Process Type (specifically books marked Transit that have already been reshelved but were skipped during the regular scan-in process)
2. scan-in all items in a created set
3. scan-in multiple barcodes at once (separated by ;…26 votes -
Fulfillment Administrator in Read Only but Box option to Configure all library calendar
It would be great to just have the option in Fulfillment Administrator role to Configure Institution calendar and all library calendar activating box option even for Read Only enabled.
3 votes
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