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Facets on reading lists page do not behave as expected
When selecting 'up to a week ago' or 'up to three days ago' from the facets on the Reading Lists page, I expect to see everything modified from today up to either a week ago or up to three days ago. Instead, selecting 'up to three days ago' excludes lists modified today or yesterday. Selecting 'up to a week ago,' excludes lists modified today, yesterday, and up to three days ago. In response to my Salesforce case, Ex Libris Support said this is how the facets are designed to work and to submit an enhancement request.
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Search for Courses from top search bar (persistent search)
I often have to remind colleagues (and myself) that you can only search for Courses by clicking through Fulfillment > Course Reserves > Courses.
It would make more sense for the Course search to be an option in the persistent search drop-down.
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Facilitate automatic transiting option to specified department when creating a work order
A frequent complaint I hear about work orders is repetitive scanning. Adding a radio button that allows an operator to place the item in transit directly to the work order department specified when the work order is created could eliminate the necessity of scanning an item to place it in transit after creating a work order. The option would be helpful from both the Place Items In Process screen after Work Order is selected from a Row Actions List, and within the Create Physical Item Work Order job.
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Add a Create Work Order Tab to Scan In Items
Adding a Create Work Order tab to Scan In Items, with dropdown options for Process Type, Do Not Pick from Shelf, Notes and Managing Department, could greatly reduce some of the repetitive clicking and scanning done by processing staff throughout the day.
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Custom triggered fulfillment notes
Allow staff facing fulfillment notes (e.g. those triggered on check-in/out) to be triggered on just one or the other. That is, some of our notes are only relevant on check-out and it's unnecessary to have them pop-up on check-in.
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Add Claims Returned items to Task List
Monitoring Claims Returned and Missing items requires analytics. There should be a way to see the current items with a claims or missing status so staff can actively search for the items. Having the items on a task list would be ideal. Searching for claims items is a standard task for fulfilment.
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Display logic rules coverage year
When using display logic rules for full text, it would be great if also the coverage year where consideredt
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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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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.
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Resource Request Monitoring screen should not only show the date but also the time when a request was made
In Alma Menu -> Resource Requests -> Monitor Requests & Work Orders we need to be able to see the time that a request was created, not just the date.
3 votesSubmitted by Ex Libris PM on behalf of our customers
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Have Related Holdings assigned lower AVA lower subfield P for correct View in Primo
Currently the priority for related holdings is not being considered when writing the AVA subfield P when exporting to Primo. This is incorrect. The record itself should have a higher priority than the related records. This can cause the Primo aggregated call # display to be misleading: http://screencast.com/t/06sd3csq
In the screenshot above, if the priority was set correctly upon extract from Alma, The correct holding information would be displaying beside the Available statement in Primo
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Improve xml for FulResourceRequestSlipLetter and FulTransitSlipLetter
We would like the option to add more information to our Resource Request Slips, but are limited by data not present in the xml. Specifically we would like the following to appear:
-All request attributes
-Course Reserve information, primarily the department placing the requestThe addition of these xml fields for possible display on these slips would increase staff efficiency when sorting and processing materials arriving from other library locations.
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block new bookings being placed 15 minutes before library closing time
If a booking for a course reserve isn’t picked up then another person can’t borrow the item overnight – can we stop booking 15 mins prior to closing time
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We would be interested in knowing if, as part of fulfillment in ALMA, there is any way to view the last few patron accounts accessed by staf
We would be interested in knowing if, as part of fulfillment in ALMA, there is any way to view the last few patron accounts accessed by staff . It would be a very useful feature when carrying out certain tasks.
By accessed by staff we mean any patron record which has been 'opened' by a member of staff on their login. On our old system we could view the last 5 patrons but even the previous 2 or 3 would be useful. We have extended the time a patron stays on the screen now but if a long query was…3 votes -
Requests Tab - Tasks
The Task Column displays the text "Not Started" if an item is On Loan. For Resource Sharing requests it displays the text "Not Started" for all statuses e.g. Created Borrowing Request, Request Sent to Partner, Digitally Received by Library, Waiting for Cancel Response etc... Is it possible to change this to a more meaningful text such as "In Process"?
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Add an internal note to the list of available Quick Cataloging fields
Circ Desk staff should be able to "leave a note" for Resource Management when adding an item using Quick Cataloging. We would like to use a note for Circ Desk staff to initial the item records they worked on, and also to let RM know of anything unusual they notice or questions they have about the piece.
Right now, the only note field available during Quick Cataloging is the public note, which isn't appropriate for this kind of thing. At least one of the item internal notes should be available for this.
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Enhance Alma to offer notes that are displayed for electronic resources to every user, campus member or non-campus member
We would like a way to display local holdings information on Primo for ebooks held by libraries from individual campuses.
We are 1 institution of Alma but have a number of libraries linked to Campuses across the institution.
Some of these campuses have their own local subscriptions to ebooks and we are unbale to display this information on Primo.
We have tried using the public note from the Notes field in the Electronic Portfolio Editor but this only displays when a patron from that Campus is logged in (we use OpenAthens to authenticate).
If a patron is outwith the campus…
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Searching for patron in Manage Patron Services
Since the Manage Patron Services search limits the results to 10 accounts, it would be helpful if it would limit the search to last name or at least rank it by searching last name first. I realize you can use the "Select from list" option but a lot of people aren't aware of that option. Or could the number of hits be increased? All of this is resulting in library staff creating duplicate user accounts because they can't find the name.
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Hide Preferred Address (postal) in successfully sent email notices
In our Library, notices are sent by email to patron's "Preferred Email Address" by default, or by postal mail to "Preferred Address" by printing the notices if "Preferred Email Address" is found empty or the emails are bounced. As the same notice template is used for both email and postal mails, "Preferred Address" inevitably has to be included.
Due to privacy concern, we try to avoid personal information, including "Preferred Address", appearing in email notices to patrons.
Expected Outcome:
Is it possible to hide the "Preferred Address" in email notices if emails are successfully sent, but retain the "Preferred Address"…3 votes -
We need a specific letter for cancel autorenew because a new request.
We are used this one: FulItemChangeDueDateLetter but work bad. and is the same when the request is cancel. This is a mistake.
We need:
one because de autorenew is cancel because request
another oune when de request is cancel and the autorenew work again3 votes
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