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5 votes
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Expanding Task List
For resource sharing, the task list should include "Canceled by Staff". Specifically:
Borrowing requests - Canceled by Staff - assigned to you
Borrowing requests - Canceled by Staff - unassignedFor institutions which do not use an ILL package such as ILLiad, this is the only way to be informed that a request was unfilled besides manually searching in the Borrowing Requests field.
1 voteHello All,
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1 vote
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Being able to turn off hovering over letters bringing up the entire letter
When you attempt to edit a letter, the mouse hoverover shows the entire letter. This covers where you are attempting to edit. It would be helpful if you could turn this off or change the text to "letter" rather than the full text of the letter. You can click the mouse to get rid of the hover over but as you move the mouse again the hover over comes up. On a long email this is not easy to work with.
5 votesHello All,
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Fulfillment unit rule to have more parameters ie statistical cat
We have lapsafes in different departments, who would like to restrict loans to just the students from their department. We would like to have Fulfillment unit rule to have the extra parameter of Stats cat 1 etc. In order that we can make a rule to stop or enable specific department students being able to loan specific items etc.
1 voteHello All,
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Be blocked due to overdue but can be renewal
If I had loaned more than one item, one of them be blocked due to overdue so I cant renewal.
Can I renewal another items？12 votesHello All,
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Add "Call Number" to the item information box when creating Brief records in reading lists.
When creating Brief records, a box for call number is missing under Item Information. An extra step is necessary to add it by 'changing item information' in the 'scan in items' function. Brief records are also missing "Replacement Cost". When creating records for personal copies I use:
Title, Author, Call #, Barcode, Material Type, Collection, Item Policy, Replacement Cost11 votesHello All,
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Setting to default when only one Loan Period Policy
When placing a request for an item with only one Loan Period Policy, It would be more intuitive and friendly if it would be the default option so the patron shouldn't have to open the drop down and choose the only available option.
54 votesSetting the default Loan Period Policy would mean that the request must be fulfilled with that loan policy. That would mean that if there is a change in the items’ policy the request will be automatically cancelled. This may not be a desirable result.
If the patron really wants the request to be fulfilled only with the selected loan policy, the patron is expected to explicitly select that.
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Course Reserves: Reading Lists: Add "Action links" to top AND bottom on the page
When working on long reading lists [Classic UI] [staff] could click on Add Citation "action links" on the top of the page and at the bottom of the page. This was helpful in that [they] could keep adding items to the list without having to scroll all the way up after adding each item. Currently, this can only do that on the top of the page. See screenshot attached.
We would like to see this screen be updated such that the action links are available at the bottom of the page as well.
2 votesHello All,
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Borrowing Activity Report Job – send to smaller sub-sets of borrowers
Once letters have been sent, this generates a glut of borrower loan and fine queries all at the same time.
Need an ability to send the letters in smaller sub-sets in order to even out the follow-up enquiries to not all be at the same time.
For example, vary the day sent according to User Group12 votesHello All,
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Normal library card scan through the scanner should register the record into the history list. Plus,History of transactions a separate tab.
When scanning the patron's library barcode with the scanner into the Manage Patron Records, it does not go in the history list/box. However, if you put the details manually, it does appear to have registered the record in the history list. It will come in handy if the scanned record goes in to the history list.
Plus, if it is possible to add 'Transaction History' option in Fulfilment, that would allow staff to check if the transactions such as checkouts, checkins, holds, transfers, and etc from the self-checkouts, helpdesks, check in rooms or from personal accounts. That will enable the…
1 voteHello All,
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Ability to hide missing toggle for Alma staff users
We would like the ability to hide the missing toggle for staff users in Alma.
1 voteHello All,
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Use data in the Physical Condition field to create a conditional message in the On Hold Shelf Letter
There is currently a notesaffectloan label in Letters that will conditionally create a message if a patron has a block on their account. Another factor that could affect the decision to loan an item is the physical condition of that item. A conditional message in the On Hold Shelf Letter that the item is Brittle or Damaged or Fragile and may not be available for loan would be ideal.
3 votesHello All,
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Record Scans in Fulfillment History Even When In-House Use is Not Checked in Scan in Items
For some workflows it's advantageous to give an item a final scan before it is off to shelving or wherever. However this scan isn't necessarily statistically useful so a lot of items may pass through scan in items without the in house use box being checked and those scans don't show in the fulfillment history.
For purposes of physically tracking items would it be possible for these scans to register in the fulfillment history of an item as something other than a return, loan, or in house use? Maybe just as "Scanned?"
2 votesHello All,
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Ability to amend the Reason MappingTable
Currently if an item has its due date shortened due to a Recall or a Patron Expiry the text provided to the end user, via the shortened loan due date letter, is not customisable. There doesn't appear to be a Reason Mapping table, so the text for the RECALL or PATRONEXPIRY reasons is somethign we have no control over.
It would be really useful to be able to amend these .14 votesHello All,
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Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals - send at different times based on Item Policy
Currently the Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals job has a t value "Days before Due Date" that applies to all loans, irrespective of the Item policy. Therefore if the item is only on a week loan then user is getting the courtesy letter quite soon after the loan was issued.
We would like an amendment to this job so that it can be configured to allow the courtesy letter sent at different times based on the Item Policy.1 voteHello All,
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Resume auto renewals for all copies when request is filled or cancelled
Currently Alma only resumes auto renewals for the one copy it has recalled, and the other copies of that title have to be manually renewed in order to restart the auto renewals process. It is difficult to explain to users why one copy is auto renewing again and their copy is not, because there doesn't seem to be any logical reason or advantage to this.
5 votesHello All,
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Please, let the users make a booking, despite there is an available item , when this available item is in another campus.
Please, let the users make a booking, despite there is an available item , when this available item is in another campus. or also, if the available item is not for normal loan (I mean, loan for a day or just to check it in the library)
1 voteHello All,
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Have users actual work address (building and room number) appear on the screen
We do not use a "hold shelf" in our library. When a user is next in line on a returned item, it would be useful to have their location information (building and room number) appear on the screen when we check the item in. All we see is "Work Address". It would be helpful if their actual work address appeared on the screen. Now we have to navigate to Contact Information for the patron. Thank you.
4 votesHello All,
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processing
We would like to have the process fee for lost items to automatically be removed when the item is returned. The replacement cost is automatically removed, but the processing fee remains and must be waived manually.
1 voteHello All,
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