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Register Multiple In House Uses for a single item with one scan
Often our librarians bring a book into a class so that students can use it to work on an assignment. Afterwards, we want to record that it has been used in house multiple times. Can you add a functionality to the Scan In Items screen so that you can scan an item once, but have it register multiple in house uses?
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Move the cursor for expired patron pop up
When a patrons account has expired the location of the cursor on the blocked account pop-up window is 'Renew'. The default location of the cursor should be moved to Cancel or OK as it's too easy to hit enter and renew the account accidentally. Renewing an account should be a chosen action, not the default
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Have the System Job Notification return a list of barcodes to show which items were skipped when running a job on an itemised (itemized) set
Use case: As part of our workflow we have to add a fulfilment note and an internal note to items in an itemised set. When creating the text for Internal Note 3, we specify that it only be done if the field is empty (so as not to overwrite an existing instruction, because there is no way currently to ADD text to an already-populated field). When running the job, we are told the quantity of items which were skipped (due to their already having text in Internal Note 3); it would be very useful if the report told us exactly…
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calendar
It would be ideal if the exception and closed days would display in the calendar widget -- so that when we "Add record" we can choose the "Valid from" and "Valid to" dates.
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Have a link to borrower information from the Scan In Items screen
I have been finding it a bit fiddly to go from returning an item to a borrower's details, primarily in order to pay and waive fines. Would it be possible to display the last borrower number in the Scan In Item screen, and have this and the item barcode number as a link to the Manage Patron and Item pages respectively?
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Configuration allowing only Institution Level Terms of Use and Fulfillment Policy
Would like the ability to turn off the creation of Library specific Terms of Use and Library specific Fulfillment Policy. We are a small institution with only one Library. The Institution set-up with Library overrides provides a level of configuration that is problematic and error prone. System enforcement allowing only Institution level changes (which is the recommended configuration) would be very helpful.
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Customisable expiry dates in Alma Calendar Management entries
Currently, if you add an entry in Alma Calendar Management (Config & choose relevant library > Fulfillment > Opening Hours > Calendar Management), it lasts for 3 years before expiring. Entries can expire unnoticed and cause fulfillment-related problems, such as due dates being calculated incorrectly. It would be much better if these calendar entries could be set to expire on a particular date or never, depending on what the person creating the entry decides is preferable.
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Terms of use for subset of user group
We would like to have ability to use different Terms of Use for list of undergraduate students. Currently the Terms of user that affects entire set of User groups. We would like ability to set different Terms of use to subset of user groups.
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Sanciones prestamo por horas
Ahora Alma sanciona por días en todo tipo de préstamos, pero en el préstamo por horas sugerimos que la sanción sea de días por hora no devuelta como lo hacen otras Plataformas de Bibliotecas.
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Customize display of fields in Resource Request Monitoring form
If the fields can be selected in Resource Request Monitoring form,we would like the excel to display the information we needed.And when we download it,the form is also expected to be selected in .txt format or .excel format .
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Achieve a number of changes in dates that can be added as loans in transactions
The date change for the return of a book currently can not be counted, and is an important fact that can be added to the loans (renewals)
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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 vote -
Communicate patron cost avoidance resulting from library circulation services.
Add the availability of information in the FulLoanReceiptLetter.xsl Alma letter to include the value of the current loan (i.e. item list price) and also the sum value of the history of loans to date, for the patron. This would allow the letter to be customized to tell the user the amount of cost avoidance achieved by using library services to gain access to circulated items. For example, text might be added like this:
"You just saved $XXX.XX by using your library. You have saved $X,XXX.XX this past year."1 vote -
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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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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.
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