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Payment on Self Check Kiosk SIP2
SIP2 protocol is over 20 years old. More payment types should be allowed (2-char, fixed-length field (00 thru 99)) and not restricted to those only specified from 00 to 02.
Value Payment Type
00 cash
01 VISA (this is not even relevant anymore)
02 credit cardOther LMS systems are able to configure extensions to the payment type using the 03 up to 99 to link payment types that are used in their LMS.
3 votesHello All,
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Allow copy of BURSAR file to be exported to email
Bursar files are currently just exported to S/FTPs. It would be good if there was an option to have the files also exported to an email as a way to backup and save these files in the event they file is accidentally lost or runs into errors upon trying to upload.
Users who manage different aspects of the billing process may not all have access to the SFTP drop in order to troubleshoot issues.
6 votesHello All,
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Rapid ILL
Add License option for "Authorized Users" for Electronic Title sets. Currently, there is no way to completely automate the Rapid ILL integration because you cannot exclude collections that we are not able to lend out.
1 voteHello All,
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BIBFRAME support for UNIMARC
Currently, Alma can expose bib records in Linked Data in BIBFRAME format, but for MARC21 records only. I ask to develop the support for UNIMARC too, in order to expose UNIMARC records in BIBFRAME format through APIs, Publishing and the Alma Resource management UI.
17 votesHello All,
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Changing Invoice Export approved_by API
In the approved_by API for Invoice Export, we would like it changed from first and last name of the user to the primary identifier or another identifier, to enable unique matching to our finance system and Audit requirements.
2 votesHello All,
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API "Authenticate or refresh user" - Working for all user account types, not only for internal user accounts
API "Authenticate or refresh user" - Working for all user account types, not only for internal user accounts
Now the "Authenticate or refresh user" works only for internal users where Alma is the identity provider.
It would make things a lot easier in many applications around alma if it would also work for external user.
Like:
Internal user -> no change
External user ->
* Take the ID in the URL als ID in the external IDM and the passwort like in case of internal user.
* Check ID and password against the external IDM, just as in case of…15 votesHello All,
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Add Signature Verification to Online Import
Currently when configuring a Student Information System (SIS) for Online Import, you are only able to use basic authentication with an API. It would be nice to also send a signature to ensure that Alma is actually sending the message.
1 voteHello All,
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Make Jobs API deal with JobNames instead of IDs
When you want to use Jobs API to trigger a job you have to give the JobID.
When you define the job (integration profile) the ID is invisible. The definition of one integration profile leads to the creation of several jobs with several IDs.To define an API trigger you have to search the ID of the wanted job manually by calling "GET /almaws/v1/conf/jobs" from here
To make it all worse the ID of all jobs inside an intergration profile changes when you save a profile after changing a part of it. As one profile contains several jobs you…
10 votesHello All,
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SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL) for item records
Currently, SRU can be used to retrieve Alma bibliographic and holdings record data. In the documentation below, there are "bibliographic options" and "holdings options".
Our institution needs data from Alma on the item record level. Use case: we'd like to use SRU to count the number of items with the same item call number.
Currently if we use the "marcxml" record schema, the <numberOfRecords> returns the total number of bibliographic records. The "isohold" schema returns the number of holdings records.
Neither schema returns the total number of item records with the same item number (especially in situations where 2…
3 votesHello All,
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Include Public Notes associated with electronic collection and electronic service in the BIBs API Retrieve Bibs service
The BIBs API Retrieve Bibs service provides electronic inventory information equivalent to that in the Primo View It display, except it only includes Public Notes at the portfolio level, not those associated with the portfolio’s electronic collection or electronic service. Up to three additional API calls are needed to retrieve the complete set of Public Notes for a single portfolio using the Electronic Resources API, and many bibs have multiple portfolios associated. We would like to retrieve the complete set of public notes for each portfolio when making a single API call to the Retrieve Bibs service.
We're not able…
5 votesHello All,
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API for backdate an item
Alma provides an API for library to build up application to do circulation operation, such as renew, change due date. However, since Nov release 2018, a parameter "overdueatchangeduedate" has been introduced and shall charge overdue fine to patron if it has been already overdue during the change due date API operation is executed. If library do not want to disable the overdueatchangeduedate, it has no way to check-in an overdue item without creating fine.
SIP2 and offline circulation is suggested from EXL but API operation is always preferred.
9 votesHello All,
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Improve z39.50 tab in ILLiad to search individual volumes of serials/monographs
Improve z39.50 tab in ILLiad to search individual volumes of serials/monographs. Currently searching z39.50 will turn up one random volume from multi-volume set
13 votesHello All,
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Allow MarcEdit Alma Integration to update Community Zone records (via API)
…Ex Libris has allowed us to edit Community Zone records, except 022 field. Currently, we can only open the records in the metadata editor and add a MARC field one at a time. Using MarcEdit Alma Integration to update a record one at a time results in an error, because the Alma API documentation states that “…updating a linked Community Zone record is currently not supported.” I am requesting Ex Libris to allow updating Community Zone records via MarcEdit Alma Integration., so that we can update records one at a time, instead of adding MARC fields to a record one11 votesHello All,
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SRU/SRW: Increase the 10,000 record retrieval limit
The usefulness of the SRU service is reduced substantially by the 10,000 record limit.
If removing the limit is not an option, it would still help a lot if the limit could be increased to, say, 100,000.
My use case is that I'm using the SRU service in combination with the Bibs API to do batch processing of catalog records.
17 votesHello All,
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API for Alma requests
As it is possible in Alma to convert an Alma request into a Alma Resource Sharing Request (a good workflow), we would like to explore creating a form for users to submit Alma requests outside of Primo and for these to be created in Alma through an Alma requests API.
Please could an Alma Requests API be created to enable this.
If a submitted request was not in stock, we would then convert it to an Alma Resource Sharing request (a good workflow).
4 votesHello All,
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Granular permissions for Alma API functions
(The idea title is copied from a NERS suggestion (5311) that didn't make it to the second round.)
When working with third parties it is problematic that granting access to the Alma API for the necessary functionality will often also open up for access to other information that we might not want to share with the same third party.
An example is that allowing a vendor to create PO Lines via the API will also give the vendor access to the complete financial data of our institution, potentially giving them insights that could be used against us when negotiating prices.
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4 votesHello All,
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Make modification date of user account available in the User API (v2)
In the earlier SOAP-based version of the Alma User API, the last modification date of a user account was an available field. However, in the current REST-based API, that field is no longer available.
This piece of information is very important to us when we synchronize Alma data to ILLiad via our custom ILLiad login script. That allows to us update ILLiad as needed and insert an accurate modification date into a user's ILLiad account.
9 votesHello All,
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Allow patron load integration using v2 to implement override so internal elements are preserved
Under General Administration when setting up a user record integration using v2 of the user.xsd, there appears to be some missing functionality to bring it in line with the REST user APIs.
The suggestion is to add additional options to the synchronize method so that under Synchronization type where it currently only has 'Swap All' as the only radio button, you could toggle between this and 'Override' as per the User APIs. This would allow internal notes and other internal attributes to be preserved.
It might also be useful to add the list of fields via selection that the Override…
4 votesHello All,
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API for terms of use
An API to retrieve the terms of use would allow us to display borrowing rules on our website which are completely synced to our Alma configuration.
13 votesHello All,
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Run PO Line package job vi API
POST /almaws/v1/conf/jobs/{job_id}
use case: allow people to run the job without giving them access the Alma's admin
3 votesHello All,
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