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  1. Making the search history in Alma configurable

    Currently, the search history in Alma is hard-coded to show 10 results and cannot be changed. We would like to make this configurable so that libraries can chose how much, or how little search history is retained.

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    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

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  2. Mark suppressed record in Alma when suppressBibWithSuppressedHold is set to true and is deleted the last holding record.

    If parameter Configuration Alma - Resources - Other settings suppressBibWithSuppressedHold is set to true, when deleting the holding record, if this is the last one, the bibliographic record is not visible in the Discovery but the record is visible in Alma (does not have the eye strikethrough).

    It is not logical that you have to go manually to the MD Editor to show in Alma that this record will be hidden in Primo.

    If we must manually mark hiden bibliographic record in Alma (eye strikethrough), the suppressBibWithDeletedHold parameter has no use because the task is incomplete in Alma.

    What Alma…

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

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  3. Prevent Alma from showing "not listed" alerts against correct values in ALL 049 subfields

    The January 2016 Alma Resolved Issues spreadsheet advises that:

    'In the MD Editor: [...] For local fields (9xx, x9x, xx9) the alert "The field is not listed in profile" appeared; it no longer appears. [...]'

    Four years on, however, it still does in places, perhaps most noticeably in the 049 field.

    E.g. 049 subfields $$j and $$k are used extensively by those record providers available to Alma users via Search Resources, and the contents of those subfields are held to be completely accurate. However, on saving any record which contains them, the “Subfield … is not listed in profile for…

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

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  4. Search List: "All Titles" by "LC Call Number Range"

    Search "All Titles" by LC Call Number Range. Currently you can only do that with physical items, although you can search "All Titles by LC Subject Keyword. Since most/many Electronic items do have LC Call Number in their MARC record 050 _4, I don't see why this is not possible...

    As a collections librarian, it would be very useful.
    Therese

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

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  5. Add "View" action for publishing profiles

    When creating a new publishing profiles, it can be helpful to look at other profiles for guidance. Currently, the only option to view another profile is to select Edit from the actions menu. If the user is trying to edit a profile and wants to view another one at the same time, the only practical way to do that is to open a different browser and view the profile there. Having two profiles open in the same browser can have negative consequences, as we learned at Oklahoma State-Stillwater, when two publishing profiles were merged and EXL had to help us…

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  6. Add additional text in Metadata Editor - Holdings Form

    When editing a holdings-record in Metadata Editor when using the holdings form, we would like to see additional text added to the field information to inform the cataloger about which MARC-field they're editing.

    For example, when editing the field "Location" there is no information about which MARC-field this belongs to in the record. There should be an additional text next to the field name saying either (MARC-field X/Subfield X) or (XXX $X).

    11 votes
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  7. Allow notes to be ordered.

    Sometimes a particular note is important enough you want it to always show at the top, but other notes need to added that push it farther and father down. It used to be if you did an edit on any note it put it back at the top, but that no longer works.
    This needs to work in both portfolios and in purchase orders.

    3 votes
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  8. Add Find and replace editing command to MD Editor

    Please add Find and replace editing command to MD Editor. This helps a lot when editing simple corrections, and saves the time to create normalization rules if the number of bib records to correct is just one or two.

    Thanks,
    Ian

    6 votes
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  9. Import authority records from Excel files

    Bibliographic records may be imported using CSV (comma-separated values) or Excel files. (See https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/060Record_Import/Importing_Records_with_CSV_or_Excel_Files)

    The idea is to offer the same functionality for AUTHORITY records!

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  10. F3 lookup for 3XX Authority Record Control Fields

    In the June 2019 release, a new feature was added to MD Editor to look up 3xx MARC fields in an authority record against certain other place names or subject names from the SAME authority vocabulary.

    I'd like to suggest Ex Libris to add a function to allow F3 lookup of 3xx MARC fields against certain place names, corporate names, personal names, and subject names from another authority vocab. This is because we want to borrow the standard of Library of Congress's established place names, corporate names, personal names, and subject names, when we create our own authority vocabulary.

    For…

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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    Alma Product Team

  11. 2 votes
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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  12. Test mode for jobs

    Allow jobs that change bibliographic records or inventory to be run in a test mode first that shows results that would occur before updating the database, so we can be sure that what we intend to happen is what does happen. Right now we are just hoping it will work as expected.

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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    Alma Product Team

  13. 1 vote
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

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  14. I suggest that in Alma in the Resources area / Metadata Editor the Spanish translation to of the LDR position 6 = "a" which says "Libro" be

    I suggest that in Alma in the Resources area / Metadata Editor the Spanish translation to of the LDR position 6 = "a" which says "Libro" be modified and this word replaced by "Texto" (in the facets), because there is a lot of textual material that is not necessarily a "libro" (book).

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  15. Ability to set records to "do not publish" to OCLC

    It would be very helpful if the default value "publish to OCLC" was switched to "do not publish". We have brief records created by Acq. staff and Fulfillment staff and they sometimes forgot to check "do not publish" and these minimal level brief records end up being published to OCLC.

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

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  16. Restrict access by data field

    I would like the ability to restrict access to certain data fields to only certain roles. The cataloging roles seem to be a fairly blunt tool for restricting access. If we could protect certain fields from all but catalog administrators for example, it could lead to greater data integrity without severely compromising the productivity of other cataloger roles.

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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    Alma Product Team

  17. Designate location for Restore Temporary Shelved Items job

    We've recently begun investigating Due Back Date functionality and using the Requests - Restore Temporary Shelved Items job to help manage restoring temporarily shelved items more consistently and less manually. Currently, there is no option to designate a specific temporary location for the Requests - Restore Temporary Shelved Items job to pull from, so All items in a temporary location with a due back date in the past are processed with this job.

    Due Back dates are assigned to course reserve items placed in a temporary location, resources sharing items in temporary locations, and items in other temporary locations such…

    5 votes
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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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  18. Selecting records to print from search results

    It would be very useful to be able to print select records from Alma search results by checking off records to print. Printing off records is a necessary part of maintaining tangible collections. One can often find superseded SuDoc publications while searching the IZ by SuDoc stem when adding new SuDoc publications. I would like to print records rather than writing down call numbers and OCLC numbers of items to withdraw. An individual printed record would make it easier to find and withdraw superseded or unwanted materials.

    As it is now, one has to create an itemized set from the…

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

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    Alma Product Team

  19. Move Browse bib headings and shelf listings function away from MD Editor

    Currently the Browse functions stick to MD Editor. And this poses too many restrictions to browsing. Please consider making browsing easier, and make it independent from MD Editor, and instead, incorporate browsing into normal simple and advanced repository searching.

    The major disadvantages of doing browsing within MD Editor are:
    1. Space constraint: the MD Editor does not have much space for results display
    2. Too many parameters to choose e.g. vocabulary, IZ vs. NZ

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  20. Change "Open Form Editor" short cut key

    Currently the short cut key for "Open Form Editor" is Ctrl + F, and this prevents the user from using Ctrl + F to find text on the page.

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    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

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