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Maybe Search indexes is not updated? I want 773 $$t indexed as Title.
I often check this Help site https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/Alma_Online_Help_%28English%29/Resource_Management/020Using_the_Repository_Search/Search_Indexes
to check how things are indexed. It looks like 773 $t is indexed as Content related data. Shouldn't it be indexed as Title? I suspect that it is indexed as title, but the information in Search indexes is not correct? Search indexes is very useful, and I would appreciate it updated.1 vote -
limit results by location facet in physical title repository search
Ability to narrow search results by location in a physical titles or physical items results screen.
Currently we can limit by material type, language, publication year and resource type.
40 votesAlma now support sorting by “Physically At” location of the user in:
Metadata Editor Holdings 852 $b
“Libraries” Facet in Physical Item search
Holdings list in the “Physical” drawer in Physical Titles searchTo enable this new sorting, set the sort_library_by_relevance customer parameter to True
For more information see:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes_Included_Material/2021_RN_08_Main#Support_for_Libraries_Sorting_by_.22Physically_At.22_Location -
Better way to easily identify suppressed bib & holdings records
Currently, it is not possible to quickly identify suppressed holdings records. It is not unusual to have an unsuppressed bib, with one or more suppressed holdings. Would it be possible to place use an icon next to the holdings records on repository search results (similar to what is used for suppressed bibs), or, to use different color coding of the background and/or text? At the very least, the MARC simple view should indicate a holdings record is suppressed, either with wording, an icon, or a color differentiation. (Color differentiation was introduced into Voyager several years ago, and it worked great.)…
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Creating itemized sets using file upload and OCLC numbers
Currently, when we create an itemized set by file upload (also known as "Adding Itemized Sets"), the file upload option only includes MMS ID, PID, Barcode, Item ID, Portfolio ID, or PO line reference. If I have a file of MARC records from OCLC or another vendor, it would be nice to run the OCLC numbers through Alma to see how many titles are currently in Alma. At this point in the process, we don't have an MMS ID. If we could use a list of OCLC numbers, this would allow us to create a set of records based on…
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list more than 20 items on screen
I want to be able to have all items in a record on one screen, not 20 items split up on separate pages. For a number of reasons, one being:
When creating a set when I click "select all" it only actually selects the first 20 items. If I want to actually add all items in the record I have to go back and forth adding them 20 at a time.36 votes -
In advanced Repository Search, allow the selection of multiple physical locations. within a library.
In Advanced Search, we currently can search multiple locations only by selecting one, going back, selecting another, going back, and selecting another. Allowing the selection of multiple locations from a list would save time.
20 votesHello all,
This feature is already available in Alma for a few years.
Alma Product Team
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job to unlink a set of records from the NZ
currently this must be done manually, one by one.
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Allow Alma phrase searching using quotation marks in quick search box
Our catalogers use the quick search box on the Alma homepage to do keyword searches for titles in our collection. Recently we discovered that using quotation marks around a phrase does not successfully keep the words together as a phrase in the search. The only way to search for a phrase is to use the Advanced Search, and change "Contains keywords" to "Contains phrase". This is very time consuming.
25 votesAs of January release Alma will support phrase search in the simple search box. All entities and index types that have the option to use phrase search in Alma’s advanced search also have this capability with simple search when using double quotation marks to identify the phrase.
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Staff search add thumbnail to staff search results
It will be really nice if the staff search result can display the cover of a book or a journal
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Batch searching in the repository and set creation
It would be extremely helpful if batch searching functionality can be added in the repository search. We have many projects where we have external data from an outside source that we need to find the matching data in our ILS, now Alma. For example, we are a member of a local consortium where we have several hundred oclc master records that all of us in the consortium need to manipulate in our own local ILSs. Instead of conducting one search at a time for these OCLC master record numbers, we would like to do a batch search of these master…
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