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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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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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Change log for import profiles
Change log for import profiles
Import profiles needs to have a change log to see who is making changes to import profiles. Other configurations have a change log that allows you to see who has edited the functions. I find it problematic when I view import profiles that have changed, but I cannot track by whom and when.
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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.
Therese2 votesHello All,
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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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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 votesHello All,
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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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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).
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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,
Ian6 votesHello All,
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I would like to know how do i extract data from my 964 subfields to get an idea of my production numbers.
This is not an idea this is trying to do a simple search and query.
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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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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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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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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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"Request re-indexing" option for withdrawn items
There is a re-occurring indexing error in Alma when withdrawing items, where these items sometimes do not disappear from the Alma instance and a re-indexing job must be performed to correct it. These items often cannot be re-activated from "Manage deleted repository" and can't be interacted with. (See attachment)
Ideally, it should be possible to request a re-indexing of the Alma-instance directly in Alma. This could be for a single record or the instance as a whole.
51 votesThis is a bug and should be reported to salesforce as a case to support
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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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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…
4 votesHello All,
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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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Modify predictive pattern template season capitalization, SS chron fields.
We are wanting to modify the template that holds the formatting for the Season - SS chron fields- so that it follows the rules in RDA and AACR2.
21 - Spring
22 - Summer
23 - Autumn
24 - Winterto
21 - spring
22 - summer
23 - autumn
24 - winterThank you for reviewing this request.
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