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Add indication of where I am browsing at Browse bib headings
The user often does not know where s/he was browsing at Browse bib headings after moving away from the left pane. Could EXL add an indication e.g. by a different color to the current bib heading on the left pane to remind the user?
Also it'd be helpful to show the call number on the right pane to save the time to click into the record to read the call number.
For EXL people: Please read Salesforce case # 00527082 for more details.
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Change the design or position of the search box on a set's Add Members screen
On the classic UI, when a staff member clicked on Add Members in a set they used to get a separate set of search boxes - with the "Find" box offering the choice of just one thing, e.g. Physical Items - into which to add the barcode or whatever else of the item they wanted. The persistent search box remained on screen, but had palpably nothing to do with the Set.
In comparison on the new UI, when a staff member clicks on Add Members they get a search facility which behaves the same way as its predecessor, but (i)…
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Diacritics and special characters
In Voyager, I was able to enter diacritics and special character from the edit, special character option. This feature should have carried over to ALMA.
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Searching ISBN and Multimatch handling of ISBN-matches
I think perhaps searching ISBN may be a little too sensitive. When I search ISBN 978 -82-93206-05-7 I get no result (no records found). When I remove the space and search this: 978-82-93206-05-7 I get one record.
When importing files (Repository - Import from file) and a record in the file has spaces in stead of hyphens or spaces in addition to hyphens, I get many multimatches as it seems to be a match for all ISBNs that start with the part of the ISBN before the space, but not for the real match. In other words, I get i.e.…
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Include prefixes in 035 repository search and creating set
Currently, when we do a repository search on Other System Number (035) with an identifier including a prefix, e.g. (EBL)165125, Alma would ignore the prefix and only match the remaining part of the identifier. That would result in retrieving incorrect record, e.g. record with (PQKBTitleCode)TC0000165125 in 035.
The same imprecise search also occurs when creating a set from a file with 035 field header. The prefixes are ignored and incorrect records are retrieved.
We would like the repository search on other system number and creating set with 035 field header to perform precise searches including the prefixes on the identifiers.
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Crear un job para cambiar masivamente los Tipos de proceso de Alma: Encuadernación Preparando encuadernación Compra Donación En tránsito
Crear un job para cambiar masivamente los Tipos de proceso que se tienen en Alma :
Ejemplo:
Encuadernación
Preparando encuadernación
Compra
Donación
En tránsito
Evaluación
Inventario
Perdido
Extraviado
No recibido
En proceso de descarte
Reposición
Solicitud de documentos
SuscripciónEsto nos permitirá una adecuada gestión de inventarios y de nuestras colecciones.
8 votesHello All,
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Package level order info required in Repository Search > Other details
It would be helpful if, when clicking on the Other details link on a particular Repository Search result title which shows no order information, it would indicate whether there was a related order at package level.
If we want to know whether we are entitled to the access, it may look at first as if we aren't because there's no order attached. However, the order may be at package level.
We are relaxed about the wording and place of that indication within the Other details balloon - maybe something like "Package Level Order" underneath "Requests/Work orders"?
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Sorting in Search Results page
We need a way to sort the items, by barcode or call number in an individual title when we are on the search results page. We often use more than one type of bar code and have multiple holdings records on the same title, with different call numbers used. It would be helpful to have this sorting option to make transferring large numbers of items from one library to another faster to do. As it is now, everything is mixed together in this view, making it more difficult to complete the task. As things are now we can only sort…
4 votesHello All,
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Environmentally friendly printing
It uses more papers to print an item record since the switch to the new UI of 2017. The fields take up quite a lot of space. And often it uses 2 sheets of paper (i.e. 3 pages) to print an item record, whereas previous it occupied 1 to 2 pages only.
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Textual holdings statement fields 866-868
Currently, you are only able to search the 866 field in Alma and Analytics. To record holdings more accurately, the 867 (supplemental material) and 868 (indexes) should be used. We have data stored in these fields and are unable to search/report on them easily. We would like the 867 and 868 fields to be searchable and perhaps even indexed in Alma, and reportable in Analytics. Reporting on any standard MARC field should be possible in both Alma and Analytics.
11 votesHello All,
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Include a DELETE Function for Patron Demand Driven Worflow
Currently Patron Driven workflow is managed by the PDA function under Acquisitions. The PDA function allows for Repository Import, where the corpus titles are uploaded for discovery. The PDA also enables order records to be uploaded, which will overlay the discovery record. However, what the PDA function needs is a DELETION function, where records of titles no longer carried by vendor for the PDA can be run through this function, and have it deleted from the PDA corpus set, bypassing the titles that have been paid for.
Currently, titles which have been marked for deletion by PDA vendors have to…1 voteHello All,
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Searching Locally Controlled Indexes
If an locally controlled index is under authority control, I would like to be able to search it by selecting from a drop-down list populated by the controlled terms. So, for example, I have created a locally controlled index for the Bibliographic 946 field and assigned it a controlled vocabulary. I would like searching on that field to function the same way as Content Type Term.
See attached for mockup.
4 votesHello All,
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Display edition statement in any brief results list
Results of an All Titles search include the edition statement in the brief display, but Physical Titles and Physical Items results do not. We often have multiple editions of a title, and while the date shows which is the most recent, if we have slight date variances that make the date useless we need to be able to see the edition statement in order to choose the right record to view.
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Update inventory import profile: shelf ready option
For shelf ready materials the update inventory import profile updates the item records with barcode numbers. There is also an option to receive the item with the import profile.
But the item must still be scanned in and marked as done in Acquisitions, Post-receiving processing, Scan. Or the item must be received manually in Acquisitions, Receiving and Processing, Receive. After either step, the item is placed in transit to the circulation desk for shelving. (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Resource_Management/060Record_Import/020Managing_Import_Profiles#Configuring_the_Update_Inventory_Import_Profile)
We would like to skip this manual step. In the update inventory import profile we would like the option to mark the items…
8 votesHello All,
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Search bar
Allow for the most recent and/or the most used search facets to display within the simple search bar. Within the search facets options for All titles (Title) Requires someone to scroll at length down the page. This functionality is available in other parts of the new UI within Alma where the most recent used entries display first.
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Export suppression status
When exporting a list of titles to Excel, it would be helpful if a title's suppressed status was exported along with the rest of the title's information. Currently, there is a visual indicator in Alma if a title is suppressed or not, but that doesn't seem to translate over when exported. Since we often work with large lists of titles and there's no way to sort itemized sets, we need to be able sort through them effectively in Excel.
6 votesHello All,
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Give us more lines in the holdings record so that 866's are generated, so that our inventory shows up in Primo.
At present when holdings records become too big, Alma does not generate the 866's neither by saving nor by enhancement (even though Alma falsely claims a successful enhancement). Because of this, our actual holdings are not displayed in Primo. This is not okay. The inventory records do not show what we actually hold in cases of incomplete volumes that have been bound: thus the need for accurate holding records. Also the 866's are NOT being updated when changes/additions/deletions to the 863's, 864's, or 865's are made. Again this is not okay, and updating the 866's becomes a time consuming manual…
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1-Click Button to View Shelf List in Primo FROM ALMA
Since the shelf list in the metadata editor is very difficult to use and see in the tiny quarter screen of space allotted to it, it would be helpful if there was simply a button one could press to view the call number shelf list in Primo (the primo 'Browse by LC call number" page) while one was cataloging in Alma.
Ideally, the record searched for would not display as the very first result, but instead a few lines down from the top, so that it would be very easy to compare the call number to both the records before…
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make OCLC delimiter (double dagger (ǂ)) invalid in Alma
Please make the OCLC delimiter (double dagger (ǂ)) an invalid character in Alma. We all copy and paste information from Connexion. Often, people forget to change the double dagger to the double $$. Please make the double dagger invalid, and require the cataloger to replace with the proper character ($$) before they save the record. Other systems like Voyager make the cataloger replace the double dagger delimiter before they can save the record.
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We should be able to add an 856 to a bib record and that link show up in Primo.
856 fields have always held links to electronic versions of titles or just to another resource. We need this put back in ALMA so that in PRIMO we can see that url when the title is searched for as part of the physical item record.
7 votesHello All,
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