Alma
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Make images of material bigger
Please make the image of the book, DVD, etc. much bigger in the search results. Students can often identify their titles if they can clearly see the cover image. It would help reference work.
1 vote -
Export to Excel directly from Job Report
I'm requesting exporting to Excel from Job Report.
Currently when I run a Shelf Report I have to do many steps to export to Excel.
I have to click on the report then click on analysis to expand results.
Once expanded I have to click on each result (1-5) and select "Preview items" from the actions button.
After doing all that I to export the list to Excel I have to select export "Excel (all fields)".If there was an Option to export or download to excel directly from Job Report, similar to "Barcodes with no matched item", that would…
9 votes -
Have a "undo" or "restore" button for Configuration actions/profiles
For those important actions or profiles, such as the External Integration Profiles, it will be of great help to have a "undo" or "restore" button. So that if something is wrong after clicking the "Save" button (either too early or incorrectly), the action can be reversed. The good old one can be restored. It happened to me yesterday. I mistakenly and wrongly updated our SAML profile in the Production environment instead of the sandbox that I intended to, which caused the login failure of both Primo and Alma. I had to open a ticket with highest priority in the online…
1 vote -
Add Access Type to Customize View
I love the option to customize my view and choose what info is displayed under portfolios and collections in my search results. It would be very useful to be able to display the Access Type: Current, Perpetual, or Current and Perpetual. Right now we need to open the record and navigate to the field.
Please add Access Type as a field we can choose to see.
3 votes -
1 vote
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Show Call Number on Loan Receipt Letter
Could there be an option to add the call number information to the Loan Receipt Letter. It would be useful, especially for items with multiple volumes.
4 votes -
addressFrom in letter configuration: all emails should be sent from the same address
There are a few letters (like the "Interested In Letter"), for which not the addressFrom in the letter configuration is used, but the library address instead.
We would like all letters to be sent from the "addressFrom" in the letter configuration.
9 votes -
autofit
Adding an autofit for columns would help minimize wasted space for those who are comfortable with denser text or need to work with a relatively narrow screen. I think the most common form of the functionality is a double-click on the right border of a column to size it to fit content.
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Please fix these concerning mistranslations
Dear support
While creating the non-english versions of the powerpoint presentations for SLSP training, I ran into some concerning mistranslations. It almost looks like you used Google Translations to translate the English Terms in Alma to other languages.
For example, the English homonym "pass" was erroneously translated to "succeed" instead of "go by". This happened while translating to Italian and German (see attachement). I can only imagine how annoying that will be for librarians all over Switzerland when we go live with Alma this coming December.
I can imagine it's a known issue to the libraries you have been using…
2 votes -
Relay that job report gives real time
We have more than one jobs that start at certain time and ran for long time (more than 10 hours) but reports the job ran only for about 3 hours.
You can see SFC #00795696 for example.
My idea is to get the real times it took a job to run from start till end19 votes -
Thumbnail images
We have discovered that when we add a digital representations to existing permanent library records (e.g. with electronic or physical inventory), the thumbnail display from the digital representation becomes the thumbnail display in Primo VE instead of the book cover. This is obviously not the way we want this to behave.
Can we please have the 'Book'/Journal cover to display instead of the digital representation/file image?
13 votes -
E-resource trial reporting
Include additional fields, result, result reason and purchase decision data, for E-resource trials, for export or in analytics.
3 votes -
Display number of results within a set on the Manage Sets page
It would be very helpful to be able to see the number of members or results within a given set on the Manage Sets page, rather than having to open each set to find out how many members or results it contains. This would make deleting old, empty sets, much faster and easier.
15 votes -
Add location creation modification details to Alma config and Events SA in analytics
Staff should be able to see who and when locations were created and/or modified in both the Alma config interface and in the Events Subject Area.
13 votes -
Column and/or filter for Privacy in Manage Sets
In Manage Sets it would be really helpful if there was a column to show if a set was Private or Not, and a filter for Privacy (Yes/No).
This would help when I'm trying to delete from "My Sets" or All Sets" tab. To make sure I don't break someone's business process I need to go into each set to check the privacy before I delete a set.
15 votes -
Option to customise Alma labels from US to UK (or AU) English
We are new to Alma and have identified that we would like to be able to customise language in Alma to be AU English, instead of US English, the way we can with Summon (and Primo).
Our current ILMS which we are migrating from allows us to change the display wording for options, and it is a very 1990s sort of ILMS. I would like to see this functionality added to Alma too.
3 votes -
Allow a staff to set his/her default department
We are required to choose a "current desk/department" for each login. However, since each staff usually has his/her major role, meaning he/she might most of the time work on the same desk/department. To be more friendly, it's better to have staff to set his/her own default department and select other location when necessary.
16 votes -
Ability to collect and analyze data on number of and frequency of letters sent from Alma
It would be awesome if there were an option in Analytics to collect and analyze data on the number of and frequency of emails sent from Alma. This will be especially helpful for those institutions that are editing letters and would like to start with the most frequent, patron-facing letters first.
2 votes -
Enhance Report to ExLibris ticket fields within Alma
Enhance the Report To ExLibris form in Alma with the following so that it matches the tickets submitted via SalesForce:
Contact Name field: defaults to whomever is logged in/made the default contact if there is no match. Ex: if Person B is logged into Alma and is configured to report from Alma, they are the default when submitting a problem, not Person A (which is currently listed first because its an alphabetical listing). This would help staff to submit tickets faster and without having to go into SalesForce after submitting to change the name.
Priority: Allow this as a field!…19 votes -
Offer ISO1806 as a Date Format Option
When I am in Alma and looking at a lot of dates, I find YYYY-MM-DD faster to read and process, specifically the use of en-dash instead of forward slash. This format is also the ISO standard (https://www.iso.org/standard/40874.html). Thank you.
4 votes
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