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3 votes
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User letters anonymization
It would be useful to be able to delete the letters attached to the user records with the Anonymization job.
In particular, we would like to keep the users records of expired users but delete their attachments, adding an option item to the anonymization job section in Fulfillment Jobs Configuration.
Thanks and regards.
Alberto & Stefano9 votes -
Add Option to Toggle User Record Type
Add a simple toggle option for a user record to easily switch Record Types between Staff and Public. While there are more complicated ways to deal with it, if a user record is accidentally created and assigned the wrong Record Type there is no easy mechanism to change it, like we can when toggling an account between Internal and External.
13 votes -
Show count of items scanned in when using the cloud app of Bulk Scan-In
When I use the cloud app of Bulk Scan-In, I would like to see how many items get scanned in.
3 votes -
Generate PIN as an option in the Update/Notify user job.
Please add "generate PIN" as an option in the "Update/Notify user job".
6 votes -
Internal data and all non-fulfillment data deleted from external account when accounts are loaded from external system through API
Updating users from an external source (such as Banner) using the API means that any non-fulfillment information will be deleted such as Roles (the only role left is the Patron role), barcodes, alternate addresses, emails, phone numbers, fines/fees, blocks, attachments, proxy information.
Would it be possible to make sure that an account's update from Banner through the API only affects the fields supported by Banner without wiping off any other fields?
3 votes -
Hide ‘edit’ option from My Library Card > Personal Details for specific user groups only
In Alma you can choose to hide the "Edit" option from the 'Personal Details' under 'My Library Card' for ALL your users by changing the parameter key 'primopatroninfo_updatable' to N
This works fine if all your users are set up as external users who automatically gets their contact information updated from a system outside Alma. But if you set up your students as external users and public users as internal users you will have to choose between letting the students update contact information that will be wiped out next time data is loaded in to Alma or not…
65 votes -
Quick edit "Renew Patron" link should save changes to patron record
In the patron Quick Edit screen when a patron is due to expire and the "Renew Patron" option appears in the right hand panel, clicking this link current just updates the expiry date for the patron and leaves the screen, but does not save any other changes you make to the patron record as you are updating them.
This link really needs to either also save the other changes made to the patron record, or just update the expiry date and not take you away from this screen so you can still save your changes.
1 vote -
Export users in one file
We export all our users every day at 19:00 hours.
This export results in over 600 files that then have to be concatenated into one big file.
It would be most useful if the export could result in one big file being exported.
1 vote -
add course name to the course tab on the user profile
At the moment the only columns available in the Course tab on the user profile is course code and section.
Course codes will often consist of a line of numbers so the option to add course name as a column would add great value.
6 votes -
Show "Open for Update" override enabled
This is about the protection of data for external user records. I have copied the below text from the Alma Documentation page: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/050Administration/030User_Management/010Managing_Users#UserDetails
To enable editing other fields of external users, select Open for Update, and select Yes. Edit the relevant fields and select Save. Note that changes you make to most fields will be lost after the next SIS synchronization job. However, Alma prompts you to determine whether the following fields will be overridden with the next SIS synchronization job: Title, PIN number, Job category, User group, Campus, Preferred language, Resource sharing libraries, Cataloger level, Selected patron letters. (Note…
41 votes -
Make address fields one of the searchable fields in user searches
Addresses on a patron record (at least the preferred address fields) need to be a searchable field in the universal search box on the dashboard.
We often find a need to on the fly find all the patrons who might come from a particular address.3 votes -
Ability to send an email from User Details - General information although the user is restricted from editing
Our patrons are restricted from editing. Now with this setting librarians can't send e-mails from the General information - User Details page. It would be helpful to enable sending emails for librarians from the General information - User Details page to all patrons (users restricted from editing and also for non-restricted).
1 vote -
Make the Send Message emails more customisable
Today it is possible to send messages to individual users from the General Information tab on the User Details screen, but the functionality is very basic. To be truly useful it should be possible to create your own templates and to customise them the same way we can customise Alma Letters. Without the usual letter components, such as a header with the institution logo, which are present in other Alma letters, the messages look unprofessional and can easily be mistaken as spam. If it would be possible to create templates containing and editable body text and combine it with the…
3 votes -
Add "Faculty" to pop-up window
Add "Faculty" inside: Configuration Menu > User Management > General > Contact Information Pop-Up.
In order to display faculty in the pop-up window with the user information50 votes -
Set preferred SMS default to "Yes"
When adding users manually in Alma the phone number has a parameter called "Preferred SMS" which is automatically set to "No". It controls whether Alma sends SMS' to the patron or not. It can only be changed after the profile is first saved. Hence it is ease to forget to toggle this setting.
We would like to have the option to choose the default setting for Preferred SMS, or the option to toggle this setting before saving on the "Quick User Management" registration form.
92 votes -
Attach printed letters to user record
We send our bill notice to a central email account for price checking before sending onto the user.
Request is for any notice to be added to a users record in the attachment tab, whether it is emailed or sent to print.
38 votes -
Move general email feature outside of the User's form
The General Email function is currently located inside the form for updating general information in the user record.
If there are any problems with missing mandatory data in the form then the email cannot be used at all.
Since it is unrelated to user general information I would suggest that the Send Message function should be located outside of the user data area perhaps up near the buttons "Toggle Account Type", "Open for Update". (See screenshot)
Additionally, the general mail could perhaps be added to the letters that can be sent from "Manage Patron Services"I would also support greater…
19 votes -
Update user roles quickly - import the Excel file exported from another user
Currently, it's possible export a user's roles in Alma to an Excel file. However, the counterpart function isn't there: to be able to take the roles you've exported from one user and import them into another user's record. This would be such a time-saving feature because it would enable us to take the roles from one member of staff and apply the same to another.
75 votes -
Inactive/Active change to be visible in history tab
When a users account is made inactive/active it does not currently show in the history tab. I would be extremely useful to be able to view when a users account becomes inactive.
26 votes
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