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Make Paying Fines/Fees-Waiving Fines/Fees a separate User Role in Alma and remove them from other roles
The auditors at our institution require us to limit the number of staff members who have this ability. We had to ask Ex Libris to remove PAYFINESFEES PRIVILEGE and WAIVEFINESFEES_PRIVILEGE from a large number of roles, most of which didn't even relate to fulfillment responsibilities during our implementation.
Our Student Assistants and Operators at the Circulation Desks should not have these privileges. But they did before we had them removed.
Approving Manager and Operator, Producer Manager, User Manager, Editor Full, Assessing Manager and Operator, Arranging Operator and Manager are all roles that I don't understand, and…
113 votes -
Proxy/Principal User Search
(I'm not sure the best term, so I'm using "principal" to refer to the person a proxy is acting on behalf of)
It's possible to view a list of principal patrons that a patron is a proxy for from within the proxy's user record (the "Proxy For" tab).
It's not possible to view or search for patrons that are proxies to a principal patron.
Examples:
1) Alice and Bob are known proxies for Chad.
I can open the Proxy For tab for Alice and Bob, where Chad will be listed for both.2) Chad has several proxies, but it's uncertain…
79 votes -
Could we have dates showing the actual month, not represented numerically?
Many of our students can't work out when their items are due, maybe due to the increasing use of the US dating format, so they don't know if 4/10/16 is the 4th of October or the 10th of April. Using the actual months would decrease the confusion.
22 votes -
Automatically attach the circulation desk that I choose in role creation.
When you are assigning any roles that require a circulation desk attached, you have us choose the desk, select it, and then attach it. Why can you not just use the one I select and remove the attach step?
10 votes -
User Registration Terms of Use - Have expiration dates be able to set from the calendar
When creating TOU for User Registration, we should have the ability, much like with due dates in Fulfillment, to set the expiration date to not only various amounts of time, but to a calendar date. We have some patrons who end their privileges at the end of the semester, and it would be very helpful.
12 votes -
Allow for including a block note when batch adding blocks through run a job
Blocks can currently be added to a set of users through the Update/Notify User job; however, a note cannot be included. When placing holds manually, the option exists to include a note. When the note is essential to the block, we currently have to enter each block manually instead of using the job. Including the ability to enter a note in the batch job would save an immense amount of staff time.
5 votes -
Alma user mgmt: Ability to add role profiles to a set of users
Currently you can add roles to a set of users as per http://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/How_to_add_a_role_to_a_group_of_users%3F. However, if you want to add multiple roles you have to run the job multiple times and potentially for different scopes each time.
It would useful to be able to apply role profiles to a set of users, as you can predefine many roles in a profile.
17 votes -
To add purge date option rather then use days since purge date
To add the exact purge date option rather then use days since purge date. If the date option is available, we can run a job and set the purge exact purge date rather than purge users that are not meant to be purged
3 votes -
SIS - Save Rejected records in XML format for re-load
Currently rejected records from the SIS batch upload process are only identified in the event log. It would be very useful if the rejected records were saved to a separate file in XML format. This would allow for easier re-load once the load error is resolved.
11 votes -
Permit only public notes in patron files
According to Swiss Data Protection Laws, all notes in a patron file have to be viewable by the patron.
As consequence, we want either:
- Only have public notes in the patron file. Non public notes do not exist. This may be an option that can be activated or deactivated by administrators.
Or:
- The User Viewable attribute is ticked by default. Again, this may be activated or deactivated by administrators.4 votes -
Preserve the Expire Date if changed manually
Similar to how the user group field can be preserved and not overwritten by an update to user data if it has been changed manually, it would be beneficial for the expiry date field to be treated in the same way so that if the date is changed manually it will not be overwritten by a data synchronization. This would allow staff to manage patrons locally within Alma when an external data source is unreliable.
3 votes -
make permissions on changing address data more granular (email/domestic)
Aleph allows to set an option to allow users change their "address" data via Primo OVP. This allows users to edit the phone number and email in Primo, but also their domestic address. Often, the change of the domestic address must be prevented, because it is the address where a possible court order is directed to.
We want to allow users to change their email and phone number but need to disallow the change of the domestic address. Therefore, we propose that Primo and Aleph/ALMA must be designed to work in a way that allows setting permissions on each field…
22 votes -
Add options to retain manually-added (internal) information when toggling a record to external user
Currently, notes (and other internal fields) disappear from internal patron records after toggled to external patron records. Per support documentation https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/user-management and testing, this is intended behavior in Alma based on assumptions made and imposed by the system. As a community college, we have many students who leave school for some time and become community users and then enroll again after a period of time. Many community members also become students, staff or faculty. In order not to lose the vital internal information, we have to do time-consuming work arounds.
3 votes -
Change role attributes via SIS batch load
I would like to be able to change user role information (roles status, expiration date, delete or add a role) via the Student Information System external integration batch uploads. Currently, user roles can only be modified manually in the UI or with an API call.
5 votes -
Dynamically create statistical category and type specified in the user xml notice imported from SIS
The user.xsd xml shema contains statistical category an type description.
<user_statistics>
<user_statistic segment_type="External">
<statistic_category desc="STAPS">
4200013
</statistic_category>
<category_type desc="Code SISE">
BSISE
</category_type>
</user_statistic>However, when imported from SIS, il the category and type in a user.xml file imported from SIS does not already exist in Alma configuration tables, it is not imported in the statitistical type specified.
In the example below, category 4200013 and its description STAPS, type BSISE and its description Code SISE required to have been already created in Alma configuration tables.
If its not the case, the category 420003 is imported with NO type
and no description.…
3 votes -
Patron tab customization
We would like to be able to customize tab labels in the patron folder. In fact, in french "Audit" is not very appropriated. We'll prefere "Modif. lecteur".
Is it possible to offer the possibility to ajust label directly by the Alma administration Interface?
Or/And to change the name of the Audit tab in the french interface "Modif. lecteur".
1 vote -
alma sign
Alma licences are currently associated with OpenAthens usernames to support external authentication. We have unfortunately experienced a service outage at OpenAthens, meaning staff were unable to access Alma or offer any service to users.
Is it possible to have an alternative login method for the licensed Alma users, to deal with situations like this?This is not a replacement login rather an alternative solution if our primary method of logging in is temporary inaccessible.
3 votes -
See user's Institution Id in drop down menu
Our request concerns the display in the Patron Identification form
Currently, when searching for a user in Scan Patron's ID or search for patron, a pop-up appears with the name, the group and the Primary identifier displayed for each user.
We would like the user's Institution ID to be displayed as well.
Alternatively we would like the admin can choose whether to display the primary identifier or institution id.1 vote -
1 vote
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Ability to log in as user to a user's Library Card
It would be nice to be able to log in to a user's Library Card as that user for various reasons, mainly related to seeing what the patron can see (which letters they are selected to receive, which loans are present and which can be renewed by patron, etc.).
This has been an immensely helpful feature within ILLiad, and with the ability to integrate Alma and ILLiad and allow users "one" library account to manage rather than several, it would be very helpful in troubleshooting users' questions over the phone or via email.
9 votes
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