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1 vote
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Order the toolbar
For each user the order of "Manage patrons", "Return items", and "Scan in items" is in a different order. You should be able to arrange these so that it is the same for each user.
1 voteHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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Enable deletion of staff users from historical records
Enable deletion of staff users from historical records
Based on strong laws for data protection in Germany and in order to avoid efficiency control of the employees we need the possibility to delete the staff user from historical records.
Kende
9 votesHello All,
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Read only view of user record information
There is a need to provide our faculty librarians with a role that allows for a read only view of the user record information e.g. user details, addresses, contact details, etc.
8 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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User Group fee
I would like it to be possible for a fee to be added to a user record when a certain user group is selected, eg.Postal Loans. The patrons are not imported with this user type - it is changed when they make the request to receive loans by post. There is currently no functionality that allows a fee to be added automatically when a new User group is manually selected.
1 voteHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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Patron contact info - more fields?
Adding discretionally more fields (i.e. city, see city.jpg) to the fields displayed in the user details - contact info panel
(see user_details.jpg for the fields available at now...) would be a great thing...:=)1 voteHello All,
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a specific type of "User notes" shown under "notes" tab
Currently, all user notes (which can be added manually) are hidden behind the "notes" tab (which can't be manually added), as shown in the attachment. It would be great if a specific type of "user notes"(for example, circulation notes) could be listed under "notes" tab, so that those notes will be more obvious to desk staff.
7 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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