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Allow us to suppress the License from display when it is not ready with status of "Draft" or review status "In review"
For those waiting for review licenses, we will have status "Draft" and review status "In Review". These licenses are waiting to be checked and the fields are not verified for correctness. But now once the licenses are created with inventory added, all licenses are displayed out for the user, even with status “Draft” and “In Review”.
It will be great if only the licenses with “active” and “accepted” status can be displayed, but not the “Draft” and “In review” license that they are waiting to be verified.
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Prevent deletion of portfolios with access type perpetual or current plus perpetual
When deleting portfolios individually or through a batch process, add a feature to flag/warn about portfolios with perpetual or current plus perpetual for the access type before they are deleted. It could be similar to the message and process you run into upon trying to delete a portfolio with an active po line or a physical holding with an active po line. My library's portfolios attached to larger collections often do not have PO lines (as much of this work was done in our former library system prior to Alma migration). Adding a perpetual access type to portfolios is relatively…
123 votesDear Community,
Thank you for your valuable feedback regarding the enhancements needed to improve the usefulness of perpetual access model.
We would greatly appreciate your input on the following questions:
- Preferred Behavior for Deleting Perpetual Access Resources: When a user attempts to delete a resource with a Perpetual access type, what would be your preferred system behavior? Should the system completely block deletion (unless the access type is changed)? Or should it display a warning, but still allow the deletion?
- Community-Linked Perpetual Access Resources: For perpetual access resources that are linked to the Community, do you have any best practices in place? Are there any considerations or concerns we should take into account regarding Community Zone updates to these resources?
We look forward to hearing your thoughts.
Best regards,
Alma product team
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E-resources - Add Inventory number with automatic counter
To a physical item, is it possible to add an inventory number both manually or - if configured the sequence - with the function "Allocate" to enter the next number.
For the ebook acquired in way "pick and choose", it is necessary the same function, with sequence number, price and date of inventory.27 votes -
Show the same note both in Edit service and on Edit collection level
For a bether overwiev show the note addedd in collection service also under Edit collection. Saves a lot of work.
Note is a great field.25 votes -
Add Day or Week embargo option
When setting Coverage Information, current embargo options are to enter a number of months or years. Some publishers have a 2 week, or 14 day embargo; we cannot enter embargo information for these. Adding a Day and/or Week option would allow this information to be added.
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Include parser override values in it's own column in extended export report
Include parser override values in it's own column in extended export report
It's not possible to view which portfolios in a collection have parser override values. Currently, the value is included in the parser parameters value in extended export reports.
It would be helpful with managing portfolios to have a way to see when a portfolio has a parser override value. That way, we could check on those portfolios and make sure the CZ parser value has been corrected.
Please, include parser override values in it's own column in extended export report or have another way of highlighting when an…
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Ability to delete all parser override values using change portfolio job
Currently, it's not possible to remove parser override values using the change portfolio job. This would be helpful when clearing those values from a collection of portfolios after the CZ portfolios have been updated by Ex Libris.
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If e-collection from CZ is already active in NZ, ask for validation
It is possible to activate electronic collections from the CZ more than once in your NZ. We are aware there are use cases where this is the desired behaviour.
Yet it would be nice if there was a short dialogue: "The collection is already active in your NZ. Are you sure you want to activate it again?" - just to avoid duplicate activation by mistake.
23 votes -
Improve OpenURL generation to remove blanks and duplicates
Openurls generated could by Alma/Primo be shorted by:
- Not sending duplicate parameters.
- Not sending empty parameters.
Background:
We have noticed that OpenURLs produced by Alma/Primo (which are then sent on to our ILLiad server, which can require redirection to get the patron authenticated) can be VERY long. So long in fact, that they can produce errors for our ILLiad web server. The ILLiad server will end up reporting "Request header is too large", and the user is left with a HTTP Status 400 Bad request error.
We believe the responsibility here is on the Alma/PRimo side as the urls generated…
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Electronic Material Types - Need for more options.
Unlike the Physical Item Material Types, Electronic Material Types are limited because they are hardcoded. However, the list that is provided by Ex Libris does not give us enough granularity. For instance, at our institution, we have senior theses that are deposited into our institutional repository. However, when you create the portfolio and select the Electronic Material Type there is no option for either “Bachelor’s Thesis” or a generic “Thesis”. Instead, they only provide “Dissertation” or “Master Thesis” there is no option for a Bachelor’s of Senior project. Therefore, we are forced to select Book which is inaccurate.
This would…
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Add moore options to local portoflio
Usefull to be able to add moore fields in the "add local portfolio"Moore authors and a publishing year
15 votes -
Improve the management of license terms in config
Currently to manage the order and organization of license terms in Alma, we have to number each term we wish to use in order. If we want to add or reorder, we need to carefully renumber the existing terms so we don't accidentally use the same number twice and risk overwriting existing terms. While we've all learned work-arounds for this, given the amount of work it takes to maintain our hundreds of licenses, it seems risky to have this form of ordering. It would be much better to have the functionality that appears elsewhere in Alma that allows for lines…
56 votes -
Improve Alma's Licence „Controlled Vocabulary“ functionality
Background (as it works now):
Under „Manage License Terms“ a field can be defined as „Controlled Vocabulary“ and the defined CV values can be selected within a License. However, these CV values are only some kind of text module / boilerplate text which are copied into a specific license field. This means: when a CV value is changed or deleted, the content of this specific field in all licenses did not change. The change must be made in each license itself. A deleted CV value is displayed in the license field as: „<CV value> (not listed)“. The CV values functionality…
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Add electronic collection details to the Alma publishing
Currently both physical and digital collections are published to Primo. Because of this these data elements can be added to the display sections of the Primo UI including the collections facets (courtesy of the Primo back office rules).
Similarly the collection name is published to Primo Central and therefore can be included in the collections facet and full display Details section.
Note: The publishing should also include details showing whether the resource is a Community Zone resource or not. (It may be desirable to only include non-Community Zone collections in the Primo displays as the PCI collections is already displayed).
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21 votes -
Improve 'Synchronize from CZ' job reports
Sometimes, the information in the reports bears no resemblance to what’s in the CZ Updates Task List. For example, the 'portfolio linked to different bibliographic record' information isn't included in the CZ Updates Task List at all so you have to submit a SF case each time if you want to find out which portfolios were moved and which records are involved.
It would be useful to have clickable counters in the 'Synchronize jobs from CZ’ job reports that take you through to the corresponding changes in the CZ Updates Task List.
29 votes -
make "test access" work when direct linking is enabled
The "test access" button in Alma does not work when direct linking is enabled in Primo. When trying to test access for an electronic portfolio, Alma loads a blank page forcing staff to click "display in a new window" in order to proceed. We recommend that this behavior be changed so that test access works the same regardless of whether direct linking is enabled.
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"Electronic material type originating from Bib" vs "Electronic material type" : a display issue in the Portfolio service editor's list
In an electronic portfolio, there is a field called "Electronic material type originating from Bib" which can be overloaded by another field called "Electronic material type".
The Job "Change electronic portfolio information" allows to update the material type of portfolios into the field "Electronic material type" into a set of portfolios.
If we do so, the material type is not updated into the Portfolio service editor's list... which is confusing.our request : when the material type of a portfolio has been updated in the field "Electronic material type", ALMA should only considare this material type and display it in…
18 votes -
E-Collections: Read-only access to Alma for other institutions
We wish to provide read-only access to our Alma instance to other institutions in our consortium and vice versa so that we can compare setup more efficiently. The permissions need to be quite restrictive and prohibit access to financial, patron data, etc. but allow us to view E-Collection, Service and Portfolio level screens.
When comparing set-up of our e-collections we are spending a lot of time discussing via email and sharing screen shots, which is not as efficient as being able to go in with a view privilege and compare in real-time.
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49 votes
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Implement auto holdings for IEEE
Implement auto holdings (autoholding, auto load, autoload) for IEEE, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, and Springer.
121 votes
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