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Discovery Interface Display Logic
Make Discovery Interface Display Logic for collections work on Collection ID instead of collection name
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Can we add an 'electronic collection' column on the Electronic Resource Activation Task List
Would like to add an 'electronic collection' column to the Electronic Activation Task List. It would be best to just be able to configure columns by user's preference if possible.
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Allow customers the option to set date parameters for displaying public notes and authentication notes
We often use public notes and authentication notes to let users know if a particular service is temporarily unavailable or scheduled to undergo maintenance. Direct linking is disabled whenever these notes are present. We then have to remember to go back into Alma and remove these notes when the service becomes available again. It would be much easier if we could schedule these notes to display only during a specified time period (i.e., during the service maintenance window). Ideally, this would also mean that direct linking is only disabled during the period in which the note is "active."
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"Indicators to skip" should apply to single portfolio records
When importing electronic portfolios through repository import there is an option to specify a MARC-field containing the URL to the resource. When configured, Alma extracts the URL from the first occurrence of that field, which might or might not be the desired full text URL.
Next to this option is another option, "Indicators to skip", that looks like it could be used to specify further which occurrences of the field to ignore and which to use for the URL extraction, but this option is only taken in consideration for "multiple portfolios" imports.
As the probably most likely source for an…
2 votesHello All,
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Better distinguish between local portfolios and CZ portfolios in the portfolios list
When you are working in the portfolios list from the electronic service editor in an activated electronic collection and choose to add portfolios from the Community Zone, the list displays the local house icon for active portfolios and no icon for the inactive ones. However, from the electronic service editor portfolios list, active portfolios display with the CZ (double person) icon. Any local portfolios that you have added beyond the CZ collection display with the local house icon. I understand how it makes sense in different contexts, but it may be useful to have an icon that distinguishes between the…
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Display View-Only option for e-collections in NZ tab
It would help to be able to view the information about the e-collection in the NZ tab. Currently libraries can only see the portfolios included in the e-collection but they are unable to see information about the e-collection. It would help to be able to see the acquisitions data attached to the e-collection, including a link to the license.
2 votesHello All,
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Add "available for" information to "Electronic" tab in search results (All Titles)
Currently when searching "All Titles" for something, if there are results that are electronic this information shows up in the Electronic tab. However, from this view we have no way of knowing which library has access to what title in our shared environment because this information is set at the collection, service, or portfolio level through the group settings (aka "available for"). If this information was displayed from the search results screen, this would save us time.
1 voteHello All,
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Add bib metadata to custom view for portfolios
Right now, there's no way to see edition (subfield 250) or publication/copyright date (subfield 260/264) from a list of portfolios.
These fields should be added to the customize view options for portfolio lists.
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Display linked import profiles in Electronic Collection view/editor
It would be helpful if Alma displayed any import profiles set up to create portfolios (or delete) in an electronic collection when viewing/editing that e-collection. This would eliminate the need to go back to the import profiles themselves to verify which collections they work on.
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Include a descriptor of service in move portfolio lightbox
When you are moving portfolios between services in a single collection, there's no way to identify which service is which if both are "full text" or "selected full text". There needs to be a descriptor in the drop down option.
1 voteHello All,
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Public Notes in the Service Level
Allow Service Level Notes to be displayed at the portfolio AND collection levels, not just the portfolio level.
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Display e-ISBN (MARC 020 $a) in e-portfolio repository search results
Currently the ISBN displayed in e-portfolio repository search results is the print ISBN stored in MARC field 776 $z. Please change to display the e-ISBN stored in MARC field 020 $a, or display both the print ISBN (776 $z) and e-ISBN (020 $a).
The e-portfolio repository search finds the e-books. In a bib record for an e-book, the e-ISBN is stored in 020 $a, while the print version's ISBN is stored in 776 $z. It just does not make sense to display only the print ISBN, but does not display the e-ISBN in the e-portfolio results.
The example records are…
1 voteHello All,
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Portfolios - Extended Export
Dear All,
we would like to export the inactive portfolios from a collection. This is not possible. All portfolios are always exported.
Ute Ristau
1 voteHello All,
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Retain local information in collections when performing Link Electronic Resources To The Community
Retain local information in collections when performing Link Electronic Resources To The Community
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Improve filtering of packages in Community Zone
When checking for a portfolio to import from the Community Zone, there can be large numbers of collections to sift through from the large suppliers. These appear in what I guess is reverse chronological order i.e. newest created first. It takes much scrolling and scrutiny if you don't want the collections that are offered first.
There should be a way either to search for the collection you want, or to filter by collection via a drop down. This would save time and also help prevent selecting the wrong collection and possibly having broken links in the Alma linkresolver1 voteHello All,
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1 vote
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Electronic Collection - Automatically publish as Deleted when a linked Descriptive Record is unlinked
In order to triggering publishing of an Electronic Collection from Alma to Primo, the Electronic Collection must have an Electronic Collection URL and an unsuppressed bibliographic record added as the Linked Descriptive Record.
However, the reverse is not true.
If you unlink a bibliographic record from the Electronic Collection, the outcome does not function as expected to then publish the inventory as Deleted.
The workaround for this undesirable behaviour is to first go to MD Editor, suppress the record, and then remove it as the Linked Descriptive Record from the Electronic Collection.
Ex Libris have described this behaviour as expected…1 voteHello All,
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Add Shibboleth to IngentaConnect parsers
Shibboleth is available to sign in to IngentaConnect. Can Shibboleth be added to the IngentaConnect Parser in Alma so that Alma can resolve IngentaConnect URLs with a Shibboleth sign in please?
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Display Electronic Collection name and Interface name in local portfolio list
I have a local record and a CZ record for a journal. My PO and notes are all attached to the local record. In the new UI, when I click “Electronic” for the CZ record, the Collection Names display. In the local record, I can fill in the interface name, but not the collection name if it was a migrated title. I can only see the Electronic Collection name if it was filled in on Alma when creating the portfolio. The interface name will not display in the search results list at all. I can only see it if I…
1 voteHello All,
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Ensure dynamic urls are not broken when using the new "move portfolios to a different collection" feature
When using the new "move portfolios to a different collection" feature, the list of tasks that the move will perform includes a statement that dynamic urls may be broken and must be checked individually. This makes this feature unuseable except when moving very small numbers of portfolios. Since urls are essentially the most important data element in their portfolios, we need to be able to rely on the system not breaking them when using this feature.
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