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override proxy - portfolio
Occasionally, a portfolio will move OA in a collection. It would be great to have an option to override proxy set at the service level on the portfolio. Then, rather than having to turn off proxy at the service level and update portfolio by portfolio, you can just override proxy on each portfolio as necessary.
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Portfolio Bulk Load file limit too small
The file limit of 10MB is too small. If we're using the Bulk Load, it means we're dealing with very large amounts of portfolios. Having to split those files is cumbersome.
12 votes -
Create ACS eBooks Collection 2024
I'd like ExLibris to create a CZ collection for "ACS eBooks Collection 2024" so that we can activate the content and make it available to our users via our discovery layer.
12 votes -
Create an electronic collection for the "Zhong hua jing dian gu ji ku"
The Zhonghua Classics Database contains the standard punctuated versions of many important Chinese classical texts in the fields of philosophy, history and literature (such as biji) as published by Zhonghua Shuju and other major publishers of punctuated editions. The database also includes the 360 volume Quan Song Wen《全宋文》set as e-books. Quan Song Wen is a collection of Chinese prose dating from the Song dynasty that was first published in 2006 by 上海辭書出版社.
In addition to browsing whole titles, this digitized version has been optimized to search simultaneously variant forms of characters (defaults can be changed in the advanced search), and…12 votes -
Sorting electronic collections by "Public name (override)"
When searching for electronic collections, results lists can currently only be sorted by collection name or by rank. It would be very useful if the list could also be sorted by "Public name (override)".
Currently, for each entry in the result list, the name from the field "Public name (override)" is displayed first, followed by the collection name - which equals the public name - in parentheses. However, the alphabetical order is determined by the public name. This results in a collection list sorted by the names which are in second place and in parantheses. This is rather confusing and…
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Display collection "Public Name" instead of "Public name (override)" in Import Profile Details
We repeat the use of "Public name (override)" to aggregate several local collections under the same heading in our discovery layer. In the example I am dealing with, we use "Project Muse eBooks", but have separate collections for each year of titles. The import profile that we use to load these titles displays the override name, which means that I am unable to tell which collection we are loading into without editing the profile and selecting a collection anew.
I would love it if we could use the "Public Name" of the collection in Inventory Information tab of the import…
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Please add Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library
Please add Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library to the Alma CZ and CDI.
https://www.bloomsburyfashioncentral.com/bloomsbury-dress-and-costume-library9 votesHello,
This collection will be added as part of the March 10th 2024 revision.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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When CZ update "Portfolio bibliographic record updated" runs, if POL is attached to portfolio & bib, automatically move POL to new bib
When we order a portfolio, the PO Line attaches to both the portfolio and the bibliographic record attached to the portfolio (this is good; it's how Alma works by design). Every week, there are numerous "Portfolio bibliographic record updated" tasks on the CZ Updates Task List. This means that the portfolio has moved to a different bib record. When "Portfolio bibliographic record updated" happens, the portfolio moves to a new bib. The POL remains attached to the portfolio (which is good!). However, the POL is not moved to the new bib record; it remains attached to the old bib record.…
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Split CZ Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles into three separate categories on the interface name
It would be easier for us to administer our PQ subscriptions if it was specified what they were. That is instead of showing "Ebook Central Perpetual, DDA and Subscription Titles" in the interface name, in our case we would have DDA titles, Ebook Central owned titles and Academic Complete listed instead. Could this be done via the metadata in these records? For example we may wish to see how many DDA titles are appearing on Reading Lists
8 votes -
Additional Report to ExLibris Option
Adding the option to "Report to Ex Libris" from the Electronic Titles search page would make reporting issues to them much more streamlined.
Currently you have to
1) Find out what collection it is in
2) Go to the portfolio list
3) Search for the title
4) Then you have the option to Report to Ex Libris by clicking the three dots8 votes -
Move set of Portfolios from CZ to Local collection-URL type
When moving a set of portfolios from a CZ collection to a locally made collection, ask and allow for the portfolio URL type to be changed and accurately reflect the change. For example, if the portfolios URL structure is set at Parser parameters in the CZ, and the local collection uses static URLs, change the portfolios to static (binary checkbox) and update the free text URL field to reflect the static URL. (By moving a set of portfolios from a CZ to a local collection, the resulting URLs still using parser parameters won't work, and the export URLs job won't…
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Make "Available To Date" actions customizable so portfolio can be automatically deleted after "Available To Date"
The "Control the Availability of Portfolios Automatically at a Pre-defined Date" feature, introduced in the February 2023 release (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2023/Alma_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202302BASE), allows libraries to enter an Available From Date and Available To Date in portfolios, and the portfolio will be automatically deactivated after the Available To Date. This feature is designed to be useful in cases where libraries lease a piece of content (typically, a streaming film) for a limited period of time.
However, after a portfolio has reached its "Available To Date," we don't just want to deactivate it; we want to delete it entirely from Alma (and its…
7 votes -
Activated portfolios in a community zone collection
We would like to be able to see which portfolios are active in a community zone collection and which are not. For example, if 182 of 184 portfolios are active in a CZ collection, we want to be able to filter those that are activated institutional zones or in the community zone. Currently you need to compare Export Lists to see this.
6 votes -
Restrictions on access to electronic documentation on a user group basis
Restrictions on access to electronic documentation can only be made in Alma on a library or campus basis.
It would be desirable to be able to do this on a user group basis as well.
6 votes -
Add Oregon State University OER textbooks collection
Is it possible to add the OER ebook collection from Oregon State University to the Community Zone? They're located at: https://open.oregonstate.education
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Display service temporarily unavailable message, add time option
Is it possible to add the time when the collection will be unavailable? For example, we received notice that the ASTM would be unavailable February 23rd, 7:00 p.m. to February 24th, 2:00 a.m. If I set up the Display Service Temp unavailable message for the 23rd and 24th, the collection would be made unavailable when we still have access. Adding a time option to the date would be helpful.
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Mechanism to find instances when Synchronize from CZ has failed
When you've activated a CZ collection, updates to the collection/portfolios should be pushed to your IZ/NZ by the Synchronize from CZ job, but it's a known issue that sometimes this doesn't happen. The workaround is to delete and re-activate the collection, but this relies on an end user finding and reporting the error. Until this systemic issue is resolved, it would be good if Alma would report on instances where the job has failed so the library could proactively find and fix collection/portfolio-level issues before end users discover them.
6 votes -
Display only one of each resource recommender type
Currenlty the default is two of the first listed Type listed in Resource Recommender displays in PrimoVE. Would like to change it so that just one of each type of Resource Recommender displays to diversify results patron sees on page.
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Record all changes to an Electronic Collection in the History tab, by user or System and the change made
All changes to be recorded in the Electronic Collection History tab, including the user account or System making the change and what was changed.
Currently there are many "System" changes only recording the Modification Date by Old Value of the previous last change and the New Value of the date of change.
But there is no information as to what was changed.
I am not going to provide examples of what should be changed and risk only those changed being done, as simply everything should be recorded. This is the purpose of a History log.
Currently Ex Libris expects customers…
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when importing, create portfolio links *after* Process / Normalization Rules ( NR ) are applied (and not before as it is now)
Right now static links in portfolios can be derived form 856 tags in imported MARC records.
Sometimes however we need to manipulate those links to fit the needs of our institution. We could do that easily with a process based on a Normalization Rule (NR) defined in the import profile. But this doesn't work, since our changes to 856 are not considered by Alma when creating the Static links in Portfolios. Our best guess is that static links are created before NR/process are applied and not after. That's a pity.
It would be great if static links were extracted from…4 votes
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