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Add Storage Location ID to Physical Items Search brief results
We'd like to start using the Storage ID field to track inventory shelved in storage locations. It would be very helpful if this field would display in the Physical Items brief results list, so that operators know right away that the item is in a storage location. Unfortunately, it does not appear to be a field that has been added yet. Please can you add this field to the Physical Items brief results list.
36 votes -
Enhance Shelf Report
Shelf report is a great tool but only searches for items based on permanent location and not their current/temporary location. As a result, items that are on display will display exactly as if they are missing and scanning a display shelf shows that the items were scanned but do not belong in that location, the same status as if an item from the traditional shelving was placed on the display shelf.
Additionally, it was previously posted (June 28, 2022) that it would be useful to be able to select multiple locations when performing a shelf report. It was commented that…
36 votes -
Narrow Withdraw Items job functionality to Physical Items sets
Restrict the Withdraw Items to functioning with Physical Items (barcode) sets. (Currently it will run with sets of Physical Titles and effectively perform as if the job DELETE BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORDS were run with the “Delete all associated inventory resources” parameter selected.)
Include OCLC number in the Excel Export for Physical Items (currently only Physical Titles sets export with the OCLC number, but those sets function erroneously in the Withdraw Items job)
35 votes -
Metadata editor Browse Shelf List forward/back buttons should be bigger or easier to distinguish.
The browse shelf list / call number browse feature is very difficult to use for actual browsing because the forward and next buttons are minuscule. They are not actually buttons, just the less than or greater than sign without borders. I frequently hit the wrong part and end up going back when I wanted to go forward. It's a really small target that calls for high-precision mousing.
Requested improvements:
1) Allow keyboard shortcuts for navigating to previous and next sections of the browse list.
2) Create borders/margins around those buttons.
3) Add mouse-over text showing previous/next so that if you…33 votes -
Add suppress functionality to context menu in list of holdings
When a staff member is looking at a list of holdings for a physical title, the right-click context menu / actions (ellipsis) menu should include a function to suppress holding.
It's inefficient to have to enter the MDE to complete this action. It's inefficient to have to run a job for just a few holdings at a time.
33 votes -
Add Ability to Exclude Holdings Records from LHR Publishing to OCLC When Holding/Bib Records Are Suppressed from Discovery
Currently, Alma's LHR Publishing job for OCLC does not exclude holdings records from publishing when the holdings record or the related bibliographic record is suppressed from discovery.
We request the addition of an option in the LHR publishing job to exclude such holdings records from publishing to OCLC. This functionality is particularly important for suppressed holdings records, as the management tag for publishing to OCLC is set at the bibliographic level. Currently, if a bib record contains two holdings records, it is not possible to publish one holding to OCLC while excluding the other.
30 votes -
Circulation count in item record
Include a field in the item record which contains the circulation count or number of times the item has circulated.
We want to be able to access the circulation count via API and Alma item record view.
30 votes -
Add the Work Order Types sorting option
Hi Everyone,
We're working on our Work Order types and departments to get a better overview of items under repair and others in libraries. I can't figure out how the WO types are sorted in the fulfillment desks, they seem to be randomly placed when I add them!
The issue is about the sorting of work orders types in a circulation desk. I made video captures I can share if you like. As you can see on it I added 3 work orders type to a circ desk and I can't understand their sort in the circ desk parameters.
And…30 votes -
Managing Collections - more options for searching and display
In the Collection Resource Editor (Alma) - it would be really useful to have greater flexibility for searching within a collection. Can we have the option to search by MMS Id and keyword? At the moment only Title and Publisher are available.
This would be really useful when you don't know the specific title/publisher you are looking for - so you want to do a keyword search within the collection to browse. Also if you know the specific MMD id that would be useful too.
27 votes -
Improve import profiles to create multiple holdings
The import profiles to load bibliographic records and attach holdings and items are currently limited to only ONE holdings record per bibliographic record. We would like the ability to create multiple holdings records, one for each distinctive call number. After loading records, if we have multiple copies it is manual work to create new holdings records when the holdings have all been merged into one.
27 votes -
Add fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ to the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job
Area of concern: Additional indexes for ‘Change Physical Items’ Job.
Please reference Ex Libris presentation ‘Automation Tasks for Summary Holdings’:
In order for 863/866 Summary Holdings generation to work properly, each item record must contain certain information in the ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ fields. Currently, neither of these fields are available via the ‘Change Physical Items’ job.
What should be changed: As Serials Processors, we would like item level fields, ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’, made editable via the ‘Change Physical Items’ Job. Being able to change these fields in batch would benefit our workflow by allowing us…
27 votes -
Include International Standard Music Number (ISMN) in Analytics
ISMN is not present i Analytics, and is sorely missed.
27 votes -
Moving item records to differenent holding records and merging holding records
Being able to merge holdings records that have been accidentally created. Either that, or moving item records to different holding records, even if the holding records are in the same location, but different call numbers.
26 votes -
Open Predicted Items feature in MDE should bring in the Item Policy value from the previous item
The feature of Open Predicted Items in MDE cannot bring in the Item Policy as it does for the Material Type, which is inherited well from the previous item.
25 votes -
Make Cataloger notes searchable in Alma and/or Analytics.
It would be helpful if the data in the Cataloger notes within bibliographic records were searchable, possibly through Advanced search, keyword search, or even within Analytics. This would allow catalogers to easily gather these notes and organize them for specific resources related to projects that require review.
25 votes -
Have the option to turn off sorting for sets.
Our OAC department needs to generate a packing list of items that are scanned in, in the order in which they were scanned. The problem is that after creating a physical items set via scanning, the set sorts itself, and the items are no longer in order.
In addition, our Metadata Services department used to manage our corrections projects in Millennium by having a public set that everyone could access. Once the cataloger was done correcting the record, it was removed from the set.
Our problem is that once we're done correcting the record for a Physical Titles set and…
24 votes -
Deleting items on reading lists: notification when batch-withdrawing
The recently-added “Alert of Associated Reading List when Withdrawing or Deleting Items” facility is very welcome. However, this only produces alerts when withdrawing individual items. Would it be possible to add this notification to the reports produced when doing batch withdrawals, otherwise this feature has only limited use.
24 votes -
Item Statistics Notes fields - choose controlled/not controlled individually
At present it is possible to choose for all three of the Item Statistics Notes to be controlled (i.e. select field contents from a drop-down list) or for all three not to be controlled (i.e. free text).
This is restrictive and inflexible. It would be preferable to be able to choose field by field which are controlled and which are not, i.e. have some of the Statistics Notes free text and others controlled.
23 votes -
Add fulfilment, Public and Internal Notes to the Excel spreadsheets for physical item sets
When a Physical Item set of records is exported into a spreadsheet via Tools > Excel, the fields Fulfilment Note, Public Note and Internal Notes 1, 2 and 3 are noticeably absent from the columns of data offered in that spreadsheet.
Those fields frequently play a major role in determining the action required by staff for the given item upon its return, as they’re used for requests for reclassification, relegation, etc. It would constitute a sizeable labour-saving fix to be able to generate/save/print off a ready list of all such messages, alphabetically sortable by contents, from the spreadsheet for staff…
22 votes -
Mejorar realizar cambios globales en ejemplares físicos
Permitir realizar cambios globales sobre los campos de signatura de ejemplares físicos, para modificar una parte de la signatura sin cambiar el resto. Por ejemplo:
EPP3500(075)/ALV cambiar a PLP3500(075)/ALV
EPP3300/WES cambiar a PLP3300/WES
22 votes
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