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Enable default "At" department selection for Process Type in Physical Item Editor
To change the Process type in the physical item editor, you have to select Process type, then the "At" dropdown. Instead of clicking on the dropdown and selecting the department, it will be much easier if there's always a default selection. Please make this possible as repetitive data entry is a pain point in the physical item editor. I know it's possible to do this in batch using an Alma job. But some staff just cannot handle or have permissions to run jobs to make item changes.
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Add process type (work order) and update call number to Repository Import profile
I know there are two jobs available - create physical items work order and update call number from bibliographic - that can be done with item sets.
But why not make it easier so we can do these two things with the Repository import profile?
It would be a huge timesaver if the physical mapping has these options:
Assign Process type (work orders)
Update holdings call number without creating new holdings record/item records when using the repository import profile.
Thank you.
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Please expand the volume of Internal note fields to the Physical Item Editor
Our library has more than three kinds of information need to be recorded in the internal note field, such as property number, new books statues notes, compensation books notes and so on.
Hope is could add more, or became expandable let staff to select numbers of fields they needed.100 votes -
Allow the "Type of Unit" field in the item record to be edited in the item record rather than in the holdings record
Right now you can add the Type of Unit to the item record by adding an 85X $$o to the holdings record. If you have more than one you can do this:
853 $$8 1 $$o Ten year cumulative index
853 $$8 2 $$o Supplementthe Type of Unit will become a drop-down and you can choose.
However, this is a lot of work, and not intuitive. We would like the ability to type into the Type of Unit field in the item record.
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Include International Standard Music Number (ISMN) in Analytics
ISMN is not present i Analytics, and is sorely missed.
23 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.
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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…
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Add integrated spine label printing for collection items
Allow for spine label printing direct from Alma rather than having to use a third party API. ie- Spin0Matic
Thank you
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Error message: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.2 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
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1 vote
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Show editions of books when doing a search in either Physical Title search, or Physical Items search, not just All item search
This is a more practical and efficient way of showing book's info , as the edition is not restricted to All item search.
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Changing Holdings or Relinking Item is Possible Only in User Role Scope for SOURCE library
At present staff can move items from a library they don’t have a user role for, to a library they do have a user role for. For example, staff could move an item from the Rare Book Collection holding in one library to a Withdrawn holding in another library if they have the user role for the latter.
In the May 2021 release changing holdings for an item or relinking an item to a bibliographic record required the TARGET library to be within the scope of the user role. This prevents moving item or changing holdings for an item if…
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do not show Library Scope when an institution only has one library
The new Library Scope facet for Physical holdings and Physical items search is only useful if an institution has multiple libraries. It should be possible to disable this facet if an institution only has one library.
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Toggle Provenance Codes for Display
I'd like to propose an enhancement that allows provenance codes to be disabled/hidden instead of exclusively being deleted when they are no longer needed.
Currently, provenance codes can't be "hidden" from selection if they are no longer needed. Once a provenance code is not used, it can only be deleted and then any items with that code previously assigned are left with a single character from the code and "not listed".
We use provenance codes to note grant-funded resources, but once the grant is used up, we'd like to remove the provenance code option so it doesn't clutter up the…
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Generate accession number by typing directly in field 852
Generation an accession number in 852$$h or $$j can only be done by using the menu (Tools -> MARC21 holdings -> generate accession number), or by keyboard shortcut (ctrl+schift+A) in the new MDE.
Even though the keyboard shortcut saves some clicks, we would like to type the prefix directly in field 852, followed by a character like # for example, that would indicate to Alma to generate the sequence number after saving the holding record.Example : 852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA #
-> after saving the record :
852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA 6785If…
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Nueva rutina de análisis (Call number Parsing) para la impresión de tejuelos
Solicitamos añadir una nueva rutina de análisis de clasificación / signatura para la impresión de tejuelos, que permita separar en diferentes líneas los subcampos ($$h y $$i) .
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add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.
In Primo, readers often can not distinguish the difference of the book and the attachment of the book(ex: CD-ROM). So readers often request the barcode number of the attachment of the book first wrongly, and then find that they really want to request the book instead of the attachment of book(CD-ROM). I suggest the system can show an attachment icon picture(Ex: paper clip) besides the item of the attachment. It can help readers to distinguish the types of the items(book or CD-ROM attachment) quickly and correctly.
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Ability to combine two or more existing items into a kit without losing POL information
If there's a way to do this, I can't find it.
What I would like to have is to take existing/previously received items (presumably with their own barcodes) and then combine them under one barcode as a kit. In theory, you can use "Bond Items" to do this, but the problem is that you effectively lose your POL receiving info (as well as all other individual item info) from the combined items. In my organization's case, this can cause an issue for the auditing department if the is a question or issue involving one of the merged items since there…3 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.
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May release : deletion of empty holdings.
Dear all
the May release introduced a change concerning the deletion of empty holdings:The 'Delete Holdings' link in the 'List of Holdings' page, which was formerly visible to users with the 'Physical Inventory Operator' role, is now visible only to users who have the 'Physical Inventory Operator Extended' role.
This change is a problem because not all the operators can have the physical Inventory Operator Extended role: this role allows operators to delete copies and it is quite dangerous.
It would be better for us that operators with the physical inventory role keep the permission to move copies from…177 votes
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