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Make the discount field available to Import Profiles that create POL's
When using an import profile you cannot specify an incoming discount field that will map the the POL discount field.
This is necessary because setting the discount at the account level is not always possible, some vendors/publishers exclude items from the stated discount.
12 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Manual orders for physical items: selecting more than 20 POLs for a manual PO
- first scenario: a. you enter a number of POLs bigger than 20 (same library and same supplier), b. then you want to make a single manual PO of them; c. from the “acquisition” menu, you choose “package” (in order to make a PO), d. the whole POLs list is visualized, and that list occupies more than one page (one page contains up to 20 POLs): you have no way to select all of them (not even with “select all”): any selection is valid only for the active page, and gets lost when you change page; you have to…
6 votesHello All,
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Send a notification when a POL marked as manual renewal is added to the task list
When a PO line is marked as manual renewal and it subsequently appears in the renewals task list a notification should be sent to those with the appropriate role in Alma to advise.
8 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Allow Linking PO Lines to Electronic Inventory Regardless of Order Record Type
We keep running into road blocks with not being able to hotlink POLines into the POLine fields of either Electronic Collection Records or Portfolio records.
Is there a way that Alma can allow us to add POLines to Electronic inventory no matter what the order type is? This would save us so much time and allow us to use existing order lines for renewals. Right now we are doing a work around to connect order lines with electronic inventory by entering order information in the Portfolio Internal Description field.
280 votesDear community,
We reviewed this idea and analyzed it deeply.
The current Alma data model relays on the PO line type as indication of the related inventory. Changing this is very complicated and risky, therefore for now we will not implement this.
Thanks,
Tamar Fuches
Alma product team
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Manual packaging
Option to set Manual Packaging in the PO Line summary, Additional section as default / keep the option marked.
4 votesHello All,
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PO Templates: allow anyone to delete
Right now a PO template can only be deleted by the person who created it. We have a number of templates sitting in our list that were created as tests when we first adopted Alma. We can't delete them because we don't know who made them, and it's possible that the creator no longer works at our institution.
We don't see why public templates require this level of protection; if someone is concerned about a template being deleted, they can make it private.
We would like the ability to clean up our template list so it can actually be an…
6 votesHello All,
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PO Line - Communications
It is not possible to add all order communications with the vendor into one tab "Communications". All communcations that's starts from the vendor can not register here, only the communications that's starts from the library.
It is not possible to select a communication type that's not sending a email to a vendor in the communication tab.
It is very important for us that the chronology of communications is saved in one tab and not in many tabs.7 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Delete PO Notes - from closed PO Lines
Provide the function to delete specific Notes in PO Lines, when mistakes are found.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Allow Material Supplier, List Price, ISBN and Fund to save when saving orders that have not been sent
If you are interrupted when creating a PO line, either because you are disturbed or because there are insufficient funds in the budget, Alma saves the information you have already put in. At the moment, it saves the PO line itself but removes the ‘Material supplier’, the ‘List price’ and the ‘Fund’, so that I’m starting off worse than from scratch because two of those three things are already included on my template when I create a PO line anew. If I change the ISBN, this also reverts back when a PO line is saved, and the Reporting Code also…
3 votesHello All,
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Additional PO line for Electronic portfolios/collections to show these additional resources in the PO Line
The new Additional PO option in the electronic portfolio/collection editor is great, but it would be good if these resources could also be identified from within the additional PO itself.
5 votesHello All,
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When adding invocie line, Secondary Reporting Code and Tertiary Reporting Code which is empty in POL will be set to a default value from the
For ‘add invoice line’ operation after typing the POL number the system will bring the POL’s information such as total price, reporting code, Secondary Reporting Code and Tertiary Reporting Code, which is good. But we want the information for Secondary Reporting Code and Tertiary Reporting Code to override the information from configuration > acquisitions > purchase order > Secondary Reporting Code/Tertiary Reporting Code. Even if the POL’s Secondary Reporting Code and Tertiary Reporting Code are empty, which currently will be set to a default value from the configuration.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Please provide the way of knowing the real POL creator who creates POLs by using import profiles.
When creating POLs by using import profiles, it doesn't possible to track who actually created the POLs. Instead, all the POLs created by import profiles have 'System' as POL creator. Please provide the way of knowing the real POL creator who creates POLs by using import profiles.
2 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Default currency in POL from the vendor
When we add a vendor in the POL, we would like add by default the first currency associated to the vendor.
2 votesHello All,
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Make the list price box on the create pol form interactive.
Make the list price box on the create pol form interactive, so we do not have to click on the box, remove the 0.00, and then key price. This would be helpful in other places in Alma, as well.
2 votesHello All,
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Include the ISBN/ISSN dropdown box in 'Other Service' PO lines
We regularly need to order additional copies of ebooks, for example, if credits run out. If we are getting these from the same supplier, we don't want to create a duplicate portfolio, so we want to add an order without creating inventory. Using the order type 'Other Service' would be ideal, however there is no option to include the ISBN in the order, which vendors depend on for identifying the order via EDI. It would be great if this function could be added to 'Other Service' orders.
1 voteHello All,
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1 vote
Hello All,
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Identification of Reply vs Response in Communication tab of POL
It would be useful to be able to easily identify a Reply vs a Response when looking at all of the 'Answers' associated with a Communication in a POL. Perhaps an arrow could indicate which direction the communication occurred ? e.g. an arrow pointing to the left ('out') if it is a Reply from us to the vendor, or an arrow pointing to the right ('in') if it is a Response from the vendor. See attached for screenshots.
0 votesHello All,
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