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  1. We would like an option to search vendors by address/country.

    We would like an option to search vendors by address/country since many of our vendors are from other countries.
    Currently, we have no way of finding all the vendors from a certain country, if it is not part of their name.

    2 votes
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  2. Replicate Voyager Alternate Vendor Search Names

    The ExLibris Voyager product allows for alternate vendor search names.

    These are extremely useful for several instances:
    1) DBA - Bob Smith dba Susan Jones Book Services
    Would like to search for both "Bob Smith" and "Susan Jones" in Vendors
    2) Company name changes - Yankee Book Peddler -> YBP -> GOBI Solutions...
    Especially helpful with a swath of generational employees who may refer to a vendor using a name that is 5, 10 or 20 years old
    3) Abbreviations - Lib. of Congress vs. Library of Congress. Or... ARL vs. Association of Research Libraries. Or... ALA vs. American Library…

    1 vote
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  3. Make "additional code" for vendors searchable

    Using the additional code field to track changes in the Vendor Code field make sense, but has limited use if we can not search it in any meaningful way.

    22 votes
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  4. Vendor Interface > Contact Information > Email addresses

    The default display for Vendor Interface > Contact Information > Email addresses, does not include an option to display the "description" field on the main page. The fields available for display are: Preferred, email address, created by, creation date, and type.

    Since most correspondence with vendors and sales representatives happen by email now, it would be useful to be able to see the description on the main page without having to click on .... and Edit for each email listed to see who is the correct contact.
    Some email addresses do not contain the person's full name, and if you…

    62 votes
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  5. Contact Information in the vendors profile

    Hello,

    It would be very useful if in the Vendor contact information, the "Email Address" would appear as the first address.
    Also it should be marked as a "must to fill" field with red asterisk (The problem now is that when one forgets to add email address, the orders cannot be send to the vendor).
    Also, currently, if you add an email address instead of the surface address, the system does not provide any alerts and the order is not being sent.

    Thanks.

    2 votes
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  6. Vendor Interface details screen-Administrative Information tab - Incident log section: More characters required

    Description: Currently, the Incident Log section on the Administrative Information tab of the Vendor Interface Details screen only accepts a certain amount of characters.
    We have found that you can copy and paste a great deal of information into the field. However, when you select the Save button, the number of characters entered into the field is reduced to approximately 1900. There is no notification that characters have been cut.
    Can the number of characters entered into the Incident Log field be increased?
    We would like to have the ability to paste large log files in that field and be…

    16 votes
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  7. Hotlink URIs in Vendor Interface Details

    In the Vendor Interface Details screen there are several fields in both the Administration Information and Access Information tabs for URIs. However, URIs entered into these fields are static. It would be useful if they were hyperlinked to go directly to the admin site, for example, for manually downloading counter stats, or doing other admin account maintenance.

    27 votes
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  8. Add a support category for vendor contact information.

    Add a technical support option category for contact information (email addresses and phone numbers) in vendor records. Often vendors have different contact information for orders/claims/returns versus support, and right now there is no way in Alma to label a phone number or email address as a technical support line. This leads to confusion on the part of the library's own support staff, and we often end up Googling any contact information listed in Alma. This is a straightforward and necessary enhancement.

    11 votes
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  9. Deactivate Vendor Records from List

    Make it possible to deactivate vendor records from the vendor list by clicking on the "active" checkbox, rather than having to edit each record individually.

    9 votes
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  10. Allow the existing configuration of the user form to apply also on the "Vendors > Contact People tab > Add Contact" page

    This idea was opened by Ex Libris to see how the community supports it.

    There is an existing configuration for the user form which was added in August 2022: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2022/Alma_2022_Release_Notes#Configure_the_User_Form

    Please have this configuration apply also when creating a new vendor "Contact" (Vendors > Contact People tab > Add Contact).

    For example, if an institution selected that some fields should not appear in the user creation form, these field should also not appear in the vendor contact creation form.

    0 votes
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