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Fulfillment Note - ability to add photos or live links
It would be helpful if we could also add photos and live links to Fulfillment Notes.
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'Notifications - Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals' job's report
The 'Notifications - Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals' job's report doesn't accurately display when a users renewals have failed, see SF 00791592, specifically when nearing the users expiry date.
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Give us a way to send a checkout receipt after we have forgotten to click "done."
Sometimes staff forget to click "done" after a checkout, then remember that they should have done it to send the email receipt. There is no way to send a receipt after the fact.
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Closed Library Due Date Management language update
For the Closed Library Due Date Management policy, the value of "Move Backward-Move to end of previous open day" does NOT accurately describe what this setting actually does for hourly short loans. Why can't the value simply say, "Move due time to upcoming close time" or "Move to end of the same open day". No one is going to WANT to choose to move the due time to the actual PREVIOUS open day...that day is in the past.
Here was our scenario...we had items on reserve in our Short Loan Fulfillment Unit which had a 4 hour loan period. We…
2 votesHello All,
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Enable desk operators to select from a predetermined list of loan periods.
We would like desk operators to have the option of selecting from a list of predetermined check out periods for items in certain collections.
Boston College Libraries currently provide approximately 80 laptops to community members, which can be borrowed for a fixed loan period. For many patrons this static loan period is either too short or too long, adding some loan period choices would enable us to easily meet the needs of more patrons.
Currently in Alma, offering a variety of loan periods would require the creation of additional locations and terms of use. Doing so would enable us to…180 votesAdding more than one policy to a TOU would add a lot of complexity to TOU and loan rules management. Perhaps it is simpler to change a due date manually at loan time
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Create exceptions for "Closed Library Due Date Management" Settings
We want to create exceptions for the "closed due date management" setting in our TOUs based on events in the calendar. For example, for single day exceptions such as for holiday closed dates like 4th of July, Memorial Day, etc., we want items due AFTER the exception, but for our month long winter break, we want everything due before the break begins so we can update our equipment and complete inventory over the break. Currently we have it set so the system moves the due time to the upcoming closing time, but we would prefer it to be after the…
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In Fulfillment Notes - Can the text of the actual Note be larger than the accompanying text?
The text of the Note in Fulfillment Notes is smaller and less attention getting than the surrounding text, e.g.; "Are you sure you want to perform this action?"
It would be easier to find and process if the text were larger than the surrounding text.1 voteHello All,
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Natural Days vs Working Day in Loans
Hi,
My suggestion is to implement the option of using working days or opening days to calculate the expiration date in a loan.
Actually ALMA set this day by taking the natural days, but in a small library do not want to count Sundays as a day of loan, in attention to the students.
Thanks,
Fernando Lesser
Universidad Anahuac Mexico6 votesHello All,
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return all loans
Just like the way there is receive all PO lines i would be very helpful to have return all loans function as well this will save lots of time.
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Enable filtering by library when patrons use multiple libraries
Our readerss use more than one library in our institution. When I look at their borrowing record, it shows me all their loans, which in some cases might be 50+. Why can't we filter so it just shows me what they've got from our library?
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Fixed due date
For vacation loans, for example, we would like to be able easily to enable / disable and change a fixed due date (at the beginning of the next term), which overrides the due date determined by the loan term of use. Even better if we could apply this to selected user groups.
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Exact time of Due Date for the loans for hours
For cases of a loan for hours, there is no option to make the return time be earlier than the closing time of the Library.
At our university we loan for hours laptops and other materials, which users must return before closing the Circulation desks (20.30), not at the libraries closing time (23.59).
In the Advanced policy setting of due date, there is the option to include a specific time when the unit of measure is days, weeks or months, but not in hours.
We believe that it would be necessary to have this possibility to manage these loans correctly.5 votesHello All,
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A more precise reloan limit embargo
We wish to apply the reloan limit to avoid 24h items same user reloan, but actually the rule block loans on same title and same material type, wich has this side effect: a user return a item with loan policy 1 month (with no reloan limit rule applied) and he cannot reloan because the item is requested by another user, so he wants to loan the other item with a loan policy of 24h (with reloan limit rule applied) available but the loan is blocked anyway: we don't want this, so it is possibile to refine the same title/same material…
9 votesHello All,
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Closed Library Due Date Management to retain the fixed due time for next open day
At present the only options for Closed Library Due Date management are;
Move date backward
Move date forward (either Start or End of next Open Day)
No change to due dateHowever none of these are satisfactory when you have a due date that has a fixed time.
It would be really helpful if there was a new Closed Library Due Date Management option that moves the due date forward but retains the due time.
For example if you have a due date policy that is 10am the following day, and the item is taken out on a Friday the…7 votesHello All,
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Ability to turn off courtesy letters for 1 day loan items
Having the ability to turn off courtesy letters for certain items (e.g. 1 day loan items) based on fulfillment unit rules or by some other means.
4 votesHello All,
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bulk return option
Fulfillment -- Manage Patron Services -- Loans (loan display: all loans)
Could we get a "return selected" option to return multiple items at once after we've selected them?
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Manage patron services - Loans
We'd like to be able to see the item that has just been loaned in the same page without having to scroll down or having to zoom out.
7 votesHello All,
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Create a loan period that rounds reserves to the nearest hour
Rounding to the nearest hour with reserve loans makes it easier for the user to remember the time due to avoid fines. On the staff side, it is easier to manage bookings/holds.
1 voteHello All,
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A simple job to renew loans in Bulk
Currently there are Fulfillment sets which allow collections of items to be adjusted in due date, as per:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/070Advanced_Tools/020Managing_Fulfillment_Sets?uxp=trueHowever for institutions which have auto-renewal, there is no simple way to bulk renew all current loans at a given time. i.e. force all loans which might normally be renewed at a certain time in the 'Notifications - Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals' job, to just be renewed from a given date and time.
Being able to 'press the big renew button' would be very helpful when approaching vacation periods, especially with better controls around loan criteria affected.
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Return Items - reverse display order
Reverse the order of display in the Return Items function so that the newest are at the top. This will make it easy to see how many have been processed without having to scroll down.
8 votesHello All,
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