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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 vote -
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 votes -
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.
4 votes -
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?
1 vote -
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.
11 votes -
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 votes -
"Fulfilment Configuration Utility"- include specific loan date for closed days
When setting up the Closed Library Due Date Management for short loan items, it would be useful to be able to test it in the Fulfilment Configuration Utility by specifying the loan date and time rather than the only option being 'if the item was borrowed now'.
For example, in order to test the rule for our 24 hour loans when taking the weekend closed days into consideration, this can only be done on a Friday, which can mean having to wait 5 days to test the parameter.
If it were possible to select Friday 08:00 as the loan date…
48 votes -
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 votes -
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 votes -
Set an "end of term" due date, by patron group, that would be prioritized over TOU due date
We would like the ability to set a set an end-of-term due date that would outweigh the due date calculated based by the TOU on a transactions.
And, we would like to be able to apply the due date to particular user groups.
The related functionality currently available includes using fixed due dates in the TOU, or relying on patron expiration dates.
Our use case includes:
1) requiring all materials be returned at the end of each quarter.
2) student loan periods that are not fixed date due dates, but instead are short duration.
3) expiration of student records in…
24 votes -
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 votes -
Send overdue notifications only on library's open days
Since we would prefer to avoid to send overdue and lost loan notifications to our patrons on Sundays and holidays, it would be great to have a further option for when to automatically run the “overdue and lost loan job”, that is, to run it only “on the library’s open days”, based on the opening hours set in the “Calendar management”.
18 votes -
Automatic Loan Renewals-needs more options
Could you add the ability to configure automatic loan renewals by physical location within a library? We have some locations we would like to have auto renewals for and some that we do not.
29 votes -
Let every institution to configure due dates according loaning library (no only owning library).
We often loan items not in the owning library but in another one. In these cases, Alma assigns the due date according to the calendar of the owning library.
This causes that sometimes the due date is a closed day in the library where item will be returned (not owning library).
It would be good for us to configure Alma in order to assign due dates according to the calendar of the loaning library, not the owning library.22 votes -
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?
1 vote -
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 votes -
Use Pieces field from item record to trigger a confirmation pop-up at checkout or return
Use the Pieces field from item records to trigger a confirmation pop-up at item checkout or return when that item has two or more pieces. Taking measures for prompting staff to add notes manually item-by-item or creating sets and running jobs to populate fulfillment notes for items that have 2,3,...9,10,...39,40,... pieces are both impractical. Not having a pieces confirmation at checkout feature is a frequent complaint on the Alma Listserv.
24 votes -
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 vote -
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.
1 vote -
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 votes
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