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Alma-D waitlist - allow users to remove themselves and monitor waitlist status
Currently when a user joins a waitlist for a digital object (Alma-D / Alma Digital), they have no way to remove themselves after joining. This means that when their turn comes, the entire grace period must run before the object becomes available to the next user. The Delivery Registration Status Letter should include a link to remove oneself from the waitlist. In addition, the "Library Card" area in Primo/Primo VE should show the user their place in the waitlist (with details, e.g. estimate of time remaining) and also provide a link to remove themselves from the waitlist.
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Change / improve the Booking process for staff and patrons
Hi all,
We wish to submit a proposal to change the current booking process for staff creating a booking request in Alma AND for patrons creating their own bookings in PRIMO VE.
Now, Alma’s option to submit ‘’ Booking ‘’ requests requires us to first search an item, select it and then enter booking times for each piece of equipment desired, which is very time consuming.
When patrons book equipment, they often need up to 10 or more pieces of equipment for the same booking period. This is quite inconvenient and increases the risk of mistakes in the process.
In…
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Print slips in lc call number order
In the resource request management area when printing the pull slips it would be helpful to have the option to print these in LC Call Number Order.
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Request option via List of Items screen
It is possible to place a Work Order on an item from the List of Items screen, but not a Request. Could this function be added?
3 votes -
Make "Automatically Print Slip" do what it says
The term automatically print slip makes it seem like you have the ability to turn off printing of slips by setting this to "No". This is not the case. Slips still print. We should have the ability to turn off ALL automatic slip printing when scanning in items. This worked fine for us until the May 2018 and November 2018 releases of Alma changed the way this worked.
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Changing the location after items are moved to Active Hold Shelf
Changing the location after items are moved to Active Hold Shelf
The location in the Active Hold Shelf item represents the location of the item when the request has been submitted. So, the location of all request that is created on when items are in the process of acquisitions, it’s not updated until the requestor loan it.
It makes fulfillment staff confused because items look like not ready to loan.
The best would be updating location after items are moved to the Active Hold Shelf.3 votes -
Add Shelving Location to "Monitor Requests & Item Processes"
It would be extremely helpful to have the shelving location show up in the information on the "Monitor Requests & Item Processes" (MR&IP) lists. Neither "Pick from Shelf" (PFS) or MR&IP shows all of the most helpful information when fulfilling requests. The closest for our library's purposes is MR&IP with the only piece of information missing being the shelving location of items. If it could be added as an option or at least show up in the exported Excel sheet as a column that would remove a ton of extra time and labor for our fulfillment processes.
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Avoid to “hold shelf” for the expired patron.
Alma provides materials for “hold shelf” to patron, whose ID has expired, if he requested before his expiration date.
We want to avoid to “hold shelf” for the expired patron.3 votes -
Have "Status" of a resource sharing request be separate from the "External ID"
In Alma under User information > Manage fulfillment activities > Requests > Resource Sharing Requests, the "Status" and "External ID" is in the same field. We request that the status of an item be in a separate column from the external ID.
Doing this will:
* Avoid confusion as to what is the status vs what is the external ID
* Make copying the External ID easier without having to remove the status information3 votes -
Display resource sharing request limit on user record
When a resource sharing limit is set, display the current number of requests a user has placed in the last academic year. We have users getting failed requests due to hitting the limit, this would make it much easier to troubleshoot.
3 votes -
Auto-tick Notify User box in Request Cancellation dialogue on Alma
Is there a way to set the ‘notify user’ box within the Request Cancellation dialogue box (Alma) to auto-tick by default? At the moment, the box is blank and we would like to set it up to tick by default so that user notifications don’t accidentally get missed.
The box is within the Request Cancellation dialogue box where you enter the cancellation reason and notes.
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Allow patron to create "Alias" that prints to Ful Hold Shelf Request Slip Letter
When item that has a request is returned at the circulation desk, a Ful Hold Shelf Request Slip Letter is printed. There is a Patron name on the Print.
There should be a possibility for a Patron to choose an "Alias" (Name or Number) that would be printed to the Letter.This could be an Address -field that patron can update in Primo. Then it would be printed to the slip letter.
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Pick from Shelf, sort by title
Hello,
Currently our Pick from Shelf has 4 options to sort the titles:
Location Name- Asc
Location Name - Desc
Call Number - Asc
Call Number - DescI would like to see the titles sorted into alphabetical order.
Thanks!
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Current loaned item borrower user group as parameter in terms of use
Sometimes we need to restrict requests based on the group of the user that has the item currently borrowed, not only the group of the user that is trying to request.
This is particularly useful when you have items loaned to a user for an specific loan period (sometimes even for months or years) and you want to avoid users to request that item loaned to that specific user group but allow them to request items currently loaned to other user groups.
Take teachers and students for an example. You would like students to be able to request items currently…
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List the "Pick from Shelf" list, "Monitor Requests and item processes" and results from a "Requests" search in order from latest to oldest
We would find it helpful if it were possible to view requests (both active and complete) in order from latest to older without the need to export and filter
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Allow Request Notes to be edited even with complex Fulfilment Rules
We introduced Fulfillment Rules to check if there are any "Process Types" assigned to an item and make them unrequestable. For example if an item is MISSING, REQUESTED, LOST, LOANED, etc.
This allows an item without a process type to be requested fine. Unfortunately, the moment you try to edit the Request Note and update the request, it ends up rechecking the Fulfillment rules and oddly cancels the request.
We were hoping we can use the edit Request Note process to mark items when our library officers have done 1st/2nd/3rd shelf searching of items before they become officially marked as…
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Ability to edit request priorities
We would like the ability to edit, i.e. rename or translate, the names of the request priorities in the Manual priority drop-down menu in the request queue. It is not entirely obvious which to choose, and we would like to be able to eg. number them from 1. to 8. It was suggested to us by Ex Libris support that we promote this question through Idea Exchange.
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On shelf hold button as Smart option
Placing holds. Instead of having the "override 'On Shelf Request Policy'" button permanently display, only show it when applicable.
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Cancellation Reason
If a Patron Physical Item request is cancelled via a job there is no Cancellation Reason given to the end user.
It would useful to have a list of reasons that we could use for this letter.2 votes -
Pick up Requested Resources "Note"
When Patrons make comments on Primo, we are unable to see them even when we have "Note" checked and marked out on custom view of "Pick up Requested Resources". If one clicks on more actions on the request...and click edit then see the comment the patron made. However, it would be good to have this show on directly "Pick up Requested Resources view"?
2 votes
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