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Automatic printing of ILL lending (pick-up) request slips
A Pick From Shelf request (for physical or digital item requests) automatically generates an email (slip) and, through an automatic email manager, a printed request slip as well. We would like the same for incoming Lending Requests (RapidILL). For now, there is no option to print this Ful Incoming Slip Letter automatically. The only option is manual printing.
12 votes -
Improve Request Limit configuration to match Loan Limit configuration
Request limit configuration is currently extremely limited:
- It applies across the whole instutition
- It is a single limit which can't be distinguished for different material types, items or kinds of requests
- It is linked only the user group of the patron.
We propose that request limit config should match loan limit config and allow for other variables:
- Application to a specific library
- Limit by item policy, location, material type, user group, statistical category and job category.
An additional improvement would be to allow some link up between request limits and loan limits. They are particularly problematic for remote storage integrations…
13 votes -
Sort "Manage sets" by modification date
It would be nice to be able to sort "Manage Sets" by when the set was modified. The current options only allow sorting by name and creation date, which can make it frustrating to find frequently used sets that aren't at either end of the alphabet and aren't super old or super new, especially when you have many sets. Sorting by modification date would provide an easy way to access the sets you are recently working on.
3 votes -
Add Electronic Service Information Update Job
Electronic Portfolios and Electronic Collections each have an Information Update job in Alma. Electronic services need the same functionality because they are also affected in bulk by changes.
Job Name: Change Electronic service information
Job Description: Update Electronic service information for a set of Electronic services
Job Content Type: Electronic Service
Job Type: Information UpdateUse Case: ProQuest began requiring a value for the CLIENTID parameter in the Linking Parser Parameters section of all ProQuest electronic services. With over 50 ProQuest electronic collections activated, that meant that over 50 electronic services had to be manually edited one at a time…
45 votes -
Additional POL type options for purchase requests
Currently, when creating a POL in response to a Purchase Request, the available POL type options are limited to 'physical book' or 'electronic book'. However, we also receive purchase requests for other resources, such as DVDs, CDs, musical scores, etc.
We would like to have more PO Line type options to select from when ordering a requested item.
23 votes -
Improve "Select all" search results selection
When running a search within Alma, we have the option to "Select All", at which point we can accomplish various tasks like "Push selected to MDE" (for a Physical Titles search), "Add to Itemized Set" and "Create Itemized Set" (for a Physical Items search), etc.
However, when clicking "Select All", this only selects the results on that page of results, which is capped at 50. If you create a search with many pages of results, you would have to take action on each page individually. Clicking "Select All" should actually select all results, not just the results on that page--or…
51 votes -
Add the option to edit or delete recorded responses for trials
It is not possible to edit or delete a recorded response for trials. In some cases, customers would like to test surveys before making them public to ensure everything is working properly and then delete the test responses.
It is needed to add a functionality that allows to remove individual answers.0 votes -
Option to expand "sliding panel" when making an order or viewing order information.
In the interface that is slated to become standard on August 10, 2025, order information for a title is displayed on a sliding panel that has no option to expand to the entire screen. In this format, the order information that you are seeking takes up a smaller amount of the screen, visually unbalancing the screen and changing focus to one side, while leaving a darkened portion of the search screen visual that adds no helpful information. I have attached a screenshot.
In the past, this sliding panel had an arrow on the left margin which allowed you to expand…
4 votes -
When creating a new local portfolio generates a new bib record, the portfolio's material type should determine the bib's material type.
ExL documentation states, "When creating a new bibliographic record, the portfolio material is not taken into account. Thus, when you add a local portfolio and set a specific electronic material type, a bibliographic record is also created, but with 'Book' as the material, regardless of the portfolio's material. When adding ISSN, the material remains to be 'Book'. "
This is imprecise and creates issues for discovery: when I create a new portfolio for a Kanopy video and select Electronic Material Type=Streaming Video, the bib record is encoded for a book. So in Primo, the video's Resource Type shows as book,…
49 votes -
Modify locations by batch
We need to update some or all of our location fulfillment Unit of all of our library.
Unfortunately, the Update Location API does not support bulk updates for multiple locations in a single request. Each API call is limited to a single location code.
We'd like to be able to make batch changes to our libraries' reader service units.4 votes -
Report a Problem Letter to include a user_email variable in emailFrom so that our ticketing system can auto-assign issues to user
The Report a Problem Letter already has a variable that used in the emailSubject label called category_name.
We'd like a user_email variable in the Report a Problem Letter that can be used in the emailFrom label
If we can insert the user email into the from field we can send the email to our ticketing system which will assign it to our user in the system automatically saving staff time.
2 votes -
Problems receiving documents from POL (Purchase order Line)
Since the change to Alma's new visualization, when receiving the document from the order (POL) there are two behaviors that, in our opinion, are regressions:
- When we mark the check for “Keep in department” Cataloging copy, this check is not marked for future reception. We request that this check be kept marked by default.
- When the reception date has to be entered, marking a date before the current date on the calendar is not allowed.What we are asking for is that, since this improvement that has been presented (display of all data integrated in the POL), when…
13 votes -
Allow granularity in API limits
The Universities of Wisconsin make extensive use of APIs, both Alma and Primo, in our consortium.
We use APIs for our locally developed discovery environment, for reporting purposes, and for staff/business processes where Alma functionality does not meet our needs.
However, all these uses of APIs are forced to contend with one set of limits. So if we hit our limit for whatever reason - a bot crawling our catalog, a call-intensive app used by our staff, etc., ALL of our API using applications suffer and/or fail.
UW is a responsible user of APIs and has an experienced development group…
13 votes -
Ability to remark letter example
In letter administration, currently when you switch to use a different letter example, the information you've got is the same letter name and the only difference is the date it is saved. for example FulUserBorrowingActivityLetter - 02/12/2024 04:08:56 GMT. It does not mean a lot when you are trying to switch to a difference example, one would rather it be remark as something more useful or special about that example, such as specific - usergroup, loan type, from library, etc.
4 votes -
Make Order Status field available in the Interested In Letter XSL
We would like additional Purchase Order fields added to the XSL available for the ‘Interested In Letter’ please, specifically the Order Status field. This will enable us to use conditional statements in the letter template so that certain blocks of text can be included or hidden depending on a given field. We take that approach already with other Alma letters. For example, in the ‘On Hold Shelf Letter’ template, we use <xsl:if> statements to draw on the Pickup Location available in the XSL and display different guidance to recipients depending on the location from which they are collecting a request.
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5 votes -
Enable sending of emails to non-preferred email addresses
Currently, when contacting users using the Update/Notify Users job in conjunction with the User Notifications Letter, the process will only send to the preferred email address in the patron record. For our former students whose patron records have expired in Alma, this means that the notifications go to their student email address to which they no longer have access.
To contact our former students once their Alma account has expired in line with university IT regulations, we have to take their unique identifier out of Alma and contact them using a separate external system. This entails a lot of extra…
6 votes -
Add/modify fields from Vendor Record for Analytics (including Account, Contact Information/Preferred Address)
Add/modify fields from Vendor Record for Analytics (including Account, Contact Information/Preferred Address)
1) Add Vendor Type: Example: I want to analyze the vendor file based on vendors that are only Access Providers/Licensors and not Material Suppliers, or just Material Suppliers.
2) Add Vendor Accounts as output, including options to output Payment Methods. Example: we recently had a campus financial system migration, and I want to isolate those vendors who pass through the ERP export vs. Credit Card vendors. Similar to Bank Transfers - if my campus has a change in policy that needs communication, I want to be able to…
30 votes -
Usability issues with the New Circ UI
- When processing items from a cart, if they are scanned at Return items and the item is a Ship physically item, the new UI just brings up the item and in small letters says Next Step - System - and the library its to go to. It also says not on loan (which in this case is not helpful, because there is an active request). The system "ships" the item, but doesn't tell you that it did and in order to print the shipping slip staff have to go back to the lending queue and find it.
- We believe if…
11 votes -
Información del campo-Editor de metadatos
En los diferentes campos de un registro en el editor de metadatos la información del campo podría estar en castellano.
1 vote -
Create a set from records held in the Metadata Editor
It would be useful to be able to save all of the records that you are working on in the metadata editor as a set to come back to later.
For example, this would be helpful when working on a bound with where you need to work on several records at the same time and need to add links across the records. At the moment, if this work is not completed and we need to return to it later, we would then need to create an itemised set by searching for and adding each record individually. Instead, it would be…
76 votes
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