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Share GES configurations from the NZ to the IZ
Would like to set up GES configurations in the NZ and be able to share those configurations with the IZ. Example, ERIC, Amazon, Google Scholar, and ProQuest Dissertations.
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Fulfillment Network/Consortium - See loans (items) from other institutions in patron's home Alma
We need to be able to see ALL of a patron's active loans - including those items borrowed from a consortium partner - in the patron's home Alma. So if I have books checked out from my own library and 2 other libraries, they would all show up in MY Alma record.
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Approved Purchase Requests should NOT appear in My Task List
The purpose of the My Task List is to highlight and provide easy access to Tasks which are awaiting processing. Only InReview and new, unprocessed Purchase Requests should appear in the Task List.
Ex Libris Response: "After the request is approved (or rejected), it is moved automatically to the Unassigned tab (thus, populating the Tasks list) for reference purposes. Users with the Selector - Extended role can delete requests (e.g. from the Unassigned tab), this updating the counter in the Tasks list."
We maintain that this is a bug, not an enhancement request -- Ex Libris has not yet completed…
79 votesThe May 2018 Release includes the feature of having the tasks list (on the main menu bar) show only the purchase requests that require your attention—those in the In Review status. For more details see here: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/010Getting_Started/050Alma_User_Interface_%E2%80%93_General_Information/The_Alma_User_Interface#Tasks_in_the_Task_List
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Automatically remove block (because of overdue item) when the item due date has been renewed
When books with a block due to overdue date has been renewed, the block has to be removed manually. We would like to see that this happens automatically. The block is added because of the overdue status, so we were surprised that those blocks were removed automatically when the book isn't overdue anymore. Is this possible to add in Alma?
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Analytics Usage Subject Area
Provide a subject area that would support analysis of how much analytics is being used. For example, how many analytics reports are run in a given month.
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Increase the number of vendors available through the SUSHI module
There are many vendors that provide SUSHI setup information that are not certified for the Alma module (Factiva, Project MUSE, and Gale to name a few).
Work with these vendors who do offer SUSHI to get them working through Alma's SUSHI module.2 votes -
Make Notes tab and process type option in item available upon creation
Currently when creating a new item, only the general information tab is available until the item has been saved. We often add notes at the point of cataloging, so it would be very useful to have this tab available at creation rather than having to save it and reopen the item to add notes. Similarly, the Process Type dropdown is not available until the item has been saved. This would also be helpful to have available without having to save and re-open the item. See attached document for before and after screenshots.
48 votesWhen adding a new item it is possible now to save and continue directly to edit it
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Returning items from the patron services - return tab of the wrong patron
If a book loaned from a patron it has returned through Patron services - Return Tab of a wrong patron, Alma does not block the action. The system send return email receipt to the wrong patron who did not loan the book.
The system should stop the action as the operator, for mistake, has returned the book from the patron services of a patron who did not loan the item.56 votes -
Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Patron addresses and phone numbers are always treated as confidential information and our library would like to take every measure possible to protect privacy of our library users. Currently, Ex Libris has anonymization option for patron addresses and phone numbers only at Network level and not at institution level. We would like Ex Libris to include the option also at institution level.
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Suggestion to avoid spam filtering changing EnvelopeFrom in Configuring Outgoing Email
Actually an Institution cannot catch bounced emails because the EnvelopeFrom header field in Alma's emails is set to an address that has the domain @exlibrisgroup.com and it is not accessible. Changing the EnvelopeFrom to an email address in the institution domain may result in spam filtering and blocking. But if you could provide one email address account accessible in the domain @exlibrisgroup.com per Institution it could be use ad EnvelopeFrom address: the email (an example for my institution: 39UPI-email_admin@exlibrisgroup.com) should be readable by the related institution staff and user as EnvelopeFrom address (and/or for other purpose, such as Alma's…
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Purchase Requests API
A Purchase Request API is needed. This would allow the library to seamlessly integrate with internal systems.
From Francois Renaville: "We asked for this in May 2016 and were told in July 2016 (case 00222634 - API for Purchase Requests?) 'that API for purchase requests is on the Alma road map for 2017. Currently, there is no release date.' No news since then."
25 votesCompleted as part of Alma January release:
It is now possible to submit a purchase request using an API.
For more information please see Alma Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/009_2019/Alma_2019_Release_Notes?mon=201901BASEDocumentation can be found at:
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/apis/docs/users/UE9TVCAvYWxtYXdzL3YxL3VzZXJzL3t1c2VyX2lkfS9wdXJjaGFzZS1yZXF1ZXN0cw==/ -
CZ Updates Task List--journals only
Limit what goes into the CZ Updates Task List to only be journals (no books).
1 voteThe Community Zone was enhanced to enable faster and more efficient access to the data included in it. This includes new access points, information fields, actions, report types as well as more filters and sorting abilities.
For more information please see Alma March Release notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
view-licenses
We need a profil who could view all information related to a license, including attachements. But this profil must not edit neither delete licenses, neither licenses' informations.
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Create a space for customer-submitted documentation sharing
It would be nice if ExLibris customers could have a space where we could all submit documentation on what we're doing. For example, if one institution has figured out how to configure something, they could either upload files outlining the steps they took to do it or write them out or maybe both. This space should also be searchable, and possibly have ways to limit by things such as which system(s) you use, whether you are a local or hosted customer, etc.
This would be easier than checking the listserv archives and it could be collaborative in nature. It would…
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Alma –D display copyrights by default – Users are confused on what to do next – possible solution
Displaying the copyright notice by default for Alma D records is a good step forward.
But we have found our users are a bit confused on what they should do next when they see the notice.
We would suggest the following would help:
Move the ‘Close “option to the top of the screen (users don’t always move down the screen)
Change the word from “Close” to “Accept”. This makes it a bit more obvious for our users on what to do next.
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CZ Updates Task List – add «Test access» to Actions button
Please add Test access to the Actions button in the CZ Updates Task List. This is probably only useful for the reports concerning portfolios.
Background: When working with the CZ Updates Task List I often access the resource by using Test access, e.g. to check whether the updated link is working properly or to check our coverage. In quite some cases, it is not necessary to edit the portfolio. Just checking is sufficient. A test access option from the Actions button would reduce the number of clicks in those cases.
149 votesCZ update task list includes a ‘Test Access’ action
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Authority jobs & authority control task list - ability to exclude certain categories of records from authorisation
Some records are necessarily brief and are not fully catalogued, for example records for Resource Sharing requests, and new records for items that are On Order and haven't yet been catalogued. We would like to exclude such records from the authority linking process and from the Authority Control Task List, to ensure that the Task List only includes records that we really do need to check. If the authorisation process could be configurable to allow us to exclude categories of records, the Task List would be a much more usable feature in Alma.
241 votesThe Authority Control task list is used to monitor and manage the authority control process in relation to the institution’s bibliographic records. It is now possible to facet authority control messages related to bibliographic records that are linked to the Community Zone, which is helpful when you do not want to monitor the authority control process for these records. See Using the Authority Control Task List for more information.
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Bursar Export: Option to not close out fines/fees upon eport
It would be useful if the bursar export job to export fines and fees had an option to keep fines and fees active in the Alma user record upon export. Some libraries want to keep fines and fees active even as fines and fees owed are communicated to a bursar's office. Because it's possible through the fine/fee payment API for a custom solution to be developed to communicate fine/fee payment back to Alma, some libraries would choose to use a bursar export integration to export fines and then develop a custom solution to send payment information back to Alma to…
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Overdue and lost loan job for "no item policy" only
We need an option to configure an Overdue and lost loan job only on items that dont have an item policy.
Most of our material have no item policy and we dont have an option to only send an overdue notification on those books. Now we also have to send to every other item policy.
In particuly this leads to overlapping overdue notifications when we have material with short loan or ILL-loans.This would be fixed with a new option to check "no item policy" in the overdue and lost loan configuration page.
46 votesIndeed, this was done in the May Release.
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Add Functionality to the Scan In Function in the Alma App
Staff at Boston College are conducting a collection inventory using laptops to process items while logged into the full version of Alma. The laptops have proven unwieldy and to address this we have tried deploying iPad's for the work. However we ran into issues with bar-code scanning and the way that Alma presents its user interface on mobile devices.
We were very excited to hear that Ex Libris had launched an Alma Mobile App. The interface is greatly improved on mobile devices, and we are able to successfully scan bar-codes during our testing using our bluetooth scanners. We were however…
200 votes
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