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Include "On Hold Expiration Date" to "Physical Items"
Please include the "On Hold Expiration Date" from the Alma Physical Items Search to the Analytics field "Physical Items"
To elaborate upon why this is needed:
A title was ordered on February 8th. The "Hold Shelf expiration date" is set for February 23rd. According to the terms of use, 10 working days are correctly taken into account. However, the "Days on Hold Shelf" value displays 14 days, as weekends and holidays are included in this calculation. This discrepancy naturally makes it difficult to rely on, as the number of weekends and holidays within the pickup period may vary. We need…
3 votes -
Add the ability to group select items in the 'Monitor Requests & Item Processes' view, the same as we can in 'Expired Holdshelf'
It would be useful to be able to group select items in the 'monitor requests and item processes' so that transit labels for them can be printed in bulk. Currently these have to be done individually per item. The ability to group select items already exists in the 'expired holdshelf' view so would (hopefully) be easy to implement
3 votes -
Add flags to tabs in vendor interface record area
We noticed the little corner/flag is not changing on the vendor interface details tabs when we add administrative information/access information/statistics information. We thought it would show like the notes tab with a dark corner when we enter information so we know that we have stuff in these tabs. We thought it was a glitch, so we reported to Ex Libris. They said it is by design:
The answer is that it is by design. The little corner flag is an indicator that there is system or user generated content like populated tables or lists. It doesn't indicate that form data…3 votes -
Recent Material suppliers in drop-down
Currently, when creating new orders in Alma staff users don't get a list of the most recent Material suppliers but only an alphabetical list of all of them.
It would be useful to see 1-2 most recent suppliers in the drop-down in order to gain some time when acquiring multiple books from the same suppliers.2 votes -
Homepage Notifications Order adjustable
It would be great if you could change the order of the homepage notifications. This option is already available in many areas.
3 votes -
user - add option for dynamic purge date - e.g. 12 months after expiration date
Right now the purge date is a static value manually inserted when registering a new user. When the user renews registration, purge date must also be manually updated.
In our library regulations we'd like to purge users after a specific amount of time after expiry date. Keeping purge dates manually up to date is however quite an error prone procedure.
It would be great to have the chance to automatically update the value in purge date when saving according to specific a timespan (e.g. 10 months or 10 years after expiration date).107 votes -
Set continuing orders not to claim
There are some continuing orders for which we do not "receive" every item, such as newspapers that will be discarded after several weeks. It would be great if PO lines had an option to indicate that they should not be claimed. They end up cluttering up the Claims list and making the list harder to work with, when we are never going to claim or receive those issues. We also can't set up automatic claiming because we don't want emails sent for these titles.
43 votes -
Link POLs to EDI invoice lines using Identifier field
When loading EDI invoices from a vendor that do not include POL information, use the Alma Identifier field (usually the ISBN) to match the EDI invoice line to the POL.
2 votes -
Allow a block to be created as part of the 'change to lost' overdue and lost loan profiles.
We'd like the ability to create a block when an item is made 'lost' as part of the overdue and lost loan profile schedules.
At the moment we can only add a block on the overdue notification types, which we do for the last overdue notification we send before it becomes considered lost.
However, as soon as the item is changed to lost by the profile schedule it removes the block automatically created by the overdue notification profile.
The advantage of using the profile block is that they are automatically removed if the item is renewed or returned and we…
116 votes -
Add Patron Limit threshold block for number of lost items
It should be possible to automatically block users based on a set threshold for the number of items they have checked out that are in a lost status.
Currently, the Patron Limits table only contains delinquency threshold blocks for Max Overdues, Max Cash, and Max Overdue Recalls.
Not all institutions automatically charge a lost item replacement fine for lost materials. For some lost items, the replacement cost may be below the Max Cash block threshold for the user’s user group, but the library would still like the user to be accountable for/aware of their lost status materials; being unable to…
58 votes -
Loan due date should appear in Facets and/or Analytics
It should be possible to the the actual Loan Due Date given to the patron, in addition to the Due Date given by the Lender in Facets.
It should also be possible to retrieve a list of such RS requests by Loan Due Date via Analytics.1 vote -
Data visualization to include export to Excel/CSV function
Currently users without Design analytic role can use Data visualization(DV) reports but they can only export report in PDF, powerpoint. It would be very useful to have an export of data in Excel or CSV.
3 votes -
MMS ID and Keyword searching of existing RS requests
It should be possible to search existing RS requests (Borrowing and Lending) by MMS ID and Keywords using the dropdown menu.
1 vote -
Invoice templates
Allow a template so if I'm invoicing dozens of orders in a row for one vendor I don't need to go through a bunch of drop down menus every time- Just one vendor, default account, same invoice date, pre-paid, with a credit card, etc.
7 votes -
Creating an invoice without PO number as invoice number
Now when I create a new invoice from PO, then at the tab Summary there is automatically filled a PO number as an invoice number. We would appriciate some setting which would cause that this field wouldn't be filled out automatically and would stay empty. Our librarians are using other invoice numbers and current setting of Alma is leading to errors because sometime the librarian forgets to change the invoice number. We would appriciate if Alma wouldn't filled out the invoice number automatically with PO number. We would like only a warning by saving the invoice that the invoice number…
6 votes -
Add Financial System Code to the Vendor Dimension of Alma Analytics in the Funds Expenditure SA
The Financial System Code field is often the matchpoint between Alma and external payments systems. Being able to search or query on this would help avoid creating duplicate vendors, especially as vendor names can change so much over time, that a vendor name search will not return results. Having this reportable in Alma Analytics would be more beneficial than in the Alma Advanced Search, as it could also help to de-duplicate existing instances of having more than one vendor record for the same vendor.
25 votes -
Improve discoverability of rejected requests in the Monitor Requests page
We often have to locate cancelled patron physical and digitisation requests in the Monitor Requests page. However, these requests are difficult to locate as they can only be retrieved by Title (a non-unique field) and cannot be filtered or sorted.
Please add:
-A filter for request status which includes 'rejected'
-The ability to sort requests by date created or date updated so that recent rejected requests can be seen at the top of the page
-retain the requester id. The main search term we use to locate a rejected request is the requester name or id. However this is removed…12 votes -
Support full SIP2 protocol
For the communication between selfcheck kiosks and Alma, the SIP2 protocol is needed.
The full protocol can be found here: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/3M-Standard-Interchange-Protocol-Version-2.00.pdfUnfortunately, Ex Libris does not support all fields that would be available in the protocol (marked as 'not supported' in this document): https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/selfcheck/sip2/
Please make the whole SIP2 protocol available for Alma.
134 votes -
Allow Alma to export preferred names to ILLiad when automatically creating ILLiad user records
When Alma automatically created an ILLiad user record for someone who has submitted a resource sharing request that must be exported to ILLiad, it always passes the First Name and Last Name fields to ILLiad even if the user's records contains a Preferred First Name and/or Preferred Last Name. It would be incredibly helpful if Alma could pass preferred names to ILLiad if the user's record contains any preferred names.
35 votes -
Ful Resource Request Slip Letter split in two
We would like the Ful Resource Request Slip Letter printout to split in two: one letter for staff when picking material from stacks, and one for use on the hold shelf for end users to see. These two functions are difficult to combine since staff need to know who the requester is at the same time as GDPR makes anonymization of the hold shelf slip necessary.
We currently try to solve this by using the Ful Hold Shelf Request Slip Letter as the hold shelf slip. But this printout is meant only for staff and so is printed in the…
4 votes
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