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Changing Holdings or Relinking Item is Possible Only in User Role Scope for SOURCE library
At present staff can move items from a library they don’t have a user role for, to a library they do have a user role for. For example, staff could move an item from the Rare Book Collection holding in one library to a Withdrawn holding in another library if they have the user role for the latter.
In the May 2021 release changing holdings for an item or relinking an item to a bibliographic record required the TARGET library to be within the scope of the user role. This prevents moving item or changing holdings for an item if…
62 votes -
Borrowing requests: comment (from Primo) should not be transferred to request note field but to the Note field
The content of the comment (from Primo) was transferred to the "Request Note" field (=Request Attributes).
We didn't want that to happen.
The content should go into the "Note" field (=Resource Information).0 votes -
Option to disable circulation desk operator to waive fines/fees for themselves
We have student workers to perform waiving fines/fees activities. We'd like an option disable certain circulation desk operators' ability to waive fines/fees for themselves.
1 vote -
do not show Library Scope when an institution only has one library
The new Library Scope facet for Physical holdings and Physical items search is only useful if an institution has multiple libraries. It should be possible to disable this facet if an institution only has one library.
1 vote -
More column in "Waiting For Approval Invoices"-View
We would be pleased if the fields
Invoice reference #
Prepaid
Internal copy
VAT Type
should be integrated into the "Waiting For Approval Invoices" view3 votes -
Better flexibility / more weekly options when scheduling Fulfillment Job (i.e. Fees/Fines Notification Job)
Hello,
we would like to be more flexible, to have more options to choose from when scheduling the Fees/Fines Notifications Job (or even better: all Fulfillment Jobs).
Currently, we are using the only weekly option available (every Tuesday at 11:00), but since some of our legally relevant Fees/Fines Notification Profiles are set to printed letters, the offered time slot could not be much worse.
When we have signed and sealed the letters, there is no chance at all to get them out by the same day's post.
Please add at least another weekly time slot in the early morning hours,…
41 votes -
Set default payment type for circulation desk
We would like the ability to set default payment options for our circulation desks. We currently use the cash option for our student campus payment system since we do not have the ability to add custom payment types and we do not actually accept cash anymore so we use that but cash is showing as the "default" option from the payment area and most of our payments are credit card so we would like to set credit card as the default payment option.
3 votes -
Ability to pull the"Unassigned tab" data in Analytics
It will be great to view the 'UnAssigned Tab' data in Analytics for for 'Waiting for Payment' invoices
3 votes -
Provide ability to turn off the display of Related Records in Alma
Our staff find the appearance of related records in Alma that appear as part of a search result to be distracting and add no value. I'd like to suggest that we get the ability to configure whether these related records appear at all.
4 votes -
Allow Access Rights Policies and Copyright to be applied to remote digital representations
Checking the "Remote" box when adding a digital representation causes the Access Rights Policy and Copyright fields to disappear, even when we choose to display the digital object in the Alma Viewer.
If the Alma Viewer is selected, we should be able to apply the same Access Rights and Copyright to remote files as we can to files stored in Alma. This is especially important as more CDL functionality is added to Alma.
9 votes -
Allow AFN resource sharing requests filled outside the AFN to be delivered to the user's preferred pickup institution
If a user in an AFN requests that a resource sharing item be delivered to an institution other than their home institution, the request must be filled within the AFN in order for the user's preferred pickup institution choice to be honored. If it is filled by an institution outside the AFN, the preferred pickup institution reverts to the user's home institution, and the user is never notified of this change until the item is placed on hold at their home institution. Instead of placing these items on hold at the user's home institution, we would like Alma to put…
41 votes -
Letter for purchase requests initially approved and finally canceled
Sometimes it happens that a user's purchase request is initially approved by the acquisitions staff and sent to the vendor, but sometimes it ends up being canceled for some reason.
Prior to this cancellation, when this request is sent to the provider, the POL generated in Alma remains in "sent" status. Prior to this cancellation, when this request is sent to the provider, the POL generated in Alma remains in "sent" status. Then it will be manually canceled.
We request the creation of a letter in which the user is informed of this circumstance. Together with this, we request that…0 votes -
Analytics : "Inventory Price" and subtotal
Currently, in Analytics, it is impossible to subtotal the "Inventory Price" column.
The answer from Ex Libris: the "Inventory Price" field is a "Text" field; it is therefore impossible to have a sum of the field in text format (in the Oracle sense).
Idea: to be able to calculate a subtotal for the "Inventory Price" field in Analytics.6 votes -
Make Push Selected to MDE button available for Itemized Sets
'Push Selected to MDE' (pushing records in bulk to Metadata Editor) is not available for Itemized sets, but it is available for Logical sets in the current Alma implementation. While the option to Push Selected to MDE is plainly visible in the Logical Set Results view (please see the attached screenshots), it is replaced by the 'Remove Selected' button in the Itemized Sets Members’ view. We would be very interested in having the Push Selected to MDE available for both Logical and Itemized sets. Is it possible to add the 'Push Selected to MDE' to he Itemized view and keep…
28 votes -
Index MODS fields
The documentation on this page (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Metadata_Management/180Search_Indexes) suggests that MODS fields are not currently included in many internal search indexes. We would like to see MODS fields included in applicable internal indexes, or (if such indexing is already in place) better documentation of this indexing.
4 votes -
API access to Item's edit history
For rolling back changes in a batch of items, it would be extremely useful to have API access to the Item Changes that are reported in the History tab of each item record.
6 votes -
Display access rights' copyright statement when editing a representation
Optionally an access right policy in Alma can have a copyright statement associated with it.
When editing a representation in Alma, the existence of the copyright statement is not displayed to the user. The user can enter another copyright statement for the representation which overrides the one associated with the access rights policy.
I would expect that the copyright statement should at minimum, be displayed to the user so they do not have to guess if this is an access rights policy where they must also assign a copyright statement.
I had expected that it would show in the copyrights…
5 votes -
Has Local Information on CZ Updates Task List shows up even when Global Coverage is being utilized instead
If a portfolio is using global coverage information, but has local coverage information remaining, the portfolio shows up in the CZ Updates Task List under "Has Local Information" when updates come in, even though local coverage is not being utilized. If local coverage is not selected, it would make more sense for it not to show up in the list since it's not being utilized and therefore does not really matter at that point.
1 vote -
Add in the configuration the ability to make the search default of the authorities to be in CZ all the time.
Hello,
When searching in the authorities, Alma jumps from IZ to CZ and vice versa in different menus.
For institutions that do not maintain local authority file, it is frustrating that the search needs to be changed to CZ when Alma “decides” it should be in the IZ.
If there was a check box in the configuration that would enable us to choose that the search default in the authorities would be in the CZ all the time, it would be greatly appreciated.Thanks.
Dafna1 vote -
Make the current publication location discoverable in Analytics
When a record contains both a 260 and 264 field, Analytics will only display the publication location from the 260 field, which often isn't the current publisher's location if a publisher change has occurred. This is also inconsistent with how the publisher field works. The publisher field returns all publishers, separated by a semicolon, but publication place only returns the original publisher's location. Not returning all publication locations makes it difficult to do maintenance on the 260, 264, or 008 country code fields. It also doesn't allow you to accurately record collection development statistics by current country of publication.
3 votes
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