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acquisition vendor analytics expansion: all URLs
We would like to see more complete vendor information in Analytics in general, however this specific request is for inclusion of all URL types, along with both their description and note fields.
The use case is that we are hindered from fully using all the fields within Alma when we cannot run reports on that information in order to back it up. The backup is necessary due to the lack of an "are you sure" popup for the Delete action. Also, administrative and statistics login information needs to be available to all acquisitions and e-resources staff, however it needs to…
20 votes -
Manage Deleted Repository - Test button and Coverage options
Add an option to test access for portfolios on the Manage Deleted Repository page. Also display the coverage information for portfolios. These enhancements would increase confidence in the decision to restore the portfolio, increase efficiency, and make this page more usable
2 votes -
Make Task List Customizations Persistent
Currently, when a user customizes the order of categories in their Task List, the custom layout persists only for the active session. Once the Task List is closed, the arrangement resets to the system default.
Please make user Task List customizations sticky, so users' custom layout arrangements persist automatically across sessions and logins.
6 votes -
Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings integration) - Walter De Gruyter Publishing
Implement Automatic Upload of Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings integration) for Walter De Gruyter Publishing
4 votes -
Added fine/fee notification
It is possible to schedule a job sending letters for outstanding fines and fees. However, it would be helpful if patrons could get a notification the moment a fee or fine is created aside from this "reminder letter". We would like to have the option to "notify user" when adding a fine or fee.
15 votes -
Display the PO line and invoice number in separate columns in Excel export
In the excel export of the funds' transactions list, we would like the PO line and invoice numbers currently displayed in the Related Record column to be displayed in two separate columns "Related PO line" and "Related Invoice Line".
This would make it easier to use the excel export for further analysis.In this same excel export and for the same reason, we would also like to find the transaction amount and its currency in two separate columns. An Idea Exchange proposal for this request already exists: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/38575105-separate-amount-and-its-currency-into-two-columns.
2 votes -
Allow "personal delivery" for "interested users" of a POLine
For library patrons who make use of the "personal delivery" feature for requests (be it distance-learning-students or employees working from home), it should be possible to have items delivered when they are "interested users" in a POLine. Currently, the pickup location for the request always is the circulation desk of the item’s location, as specified in the POLine.
For librarians, this creates the need to find workarounds if we want to offer patrons good service via personal delivery to their homes/places of work. Worse, erroneously scanning such an item at the the circ desk creates a pickup notification, confusing distance…
15 votes -
Add an API endpoint to rerun an import profile job that failed
We are monthly running an automated import profile to import electronic resources. Almost every time the import profile job finishes with status Completed with Errors and needs to be manually "rerun". This is a documented behavior: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/060Record_Import/080Monitor_and_View_Import_Jobs#Rerun.
We would like to have an API endpoint through which we can simply rerun the import profile job that have failed due to the error "Failed in Commit after calling NZ" in some of it's files. This would allow to have the whole import process truly automated and without the need to manually intervene every time it runs.
30 votes -
Update the Job "Change Service Group Settings" to include proxy and linking
Use case summary: We use inventory groups to manage different inventories for two campuses which also have two separate proxies. This requires the use of the group settings in Electronic Collection settings and Services settings. I need to update the group settings (including proxy and linking information) for many electronic collection settings and service settings, but there is only a job to add a group, not to edit the proxy information. This means I am required to do this manually for each of these collections.
Job Name: Change electronic collection information
Job Section(s): Change electronic collection group settings information ;…2 votes -
Ability to see files shipped via Lending
It should be possible to see the files that a Lender ships to another library via Lending.
This feature appears in Borrowing as Show File.
When the Borrowing library complains about the quality of a file, the Lending library has no way of seeing it in Alma, only via their own local servers.8 votes -
Option to change the default selection for “Handling bibliographic records without inventory” when deleting electronic inventory
The popup for “Handling bibliographic records without inventory” when deleting electronic inventory has the options of “Delete bibliographic record(s)”, “Do nothing” and “Suppress bibliographic record(s)”.
The default radio button selection is “Do nothing”.Support has confirmed this default and that there are no current configuration options to change this, which has now been added to the documentation.
The outcome is that we have to change this every single time, as our standard practice is “Delete bibliographic record(s)”.
This enhancement request is to add a configuration option under Resources > Other Settings to allow the institution to change the default preselection…
2 votes -
Sync Locate Profiles for Partners Copied from the RSD
Currently the system does not support the synchronization community partners' locate profiles. Updates initiated by the Edit Resource Sharing Library row action (e.g. changes to contact information) are reflected in the partner records downloaded by other institutions. However, if a partner profile is copied from the RSD and a change is later made to the locate profile, this change is not reflected in systems where the partner was previously copied. Locate profiles copied from community also cannot be manually edited. Therefore, institutions that have copied the partner before the change was made, will need to either:
- delete their existing partner…
15 votes -
Request for Bulk Activation of CZ Collections
Previously, I submitted an enquiry via Salesforce regarding whether Alma provides a native function that would allow customers to activate a large number of Community Zone (CZ) collections in bulk. We were informed that such functionality is currently not available.
As we may need to activate approximately several hundred collections, the current manual process is extremely time-consuming. I would therefore like to explore whether the following approach could be considered or supported.
Using Gale collections as an example, would it be possible to:
Upload a list of CZ Collection IDs and activate the corresponding collections in batch;
Subsequently run the…2 votes -
Add Analytics support to compare "Available for Group" settings on electronic collections and services
Currently, Analytics can show Available for Groups on the electronic service or, if none exist there (if they're inherited from the electronic collection), then on the electronic collection.
However, we can't report on discrepancies between collection-level and service-level groups.
8 votes -
Partner Details for Filled Borrowing Requests should reflect the partner that filled the request
Currently, when creating an analytics report for filled borrowing requests and using the Partner Name, Partner Code, Partner ID, and/or Partner institution fields, the report displays all of the partners that were in the rota for the request and the same value in the Num of Request Filled column for all partners. This is confusing for filled requests as it incorrectly implies that a request was filled by each partner in the rota. When a Partner Active Status and Num of Active Partner Requests filters are added to the report, it is clear that only one partner remained active and…
6 votes -
Add ability to inventory attachments in Alma Analytics for vendor records
Add attachment field to Analytics reports, so we can see if we are missing quotes, invoices, VPATs, etc.
7 votes -
Add function to monitor broken display logic rules
When the name of a collection/interface/service used in a rule changes the rule quietly breaks. The only way in Alma to find out it's broken is to open the specific rule in edit mode, where it says "not listed" next to the changed collection/interface/service. There is no indication in the list of rules and you are not notified when a rule breaks. We have a long list of rules in use so it's difficult to keep track of the broken rules. It would be useful to be notified when a rule breaks or to have a way of monitoring broken…
56 votes -
Sort Routine for one-time receive items on “Receive” interface
Same problem to "Sort Routine for ordered items in PO Line" idea posted at https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/51154792-sort-routine-for-ordered-items-in-po-line , I would like for your support to the sort routine for one-time received items.
There is no sort routine for one-time received items. For receiving more than 100 items in a PO Line, we must input the barcode one item by one item (because the auto-generation of barcode cannot apply “Mod 10-Option 1” for the 14th digit as the check digit of the barcodes our library). No sorting of the one-time received items make us spend long time for locating the correct location and…
22 votes -
Separate 655 genre/form from Subjects in Analytics
Since Library of Congress are putting more emphasis on genre/form (MARC 655) and removing the $v Form subdivisions, it would be helpful to separate the 655 searching as genre/form from the broader Subjects field (600, 610, 611, 630, 650, 651 etc) in Alma Analytics. There is already a separate Genre search in Alma advanced search which is very useful.
10 votes -
NOTIFICATION TO CIRCULATION DESK REQUEST CANCELED BY USER AT HIS PRIMO PROFILE
We want that the Circulation-Desk receive a notification letter when the user cancel their requests at their Primo profile. The cancelled reason is Cancelled at patron request. Our institution have two branches, one in Madrid and other in Alcalá de Henares, when the user choice an item located in Alcalá de Henares, he can pick up in a Reading Room in Madrid, but when he did the request and did not change the room to Madrid. So they receive the notification letter that the request will be available in Alcalá de Henares and inmediatily they cancelled the request and made…
13 votes
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