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Improvements to request form when article is not available electronic or in print
If an end-user has found an article in Primo, but the library does not have access electronically and the library has the print journal, but not the correct item/issue the end user gets a very slim request form and the request in Alma does not have enough information to fulfill the request.
If the library does not have the print "mother"-item then the user would get the resourche sharing request form. This form is much more user friendly than the other forms.
If the end-user is out of luck the library has the journal in print, but not the correct…
601 votesThe following fields are now available in the Hold Request and Digitization Request forms configuration tables, and can be added to the General Hold/ Request Another Issue and the General Digitization / Digitize Another Issue requests in Primo (for holdings with no items or serial holdings):
Volume
Issue
Part
Chapter
Publication date
Chapter/Article Title
Chapter/Article Author
Start Page
End PageFor more information plaese see Alma November Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes -
Push Requests to ILLiad should include comments in the resource sharing request.
Referring to the new feature in Alma Nov (2019) release, the new feature for pushing resource sharing request to ILLiad via API lacks some important features to make it useful.
Most importantly, comments in the Resource Sharing request did not pass over to ILLiad. This feature exists when using email to push request to ILLiad. It's missing when using API.I would hope you could improve using API to push requests to ILLiad and make it feature parity using email method.
61 votesAso of the May 2022 release, the request note is also sent to ILLiad when a borowing request is exported. See 'ILLiad Borrowing Request Notes' on https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2022/Alma_2022_Release_Notes?mon=202205BASE
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RS Borrowing Requests – changing format before sending request
We would like the ability to change the format of a request before sending it to a Partner – e.g. from book/book chapter to journal/journal article or vice versa.
As our patrons don’t always know, or pay attention, to the actual source format, they often submit their requests with the wrong format, which our staff would like to fix before sending to Partners.
197 votesThe ‘Change RS Requests Type’ cloud app does just that – supports changing the request type for resource sharing requests from ‘book request’ to ‘article request’ and vice versa
See https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/change-rs-requests-type/
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Please allow adjusting the order of Digital Titles
Please allow adjusting the order of Digital Titles manually like we change the order of Collections by drag-and-drop. Additionally sorting options for digital titles will be welcomed too.
15 votesAs of July release you can configure the default sorting for titles and sub-collections in Primo VE, using a richer set of title-level sort routines.
For more information please see :
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Maintain Receiving Status filter on Received Items List when managing/receiving items with predicted issues
When receiving continuous orders that have prediction patterns the operator chooses Manage Items from the Receiving Workbench. The form that appears is the Received Items List. The filter for Receiving Status defaults to All. It would be helpful if that filter was sticky and/or customizable so that the filter could be set to Not Received.
When the list displays all records issues that have been received show and the receiving operator must either change the filter or scroll down the list to find the issue that they need to receive. Sorting this list via ascending or descending will cause the…
1 voteAs of Alma May Release, Alma’s receiving workbench (Manage items screen) incorporates sticky filters. These sticky filters (Sort Routine, Receiving Status and Location) enable users to easily re-access these workspaces when either a user leaves the screen and returns after a short while or logs in again to Alma.
For More information please see Alma May Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes?mon=202105BASE -
Choose more than one facet in Lending requests and Borrowing requests
Currently In Alma there is no option to choose more then one facet in the same category in the pages Lending requests and Borrowing requests.
for example I can't choose to watch Created lending request and Renew requested at the same time.
It will be very helpful if it works.19 votesThe new UI for Resource-Sharing Borrowing Requests and Lending Requests Task Lists has been released in August 2022, see the 'Borrowing Requests and Lending Requests' section in the release notes. Among many other features, this new UI allows for multiple criteria to be selected in each facet category, providing more flexibility in the creation of a filtered request list.
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Improve usability of 'Automatically Print Slip' in Resource Sharing
When receiving Resource Sharing Borrowing items, the 'Automatically Print Slip' option is only remembered for the current session, which leaves this vital function open to error.
This could be improved in one of the following ways (in order of preference):
Option 1: Provide a configuration option in one of the code tables to set the default (this would also be desireable for all similar functions elsewhere, such as in RS Lending).
Option 2: Make the last selected option persist across sessions so our staff can set it once and not have to remember to set it every time.
Option 3:…
216 votesThe Automatically Print Slip option in the resource sharing receiving interface was enhanced. This option is used when printing the Resource Sharing Receive Slip Letter when receiving a physical item. It now retains the last value you selected for this option.
For more information please see https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
Limit the IP range that can call the Alma APIs
I would like to suggest an enhancement in ALMA regarding APIs: in addition to the API keys mechanism we would like to limit the IP range that can call the Alma's APIs.
This feature can be useful for System Administrators and the main benefit is to increase security and user data protection.
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Automatic Hold Item check for its interested user
Please make it possible that when a PO line has an interested user, its Hold Item gets checked automatically by using any of the following methods:
1) the library's configuration change
2) Import Profile setting
3) Update PO line jobThis function is necessary for Patron-Driven Acquisitions which takes up most of our purchases. Now we manually open each PO line and tick the box one by one, which is one of the biggest hassles when there are hundreds of PO lines to review.
144 votesAlma July release enhancement in the PO Line’s “Interested Users” management area allows institutions to control whether to disable/enable the interested users options for PO Lines created via Purchase Request and EOD process.
For more information please see Alma July release notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
Ex Libris should provide the option to place a call and/or online chat with their support team
We are disappointed with the technical support service provided by Ex Libris. We strongly believe that Ex Libris should provide customers with more effective, prompt and interactive service.
There should be an option to call or chat online in real time with a support person who has a sound understanding of the product in question. This would be in line with all system vendors we have previously dealt with.
We appreciate that there will be some issues that are designated as bugs or enhancements and will require more in depth investigation. However, a direct call/chat option with a properly trained…
780 votesStaff users who have been assigned chat permissions can now chat with our Support team regarding the following types of Alma and Leganto issues directly from within the Alma management interface:
Simple how-to questions and configurations
Behavior and general inquiries
Known issuesFor more information see Alma March release notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
Allow more then 5 Digital Resource Copyright Declarations
By now Digital Resource Copyright Declarations are limited to 5 declarations. This is not enough and not even covering all CC licenses. There should be an unlimited number of copyrights or at least 20.
39 votesImplemented in January.
Digital copyright statements were separated from the general copyright declarations and now has its own page: Copyright Statements – Digital.
The out-of-the-box set of boilerplate copyright statements now includes all Creative Commons licenses, Rightsstatements, and US Code. These statements are view-only and are available in the Boilerplate section of the page.
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New Alma Layout and New Metadata Editor: Same Icons for Different Functions
In the New Alma Layout the ‘Recent Pages’ and ‘Recent Entities’ share the same icon although they serve different content (cf. attached screen clipping).
In the new Alma layout, the icon for Advanced Search displayed left of the persistent search slot is essentially the same as the icon in the new Metadata Editor's left pane, which serves to filter the list of records (cf. attached screen clipping).
We believe that using one icon for two different functions is confusing to the users and suggest replacing the icon for one of the two for both cases.
2 votesThank you for your feedback. We have changed the advance search icon to a different icon than the filtering option in the new metadata editor.
We have checked the other idea of changing the icon for Recent Pages and the icon for Recent Entities and come to the conclusion it is the common semantic users are used to. -
Advanced search option for Users search
Create an advanced search for Users search, just like for physical titles / items. In this search, make it possible to search (for instance) users with specific roles or job categories, identifiers starting with specific prefixes, users with different kinds of blocks, users with outstanding loans or requests, etc, and the possibility to combine these.
128 votesAs of July release you can search for users by combining search criteria, using Alma advanced search. This is available only to users with the roles and privileges to search for users.
For more information please see
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Show if cataloguer notes exist
When working in the meta data editor we don't know if a record has notes attached to it unless we select "View Notes". it would be helpful if record with notes attached showed the existence of a note, maybe with a small symbol?
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Letters Configuration page should be sortable and searchable
I like the new Letters Configuration and Components Configuration pages; they've simplified the letter customization work I am doing for our two libraries.
However, the Letters Configuration page is a bit too unwieldy... requiring a lot of paging and scrolling to find a specific letter.
Please consider making this page sortable by clicking the column headers, and if it's not too difficult, maybe even searchable?
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Watermarking function at the viewer display level
Please provide an alternative approaches for controlling the content of images displayed to users, eg watermarking. (SF823991) It would be great if there is an option like floating a seleted(uploaded) watermark without changing the digital file itself.
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Fines in Grace Period should let users decide to calculate or not.
According to the policy that our institution laid down, Fines in Grace Period shouldn't be calculated.
If overdue fines count $5 a day and grace period value is 3, then patron returned an item in 4th day after due date, the patron should pay only $5.
But in Alma, we cannot set grace period that won't calculate fines. Hope to add this function to let users decide grace period fines calculate or not and make alma more flexible.
418 votesAs of July release the grace period can be set to not be included in the fine period at all.
For more information please see Alma release notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes -
Please develop a function to download all digital files of a digital title set I created.
Please develop a function to download all digital files of a digital title set I created. Now I can download files one by one on the file list tab or access my bucket via a third party program and download only the files of a specific representation that I know the storage path. It's impossible to download hundreds of files in that way when there are other institutions' requests.
Rosetta has a function to export a set of IEs. Even though I also need to use a third party program to access the directory where the files go, but its…
3 votesAs of July release you can download the digital files of a digital title set into a zip file.
for more information please see Alma July release notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
Add all CDI-related fields to Analytics
We would like all CDI-related fields (this would include most fields found on the CDI tab of the electronic collection) to be available to the E-Inventory subject in Analytics.
Because many of these fields are only available to the Alma repository search at the collection level, it is impossible to create sets of portfolios that meet certain CDI criteria (e.g., all portfolios whose electronic collection CDI FullText Rights = OpenAccess). Analytics becomes the only option, but none of the CDI fields are available there, either.
7 votesthe following 16 fields have been added to the E-Inventory subject area
“Electronic Collection”.“Active for Fulltext In CDI”
“Electronic Collection”.“Active for Search In CDI”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI – Do not show as full text available even if active in Alma”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI – Subscribe to only some titles in this collection”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Full Text Linking”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Full Text Rights”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Local Note”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Newspapaers”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Number of Records”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Provider Package Code”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Resource Types”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Search Rights”
“Electronic Collection”.“CDI Update Frequency”
“Electronic Collection”.“In CDI”
“Electronic Collection”.“No. of Electronic Collections (In Repository + In CDI)”
“Electronic Collection”.“No. of Electronic Collections (In Repository + Not In CDI)” -
Allow overlap analysis for network zone collections
Many of our electronic collections are managed in the network zone, but we can't do any overlap analysis on these collections. Is it possible to expand the overlap analysis functionality to include network zone collections, and to compare them to either institution zone, network zone, or community zone collections?
3 votesThis functionality was introduced in the new Overlap Analysis tool that was released in March 2022 Alma Release. In the new Overlap Analysis tool, e.collections from the Network Zone can be selected for comparison.
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