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Allow a staff to set his/her default department
We are required to choose a "current desk/department" for each login. However, since each staff usually has his/her major role, meaning he/she might most of the time work on the same desk/department. To be more friendly, it's better to have staff to set his/her own default department and select other location when necessary.
16 votes -
Separate amount and its currency into two columns when exporting to excel
In the pages of Funds and Ledgers, we would propose to separate amount and its currency into two columns when exporting the file, which would be easy to perform calculations in excel.
30 votes -
Receiving items without creating a barcode by location
We have a location for our current periodicals. We check in a current issues here but will normally not add a barcode to these item records. We looked for a way to set this location to not ask about creating a new item without a barcode. We found a seeting in Acquisitions -> Receiving Department Validations, which can be set as not check if item has a barcode. But it will remove barcode validation from ALL locations.
That is not what we need. I would want to make sure that books being received get barcode validation and bound periodicals as…
1 vote -
Implement auto holdings for IEEE
Implement auto holdings (autoholding, auto load, autoload) for IEEE, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, and Springer.
116 votes -
Ability to collect and analyze data on number of and frequency of letters sent from Alma
It would be awesome if there were an option in Analytics to collect and analyze data on the number of and frequency of emails sent from Alma. This will be especially helpful for those institutions that are editing letters and would like to start with the most frequent, patron-facing letters first.
2 votes -
Enable 776 as a match point for Link Local Portfolios to Community function
Currently this only works for ISBN/ISSN matches in the 020/022 fields. Many CZ records do not have these fields but do have 776 fields with ISBNs. Enabling this as a match point would greatly improve automatic linking of entire sets.
6 votes -
Enhance Report to ExLibris ticket fields within Alma
Enhance the Report To ExLibris form in Alma with the following so that it matches the tickets submitted via SalesForce:
Contact Name field: defaults to whomever is logged in/made the default contact if there is no match. Ex: if Person B is logged into Alma and is configured to report from Alma, they are the default when submitting a problem, not Person A (which is currently listed first because its an alphabetical listing). This would help staff to submit tickets faster and without having to go into SalesForce after submitting to change the name.
Priority: Allow this as a field!…19 votes -
Allow for multi field searching in Borrowing Requests or a Keyword search that allows you to search patron and request details
To find a resource sharing request more easily allow searches to be across multiple fields. e.g Robertson cancer nursing. Searching Robertson as the patron and cancer nursing as keywords in the title.
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Make invoice lines "Ready" in bulk.
EDI invoices load lines with the status "In Review". These can be checked against the invoice copy in the Invoice Details tab, but making them "Ready" requires clicking the ellipsis then "Edit" then "Save".
This has to be done manually for each line which significantly slows the process of getting the invoice paid. There needs to be a way to select all invoice lines and make them ready at one time.
Other libraries may get larger or smaller invoices but in any given week we usually get EDI invoices with a hundred or more lines.6 votes -
Offer ISO1806 as a Date Format Option
When I am in Alma and looking at a lot of dates, I find YYYY-MM-DD faster to read and process, specifically the use of en-dash instead of forward slash. This format is also the ISO standard (https://www.iso.org/standard/40874.html). Thank you.
4 votes -
A "not needed before" date for requests
As well as "not needed after" a particular date, it would be helpful if we could distinguish the requests that are "not needed before" a particular date.
We have closed stack and offsite requesting and it would help to organise the requests if we could order requests that are not required today, tomorrow or by a particular date. It would be especially helpful to PRINT this date in the request slip so that it is obvious to staff fetching items and their supervisors delegating work.
1 vote -
Improve the export to excel from the physical item records search list
When I export a set of physical item records from Alma to Excel, the Type / Creator / Imprint all end up in one field (column). This means that I can't easily sort by Author name. Please separate these data points into their own columns when exporting for easier manipulation in Excel.
5 votes -
Alma to DOCLINE OAI-PMH Integration
Integration for automated harvesting of eJournal and pJournal holdings from Alma to Docline (National Library of Medicine's automated interlibrary loan (ILL) request routing and referral system).
79 votes -
Inactive/Active change to be visible in history tab
When a users account is made inactive/active it does not currently show in the history tab. I would be extremely useful to be able to view when a users account becomes inactive.
20 votes -
Use 041 subfields $$p, $$q and $$r in Search Index Mapping
From the April 2019 update of Alma onwards, the Metadata Editor now recognises the following subfields in the 041 (language code) field:
$$p - language code of captions,
$$q - language code of accessible audio,
$$r - language code of accessible visual language (non-textual)These were all added to MARC during 2018.
According to the MARC 21 Bibliographic Tag to Search Index Mapping table (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/040Metadata_Management/180Search_Indexes/050MARC_21_Search_Indexes), the contents of these subfields do not as yet map to an advanced search of the Language (Title) index in Alma.
It occurs to us that the information contained in those subfields, albeit…
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“Creating an invoice from PO” always sets the encumbrance to zero
The use of the function “creating an invoice from PO” is essential for us. It saves a lot of work during invoice processing. The function always sets the encumbrance to zero, even if only a partial invoice has been recorded (for example: encumbrance: 300 Euro, partial invoice: 100 Euro -> disencumbrance: 300 Euro instead of 100 Euro).
Ex Libris write: "This enhancement is already on the Alma Road Map but I can't provide a date now when this will be implemented."
From our point of view, this is a mistake and should be corrected. A disencumbrance of the budget may…
17 votes -
User update notification with loan information
We would like to send out an email to users, who's account are about to expire. However, we want to have the users current loans added to the email as a table (like the borrowing activity email). The user and librarian can then see what they need to return before their account expires.
4 votes -
Add "physical items" to Course Reserves Subject area
Since all course reserves circulation times are location-based we NEED to be able to select temporary location when creating a course reserves analytics set. It does me no good to get a list of all items on reserve and the associated courses if I can't report out WHAT the circulation times were. It would also be helpful to be able to measure loans from the Course Reserves Subject Area, since the Fulfilment Subject Area won't allow you to put the associated professor. It makes it impossible to get a comprehensive Course Reserves Analytics report that is of any use. It…
5 votes -
Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals (Job Report) include the LIBRARY in the report
Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals (Job Report) include the LIBRARY in the report--we want to extract this data to send to our libraries for failed renewals during our Covid-19 closure and it would be easier to do so if the library was included--the difference between having to mash up the info from Analytics/Excel and just sending the report "as is"
3 votes -
Please add Collection Name (for Digital) to search index for creating a digital title set
Please add Collection Name (for Digital) to search index for creating a digital title set. There is only collection pid field. Alternatively, please allow Keyword index refers Collection Name too.
3 votes
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