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Force article request form for ebooks
When patrons place a resource sharing request on eBooks, we would like the article request form to appear. Currently the request form type by genre cannot accomodate this for eBooks because both eBooks and print books share the genre type book. If Ex Libris could assign eBooks a different genre type, we could easily force the correct form. However, any way to accomplish the same thing would be great! Don't care how it happens.
7 votes -
"Fulfilment Configuration Utility"- include specific loan date for closed days
When setting up the Closed Library Due Date Management for short loan items, it would be useful to be able to test it in the Fulfilment Configuration Utility by specifying the loan date and time rather than the only option being 'if the item was borrowed now'.
For example, in order to test the rule for our 24 hour loans when taking the weekend closed days into consideration, this can only be done on a Friday, which can mean having to wait 5 days to test the parameter.
If it were possible to select Friday 08:00 as the loan date…
48 votes -
Customize "Create Request" Drop Down Menu
It'll be great if we could customize the language or the order of the "create request" drop down menu. For example, we aren't going to offer booking or digitization requests. It'll be more effective if "patron physical request item" was the default value or if we could word it slightly different so that our staff could easily identify it as a hold request.
12 votes -
Add Access type in the portfolio information update job
Since Ex Libris has added Access type for individual portfolio, there has to be a job to run to add access type to the portfolios in a collection. Currently, either we have to specify it in each portfolio manually, or we load a spreadsheet matching on portfolio ID. Unfortunately, as of today 1/23/2019, when loading a spreadsheet without the local coverage, e.g. only the access type, the local coverage is overwritten.
19 votes -
Override Resource Sharing Request Limit
There is an Active Resource Sharing Request limit, which you set in the Fulfillment rules for your resource sharing libraries.
However there doesn't appear to be an ability to allow staff to override this limit, which from time to time they need to do.
I propose that there is a parameter that allows staff with a particular role the ability to override this limit.
Either something that was set as the default for the Fulfillment Services Manager role, or a block preference that you can override.5 votes -
Modify the payment method label in Fines and Fees report
Thanks for ExLibris helping our library to modify the payment method label: changing "Check" to "FEO". However, the payment method label in Fines and Fee report is not being modified accordingly. Is it possible to modify the labels in the reports as well? Or, could we add more payment methods in Fulfillment configuration?
6 votes -
Stop POL lines closing from Receiving?
Currently when receiving an item back ordered item (ordered 4 but received 1) the process is you receive just the one and the invoice just the one item. But when the other 3 items have been received Alma is closing the POL once they have been received? This is causing issues as the Supervisor must then delete the invoice and unreceive the item and start again. After checking all the learning material and ex-Libris/Alma videos there is no way for a person to be doing this and the Pals from the area have even watched the whole process and it…
8 votes -
Check for existing barcode in import profile
I would like to see a setting in the import profile to check the IZ for the pre-existence of the incoming barcode. Publishing and importing can be a fairly blunt tool that leads either to too many or too few objects being imported. When importing large numbers of records, there should be a setting in the match tab that looks for that barcode and rejects the item if that barcode already exists. This would prevent needless duplication especially when publishing on the bib level.
44 votes -
Import jobs with many serial issues crash
Publishing profiles at the bib level will include all items (in an ITM field with the data specified in the inventory enrichment section of the publishing profile). When trying to import these published files, if bibs for a serial have more than 50-100 items, the import job crashes with the error code like: "Import Job 3833572600004617 External system 3833573620004617 File HUscfmissingbarcode...Split file error error parsing leader with data: 14519cas a2210880 a 450"
The only current solution is to manually edit these files with an XML editor to properly split the files.
0 votes -
Allow for filtering by order date in Claims; Allow for non-emailed claims notes
When reviewing claims, we would like to be able to prioritize claiming by recent titles. There is currently no way to filter claims by order date, short of exporting the search results. Adding order date or other date filters would improve efficiency.
Additionally, we often have to claim outside of Alma, but there is no way to add a claim to the communications tab without sending an email. Adding a 'do not send claim' type button, such as existed in Aleph, would allow for keeping all claims communications in one location.
10 votes -
Improve performance of Usage areas in Alma
The Usage sections of Alma are extremely slow. Please improve the overall performance of the Usage Data Loader, and especially the Missing Data Tab (which can take multiple minutes to load). Also, create a Usage search option in the general Alma search for such things as:
File Name
Vendor
Sushi Account
Upload Date
Uploading user
Subscriber
Status
Report type
Data Start Date
Data End Date
Vendor URLWe don't always want to use Analytics to find the answer to a simple question.
20 votes -
show POL cancellation reason in analytics
We need to the cancellation reasons to be shown in analytics.
We have cancelled may print book orders because we have them online in a subscription - this is listed in the cancellation note. Cancellation reason is not enough as it only has vendor cancelled or library cancelled options.
When the subscription will end we will want to find these cancelled ordered titles and decide their fate.1 vote -
Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals - send at different times based on Item Policy
Currently the Send Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals job has a t value "Days before Due Date" that applies to all loans, irrespective of the Item policy. Therefore if the item is only on a week loan then user is getting the courtesy letter quite soon after the loan was issued.
We would like an amendment to this job so that it can be configured to allow the courtesy letter sent at different times based on the Item Policy.1 vote -
Allow Multiple Rollovers for Reserves Courses
We attempted to implement course rollover at our institution but ran into an issue that means it did not fit how our university operates. We don’t get all courses in our course feed on a single date for a given semester, and we need to start loading the next semester’s courses before all of them appear on in our feed. This creates a problem for rolling over courses because it would require us to rollover the same course more than once. This would mean either: A) there would be multiple reading lists on the course, several of which were not…
3 votes -
Add logical grouping ability to Managed Sets
Currently, logical grouping is not supported in Managed Sets. To some degree this is supported in Analytics, although the process is cumbersome, but in Managed Sets there is no option to group logical statements, in effect within parentheses. This means that mixing AND and OR Boolean operators is not possible. The only way this can be accomplished currently is through combining sets, but this creates itemized rather than logical sets.
We would like functionality within Managed Sets that allows us to group sets of conditional statements, for clarity and also to allow mixing Boolean operators.
1 vote -
Exclude expired users from bursar integration job
Our bursar is not currently able to collect charges from users who are no longer at the university. So we want to be able to able to exclude these patrons from the reports that are sent to the bursar with bursar integration. The fact that this doesn’t exist now has prevented us from implementing integration.
We would like this functionality to be an additional filter in the bursar integration settings that would exclude users whose expiration date is in the past. If it could specify an actual or relative date, this would be an additional improvement.45 votes -
Add bib records for electronic collections to the "electronic titles" search
Currently, bib records for electronic collections can only be found in an "all titles" search. We would like electronic collections to be considered inventory so that their bib records will be findable in an "electronic titles" search along with bib records for portfolios.
7 votes -
Provide ability to create templates for reserve materials
- Our Fulfillment staff are unable to use locally created templates to create records for materials on course reserve. We do not want to give them cataloger roles.
- They have the following options-- print book, e-book, print article, e-article. This is limiting and we place other types of resources on reserve, including streaming audio and video.
4 votes -
Ability to set records to "do not publish" to OCLC
It would be very helpful if the default value "publish to OCLC" was switched to "do not publish". We have brief records created by Acq. staff and Fulfillment staff and they sometimes forgot to check "do not publish" and these minimal level brief records end up being published to OCLC.
12 votes -
Modify predictive pattern template season capitalization, SS chron fields.
We are wanting to modify the template that holds the formatting for the Season - SS chron fields- so that it follows the rules in RDA and AACR2.
21 - Spring
22 - Summer
23 - Autumn
24 - Winterto
21 - spring
22 - summer
23 - autumn
24 - winterThank you for reviewing this request.
3 votes
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