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Batch Clear Local Information from Community Zone
Sometimes local information is added to a portfolio because the community zone updates are still pending. It would be helpful to have the option to clear the local coverage info as a batch process from the Community Zone Updates Task List
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Ability to edit label names
I would like to be able to edit label names as you can't delete or remove old ones if they are in use. Ability to edit the name so it will change on all records using it wold be useful.
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RS Lending, Overwrite Renewal Restriction
Rapido participating libraries aren't able to manually change the due date in the Resource Sharing Lending request record or update the "due back" date for the item in process when the borrowing library is RapidILL. When RapidILL libraries contact us as the lender and ask us to renew something, there is literally no way to do this. This is probably true with other broker partners that don't allow renewals. Lending libraries should be able to update/overwrite due dates in Lending request records and manually change the due back date for items in the ILL lending process.
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Income funds for Resource Sharing
When we set up a fund, we choose a "fund type". We need to choose between "Resource Sharing" and "Income". This means we can setup up Resource Sharing expenditure funds but not Resource Sharing income funds.
It would be very useful to apply an income fund to Lending Requests in the same way as we apply a resource sharing fund to Borrowing Requests. It would allow us to balance our books correctly.3 votes -
Add Delegated Financial Authority limits for staff approving invoices
Staff members approving invoices have different limits on the maximum invoice amount they can approve. Delegated financial authority (DFA) limits vary, for example, for some staff the limit is $20,000, for others it is $50,000, for others it is $250,000 and for others it is higher.
At the moment there is no limit to the amount a staff member can approve. We would like to see the ability to set delegated financial authority limits for each staff member who is eligible to approve invoices. Each staff member should be able to have a dollar amount set (in their native currency)…
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Allow lending libraries to send lost resource sharing item invoices directly to the borrowing library in Alma
Currently, Alma does not allow a lending library to send an invoice to a borrowing library within Alma in the event a resource sharing item is lost or damaged. This requires libraries to develop a manual resource sharing billing workflow outside of Alma. An Alma letter that can serve as a lost resource sharing item invoice would be incredibly helpful. We would need to be able to trigger this letter manually for specific requests on demand, but it would also be extremely helpful if this letter could be triggered automatically once an item is more than a certain number of…
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Tables need an option to clear the default value
There are various code tables in Alma that prompt you to choose "Default Value -- Yes/No" when adding a row to the table. Once multiple rows have been added, it's possible to select one value to be the default value. However, once one value has been chosen as the default at any point in time, there is NO option to clear the default value (short of deleting the default value row which causes other problems). There are times when we don't want a default value but "Yes" was chosen by mistake when adding a new row.
One example of this…
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Electronic Resource Activation Task List - Enhanced Assign to
In the "Electronic Resource Activation Task List" the list can only be assigned to specific users (or unassigned so everyone can see it), it would be nice to be able to assign it to a group of people, (perhaps by user role profiles, or a new profile type of 'group user' that links other profiles together, like user role profiles) as different tasks fall on different areas of the department.
This would also be helpful in "Reading Lists Task List", as in our case it is location specific handling of the tasks.
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Remove MARC Relator terms ($e) from Author and Author (Contributor) fields (1XX/7XX) in Analytics
The Author and Author (Contributor) fields in Bibliographic Details in Alma Analytics are mapped from several subfields in MARC fields 100/110/111 and 700/710/711, respectively, including subfield e. But subfield e should not be included in the Author and Author (Contributor) mapping because it is not part of the author name. It is instead a separate element that denotes the relationship between the named author/contributor and the work, the Relator. Thus the $e value may vary or be absent from records although the author/contributor is the same, making it impossible to search upon, identify, and unite author/contributor names in Analytics. Any…
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Set transaction time in Loan/Return
Configure in User Services -Loan/Return next to the date show the time of the transaction as it is displayed on the expiration date
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Add SUSHI “Status Description” field for uploaded files as column option in Analytics
Ex Libris has said “No valid report items found in the file” is behavior that should still be listed as a “Fully Processed” file, but it would be helpful if we could more easily find files that we believe may not have loaded properly based on their Alma “Status Description” in Analytics.
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Create the button "claim never borrow" on Loan service
Since Alma has a "Claimed Return" button, could create a button for users who never borrow this book in the loan tab.
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serial type
Be able to lookup bibliographic titles by serial type (Fixed field 21 SrTp: Type of continuing resource), especially for monographic series type m. Our serials desk wants a way to easily find these so when they receive materials they can separate the standing orders from the subscriptions. They could also generate reports from the data parsed in Analytics to assist their students during the receiving process.
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Create a job to send a notification letter to users when their expiry date is near so they can request to renew their library user account
The option to notify users whose accounts have or will expire of their options for renewing their library user account would help us to stay engaged with users whose library user account will expire soon (or has recently expired). Users who want to continue using their library account can renew it prior to the expiry date, thus reducing any barriers to accessing their account and using library materials.
A notification letter could be created to support this type of messaging. It would be great if a job could be scheduled to send to users whose expiry date is upcoming. It…
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Check box option to disable Alma from appending file names in publishing profiles
We publish files to many third party vendors. Some vendor systems must have their files named with a certain convention and CANNOT process them if that filename convention is altered in any way.
Alma publishing profiles are current configured to append "_new" to the end of files it publishes, even if you specify a file name already. We would like the option to either enable or disable each publishing profile from appending the filenames it sends. They can be enabled by default, or not, but the option would be helpful.
Use case: We are publishing files of electronic holdings to…
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Excel - Allow personalization of the fields to be export
Our proposal, is to allow include bibliographics fields to the excel archive.
In order to manage the purchase requests, we need an excel archive that iclude fields like ISBN, edition, year, ...1 vote -
Analytics: Add Purchase Request Requester user information at the time of request
The Purchase Request Subject Area Purchase Request Requester user information is updated every day by ETL to the current user information.
In many cases, this is useful. But it is not useful for reporting when it is important to know the information of a user at the time of an action.
As one example: We would like to report on the number of patrons submitting purchase requests by user group such as undergrads vs postgrads vs staff. If a patron submits a purchase request as an undergrad and then becomes a postgraduate, the outcome of current analytics is that all…1 vote -
Ability to make financial adjustments to previous fiscal years after rollover
We would like to be able to make financial adjustments to prior fiscal years after rollover occurs. We want to complete rollover in a timely fashion to be able to continue business as usual, however our University's closing occurs later than we complete rollover in Alma and there are times when I need to adjust Alma to match any last minute general ledger changes.
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claims - serials - populate item description
It will be very helpull to include the item description in the list of claims.
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Add the Inventory price, Receiving date,Inventory date fields on the output results display
It is important for the acquistition staff to add the following items to the display options based on the output results display retrieved by the physical item:
Receiving date
Inventory date
Inventory price32 votes
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