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1. Deleting requests older then a certain date

   Would it be possible to have a way of deleting physical item requests older then a certain date? Now it's only possible to delete all requests on a title, but that's not very useful.

   Highly requested titles on a courses reading list is often not relevant after a certain date, when the course has ended. We sometimes see that old requests, that we haven't been able to fulfill, are causing unnecessary delay in fulfilling requests that are still relevant for the new, active course.

   When we had to close the library in spring 2020, we also could see that a lot of requests wouldn't be fulfilled, and the users would not be interested once we opened again. Unfortunately our users are not very good at cancelling their requests, or give us notice that a book is no longer needed, when they get the hold shelf notice.

   Having the possibilty to delete requests older then a certain date, will help circulate our books more efficiently.

   Would it be possible to have a way of deleting physical item requests older then a certain date? Now it's only possible to delete all requests on a title, but that's not very useful.

   Highly requested titles on a courses reading list is often not relevant after a certain date, when the course has ended. We sometimes see that old requests, that we haven't been able to fulfill, are causing unnecessary delay in fulfilling requests that are still relevant for the new, active course.

   When we had to close the library in spring 2020, we also could see that a… more

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   Completed  ·  AdminMoshe Shechter (Alma Senior Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

   Hi,

   
   

   The new Delete Old Requests cloud app deletes old requests based on a CSV file. You can create a report in Analytics, for example by create date, export to a CSV file, and then use the app to delete.

   See https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/delete-old-requests/ 

2. Allow users to enter an address for home delivery

   Users should be able to enter an alternate address when requesting home delivery as most students put in a parent address when they enroll and then never update the info again. If students do want to update their address, they need to go into the campus system and wait another day for it to be loaded to Alma. At our institution, faculty and staff never have personal addresses loaded into Alma. In addition, that address entered at time of request should be pushed to the personal delivery notification letter.

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3. Enable customer-defined order of locations in the Get It menu

   Currently, the locations in the Alma resolver (Get It menu) are not sorted in a consistent, meaningful manner. There is a "use IP best locations ordering" option, but this option is insufficient for many institutions. For instance, in many cases, users are off site or not in a library building, and many institutions do not reserve IP addresses for specific buildings. There is also an alphabetical option but often the size or significance of locations doesn't fit well into an alphabetical listing (for example a small branch starting with A or B might sort ahead of a large Central Library).

   Ideally, we would like the ability to explicitly define the preferred order in which locations are sorted. For multi-campus institutions, customers should be able to define the location order for each campus including accommodation for different sort orders between Alma available for groups/Primo views.

   Currently, the locations in the Alma resolver (Get It menu) are not sorted in a consistent, meaningful manner. There is a "use IP best locations ordering" option, but this option is insufficient for many institutions. For instance, in many cases, users are off site or not in a library building, and many institutions do not reserve IP addresses for specific buildings. There is also an alphabetical option but often the size or significance of locations doesn't fit well into an alphabetical listing (for example a small branch starting with A or B might sort ahead of a large Central Library).

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   Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

   Now customers can define a list of libraries and list of locations within a library in a prioritized order, and have this order reflected in Primo or Primo VE search results. This enables more meaningful sorting of locations in the Get It menu.

   For more information please see Alma December Release Notes:
   https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes

4. Allow Personal Delivery to be fulfilled from any library circ desk

   Scenario: When an item belonging to another library that has an active home delivery request is returned or scanned in at another library's circulation desk, the item is put in transit to the owning library for the request to be fulfilled. The home delivery request should be fulfilled from any loans desk regardless of which library the item belong to.
   We are multi campus institution with libraries 100s of kms apart. We require the personal delivery requests to be fulfilled from any of our libraries, instead having to return the items to the owning library.
   A Salesforce was raised (SF 00524282) and ExLibris Product manager accepted that it does not seem very intuitive but they said Alma was designed this way to allow personal delivery to be done only by the owning library. They suggested this to pursue via Ideas Exchange and NERS.

   We would like this to be improved so that we can serve our users better by providing items quicker.

   Scenario: When an item belonging to another library that has an active home delivery request is returned or scanned in at another library's circulation desk, the item is put in transit to the owning library for the request to be fulfilled. The home delivery request should be fulfilled from any loans desk regardless of which library the item belong to.
   We are multi campus institution with libraries 100s of kms apart. We require the personal delivery requests to be fulfilled from any of our libraries, instead having to return the items to the owning library.
   A Salesforce was raised (SF… more

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   Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

   A new configuration on the library will allow other libraries to handle personal delivery for that library’s items. This will take into account the scan-in library’s ability to handle personal delivery (having a primary circulation desk that supports personal delivery).

   For more information please see Alma November Release Notes
   https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes

5. New Metadata editor- add holding from the Add inventory menu

   Hello to eveybody,
   yesterday watching the webinar "The Alma New Metadata Editor - Webinar Sept. 08, 2020" we found out the in the add inventory there isn't the possibility to add an holding.
   This is not useful for libraries that don't do the order in Alma, but simply add an holding after cataloguing a book.
   The possibility of adding an holding from the menu View inventory should be present.
   The Add inventory should have the default holding template included in the menu.
   If the operator wants a specific template it is clear that the operator must choose the right holding template from the menu New and pick the template he wants.
   We hope you can support our idea because the fact that the holding is not present in the add inventory menu (easier way to create an holding), but operators have to go in the New menu and choose the template can create confusion and errors.

   Thank you Emanuela Pisanu - University of Siena

   Hello to eveybody,
   yesterday watching the webinar "The Alma New Metadata Editor - Webinar Sept. 08, 2020" we found out the in the add inventory there isn't the possibility to add an holding.
   This is not useful for libraries that don't do the order in Alma, but simply add an holding after cataloguing a book.
   The possibility of adding an holding from the menu View inventory should be present.
   The Add inventory should have the default holding template included in the menu.
   If the operator wants a specific template it is clear that the operator must choose the right holding… more

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   Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

   As part of Alma March Release
   The ability to add new holdings was added under the Add Inventory menu (in addition to the existing ability to add them under the New menu
   For more information please see:
   https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes

6. Allow starting Course Load jobs via API

   We'd like to be able to kick off course loads via the API. The machinery needed to do that seems to be in place but customers are prevented from using it and are forced to schedule the job using the Alma UI.

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   Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

   The API has been expanded to allow starting Course Load jobs.
   For more information please see Alma December Release Notes

7. Remove copyright symbol from Alma representation public notes in Primo

   Remove the copyright symbol from the beginning of the public note of an Alma representation displaying in Primo.

   The copyright symbol appears when the representations access right has a copyright notice.

   This doesn't make sense as public notes may not concern copyright, irrespective of access right.

   Alternatively provide the option to turn off the copyright symbol.

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8. comment/note field for configurations

   A comment or note field for configurations would be incredibly helpful in general, but the current pandemic has highlighted the need for a way to easily track the reasons behind changes. This would keep the notes in the places where they'd be seen by the people working on the configurations, rather than us having to track things in a separate place.

   All of the fulfillment configuration menu would benefit from this ability when short-term or emergency changes are being made. But it would also be good in places like: Letters; DARA recommendations; and all Other Settings areas. These are places that we might only touch once a year or less, so it would be helpful to know why X was deactivated, or who asked for Y change in wording.

   A comment or note field for configurations would be incredibly helpful in general, but the current pandemic has highlighted the need for a way to easily track the reasons behind changes. This would keep the notes in the places where they'd be seen by the people working on the configurations, rather than us having to track things in a separate place.

   All of the fulfillment configuration menu would benefit from this ability when short-term or emergency changes are being made. But it would also be good in places like: Letters; DARA recommendations; and all Other Settings areas. These are places… more

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   Completed  ·  AdminDana Moshkovits (Admin, Ex Libris) responded

   Alma now incorporates a comment/note field to the code table configurations, including Mapping tables and Rules pages.

   For more information please see Alma November Release Notes

9. Enable 1 Alma Print Daemon to Serve Multiple Printers

   I am thankful that the Alma Printouts Queue and Print Daemon exists. The free email service bundled with our printers has proven to be unreliable at times.

   However it is unfortunate that 1 PC can only run 1 instance of the Print Daemon software. So to map multiple Alma printers to multiple local printers requires running the Daemon on multiple servers.

   The enhancement I am requesting is for this software to be able to map multiple Alma printers each to their own separate local printer. For example

   • Alma Printer Main Circ Desk -> Local Printer BLDGAFLR2-7
   • Alma Printer Rare Book Circ Desk -> Local Printer BLDGBFLR1-3 and so on.

   One instance of Printer Daemon serving all our queue to printer mapping.

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   Mark

   I am thankful that the Alma Printouts Queue and Print Daemon exists. The free email service bundled with our printers has proven to be unreliable at times.

   However it is unfortunate that 1 PC can only run 1 instance of the Print Daemon software. So to map multiple Alma printers to multiple local printers requires running the Daemon on multiple servers.

   The enhancement I am requesting is for this software to be able to map multiple Alma printers each to their own separate local printer. For example

   • Alma Printer Main Circ Desk -> Local Printer BLDGAFLR2-7
   • Alma Printer Rare Book… more
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10. Pop-up message when scanning in an item with a request note

    We refer to the Alma March release notes: Pop-up Messages in the Scan In Interface. Various pop-up messages can be configured in Alma configuration – Fulfillment – Physical fulfillment - Scan In Messages Configuration. It would also be very useful to be able to configure a pop-up when the borrower has filled in the comment field on a request in Primo/Oria, e.g. that they want the book sent to another library. This is otherwise easily overlooked.

    The request comment enters Alma as a Request note, and is visible in the Pickup from shelf list. But we would also like a "pop-up" when we scan in the item.

    We refer to the Alma March release notes: Pop-up Messages in the Scan In Interface. Various pop-up messages can be configured in Alma configuration – Fulfillment – Physical fulfillment - Scan In Messages Configuration. It would also be very useful to be able to configure a pop-up when the borrower has filled in the comment field on a request in Primo/Oria, e.g. that they want the book sent to another library. This is otherwise easily overlooked.

    The request comment enters Alma as a Request note, and is visible in the Pickup from shelf list. But we would also like a… more

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    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    A new ‘Requester Note’ message has been added to the Scan In Messages Configuration screen. By default, this message is enabled and will appear as a ‘Pop-Up’. The message will be displayed when an item that is scanned in has a ‘Requester Note’ associated to it.

    For More information please see Alma May Release Notes:
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes?mon=202105BASE

11. Rename Review and Approve functions in Acquisitons menu of new Alma Layout

    The Acquisitions Menu has some items with exactly the same name in the different sub-menus. When these show as Quick Links, it is impossible to tell which general function it will work with,

    Please rename Review and Approve to
    Review POL (or Purchase Order Line)
    Review PO (or Purchase Order)
    Review Invoice
    Approve PO (or Purchase Order)
    Approve Invoice

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    Completed  ·  AdminNoam Fass (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Alma – Acquisitions menu link names were modified in order to assist users using these links in as part of the ‘Quick Links’ menu.

12. Support MODS for remote digital repository

    While Alma itself supports MODS as a metadata scheme, MODS is not supported as metadata import format for remote repositories.
    We need to see this support before we can add remote digital content to Alma collections, as the current option of importing DC is too poor.

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    Completed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    As of February 2024, Alma supports OAI-PMH harvest of MODS repositories.

13. Add Counter5 - IR_A1 - Journal Article Requests to Alma/Analytics

    We suggest to add a support to the report Counter5 - IR_A1 - Journal Article Requests.
    We want to be able to harvest it via Sushi and also to be able to build reports in Analytics based on it.

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    Completed  ·  AdminNoam Fass (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    In December 2020, Alma introduced support for SUSHI harvesting of multimedia reports, IR_A1 included.

    Alma product management team.

14. New Alma Layout and New Metadata Editor: Same Icons for Different Functions

    1. In the New Alma Layout the ‘Recent Pages’ and ‘Recent Entities’ share the same icon although they serve different content (cf. attached screen clipping).

    2. 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.

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    Completed  ·  AdminItai Veltzman (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank 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.

15. 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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16. Add option to configure Process Types for Physical Items

    Alma Process Types and the associated Base status of 'Item not in place' are hardcoded, as are the automated workflows within Alma and the flow-through to Primo for the availability to be set to 'Not Available'.
    This is extremely limiting and there are scenarios when a Library might want their physical resources to still be discoverable in Primo ie not suppressed, but also be marked as Unavailable, such as if there were a temporary mould outbreak. This ensures that users are aware that we hold resources already, so they don't waste time submitting purchase requests or thinking that we have a poor collection, while also avoiding confusion with resources set to 'Available', when the Library does not want them to be.
    Ideally, there would be a configuration option available whereby a site could configure a new Process Type, as a static status with no associated automated workflows, add their own label for the Get It display, and be able to run the Change Physical Items job against sets to set this Process Type to add it and also remove it (as can be done now with the Missing process type).
    This would then flow through immediately to Primo to mark these resources to be 'Unavailable' by the availability status, and display the associated label in the Get It by RTA (Real Time Availability).
    These configurable Process Types would also be added to Analytics, along with the existing hardcoded Process Types, in the Physical Items subject area, for tracking and ease of handling.

    Alma Process Types and the associated Base status of 'Item not in place' are hardcoded, as are the automated workflows within Alma and the flow-through to Primo for the availability to be set to 'Not Available'.
    This is extremely limiting and there are scenarios when a Library might want their physical resources to still be discoverable in Primo ie not suppressed, but also be marked as Unavailable, such as if there were a temporary mould outbreak. This ensures that users are aware that we hold resources already, so they don't waste time submitting purchase requests or thinking that we have… more

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    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    Library staff now have better control over process types: placing and removing institution-level work order types using the Change Physical items information job, searching by work order type and excluding a specific work order type from discovery. The work order types were enhanced to streamline workflows, allowing handling in bulk and without scanning items in.

    his is especially useful when the library needs to mark a large set of items as unavailable in a way that's reflected in discovery

    For more information please see Alma May Release Notes 

17. Specify time period for SUSHI harvests

    When you manually request a particular SUSHI account/report to be harvested by Alma, by default Alma requests any data which it hasn't already loaded for that account from the last 12 months. If there are multiple months in sequence missing, Alma requests the data for these months together as a single SUSHI request.

    This is an inflexible system.
    Instead, at the point where a user requests a harvest, Alma should ask the user to specify the time period they would like to request.

    This would have several advantages:

    • We would be able to use SUSHI to harvest usage data from greater than 12 months ago.
    • When troubleshooting data errors, we could ask Alma to harvest just a single month at a time.
    • We could avoid duplicating usage data which has been loaded into Alma manually.
    • We could avoid harvesting the most recent month's data if the vendor hasn't yet made it available.

    When you manually request a particular SUSHI account/report to be harvested by Alma, by default Alma requests any data which it hasn't already loaded for that account from the last 12 months. If there are multiple months in sequence missing, Alma requests the data for these months together as a single SUSHI request.

    This is an inflexible system.
    Instead, at the point where a user requests a harvest, Alma should ask the user to specify the time period they would like to request.

    This would have several advantages:

    • We would be able to use SUSHI to harvest usage data from… more
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    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    As of August release it is possible to indicate SUSHI – "Custom Harvest.
    “Custom Harvest" function provides an option define the exact time frame for the harvest period
    For more information see:
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes_Included_Material/2021_RN_08_Main#Define_a_Specific_Time_Frame_While_Manually_Harvesting_R5_SUSHI_Data

18. Daytime options for automated Alma notice jobs which involve patron notifications

    We recently had a call from a distressed parent who had been woken by a late night notification due to an Alma notice being sent to them.

    Whilst appreciating that jobs are scheduled later to catch lower utilization of the system, would it be possible to have some options for all jobs which feature patron-facing notifications to be run between 9.00am and 9.00pm e.g. Courtesy Notices and Handle Loan Renewals job.

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    Completed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    It is now possible to use functions in XSL version 3 or lower for letters configuration. 

19. Add policy to prevent Booking requests over closed days

    On behalf of the Product management team we would like to understand the need and use cases of the following 'Planned' feature - any comment is welcome.
    Currently, Alma users and Primo patrons can create booking requests in Alma which span over several days, if user tries to book items on closed library days, and the time frame is under the max length policy - Alma will adjust the book start and end time, without checking if the resulting time-span is more than the max length.
    This means that patrons can create booking requests that span an entire period a library is closed for (for example, an entire weekend), and there is currently no workaround to make sure such requests are not created.

    Customer expects booking requests to be blocked when submitted for a day that the library is closed. When a patron submits via Primo/VE a booking request, or when a staff members submits via Alma, on a day that the library is closed, the start and end date are adjusted to the closing time of the last open day before the booking and the opening time of the first open day after the booking.

    Instead of the time being adjusted, they expect these requests to be blocked, or at least some pop-up should appear, since the patron specifically requested a certain day, without knowing the library was closed.

    The suggested solution is to Allow institutions to configure a new policy which will block Alma user/Primo/VE patron from booking over days when the library is closed.

    On behalf of the Product management team we would like to understand the need and use cases of the following 'Planned' feature - any comment is welcome.
    Currently, Alma users and Primo patrons can create booking requests in Alma which span over several days, if user tries to book items on closed library days, and the time frame is under the max length policy - Alma will adjust the book start and end time, without checking if the resulting time-span is more than the max length.
    This means that patrons can create booking requests that span an entire period a… more

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    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    New assertions are now available for the Closed Library Booking Management policy to allow institutions to prevent seats being booked for time periods when the library is closed.
    For more information please see Alma November Release Notes:
    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2020/Alma_2020_Release_Notes

20. Provide an integration profile for Ebook Central subscribed titles

    We subscribe to the collection Ebook Central Academic Complete International Edition. The number of subscribed titles on the Ebook Central platform is currently around 185 000. However, the Community Zone collection only has around 164 000 titles.

    According to ProQuest, there are differences between countries in terms of the number of titles available for a specific customer, based on copyright and publisher restrictions. However, there is only one collection in the Community Zone (i.e. the International Edition package), which would mean that the actual number of titles in that collection does not correctly reflect each international customer's subscribed and active titles on Ebook Central.

    Based on this information, I suggest that we should have the option to activate an integration profile for Ebook Central subscribed titles, configured with the customer's Ebook Central site ID, in order to correctly reflect our subscribed titles in Alma.

    We subscribe to the collection Ebook Central Academic Complete International Edition. The number of subscribed titles on the Ebook Central platform is currently around 185 000. However, the Community Zone collection only has around 164 000 titles.

    According to ProQuest, there are differences between countries in terms of the number of titles available for a specific customer, based on copyright and publisher restrictions. However, there is only one collection in the Community Zone (i.e. the International Edition package), which would mean that the actual number of titles in that collection does not correctly reflect each international customer's subscribed and active… more

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    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    Hi,
    ProQuest Ebook Central integration supports activating subscription content according to the customer ID – this functionality is available for early access customers and will be available for the wider community at a later release. If your institution will like to take part in the early access initiative please contact me directly
    dana.moshkovits@exlibrisgroup.com