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Mejorar realizar cambios globales en ejemplares físicos
Permitir realizar cambios globales sobre los campos de signatura de ejemplares físicos, para modificar una parte de la signatura sin cambiar el resto. Por ejemplo:
EPP3500(075)/ALV cambiar a PLP3500(075)/ALV
EPP3300/WES cambiar a PLP3300/WES
22 votes -
Receipt for waived fees
Customers sometimes want a receipt for waived fees. Currently that's not possible within ALMA.
20 votes -
Collection Discovery manual title ordering
In collections and sub-collections, please allow adjusting the order of titles manually (and individually - like we change the order of collections by drag-and-drop).
While the ability to change the default sort method is useful, our collections require more granular control over the order in which titles display.
A drag-and-drop system would be ideal. Slightly less useful would be the ability to track and sort by the date that each title was added to a collection.
35 votes -
Estimated price -field for following year on continuous POL
Estimated price -field is needed for databases and another continuous purchase orders for following year budget planning. There should be price fields for both current year and the following year (also possibility to split them to different funds). Estimated price -field should also to be selected on the analytics reports. Publishers may change database or journals prices a lot more than average rate.
36 votes -
Add usage statistics -field for other statistics than Counter
A need for a new Usage Statistics -field that could be used for usage statistics other than Counter. Smaller e-journal etc. publishers don't have Sushi statistics but libraries collect usage data another way. The new usage statistics field should be for every year. The Usage Statistics -field should work on the Analytics. Statistics notes -field is also required.
34 votes -
Related holdings displayed only after "direct" holdings in the brief results
Currently, only 5 holdings are displayed in the "Physical" tab in the brief results list in Alma. In many cases holdings and "related" holdings are mixed and displayed without any particular ranking. Especially when many of them are present, it takes many clicks before one can exclude the related holdings and obtain a list of all holdings linked directly to a record.
The "Physical" tab in Alma could be changed like this: all holdings linked directly to the record are displayed first (regardless of the library), and only then come the holdings of related records.138 votes -
Customize the amount of holdings displayed in the brief results
Currently, only 5 holdings are displayed in the "Physical" tab in the brief results list in Alma. For IZs with many libraries, this is not always ideal and many clicks are necessary before getting to the complete list of holdings.
The new sortlibraryby_relevance parameter helps but doesn't solve all issues.
Therefore, we'd like to ask to implement a functionality similar to what can be done for the amount of records to be displayed in the results list (at the moment, one can choose between 10/20/50) so that for example staff users can choose whether they want to see…142 votes -
Option to define another set of records to be included in the Database search
The database search in Primo includes only electronic collections with collection type “database” or electronic collections with a collection level URL and an unsuppressed bibliographic record.
Even though you can change the electronic material type of a portfolio to “database” these titles can’t be searched through the database search. This means we have to add local database collections even though the title can be activated through the community zone.
An example is the electronic collection “De Gruyter Databases”. I should like to be able to include these in the database search.52 votes -
Sort booking requests by Start Time
When monitoring resource requests on Fulfillment > Monitor Requests & Item Processes, a "Sort by" button with an option to sort by Start Time would ease the handling of booking requests.
The booking requests are currently sorted by Request Date, which is not very useful, and can not be sorted by any other field.A "Sort by" button actually does appear on Fulfillment > Pick From Shelf.
Another option could be adding the Start Time on the drop down menu of the bar "Requests" on top of the page.
62 votes -
The "maximum renewal date" (max_renew_date) should be part of the fields that are provided by API
The max-renew_date is viewable in Primo, but if you use another Discovery it can't be displayed because it is not provided by API.
50 votes -
Improve editing of large fields in the Metadata Editor
When creating and/or editing a MARC field with a large volume of text, such as the 505 or 520 field, occasionally the cursor will appear to be in a different position than it is, so that the user may accidentally delete the wrong characters, or insert them in the wrong place. This appears to happen at random, and saving the record, restarting Alma, and even clearing the browser cache does not consistently fix the problem, even in the short term.
57 votes -
Allow staff to override auto return when a borrowing request is received after needed by date has passed or request has been cancelled
When a borrowing library receives a resource sharing item after the request's needed by date has passed, Alma automatically updates the request to returned without displaying any alert. This causes a substantial amount of confusion for staff. We would like Alma to display an alert when a resource sharing item is being automatically returned to the lender because it was received after the request's needed by date. We would also like the opportunity to override this automatic return so users can have the option of using the item.
Likewise, Alma automatically updates borrowing reqeusts to returned when they've been cancelled…
51 votes -
Please expand the volume of Internal note fields to the Physical Item Editor
Our library has more than three kinds of information need to be recorded in the internal note field, such as property number, new books statues notes, compensation books notes and so on.
Hope is could add more, or became expandable let staff to select numbers of fields they needed.100 votes -
Add "Streaming" Purchase Order Line (POL) Types
There are currently no POL line types for streaming content.
I'd like to see the following POL Line types added:
Streaming Video - Subscription
Streaming Video - One Time
Streaming Audio - Subscription
Streaming Audio - One Time77 votes -
Alma - automatic warning for users about to expire with dedicated alma xml letter
It would be useful to activate an automatic warning for users about to expire with dedicated alma xml letter.
The customer could simply set up the amount of days before expiration and if the letter should be sent to all users or to specific user groups. A scheduled job could be activated, so that the letter is sent every day at a specific time.248 votes -
Add institution address information to XML for Ful Transit Slip Letter
When an item is placed in transit to another institution in an AFN, the institution name is included in the XML of the Ful Transit Slip Letter. However, no address information for the institution in included in the XML, so it's not possilble to add that information to the Ful Transit Slip Letter. SUNY has added resource sharing partner address info to our resource sharing shipping and return letters, and that has proven to be very helpful. We would like the address of the library where the item is held to be added to the XML for the Ful Transit…
44 votes -
Allow harvesting of reports with the non-standard SN:Total_Chapter_Request metric
I noticed that some vendors - Taylor and Francis and Springer- are adding this non-standard metric - SN:TotalChapterRequest - to their TR Master Reports. These are 2 big vendors, and these TR master reports won't load into Alma with this nonstandard metric in them.. I was hoping there is a way to accommodate them and allow them to load.
21 votes -
Position sensitive NRs (Normalization Rules) - ISBD punctuation
ISBD punctuation is determined by the following subfield.
For example:
In 245 the subfield preceding $$b must end in one of the following:
1. space + colon
2. space + semicolon
3. space + Arabic semicolon (if your cataloging language is Arabic)
4. space + equal signThe NR syntax currently does not offer any straightforward solution for correcting ISBD punctuation.
We request the development of an NR function that will suffix the subfield with a string based on the subfield that follows it, including the case in which a subfield is the last one.
I think it would be…
78 votes -
Keep POL reclaim interval and grace period when changing vendor
We have an issue with acquisition when it comes to continuous orders. If we change a vendor for a given POL, the data previously entered for the grace period and the reclaim interval disappears. They are replaced by the default value from the vendor.
This can be quite a serious issue when changing vendors for many POLs at once, which happens from time to time.
It would be much more efficient to keep the grace period and the reclaim interval for the POL, as it's linked to the serial publication interval.Grace period and claim interval depends on title periodicity.
The…
32 votes -
Option to publish new set with Publishing Profiles
Currently, when you change the set in a publishing profile, the previous set is first published as deleted, and then the new set is published by the job. This behavior means that we have to duplicate an existing publishing profile each time we want to publish a new set with an existing publishing profile in order to get a "clean" output and to avoid overly long processing times publishing the old set as deleted. This results in the needless duplication of institutional publishing profiles and extra staff time to duplicate the publishing profiles to publish new sets. The current publishing…
45 votes
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