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auto populate the end date for an invoice
When entering a date range for a subscription, it often crosses into the next fiscal year. Having to select the year before you use the drop-down to select the month and day adds a lot of clicking. It is rare to have a subscription that isn't one year in length. It would save a lot of time and clicks if the end date (1 year later) would auto-populate.
5 votes -
Add a tab "re-loan" to Patron Services to return and re-loan items in one step
An additional tab (e.g. "re-loan" or "Wiederausleihe" in German) would be a valuable improvement to the Patron Services page.
The goal of this tab is the returning and re-loaning of an item to the patron in one step, with a pop-up warning if there are requests present in the request queue.
The option of a re-loan tab would be a big help in cases where large amounts of items are reloaned to the same person when the items reach the maximum amount of renewals. The additional tab would make the process easier, less error-prone and especially faster.174 votes -
Alternative work order behavior - Usage should be departmental, not individual
We would like an alternative to how work orders work now. We want the department (or “agent”) to initiate the request, rather than an individual using their own personal account. So that usage is calculated as “departmental” or work order, rather than the individual.
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user - add option for dynamic purge date - e.g. 12 months after expiration date
Right now the purge date is a static value manually inserted when registering a new user. When the user renews registration, purge date must also be manually updated.
In our library regulations we'd like to purge users after a specific amount of time after expiry date. Keeping purge dates manually up to date is however quite an error prone procedure.
It would be great to have the chance to automatically update the value in purge date when saving according to specific a timespan (e.g. 10 months or 10 years after expiration date).107 votes -
Sorting Lending Requests
Add option to sort by Call number to Resource Sharing Lending Requests
5 votes -
Allow a block to be created as part of the 'change to lost' overdue and lost loan profiles.
We'd like the ability to create a block when an item is made 'lost' as part of the overdue and lost loan profile schedules.
At the moment we can only add a block on the overdue notification types, which we do for the last overdue notification we send before it becomes considered lost.
However, as soon as the item is changed to lost by the profile schedule it removes the block automatically created by the overdue notification profile.
The advantage of using the profile block is that they are automatically removed if the item is renewed or returned and we…
116 votes -
Support full SIP2 protocol
For the communication between selfcheck kiosks and Alma, the SIP2 protocol is needed.
The full protocol can be found here: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/3M-Standard-Interchange-Protocol-Version-2.00.pdfUnfortunately, Ex Libris does not support all fields that would be available in the protocol (marked as 'not supported' in this document): https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/integrations/selfcheck/sip2/
Please make the whole SIP2 protocol available for Alma.
134 votes -
15 votes
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DARA
Add an option to create a purchase request from the current drop down or after hitting the "implement" button. Sending us to the title view doesn't help us to implement the recommendation.
3 votes -
Hold Notification letter. With resource sharing, that the notice comes from the library that has the item on hold for pickup.
Because hold notification come from the lending library that has supplied the item, patrons are confused and do not always open and read the notification for directions. Having the hold notification come from the borrowing library where the item actually is waiting on the hold shelf for pick up would clear up the confusion of who has the item.
4 votes -
E-Resource Activation Task List trigger
When closing a subscription PO line, associated e-resources are automatically added to the E-Resource Activation Task List to determine whether they need to be deactivated. It would be more useful if this were based on the "subscription to" date in the PO line, rather than happening when the PO line is closed. We often close a subscription order several months before the subscription officially ends, and we don't want to deactivate the portfolio until that end date. But we also don't want to keep them in the task list for months while we want for that subscription end date. The…
4 votes -
Display logic to hide services by user assigned RS library
Allow Discovery Interface Display Logic rules to hide service Rapido Physical Offer based on user's assigned resource sharing library.
In our instance, we have one default/generic RS library and several location-based RS libraries. Users are put in the generic RS library by default, then reassigned to a specific RS library depending on where they are enrolled. For example, a patron in Chicago would have the Chicago RS library assigned, while an online patron would still have the generic RS library assigned.
We would like the ability to hide Rapido physical offers from users with the generic RS library assigned. Currently…
6 votes -
View All Holdings button - place in a prominent position in Receive>Manage Items page
From the Manage Items page in Alma Acquisitions Receiving, the View All Holdings button is not visible from the Manage Items page. It requires clicking into one individual item and then the button appears in the right-hand panel. This is too many steps down.
3 votes -
Create a "sticky note" widget for individualized staff notes.
It would be helpful to have a "sticky note" type widget available on the Alma homepage so that staff could record personalized ideas/instructions/reminders to themselves about Alma-specific work.
The simplest version could just be a plain text box where staff could add/delete text as desired. A fancier version could allow for multiple notes to be created, storing them each with a title and create date and listing them all in the Widget.
If we get really crazy there could be a setting to enable the user to choose whether the note is a public note (for all other Alma users…
82 votes -
Webhook for Library Hour Changes
It would be great if a event could be created that would fire a webhook when a librarys hours change.
The use case for this is when we use a 3rd party system that pulls hours out of Alma, we want to be able to know the hours have changed and perform a sync sooner than say 72 hours later (or whatever interval) when the outside system refreshes automatically.
This would be useful when we close do to inclement weather or something, so we could trigger updating our 3rd party system after the hours are updated in Alma.
7 votes -
E-Resources: Make public note and authentication note translatable
In the editor of e-collection / service / portfolio, it is possible to set up the public note and authentication note. These are then displayed to the patron in Primo VE in the box with full-text link in view it section.
Currently it is a simple text box with no translation possibility. In our network we use 4 languages for the UI. Therefore, we require this field to be translatable so the note language adjusts to the patron interface in Primo VE.
130 votes -
Possibility to duplicate a Staff User record
We do use Role Profiles to create new Sfaff Users as easily as possible.
However, we have about 30 sublibraries and colleagues, some of them working in several libraries or have special WO Department permissions, etc. Therefore we do not have suitable Role Profiles for all combinations.It would be great if we could duplicate an existing Staff User record instead of having to create a user from scratch.
Thank you in advance!
8 votes -
Option to configure interested user notification for ebooks to be sent when activation task changed to Done rather than when Activated
We would like the ability to configure when our interested user notifications are sent for ebooks. We would like the option to send these when the activation task is changed to Done in the Electronic Resource Activation Task List instead of when the ebooks are activated. This would give us the opportunity to check the ebook portfolio links and bibliographic records for our Rialto purchased ebooks before the notifications are sent to the interested users.
14 votes -
List the "Pick from Shelf" list, "Monitor Requests and item processes" and results from a "Requests" search in order from latest to oldest
We would find it helpful if it were possible to view requests (both active and complete) in order from latest to older without the need to export and filter
3 votes -
ISBN to Pick from shelf in Mobile Alma
Would be great to have ISBN to Pick from shelf list. In Alma mobile too.
6 votes
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