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Open Minutes as Unit of Measurement parameter for Overdue Fine configuration
The available units of measurement for configuring an Overdue Fine include All Days, All Hours, All Minutes, Open Days, and Open Hours. Open Minutes are not included.
Open Minutes should be an option, so that libraries have the option of charging for less than the full hourly amount when users bring time-sensitive materials back less than an hour late, without forcing patrons to accrue additional fines when the library is not open.
2 votes -
Linked Data Enrichment Moves $e Relator Subfields to Incorrect Positions When Saving Authorities with F3
When saving a name authority record in Alma using the F3 function, the Linked Data Enrichment process is causing the $e relator subfield to move to an incorrect position within the field. Instead of maintaining the expected order (e.g., $a, $e, $1), the $e subfield is often placed at the end or in another unexpected location after $0/$1 subfields are added. This disrupts the intended structure of the authority field and creates extra manual work for cataloguers.
Attempts to correct the placement by copying and pasting the $e subfield do not work as expected—Alma consistently pastes it at the end…
48 votes -
Add “Additional ID” as an option for the costumized view on the pages “Scan In Items” and “Manage Patron Services”
Today, when “Additional ID” is used as pickup number for borrowers picking up their hold requests, the librarian will not be able to see the Additional ID when scanning a book with a hold request on the “scan in item”-page. To see the "Additional ID", the librarian will need to enter the “Active Hold Shelf»-page.
This makes the process difficult for the librarian, when he or she needs to manually write the “Additional ID” on the pick up-slip that is placed in the book.
If “Additional ID” were added as an option for the costumized view on the “Scan In…145 votes -
Request for Improvement of the Physical Item Receiving Function in the Library
Currently in Alma, when librarians receive physical items that have been ordered and have arrived at the library, items with a patron physical item request and items without a patron physical item request must be processed separately.
It would be helpful to have a feature that allows librarians to receive both types of physical items—those with a patron physical item request and those without—together in a single receiving workflow.
7 votes -
COUNTER metric PR_P1 or DR_D1 Searches platform to calculate Total Usage in Analytics databases cost per use reports
We request that the Total Usage field used in constructing the databases cost per use report utilize the COUNTER PRP1 Searches platform or DRD1 Searches platform metric.
Within the group of university libraries that are part of REBIUN (https://www.rebiun.org/), we have agreed to use the PRP1 metric, or alternatively DRD1 Searches platform, to calculate the cost per use of databases.
However, when configuring the report in Analytics, we encountered the problem that Alma uses the DR – Unique Title Requests metric. https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/080Analytics/Alma_Analytics_Subject_Areas/E-Inventory#Cost_Usage
Therefore, even if we build a cost per use report, it would…
96 votes -
Add faceting to the results of the Receiving Workbench
Sometimes serials do not have identifiers, but have very common words as their title, such as Historian, People, or Taxation. The ability to use facets to narrow results lists, beyond just the library would make this much easier to use.
21 votes -
Increase the number of available facets for all POL searching
All aspects of the POL should be available as facets, assuming they appear sufficiently frequently in a set of results. Most notably, all 5 reporting code fields should be available as facets.
Additionally, other sources of POL lists, such as the Alma Vendor Record should offer all of the same faceting functionality, including the ability to customize which facets are visible.42 votes -
Automatically Trim Leading and Trailing Spaces in Patron Names
When staff create or edit patron records, Alma currently accepts leading or trailing spaces in the first name and last name fields. These spaces make the name technically unique, so the duplicate warning mechanism does not recognize the record as a duplicate. This results in poor data quality, as duplicate records are created without warning.
Proposed enhancement:
• Automatically remove any leading or trailing spaces in the first name and last name fields when a patron record is created or updated.
• Alternatively, prevent staff from entering leading or trailing spaces in these fields from the beginning.This enhancement would…
24 votes -
Request for Populating "Item Location" in Network Activity Loan List
I am writing regarding the blank column in the Network Activity section.
For institutions within a fulfillment network, loans belonging to another institution are visible in the Network Activity section. However, in the Loans list, the "Item Location" column is blank.
If the “Item Location” column were also populated with the correct values, it would be much easier to manage differences in return policies that are dependent on the item's location.
In addition, patrons sometimes claim to have already returned the item.
If the "Item Location" column is displayed correctly, it will be able to ask the owning library to…12 votes -
Request for Populating "Item Location" in Network Activity Loan List
I am writing regarding the blank column in the Network Activity section.
For institutions within a fulfillment network, loans belonging to another institution are visible in the Network Activity section. However, in the Loans list, the "Item Location" column is blank.
If the “Item Location” column were also populated with the correct values, it would be much easier to manage differences in return policies that are dependent on the item's location.
0 votes -
Support "History" of "Interested User" in POL
The "Interested Users" area of POLs in Alma currently doesn't have any "History" support; if an operator attempts to determine when or how changes were made to a POL's interested user or the notification settings for an interested user, there is no history to track changes to those fields. Having "History" support for this field would be helpful for maintaining consistency within the POL and for troubleshooting when unexpected changes are made.
3 votes -
Allow for relative date searching on years in addition to days
We have logical managed sets where we want to filter on publication year within the last two years and would like to be able to use a relative date search instead of having to adjust the year each year.
10 votes -
Vendors management
"The process that sends purchase requests to vendors sometimes does not work correctly.
The error is only detected when the vendor notifies you that they have not received the purchase request.
To check the error, you must go to the Job (scheduled task).
Shouldn't there be a way in Alma to report these failures more visibly?"
4 votes -
Separate_patron_notifications_by_library (extend to all Patron facing letters!!)
The following letter/emails are supported by the Separatepatronnotificationsbylibrary feature :
However, two important patron facing emails are missing here!
- the patron welcome letter!! -> This is the FIRST letter you send to a patron. In times of spam and phising preferably coming from a (the same) sensible library from address as the other letters.
- reset pw letter!! -> Same here - please make sure this has the same from address. You need to be able to trust this email!
3 votes -
Create an embeddable calendar of library open hours
I want to be able to create a calendar of library open hours which can embed on external websites.
2 votes -
ensure that when 'po_line_description_update_upon_bib_change' enabled, subfield A does not get overwritten by subfield L in 022
Sharing description from our Cataloger, CH:
We believe the following describes a defect.
Support indicates it is an enhancement request and suggests we propose on Idea Exchange.
Background:
1) We turned on the ‘polinedescriptionupdateuponbibchange’ enhancement in the sandbox.
2) The enhancement overwrote the $$l instead of pulling in the $$a from 022 – this behavior describes a defect
None of the following 3 options allow us to properly use the ‘polinedescriptionupdateuponbibchange’ enhancement:
1. Ideally, we want to enable the ‘polinedescriptionupdateuponbibchange’ function to…10 votes -
Improve the Alma Link Resolver display logic to include conditions and thresholds (as they are available in SFX)
I would like to see the Alma link resolver have the same configuration options as the SFX link resolver.
The SFX link resolver offers the following conditions:
- sametarget
- threshold
- notimediffwarning
- samethreshold
See: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/SFX/Product_Documentation/01_Version_4.0/SFX_General_User's_Guide/07_Configuration/05_Menu_Configuration/06_Display_LogicIn addition, I'd like the Alma link resolver to offer thresholds to further configure the threshold condition in a display logic rule.
See: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/SFX/Product_Documentation/01_Version_4.0/SFX_General_User's_Guide/02_KBManager/07_Thresholds15 votes -
Allow Adjustments to Fines and Fees
Summary:
Currently, when staff members need to adjust a fine or fee (for example, to correct the replacement cost of a lost item), the process requires deleting the existing fee and creating a new one. This creates a significant issue: the newly created fee is not correctly linked to the associated item record.Problem Description:
When a patron reports a lost or overdue item and is unable to locate it, staff adjust the charge to reflect the actual replacement cost. However, because the system does not support direct modification of existing fees, staff must delete the original fee and manually…14 votes -
Display statistics note labels in Analytics
Controlling item statistics notes is optional in Alma. We have controlled our statistics notes and would like to have the option of displaying the more human-readable descriptions in Analytics reports rather than the raw codes. This is how for instance statistical categories work in Analytics--you can display the code or the description. Institutions that have not controlled statistics notes could have null descriptions, or the description could be the code.
3 votes -
Override and reset the maximum renewal date
We would like to be able to override and reset the maximum renewal date when renewing loans that has gone over the initial maximum renewal period.
The override option that we have today, only overrides the renewal blockage and not the maximum renewal period. When the new due date arrives, the "maximun renewal date" is still expired and the renewal has to be handled by a librarian.
As it is now, we have to return and reloan the material for the patron, a manual prosess that takes time and opens up for errors.
213 votes
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