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Books Straps
We would like to print Book Straps (like in OCLC) to attach to books as quite often our patrons return books with out the Slips.
32 votes -
Physically Received by Library
It should be possible to change the status of a Borrowing Request to Digitally Received by Library from Physically Received by Library or vice-versa, if the wrong Format was received. Currently, it is impossible to create a barcode if the item was Digitally Received.
19 votes -
Completed Requests - Searchable Fields
I would like to search Completed Requests by Partner Code and External Identifier. Currently, this is only possible via Analytics which has a one-day delay.
29 votes -
Recent Searches & Customization of Searchable Fields
I would like to customize the fields displayed and their order when searching Borrowing and Lending requests. In addition, I would like Recent Searches to be displayed first. Currently, there are many fields that we do not use and we need to scroll down.
22 votes -
Create a set option in Alma for Acquisitions and Resources imports for imported files larger than 50 records
In Alma Acquisitions, we import bibliographic records from vendors such as OCLC in batch. It would aid efficiency if the option existed for the imported records to be immediately available in a set for further processing. As of February 2018, this can only be done on imports of 50 or fewer records, using the Monitor and View Imports, Report, Preview Records functionality, which creates an "or" query in Alma that can be saved as a set for further manipulation or export. A similar process (though slightly different) exists for Resources.
In both Acquisitions and Resources, if the imported file contains…
20 votes -
Monitor Requests & Item Processes screen: show item Storage Location ID and Description
Monitor Requests & Item Processes screen: show item Storage Location ID and Description
In the Monitor Requests & Item Processes screen it would be extremely useful to show the item Storage Location ID and the Description. And / Or to have item Storage Location ID and Description available in the excel export of this screen.
18 votes -
restricts editing access to analytics to specific subject areas
Any patron with design analytics have access to all subjects areas in analytics. It would good, if we could restrict analytics design access to specific subject arease in analytics.
Michael Voss
35 votes -
Retrieving Returns from Advanced Search
Currently there is no option in Advanced search to detect all the recent Items returned on a specific day.
There is an existing function in Alma thats possible to detect only LoansPlease add this feature to be able to retrieve Retuns in Advanced search and not just from analytics (there the data is updated only to the previous day and not the current) .
16 votes -
Add "Move to department" option for Acq departments
We would like a new option called "Move to Department" in the Receiving workbench AND in the Scan in Items form. The new option would have the effect of marking the existing Acq process as Done, and putting the item(s) in transit to the next department. Currently, if a workflow involves moving something from the Acq department to another department, such as a central End Processing unit that handles multiple libraries, the receiving staff have to perform multiple time-consuming steps. They must 1) Receive 2) Search for Physical Item 3) Create new Work Order 4) Scan in item to mark…
18 votes -
Add a way to tell if an item/holding has 3 or more open requests
It would be nice to know if a given item or holding has 3 or more open request. It would signal the acquisition that another copy of the title would be helpful. This could be achived for example if the queue number is searchable, either in analytics or in the request search.
115 votes -
Add fulfilment, Public and Internal Notes to the Excel spreadsheets for physical item sets
When a Physical Item set of records is exported into a spreadsheet via Tools > Excel, the fields Fulfilment Note, Public Note and Internal Notes 1, 2 and 3 are noticeably absent from the columns of data offered in that spreadsheet.
Those fields frequently play a major role in determining the action required by staff for the given item upon its return, as they’re used for requests for reclassification, relegation, etc. It would constitute a sizeable labour-saving fix to be able to generate/save/print off a ready list of all such messages, alphabetically sortable by contents, from the spreadsheet for staff…
22 votes -
22 votes
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advanced option in Invoice search.
We hope that there is an advanced option in Invoice search.
27 votes -
Validation check for outgoing vendor emails
Please add a validation check for outgoing vendor emails. Otherwise a spelling mistake might go unnoticed.
54 votes -
Allow batch deletion of user notes
It's possible to add notes to user records in batch using the "Update/Notify Users" job on a set of users. It would be helpful if we could also batch delete notes on user records.
There are occasions when we have subsets of users who receive special permissions to check out subsets of materials (e.g. students in a specific class who are the only people allowed to use specific equipment or reserve items, collections/materials where we require a signed agreement on file from the user to allow access). In these situations, we add notes to the user record to indicate whether…
176 votes -
Initial Allocated Amount
Currently in Alma, the Initial Allocated Amount for an allocated fund is e.g. 1,000.00 ZAR. When an amount from this Initial Allocation e.g. 100.00 ZAR is transferred to another fund,
the 100.00 ZAR gets deducted from the Initial Allocated Amount of 1,000.00 ZAR and is now 900.00 ZAR.In Aleph, the amount was transferred, yet the Allocated Amount remained the same, which is correct.
When running reports on the Initial Allocated Amount in Alma, the adjusted 900.00 ZAR for the Initial Allocated Amount does not give a correct indication of the amount originally allocated from the institutional budget.
16 votes -
Provide email address information in search results of patron search
When searching for patrons through Fulfilment>Manage Patron Services, it would be useful if the search results included the patron's email address so that library staff had a unique identifier to check against when there a multiple patrons with the same name.
122 votes -
Manage Multiyear Licenses for Electronic Resources in a POL
Hi,
It is common for libraries to sign multi-year price lock deals for e-resources (databases, journals, etc). Currently, we are keeping track of this information as "Notes" which is hard for us to follow since "Notes" used for other purposes. Also, we need to update the "List price" accordingly before we proceed with a renewal /invoice payment.
Would it be feasible to have a POL type that is catered for multi-year deals. I was somewhat inspired by the new feature in the Jan'18 release that is meant to record multiyear licenses in a Network Zone. A similar feature in the…
25 votes -
Analytics - reporte on audit trail in user record
We'd like to be able to use the information in the audit trail on a user record in Analytics, for example, today we wanted to report on when an identifier had been modified and by which user.
29 votes -
Add permalink to Analytics report
We'd like to have the permalink for a bib record included in the Analytics report.
27 votes
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