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Add ability to prevent CDI content from appearing in Primo, by Alma Electronic Collection
With CDI we have no control over preventing CDI content from appearing in our Primo filtered search, when we have full text holdings which matches to this content.
In many cases this may be a good thing, in not needing to worry over making sure full text content is searchable.
However, it is clear that there are collections in CDI with very poor data, which causes linking to fail, and also has content which we do not want at all such as Journals and Books, as we manage the title level by our Alma records.
For example, CRL Catalog has…522 votesThe local selection of individual data sources is not possible with the merged record and the single activation flow. We cannot change this in the foreseeable future. Content (including specific collection) related issues should be reported via the support channel.
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Allow inventory to be linked to multiple licenses
We would like inventory to be linked to multiple licenses. Some resources are licensed with two entities...the content provider and the access provider. An example of this is APA. If we choose to have our APA content hosted by another provider (which is an option), we must have a license with both APA (content provider) and the access provider.
Currently, we need to choose only one license to link the inventory to. Which one do we choose?
100 votesDear Community,
Thank you for submitting this idea.
Per Alma module it is possible to link one license for a portfolio / collection.
Changing this module is complicated and raises questions such as what to display in discovery and more.
We will not be doing this for now.
Thanks,
Tamar Fuches
Alma product manager
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Option to receive from items list
Please make it an option to receive an issue, without having to navigate away to the specific "Receiving" page, if you are looking at it on an items list. Often I'll be working on items and notice that one of them is not received when it should be, but I can't change that without interrupting my workflow or opening a new window.
16 votesHello All,
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Add the function of un-receiving items in bulk
It takes a lot of time to un-receive item one bye one; we need to find POL including un-received item and click ‘Manage item’ menu next to the item and then un-receive the item. It would be better that there is some way of proceeding the un-receiving process in bulk.
14 votesHello All,
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Improve Secondary Reporting Code List Table Functionaility
We use the secondary reporting code table to list our selectors and tie their names to any selections they have made in Alma. Currently, we have around 35-40 selectors and we keep them alphabetized by last name, first name. The problem is when we go to create a new user the user is placed at the bottom of the column. We then have to manually click the row up one time until we get it in the position we want. Every arrow click also refreshes the page which can lead to 10-15 minutes of clicking to get a user to…
14 votesHello All,
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POL and its communication must be sent to account provider email
At the moment in ALMA, if a POL has a communication:
• the POL is sent in a first notification to accound provider email
• the communication (with its file attached) is sent in a second notification to provider email.
This behavour is not logical and doesn't respond to our need.
Our request : POL and communication (with files attached) must be sent to accound provider email in one notification.
Thank you to support our request.14 votesHello All,
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Automated Invoicing for Amazon
Amazon is a common supplier of materials for many libraries and the current process of needing to manually enter invoices in Alma is very slow and tedious. I don't believe Amazon supports EDI, but they do provide invoice/order information in CSV format. It would be really great to have the ability to automate or batch load Amazon invoices.
14 votesHello All,
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Confirmation message when receiving items for continuous titles
Please consider adding a confirmation message when an item for a continuous title (e.g. print serial) has been successfully received. This messaging--which would be similar to the "success" screen when checking in serials in Aleph--would make the process much clearer for student workers who often handle this task in academic libraries.
Thanks for considering!
13 votesHello All,
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Filter Acquisitions POL sets by fiscal period
Manage Sets is useful for quick lists of orderlines but it's not possible to filter by fiscal period. This results in large sets which take a long time to display and then need to be filtered offline in Excel.
Adding a new filter of fiscal period in Acquisitions Manage Sets could help reduce the load on Alma and produce more relevant sets.
13 votesHello All,
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Save emails to and from Patrons for Requests
When we “Send query to requestor” as we Manage Purchase Requests in Alma, it would help greatly if our communication “query” would be saved under a communications tab for that request. This would create a history of actions related to that request. Currently, I can only put notes into the “requestor note” field of the request, and there is no other record of queries sent to the requestor for that request unless I copy the query to myself. Connecting email messages in my box to the Purchase requests in Alma, is not convenient. Is there a way to save this…
12 votesHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Add description field to trial module
The manage trials module in Alma needs to have a description field available. This would be very useful as it would educate trial participants as to what new product they are evaluating. Right now the only information provided is Title. This new field would also need to be available in the XML for TrialLetter.
11 votesHello All,
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More Configuration for Work Order Type Statuses
There is currently limited functionality for configuring Work Order Type Statuses. It would be helpful to be able to do more than just Add and Remove statuses. Being able to edit/rename, rearrange the order, and set a default would be useful.
11 votesHello All,
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Cursor auto-return after refresh
Can the field that you are editing be the one that centralizes the display after the screen is refreshed. When creating/editing a POL you are constantly returned to the top of the screen after you enter each piece of data, no matter how far down the form you are.
11 votesHello All,
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Work with more vendors who provide SUSHI to make them Alma-certified
Factiva and PLoS both provide SUSHI credentials, but they do not work with Alma, and are not currently an Alma-Certified SUSHI vendor. Please work with them so that we can draw our Factiva and PLoS usage via SUSHI.
Thanks,
Amy11 votesHello All,
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Send claims for journal issues for providers without EDI
We have a lot of journal providers for our legal deposit. As they may be associations or other small institution, they don't work with EDI.
Quite often, we don't receive issues. So we want to send them claims. But these are not sent automatically in Alma for subscriptions.
We suggest Alma sends claims for issues that haven't been received to the e-mail address defined for the provider (vendor), taking into account the claiming grace period.10 votesHello All,
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Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record
Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record
Description Hello,This is an enhancement request.
Even when an electronic collection is linked to a bibliographic record in the Additional descriptive information field of the collection record and when an Electronic Collection PO line is linked to the collection, it currently is not possible to get to the PO line when we look up the title as "All titles" and click on the "More info" link. We have to use an Electronic Collection search to get to the title…
10 votesHello All,
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Allow user to select ASCII (with) sort or Library sort (without) initial articles.
Allow choice of schema for sorting any title list with or without the initial article. Right now my packing lists are sorted by title without the A, An, The.
Receiving when the packing list is library sort and Alma is ASCII sort is highly confusing and requires lots of scrolling and paging back and forth.10 votesHello All,
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Let Persistent Search Box stay sticky to All Titles
We would like the ability to keep the All Titles Search option sticky after we choose to order something, when browsing the results of an All Titles Search. This is the default way we create new orders, so the change of the persistent box to default to PO Lines after creating an order is counter-productive.
10 votesHello All,
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Add previous price information to Column options
Already some time ago a new feature, to see previous invoices, was added in Acq in Alma. This is useful and even better if the previous prices were visible too (see screenshot). Is this something that Libis could configure for us?
Already some time ago a new feature, to see previous invoices, was added in Acq in Alma. This is useful and even better if the previous prices were visible too/added to the column options (See attachment)9 votesHello All,
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Include the same details in an Acquisitions Placed HOLD as for a Patron Request placed through the repository search
Currently, we cannot use the checkbox to hold an item for an interested user in the PO Line to place an item on hold. This is because the information provided when this option is chosen is so much more minimal than what is seen if we put a request on the book from the repository search, that our Fulfillment department often does not expect the hold -- it does not show up when the scan the item in, and it does not indicate who it is for. As a result, items where we use the hold item checkbox from the…
9 votesHello All,
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