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Purchase request : add a new field for the url
In our University, we would need an additional field into the Purchase Request for the url : it would help to confirm the identification of the document.
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Remove Assigned To column from file exported from Manage Purchase Requests as not populated
When exporting the purchase requests to Excel from Manage Purchase Requests, the Assigned To column is not populated in the output file. Ex Libris have confirmed that this is by design and Assigned To information is not exported.
If this information is not included in the export, then the redundant 'Assigned To' column should be removed from the file, as this is misleading for staff.
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Select All check box for digital files
Please provide Select All function for digital files, like a check box on the header.
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Implement auto holdings for Oxford University Press Journals
Implement auto holdings for Oxford University Press journals as is already done for Springer, Elsevier, Ovid.
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Make patron / user information pop up card in Alma customizable or add more fields for purchase requests
This specific request came to light when processing purchase requests from the task list. We would like to see the patron's user group when clicking on the patron information card link:
https://www.screencast.com/t/XttSUJmwjEr0 votes -
When building index tables, include data from all bib records (even if no holdings) and from all holdings records (even if no items).
Currently, most holdings fields are not included in the indexing for the physical items table if there is no item attached. I believe the same is true for some bibliographic fields if there is no item and/or no holding.
The resolution to the previous suggestion "Need a way to retrieve HOLDINGS where there are no ITEMS associated with the holding" addressed that one, very specific symptom of the larger problem.
Now that we can FIND the holdings without items attached, we'd like to also search for and report on other information about them.
Please index the same fields for ALL…
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Allow batch deletion of POLs
After we set up our Alma Ebook Central integration, thousands of technical PO lines were created for our triggered DDA requests. We already had POLs for these titles, so we want to delete the duplicate POLs. Currently, they have to be deleted manually. Please create a job that allows you to delete POLs in batch.
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Please add Collection Name (for Digital) to search index for creating a digital title set
Please add Collection Name (for Digital) to search index for creating a digital title set. There is only collection pid field. Alternatively, please allow Keyword index refers Collection Name too.
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Identification of Reply vs Response in Communication tab of POL
It would be useful to be able to easily identify a Reply vs a Response when looking at all of the 'Answers' associated with a Communication in a POL. Perhaps an arrow could indicate which direction the communication occurred ? e.g. an arrow pointing to the left ('out') if it is a Reply from us to the vendor, or an arrow pointing to the right ('in') if it is a Response from the vendor. See attached for screenshots.
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Add "Reading List description" field to Course Reserves and Leganto Instructor Usage/Leganto Student Usage Subject Areas
It would make sense to add the Reading List Description field to Analytics as it is information which is available but missing from the Course Reserves Subject Area, and the Leganto Subject Areas which contain Reading list information. Without this information you cannot really reproduce a list from its constituent data.
NB this is really a Leganto issue as much as anything, but the impact is felt in Analytics.0 votes -
Use non-LC call numbers for journal categories
This affects Primo/PrimoVE; but the job is in Alma.
The new feature (as of Nov 2019) to browse a list of journals by category depends on the 050$a. This should be expanded to use the 055$a, 060$a, 070$a, 080$a, 082$a, 083$a, 084$a, 085$a, and 086$a. Additionally, libraries should be able to pick which of the subfields to use.
This is an example of the lack of support for non-LC libraries.
This idea cross-posted as Primo idea.
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Please provide more flexibility for creating video file thumbnails
It would be great if Alma provides more flexibility for creating video file thumbnails. For example,
1) Creating a couple more thumbnails and letting the user to choose one
2) Taking the frame in the middle of the whole clip
3) Giving the user a configurable option to set the timing, etc.Now thumbnail generation for video is taking the frame in second 1 (00:00:01) - and make it the thumbnail of the video file. Consequently many of thumbnails look alike because mostly there is a few seconds of 'opening' or fade-in effect.
Therefore, it needs to be configurable by…
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Acquisition Renewals for NZ e-collections
We would like the ability to renew a shared e-collection.
The new FY year price would be displayed in the negotiated license and then a renew button would be available. the library would see the new FY cost and then renew or cancel that subscription.
Then this renewal or cancel would notify the NZ administrator.
(similar to the functionality in ConsortiaManager).0 votes -
Duplicate title analyis : able to detect duplication on 856
It would be good to be able able to detect duplication on the MARC 856 field
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Create an "Ideas Meta" category for ideas on the tool itself
As an ExLibris customer, I would like a channel were I can submit my ideas on how the Idea Exchange tool could be improved, so that the tool can evolve for maximum benefit for both ExLibris and customers.
See Meta Stack Overflow as an example.
Currently I don't know an obvious place where I could submit this idea, which is why it ended up in Alma - Other ... The idea about a meta category thus exemplifies the need expressed in the idea itself. How meta is that? ;-)
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Use sane file permissions on gzipped files from publishing jobs
When extracting the MarcXML-files from a publishing job, the extracted files by default have unix file permissions set to 060 (u=,g=rw,o=), i.e. only readable and writable by the group, not by the user. This is weird and makes little sense.
Even worse, it also means that on systems with default umask of 022, which is very common, the effective permissions will be 040 (u=,g=r,o=) which means that the files can be neither changed nor deleted – even by the user who extracted them – without messing with permissions.
I can see no reason whatsoever for preferring the current default set…
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Batch file download function to local PC (Alma-Digital)
Please provide Select all and download them to local PC function on Digital Title > Representations > Files List. Also a file export job for a set of digital titles is needed. (FYI, Rosetta has the latter function.)
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Allow Personal Delivery to be fulfilled from any library circ desk
Scenario: When an item belonging to another library that has an active home delivery request is returned or scanned in at another library's circulation desk, the item is put in transit to the owning library for the request to be fulfilled. The home delivery request should be fulfilled from any loans desk regardless of which library the item belong to.
We are multi campus institution with libraries 100s of kms apart. We require the personal delivery requests to be fulfilled from any of our libraries, instead having to return the items to the owning library.
A Salesforce was raised (SF…0 votes -
Please enable searching by File Name, not only by File Label.
Now I cannot search a file by its File Name, but only by keywords or its Label. File Names are original attribute values, not given additionally like Labels. Please enable searching by File Name too.
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Thumbnail creation function for larger than 500mb video files
We need the function to create the item thumbnails of the larger than 500mb video files. Most of video type representations created by my institution are over 1~4GB in size but the thumbnails are not automatically created, so staff need to take a screenshot, resize, and manually upload it. High capacity videos are common in this era. Alma should set the capacity limit for related jobs higher, ideally to 5GB.
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