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Offer same Row Actions List options from the results list on both Scan In Items tabs
It would be useful to be able to cancel a request and edit items from the results list in the Change Item Information tab of Scan In Items, like you currently can from the Scan In Items tab. It's confusing that both editing items and cancelling requests necessitate a Scan In Item tab change.
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Ability to flag a request for further investigation/Make notes visible from request summary
Currently there is no ability to flag a request for further investigation. This would be useful in both lending and borrowing.
In lending:
If an item is being returned and we need to change the call number, if we could flag the item a staff member could look at the notes and make the changes.If the item has previously been lost and has been returned. We now need to do further work on the item before it can go back to the shelf. Once again we need to go into the notes to find out what we need to…
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globally update institution's email
Institutions should be able to update their contact info (e.g. specifically email address) globally and have it apply to all letters and notices.
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Single click to refine search
It would be a nice improvement, if you only had to click once to refine your search in Alma instead of now, where you have to dobbeltclick.
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Prevent Alma from showing "not listed" alerts against correct values in ALL 049 subfields
The January 2016 Alma Resolved Issues spreadsheet advises that:
'In the MD Editor: [...] For local fields (9xx, x9x, xx9) the alert "The field is not listed in profile" appeared; it no longer appears. [...]'
Four years on, however, it still does in places, perhaps most noticeably in the 049 field.
E.g. 049 subfields $$j and $$k are used extensively by those record providers available to Alma users via Search Resources, and the contents of those subfields are held to be completely accurate. However, on saving any record which contains them, the “Subfield … is not listed in profile for…
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Fulfillment Note - ability to add photos or live links
It would be helpful if we could also add photos and live links to Fulfillment Notes.
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add additional reporting in payment confirmation job report
In the payment confirmation jobs report, add the ability to see which items had their status changed to paid and closed.
For comparison, if you look at the report we get when we send invoices for payment, there are three events that list everything in the file:
Failed while generating invoice XML
Failed to move invoice on workflow
Invoice processed successfullyIf you click on "invoice processed successfully", it lists the invoice number and the price. We would like to see something similar with the payment confirmation job.
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Reduce the number of clicks when editing holdings from item screen
From the edit item screen, if you click into the holdings and edit the holdings and save, you need to click the BACK button several times before you get back to the item screen. This adds so much time to a simple process. Can this be considered in the Alma UX improvement? Thanks
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Rename topmost Cancel button on Resource Request Monitoring screen
When the Resource Request Monitoring screen has been reached by clicking on a request in a persistent search result, the user is presented with multiple invitations to “Cancel”:
- One next to the Edit and the “…” buttons for each request,
- One on a button further up the screen, above the Export List and Manage Column Display icons.
This can be misleading for staff, especially those less experienced, as it infers that two options called the same thing would perform the same task if either were clicked upon. The Cancel button furthest up the screen, however, does of course serve the…
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reading list automatic status
When working on a reading list from within Alma it would be useful if the status changed automically. For example when a member of staff chooses 'Work On' from the dropdown in actions list the status should change to 'Being Processed'. Currently this has to be done manually.
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Digital Fulfillment (circulation and digital rights management)
As more and more of our content becomes digital and created in house, we need a way to circulate the items while maintaining control of how the item is used. For example, checking out a digital book to x users at a time (where x is the number of copies you are allowed to circulate), checking out for a set amount of time, enabling hold queues, preventing copying - all managed within our Alma/Primo system.
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Fulfillment Network Search in Alma Network Zone
I’d like the ability to only search the other colleges in our fulfillment network in an Alma network zone search. A current search of the network zone shows holdings from all of the different colleges in our consortium, but there is no way to narrow that search down to only show holdings from colleges in your fulfillment network unless you go into Primo.
It’d be nice to take Primo’s functionality of only searching your fulfillment network’s holdings and apply that filter to an Alma network zone search via a facet or something of that nature.
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queue digitization
Patron Digitisation Request and Queue.
Could it be possible to provide a mechanism whereby you can supply a patron digitisation request where that request may be not the next request in the queue so as to expedite the fulfillment of those requests. As the queue contains both physical holds and patron digitisation, there is often a window of opportunity in which to scan from the print and supply whilst the item is on the hold shelf for user who is 0 in the queue or prior to the item arriving on the holdshelf if there is a lag set1 vote -
Support filtering in a task list to identify items with an empty status value
We have set up a work order department within the location 'Library Fulfilment', and within the tasks list there are 'items - in department', within this there are various items which do not have a process status applied yet and we note we are unable to filter this list to show those items which do not yet have a status.
We would like it to be possible to filter the task list so that only items with and empty process status would be displayed.1 vote -
Alert regarding Multiple chapters requested from one item by one patron
We would like an alert to let us know if a patron has placed multiple requests for chapters from one item. Copyright only allows for 10% or 1 chapter. As we are multicampus, it is hard to keep track of what a patron has requested to avoid breaching copyright.
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resolver proxy
Provide the ability to use Azure AD as a resolver proxy
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Having "nested" user records for users with dual or multiple statuses
I think that it would be useful for user records to have the option to have "nested" records where you have one user with one user profile, but under that profile, they have 2 or more identity profiles that contain other data that is linked to their different statuses.
The only parallel I can think of for it is when you have one bibliographic record and multiple item records attached to that one bib. record. All of them have the same main information, but individual record identities below.
This would be helpful because we have users that are current students…
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Ability to make manual notations in the history tab when updating a user's record
I think that it would be great to have a feature in the history tab that allows you to manually add a notation to indicate why a user's record was changed--similar to how a registrar's office makes comments in a student's record any time a change is made. Anytime we make a change on the backend, and then have questions at the front desk about why something was changed, it causes some confusion until we talk it out, but if this feature was there, it could limit the confusion.
I don't think adding these types of things to the note…
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Publication Year facet values
When you do title searches in Alma, you can narrow the results with the Publication Year facet. But the date range values Alma returns for that facet are arbitrary looking, unpredictable, and bear no obvious relationship to the result set. And if you then select any of the returned multi-year values, Alma will break it down into more granular--but still arbitrary--ranges.
I suggest that Alma return initial values grouped by decade (e.g., 1910-1919, 1920-1929) and then expand those into individual years (e.g., 1910, 1911, 1912...). This is also basically arbitrary, but at least it would be familiar and consistent across…
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Avoid patrons from visiting the Alma top page
We found that there is a timing when internal users would access the Alma top page.
In the following case:If an internal user attempts to log in to Primo VE after his ID has expired, he will not be authorized.
If he attempts to reset his password, it will be failed too, but it will take him to the Alma login page.On the “The user is not authorized in Alma”screen, we suggest that each institution can choose whether to make the text (“Return to login page”) clickable or not.
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