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Recovered missing/lost item notification
When an item marked lost (or missing) is checked in on Alma (i.e. found), we would like a notification (via email or otherwise) be sent automatically to the circulation supervisor.
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Separate field for borrowing request statuses to display in My Library Account
The borrowing request statuses in Alma are configurable, so that you can change the text that appears for both library staff and the user (in My Library Account).
However, we would like the ability to have a separate field where the status can be configured for the user which affects the display in My Library Account only. This is because we would like to provide detail in these statuses for our staff, that our users do not need to see.
For example, for the borrowing request status 'Request sent to partner' you may want to retain this status for library…
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Add the "Assign selected" option to In Review Invoices and unassigned Purchase, Lending and Borrowing Requests
Since the introduction of the New unified PO Line Task list, we can bulk assign PO lines using the "Assign selected" option. This is very useful.
We would also like to be able to do this for unassigned invoices and requests in review (Purchase Requests, Lending Requests and Borrowing Requests). Currently, we can only assign invoices and requests one by one and this may sometimes be time consuming.
Specifically for our invoices, many of them are created by EDI, and this "Assign selection" option would be very helpful to quickly assign them to the appropriate invoice operator to finalize their…
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Allow lending libraries to send lost resource sharing item invoices directly to the borrowing library in Alma
Currently, Alma does not allow a lending library to send an invoice to a borrowing library within Alma in the event a resource sharing item is lost or damaged. This requires libraries to develop a manual resource sharing billing workflow outside of Alma. An Alma letter that can serve as a lost resource sharing item invoice would be incredibly helpful. We would need to be able to trigger this letter manually for specific requests on demand, but it would also be extremely helpful if this letter could be triggered automatically once an item is more than a certain number of…
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Enable Auto Refresh on the Monitor Jobs Page
At University of Tennessee we have found we are often waiting on lengthy system jobs to process before manually ran jobs are completed. It would be nice if this page had a built in auto-refresh to reload job percentage completion. It is rather tedious to repetitively click the refresh button to see if a job has began or made any substantial progress. If possible the button should be able to be clicked for instant refreshes but it should also refresh automatically in a timely matter. I believe increments of thirty seconds would be favorable or up to a minute. Thank…
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Merge Patron Accounts API
Add an API endpoint that provides a programatic interface to the merging patron accounts functionality.
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Ability to create additional note fields in the physical item editor
At the physical item Editor, we currently have access to one public note, one Fulfillment note, 3 internal notes and 3 statistics notes. We would need 3 additional public note fields visible to the user in Primo and 3 additional internal note fields.
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Purge User Records – Add field to prevent purge of users with active requests.
In addition to Number of days, user record, user group, and waive threshold, an institution should have the option:
Do not purge if there is active request(s)43 votes -
Estimated price -field for following year on continuous POL
Estimated price -field is needed for databases and another continuous purchase orders for following year budget planning. There should be price fields for both current year and the following year (also possibility to split them to different funds). Estimated price -field should also to be selected on the analytics reports. Publishers may change database or journals prices a lot more than average rate.
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A new Community Zone Updates Task List report for when a portfolio changes vendors
CZ updates task list does not show titles switching from one vendor to another - that is a big issue for us. Eg. Philosophy of science changed from University of Chicago Press to Cambridge University. The portfolio URL is still Chicago Press, but one is redirected to Cambridge University.
Finding info in CZ updates is extraordinarily difficult. Mostly because there are thousands of titles we don't have any reason to look at.
It would be very helpful to be able to search the list by ISSN and OCLC number as well.
It would be helpful to have a report indicating…43 votesHi Liz,
We would like to better understand the situation of "portfolio changes vendors":
- Does this mean that the interface of the portfolio was changed?
- Is it enough to report this on collection/service level, and not in portfolio level?
- What actions would you take upon such report?
Thanks,
Tamar Fuches
Alma product team
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Show "Open for Update" override enabled
This is about the protection of data for external user records. I have copied the below text from the Alma Documentation page: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/050Administration/030User_Management/010Managing_Users#UserDetails
To enable editing other fields of external users, select Open for Update, and select Yes. Edit the relevant fields and select Save. Note that changes you make to most fields will be lost after the next SIS synchronization job. However, Alma prompts you to determine whether the following fields will be overridden with the next SIS synchronization job: Title, PIN number, Job category, User group, Campus, Preferred language, Resource sharing libraries, Cataloger level, Selected patron letters. (Note…
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Creating expected items in status acquisition without using prediction pattern
In the current workflow for periodicals, when using predicted items, there is no easy way to add just one predicted item. This means that if we make a mistake or there is a change in the publication pattern, for example we receive the wrong item/delete the wrong item, or that a periodical is published as a combined issue (ex: issue 2 and 3 together, as number 2/3 2023), there is no easy way to fix it. We must then create predicted items for that whole year again which involves editing “next predicted item information” in the metadata editor, opening and…
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Analytics: Transit end time NOT registered
Hello,
Please see our public ticket 00903860.
If you make a query containing the field "Physical item historical events->Event end date->event end date and time" with the conditional "event type description=physical item went into transit" on this field is NOT registered the end of transit process, but the start of the following process (if any). Please correct this behaviour.43 votes -
Suppress Items from discovery for a particular physical location but keep Holding statement
We feel that it would be useful to be able to suppress items from discovery from a particular Physical location but still display the holdings information.
This would be extremely useful for our Journals collections, whereby we receive individual items but only want to display the holdings statement to the end user.42 votes -
Option to Return Items Without Filling Patron Requests
Items checked in that have patron requests on them are automatically placed on hold shelf and the patron is immediately emailed. Currently Ex Libris allows a delay for the notice for a maximum of 999 minutes, which is often not long enough. Sometimes materials come back that need repair, updates, or to be quarantined. This can take varying amounts of time. It would be ideal if the system would allow us to have the option to check materials in without triggering the hold process, so we may complete any necessary steps we need to before an email is triggered to…
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A separate booking calendar
Now, it is not possible to establish a separate calendar for booking request, the library's opening and closing times are used.
We would like the booking request to have a separate calendar from the Library's general hours.42 votes -
Add all fields from Invoice Payment Information area to Analytics
Currently the only field from the Invoice Payment Information area that is available in the Funds Expenditure subject area is Payment Status. I would like to be able to retrieve Payment Date, Payment Identifier, and Payment Amount in Analytics as well. These would be helpful for some of my reporting, especially when the payment amount is different from the invoice total because accounts payable has added or removed tax.
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Update Customer Linking Parameters in Bulk via E-Collection Quick Update Cloud App
Please add the ability to update customer linking parameters (such as the Gale location ID) in bulk via the E-Collection Quick Update Cloud App.
As Ex Libris moves away from centrally configuring linking parameters for different interfaces, it would save so much time to be able to do this in bulk via the cloud app.
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Reading Lists in the Task List Customise Alma task list (tasks requiring your attention) to match all our reading list statuses
As Acquisitions & Reading Lists Manager I would like to customise the Alma task list (tasks requiring your attention) to help the reading list team manage the reading list workflow as using facets is a time-consuming long way round to find the list categories each time.
Alma task list (tasks requiring your attention), section Reading lists, we would like to customise this list of tasks or add all reading list statuses each Library may have.
We have reading lists with status other than Unassigned - processing, complete, reading for processing.
We have 'updated' and 'core done' to help us manage…
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Add the edition statement to the citation display in alma
Could you add the edition field to the display of citations within Alma? It would make it easier to check that the newest edition is the one listing. Law books, for instance, might have a new edition each year and there is sometimes a cataloguing mismatch between the copyright and the publication dates with print/eBooks which is easier to disentangle if you can see the edition. The edition displays in the Title search results in Alma and in the citations on Leganto.
42 votes
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