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Add Alternative Title to Alma Analytics
Adding the Alternative Title for an electronic collection would allow us fully use Alma Analytics and not need to maintain separate reports that are created outside of Alma. As a consortium, this would also allow more information sharing with our members and more efficient troubleshooting and maintenance.
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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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Alma Show Access Type value (e.g. Perpetual ) in Alma brief view search for Electronic Collections
Please show Access Type in Alma brief view search for Electronic Collections.
Access Type is quite important, since it may be not only Current but also Perpetual or Current and Perpetual. From the brief view many operation, included deletion, can be performed. Having this information at first glance, if possible together with a warning on deletion attempt as suggested here ( https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/42179845-prevent-deletion-of-portfolios-with-access-type-pe ) may help preventing accidental deletion of important perpetual assets.40 votes -
Maintain patron information with missing items
When a patron places a request for an in place item, but the item is not located, we toggle the missing status for the item. This disconnects it from the patron record. It needs to remain attached so when the item is located it can still be held for the patron.
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Embargoed resources displaying in Primo
Currently records from within an embargo period are discover-able to end-users via Primo.
The user then thinks we have access to the records and selects it only to be presented with No full text available.
Embargoed records are outside of our coverage range and should not display in our discovery interface.39 votes -
advanced option in Invoice search.
We hope that there is an advanced option in Invoice search.
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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.
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Change the XML of exported portfolios
An exported portfolio from Alma looks like this:
<item type="electronic">
<title>Operations research.</title>
<title>Operations Research</title>
<issn>0030-364X</issn>
<coverage>
<from>
<year>1952</year>
<volume>1</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
</from>
<embargo>
<days_not_available>720</days_not_available>
</embargo>
</coverage>
<eissn>1526-5463</eissn>
<object_type>JOURNAL</object_type>
</item>However, that's not very clear. An ISSN element under an electronic item can be interpreted as the ISSN for the electronic publication.
A better structure would be something like this:
<item type="electronic">
<title>Operations research.</title>
<title>Operations Research</title>
<issn type="electronic">0030-364X</issn>
<issn type="print">1526-5463</issn>
<issn-l>1526-5463</issn-l>
<coverage>
<from>
<year>1952</year>
<volume>1</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
</from>
<embargo>
<days_not_available>720</days_not_available>
</embargo>
</coverage>
<object_type>JOURNAL</object_type>
</item>This is related to this idea: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/32344600-export-the-print-issn-for-electronic-portfolios-m
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Seperate the price and currency in Item's inventory price
The field Inventory price field in physical item contains price and currency while Alma copies price from POL to item.Please seperate the currency into anohter field and make sure the price field is numeric. In this way, the Inventory price field can be counted directly.
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Hide timestamp in patron facing contexts
Add an option to allow the library to decide whether or not timestamp should be shown in patron facing contexts, for example in the Primo Get It for items on loan or items waiting for reshelving.
Examples:
- “Awaiting reshelving until 27/05/2020” instead of “Awaiting reshelving until 27/05/2020 7:02 PM”
- “On loan until 14/07/2020” instead of “On loan until 14/07/2020 22:00”39 votes -
Item Sequences Configuration: "Set Next Sequence Value"
It is currently not possible to change the sequence value to a lower one --> error message: "The new sequence value must be greater than the current value."
In order to achieve the desired result, you then have to delete the counter and set it up again.
Please change this behavior! Thanks in advance!39 votes -
Generate accession number by typing directly in field 852
Generation an accession number in 852$$h or $$j can only be done by using the menu (Tools -> MARC21 holdings -> generate accession number), or by keyboard shortcut (ctrl+schift+A) in the new MDE.
Even though the keyboard shortcut saves some clicks, we would like to type the prefix directly in field 852, followed by a character like # for example, that would indicate to Alma to generate the sequence number after saving the holding record.Example : 852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA #
-> after saving the record :
852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA 6785If…
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POLs are not closed when Proquest Ebook Central Electronic Ressource is activated by Autoload
We are using Autoload with Proquest Ebook Central. When we create a POL for a Proquest title and connect this POL with the portfolio which came per Autoload and pay the invoice, the POL remains in Status "Sent". It has the Activation status: Activated E-Ressource", but the warning "Electronic Resource was not activated". Now we have to go to the portfolio per the electronic portfolio search, select "Create E-activation task", then go to the electronic resources activation task list entry for this resource and select "Done" to make this alert disappear. This also closes the PO Line, but this workflow…
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Add usage statistics -field for other statistics than Counter
A need for a new Usage Statistics -field that could be used for usage statistics other than Counter. Smaller e-journal etc. publishers don't have Sushi statistics but libraries collect usage data another way. The new usage statistics field should be for every year. The Usage Statistics -field should work on the Analytics. Statistics notes -field is also required.
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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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Add API support for licenses with type Negotiation
We are trying to update the license terms on our licenses in the Network Zone. However, when trying to update a license with type Negotiation, the API returns an error:
"errorCode": "69002",
"errorMessage": "Updating negotiations by API is currently not supported",
"trackingId": "E01-0703094132-MPLRX-AWAE786493119"Please add support for updating Negotiation licenses through the API.
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Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald
Implement Upload Electronic Holdings (Autoholdings) integration for Emerald, as is already available for ProQuest, Elsevier, Ovid, Springer, Project MUSE, JSTOR.
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NOT erasing Return Items page every time we leave it
Every time we leave the Return Items page, it erases the list of returned books. This is disastrous for us, so we would like to keep the list of all books returned during the day (or since logging in until logging out).
If someone benefits from erasing the list, just give us a choice whether we want it erased or not.Now let me explain why it is crucial for our work:
We work in quite small public library where Patrons can move around freely and pick books from the shelves on their own. Often they return books first and…39 votes -
Job “Withdraw Physical items” and holding of related records
With the “Withdraw Physical items” job, Alma does not provide the option of preventing the deletion of holding and bibliographic records when there are Holding of related record. We would like an additional option “Delete holdings; delete bibliographic records that have no other holdings and that have no Holding of related records”.
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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.
39 votes
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