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Resource Sharing Borrowing Recalled Item Due Time
When Recalling a Loaned Borrowing Item, there is a Due Date but not a Due Time, as a result, the system enters the Due Time as the time the recall was placed and not the library's closing time.
Pls. let us know what the solution is.
In order to enter the correct Due Time, we have to go into Fulfillment and Change the Date - which sends a second letter to the patron.
It would be very helpful if the Recall screen also allows the Due Time.
6 votesAs of the March 2019 release, the due date for recalling borrowing requests is updated to the last closing hour of the library. See https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2019/Alma_2019_Release_Notes?mon=201903BASE
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Please increase the font size or give us the option to increase it please.
Please increase the font size or give us the option to increase it please.
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Create a space for customer-submitted documentation sharing
It would be nice if ExLibris customers could have a space where we could all submit documentation on what we're doing. For example, if one institution has figured out how to configure something, they could either upload files outlining the steps they took to do it or write them out or maybe both. This space should also be searchable, and possibly have ways to limit by things such as which system(s) you use, whether you are a local or hosted customer, etc.
This would be easier than checking the listserv archives and it could be collaborative in nature. It would…
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reporting code
Can secondary and tertiary reporting codes be added to both Analytics and "manage sets" in Alma?
6 votesDear colleagues: The secondary and tertiary reporting codes be added to both Analytics
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Remember last selection for "Automatically Print Slip?" in Scan In Items
Some of our staff need to change the "Automatically print slip" radio button to Yes each time they enter a Scan In Items workflow to pass items to another department. Other staff do not.
We would like Alma to remember an operator's last setting for this radio button, enabling every operator to have an optimal workflow.6 votes -
Moving portfolios from one collection to another
Remove portfolios from collection in bulk to become Standalone Local Portfolios, or be able to simply move portfolios in bulk from one collection to another collection.
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Retain the List Of Items filters after an item edit
We would like the filter settings (for Status, Location or Library) to be maintained when an Alma user edits an item from the List Of Items and then saves that change.
This is because many of the titles our staff members tend to work with in List Of Items frequently comprise core texts, of which we may have several dozen copies in various places and at a number of different statuses. It is therefore very time-consuming for staff to have to re-apply their settings for every transaction.
The following is typical of the workflow during which our staff encounter the…
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Fulfillment - temporary note on a loan
Fullfilment - temporary note on a loan
In our library system in Siena we have also public libraries (Institution REDO)
These libraries host classes to "introduce" young students to the libraries and books.When we were in Aleph these libraries created a card from the class (let's say second class of Green School) and they made loans on this card.
They used the temporary note in order to write the name of the children that took the book.So they printed a loan receipt for the teacher where there were the titles, barcodes, date of return and the names of…
6 votesLoan notes are now available for letters that contain loan information.
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Order bibs - get rid of 'brief bibs alert'
Brief record alerts are configured for cataloging but acquistiions order bibs are always and intentionally 'brief' and we'd like to avoid those alerts. Can brief order bibs be defined separately from catalog bibs? If Catalogers want to retain alerts but acquisitions wants to prevent them we can't use the configuration to cut out the 'required' fields. Hence, is there a way to define at system level what an order bib consists of and stop the 'brief bib' messages we have to override.
6 votesSome PO line and invoice alerts, as seen on their respective Alerts tabs, can now be disabled. The disabling of the alerts also effects the confirmation message associated with these alert
For more information please see Alma November Release Notes:
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Please include a way to FTP report results from Alma Analytics
Currently there is no way to directly FTP the output of a report in Alma Analytics. They can be exported locally or emailed, but no direct FTP.
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Add Patron Proxy data to Analytics
It is seemingly impossible to query a list of current patron proxy relationships that have been established in Alma. This is a basic piece of reporting data that needs to be added to Analytics to help libraries keep their patron records up to date.
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Add "Can't edit restricted users" and "Disable all login restrictions" field options to user analytics or staff login report
In order to improve security of our Alma institutions, and better manage named users or staff users, we need to be able to generate a user report that displays permissions related to security such as "Can't edit restricted users" on relevant roles, and "Disable all login restrictions."
Being able to identify which named users have IP restricted login disabled, and which named users have access to editing restricted user groups helps us to be sure that only designated named users have broad access to Alma--we shouldn't have to check this manually, user by user. We should be able to run…
6 votesThe following fields were added to Users > User Details:
Can’t edit restricted users – indicates if the user can edit restricted user groups
Disable All Login Restrictions – indicates if the user has IP login restrictions disabled -
MARC21 to OAI Dublin Core crosswalk
we would like to have the possibility to customize the OAI DC output, making several changes in the mapping that makes the transformation from MARC21 to OAI Dublin Core.
For example being able to add some fields or exclude others. we attached an example of our customization.
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Allow Repeatable Fields in Add Representation Form in Alma
Allow repeatable fields in Add Representation Form in Alma. An article often contain two or more authors. This feature will allow staff who do not know MARC to input contributors into the form.
6 votesStaff deposit forms can now be configured to include repeatable fields, as already supported for patron deposit forms.
For more information see Alma November Release Notes
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Metadata editor: LDR form opens automatically
With the November 2023 release, we noticed a change in the metadata editor.
With the configuration "forced form editing" activated, whenever a record is pushed to the metadata editor, the LDR form is opened automatically and this is irritating, since cataloguers do not necessarily want to start working on the LDR, and the display of the form takes up a lot of screen space. Moreover, the LDR form opens again when saving the record.
We would like to suggest the following adjustments:
- the LDR form is not automatically opened when entering a record
- the LDR form is not…6 votesThis was completed and available in the February 2024 release.
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receiving note - sizable
It would be terrific if we could resize the Receiving Note field when we are editing, just as you can with the POL note fields.
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Add Reporting Codes to Invoices
Reporting Codes can be applied to POLs only. This limits their usability to, for instance, track actual expenditures vs. proposed costs, or to split out expenses on an item among multiple programs or funds (which can be done with multiple invoices). Allowing Reporting codes, or some similar code, to be applied to Invoices would add a great deal of flexibility and utility to an already good idea.
5 votesChanging this to completed.
On Nov. 12 2016 the following was put here in the Idea, stating that it is already possible to have reporting codes associated with invoice lines:Thank you for your suggestion ‘Add Reporting Codes to Invoices’ in which you state ‘Reporting Codes can be applied to POLs only’.
Please note that it already is possible to add Reporting Codes to Invoices. For each invoice line it is possible to add a reporting code.
This appears in the “Invoice line” screen below the “Quantity” field and above the “note” field.
You will see it when both adding a new invoice line and when editing an existing invoice line.
This is also present in the screenshot titled “Invoice Line Details Page – Create Invoice Manually” at https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Acquisitions/030Invoicing/020Creating_Invoices
It is also described at the same page.
The invoice line reporting code is also part of the xsl which is… -
Adjust awkward grammar on "Withdraw Items" pop-up menu
Referring specifically to the attached pop-up menu screen-cap (taken on July 24, 2017):
At the top of the image: "Last items of this holdings were deleted or moved" (plural)
Further down: "Last item of this holdings record was deleted or moved" (singular)
This is very confusing -- did the user delete a single item, or several items? Also, the grammar is awkward ("this holdings were").
Please either make one pop-up menu for a single item deletion and another pop-up menu for a multiple item deletion -- or else adjust the grammar of the existing pop-up menu to say something like:
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5 votesGrammar on the Withdraw Items pop-up was corrected in the November 2017 release.
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Hotkeys
To my great regret, Hotkeys like ALT-B and ALT-E are no longer functioning in ALMA. A great time-saver was taken away from us...
5 votesThis issue has been corrected as of the November 2017 HF
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Add an option to turn off prediction of past scanned/searched patrons in Patron Services
When manually entering patron names or primary IDs in patron services (to check against lost item reports, &c), the name/s of previously searched patrons will autopopulate the search field. I end up having to do extra clicks to clear the field and search for the patron I actually want. The times that needing past scanned/searched patrons to be re-searched/scanned is exceedly rare, so the feature is more of an inconvenience than a help. I would love to be able to turn it off.
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