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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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Improve user blocks functionality to prevent resource sharing requests for users who have resource sharing loans overdue
Within Alma, it is possible to configure blocks that ensure users who have items on loan and overdue are unable to place any more requests until the items have been returned. However, it isn’t possible to apply blocks in a more granular way, such as to prevent a user who has resource sharing items on loan and overdue from placing any more resource sharing requests. It is not our library policy to prevent users with items on loan and overdue from requesting anything else until they have returned their overdue items, so we cannot apply blocks to encourage people to…
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Delete item records created using the "duplicate" function if they have not been saved.
On the List of Items screen, under the Actions menu for each item, the "Edit" and "Duplicate" commands are currently adjacent. It is fairly common (at least for me, personally) to accidentally click "Duplicate" instead of "Edit." This automatically takes me into the edit screen for the new item I have unintentionally created.
There is already a "Cancel" option at the top of the screen, but it only goes back to the item list which now includes an extra item. In order to get rid of that new item I have to navigate to it (which can be a bit…38 votes -
RS partners search enhancement proposal
The idea is changing the default of the "Find:" menu on Fulfillment -> Resource Sharing -> Partners.
Now the default is to "code:" search.
The default to "name:" search would be better
Thanks38 votes -
Add normalized call number to the subject areas for fulfillment analytics
Right now the normalized call number option is available only when creating an analytics report under physical items. The ability for sorting by normalized call number would also be beneficial when creating analytics reports under the fulfillment section.
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Add Job Category to Update/Notify Users
It seems strange that you can add User groups, roles etc in the Update/Notify USers job but the Job Category isn't available.
It would be useful if you could add this as we are starting to use Job Categories is TOU rules and being able to assign them based on a set of users would be really helpful.38 votes -
Keep suppressed records without items that have received more than one purchase request
We have detected this case that we consider is an incorrect behavior of Alma.
When a purchase request is generated, a non-visible bibliographic record is created. The problem is that if a second purchase request for the same document is generated, Alma automatically makes the bibliographic record visible, even though we still do not have copies of it. Therefore this record appears visible in Polibuscador but without funds.
We request that the bibliographic record should only be visible when the issue or copies are available to the user, meanwhile, even if more than one purchase request has been made, it…
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ACQ: Improve PO Line Claiming job
Please make the PO Line Claiming job more granular. Sending claim letters to all vendors without restriction of any kind is not really feasible.
It should be possible to define own sets of PO lines (which should be claimed) by using the following criteria:
- One time orders
- Continuous orders: All / Serials / Standing orders
- Vendors: All / only specific vendors
- Acquistition types: All / only specific types (purchase, legal deposit, exchange, etc.)38 votes -
Attach printed letters to user record
We send our bill notice to a central email account for price checking before sending onto the user.
Request is for any notice to be added to a users record in the attachment tab, whether it is emailed or sent to print.
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RS BORROWING : A misleading error when patron's library card has expired
When trying to receive or send a borrowing request that is already open in alma, but the patron's library card has expired since then,
The message says: NO ITEMS CAN FULFILL THE SUBMITTED REQUEST
There is no way to guess that there is a problem with the patron info.
a better message would be: "there is a problem concerning patron's card"38 votes -
Enable Alma to add to the letters a "Reply to" in the email message header
reply to can only be added as a text line, it would be much better if it was added in the header
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Add Block for Resource Sharing Shipping from Scan-In Items
Alma allows an institution to set rsallowactionsonscan_in to false. When a staff person tries to Receive or Ship a resource sharing request from Scan-In, the staff person sees a pop-up message advising them to use Alma Receiving or Shipping.
When Scan-in Items is used on a lending request that should be shipped, a pop up message displays that “Shipping is required to be done from the dedicated screen, Are you sure you want to continue?” There is a “Cancel” or “Confirm” option. If the staff person chooses “Confirm” and scans the item barcode again then another…
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Acquisitions: Add the possibility to contact the vendor when manually closing a POL
We need a way to discontinue a standing order before completion and to inform the vendor about it via email directly from Alma.
"Cancel" does have the possibility to inform the vendor about the cancellation. However, by cancelling a POL, Alma is designed to completely undo the order by detaching already received items from the order and cancelling active requests on these items (this caused us huge trouble in the past, so we can’t use it).
"Close" is currently lacking the possibility to contact the vendor via email directly from Alma.
So we suggest that an option to contact the…38 votes -
Display both charges payable and total charges owed.
At present the main page of a user's account displays the total amount of charges payable, but does not show a total for charges that are still accruing - e.g. fines on books that are currently overdue.
This would be useful information to see, and could be displayed so:
Total Owed (Amount Payable): £10.00 (£5.00)
OR
Charges Payable: £ 5.00
Charges Pending: £ 5.00
Total: £10.00Or similar.
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Vendor contacts need phone extension added
When adding a new contact to the vendor location, there could be numerous people using the same base number, but with different extensions. Can you add a space to allow entering the extension?
37 votes -
Extra column in "Return items" with "Fine per patron"
We would like to have an extra column in return items, a column for fine per patron. Because at every return we immediately want to see if the patron has a fine in general, not for the returned item. We would like to see this in Return items and not via "Manage patron services / Returns". Is this possible or something similar?
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Add the ability to manually sort physical item records within a location
The current physical item sorting options mean that in many cases records cannot be sorted into the correct order. Adding to the existing automated sorting options will help in some cases but not in others.
The only way to be certain that item records can be correctly sorted is to add the ability to manually sort physical items within a particular location (i.e. that are linked to a particular holdings record).
Use cases abound. For instance, this is the only way that volumes designated as new ser. v. (or new ser no.) can be sorted to appear after volumes designated…
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Configuring Physical Item Sort Routine for Alternative Call Number
We have large volumes of items that are at the same location but at a different call number. All of these items migrated on to one holdings which means the Alternative Call Number is key in determining the correct call number. Are there any plans to add Alternative Call Number field to the physical item sort routine?
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KBART export from Alma to include title level URL
As we from time to time need to interface with software and services outside the ExLibris suite, it would be great if the KBART Schema for export would include a proper title level URL as specified in the KBART Recommended Practice:
"[Title level URL] Indicate the URL of the title’s homepage.
For journals, this page should be a listing of the available volumes and issues. "37 votes -
Location Priority
We need Location Priority function in Alma-Primo too. IP, temp/remote, and alphabetical ordering options are not enough to show locations in the way we want to display them.
37 votes
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