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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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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 -
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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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 -
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 -
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 -
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 all assigned PO lines in task list
With the introduction of the new PO line layout, it became possible to manually assign PO lines, regardless of their status. However, the Alma task list (tasks requiring your attention) still only displays assigned PO lines, when they are in review. Assigned PO lines with different statuses tend to be overlooked.
It would be very useful for ACQ staff to be able to see all PO lines assigned to them in the task list. This could also encourage more use of the "Assign To" function.
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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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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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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.
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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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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?
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Cost Per Use *by fund* Report for Electronic Collections (Databases)
Problem: We are looking for a way to run a cost usage report by fund that includes titles with the PO Line Type ‘Name of Electronic Collection - Subscription.’
Description: Our library evaluates cost per use of all serials by fund. We have been able to run a cost per use report by fund for our print and electronic journals. We run into a roadblock, however, when we try to generate a report on the cost/use of a database by fund.
The E-Inventory Cost Usage report includes all titles with the PO Line Type Name of ‘Electronic Journal -…
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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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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 -
Allow us to suppress the License from display when it is not ready with status of "Draft" or review status "In review"
For those waiting for review licenses, we will have status "Draft" and review status "In Review". These licenses are waiting to be checked and the fields are not verified for correctness. But now once the licenses are created with inventory added, all licenses are displayed out for the user, even with status “Draft” and “In Review”.
It will be great if only the licenses with “active” and “accepted” status can be displayed, but not the “Draft” and “In review” license that they are waiting to be verified.
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Authority control for name-title access points: link bibliographic 1XX+240 to authority 1XX $t
In Alma, bibliographic records containing 1XX + 240 do not establish an effective authority link with the corresponding name-title authority record (1XX $t).
As a result, when the authorized access point for a name-title authority is updated (for example, a change in the title portion in 1XX $t), the update is not propagated to the linked bibliographic records. The 240 fields in affected bibliographic records remain unchanged and must be identified and edited manually.
This behavior results in:
· High manual maintenance effort
· Increased risk of inconsistencies between authority and bibliographic data
· Reduced effectiveness of authority control in…
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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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sound alert for task
Sound Alerts for Pick From Shelf Requests
Can we please have a sound alert when new "Pick from Shelf" requests arrive as we use this for Reading Room requests which need to be actioned as soon as they arrive. Sound alerts would need to optional.
It would be good to have these available for other tasks in fulfillment such as when "holds" or "lost books" are returned and another action needs to happen36 votes
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