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Create Fines and Fees Report: add transaction operator per row
For the "Create Fines and Fees Report" feature added in August 2013, please add the following feature:
Our auditor requires that the Transaction Operator/Handler ("Accepted By" information) be identified and currently that information is not in the report.
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Add Allocation to the information for each fund on the "Funds and Ledgers" page.
Add Allocation to the information for each fund on the "Funds and Ledgers" page in Alma. Currently Available Balance, Cash Balance, Encumbered Balance, and Expenditure Balance are displayed, but we would like Allocation to be displayed also so that it is included in Excel exports from this page.
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Release Notes and Known Issues
Please consider publishing known issues and release notes for service pack deployments before the day of deployment. Nothing infuriates a customer more than becoming aware of an issue through a mere reference in another customer's outstanding Salesforce case.
Good customer service isn't just reporting what has been fixed, but rather includes reporting the issues that need to be addressed.
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Add fund information dimension to physical items dimension and vice versa in Analytics
Need location and call number details when reporting by fund expenditure. Also need the information to generate reports for spending by individual departments as we have centralized ordering.
Support ticket #00195690
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Authorities ordered according to the correct order rather than subfield alphabetical
Alma organizes the name/title results in MARC subfield order, rather than RDA/MARC order.
For example, instead of this expected order:
700 |a Rolvaag, O. E.,|q(Ole Edvart),|d1876-1931.|tWorks.|kSelections.|f1936you instead get the subfields in alphabetical order, like so:
700 |aRolvaag, O. E.,|d1876-1931,|f1936|kSelections.|q(Ole Edvart).|tWorks.Please fix this so subfields are ordered properly which will allow the new browse feature to work properly.
4 votesSubfields of MARC 21, UNIMARC, and CNMARC authority record fields used to create display, sorting, and search elements, were extracted in alphabetical order rather than in cataloging order. This was fixed. As a result, additional bibliographic record elements were created. For MARC 21 display elements, this includes 5XX note fields excluding 59X, 520 and 505; 59X local note fields and 69X local subjects. For MARC 21 search elements: this includes 59X local notes, 9XX local fields, 09X local call numbers, and 69X local subjects. For UNIMARC and CNMARC, display elements include 69X local subjects. Search elements include 69X Other Classification Number, 3XX notes, 9XX local fields, and 69X local subjects.
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Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Patron addresses and phone numbers are always treated as confidential information and our library would like to take every measure possible to protect privacy of our library users. Currently, Ex Libris has anonymization option for patron addresses and phone numbers only at Network level and not at institution level. We would like Ex Libris to include the option also at institution level.
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User record list of roles should display Expiration Date -- not Status Date
In the display of Roles for a given user, displaying the Status Date (when the Role was created or last edited) is virtually useless. Much more valuable would be to instead display the Expiration Date for that Role. This is something that we must currently click into the record to see, and is something of much more value -- especially when checking on the status of student staff.
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Add request time stamp and note to Retrieve user requests API and xsd
Hello,
We'd like the request time stamp and note added to the Retrieve user requests API and xsd, so we can retrieve them:
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/alma/apis/xsd/rest_user_request.xsd?tags=GET
https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/resources/xsd/rest_user_request.xsdThanks,
Ryan Edwards
Digital Access and Systems Librarian
Information Systems
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
reedwards@getty.edu
310.440.73984 votesIn the August 2019 Release, the following change was done:
Request time is now available for the Get-Request and GET-requested-resources (task lists) APIs, including the exact time (HH:MM:SS) the request was placed.
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Add location in the customize field of the list of loans.
When looking at the list of loans of the particular patron Alma permit to customize certain fields, but it does not allow choose location as an alternative. At our library, the location determines the group of patron to whom the items can be loaned. We propose to add the location to the list of alternatives from whose to choose. So we will can see the location in the list of loans of the patron. / Al mirar la lista de préstamos del usuario particular, Alma permite personalizar ciertos campos, pero no permite elegir la ubicación como alternativa. En nuestra biblioteca,…
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Ability to limit Authority Control task list to only Institution zone records
It is overwhelming to have hundreds or thousands of records listed in the Authority Control task list every day, especially when most of them are Community Zone records that we're not supposed to change. We need to have the option to get a list of only our Institution Zone records that need to be worked on. This would save a lot of time and frustration from having to weed through the morass of Community Zone authority issues.
4 votesIdea was implemented as part of August release
please see https://youtu.be/BgQam-QxyAo
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Configure how an active request is defined in Alma Resource Sharing
Currently a user's request at a borrowing library is considered 'active' until the lending library receives and checks in a returned item. We would like the option of making our users' requests 'inactive' when they have returned the item to our library, even if we haven't returned the item to the lending library.
We have set a limit on 'active requests', and the current definition is penalising our borrowers. They cannot place another request, even though they have returned the item to our library (because the lending library has not checked the item in at their end).
4 votesCompleted as part of January release:
The Active resource sharing request limit policy now ignores active requests which were already returned from the patron to the library, but were not yet returned to the lender.
Please see Alma January release notes for more details:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/009_2019/Alma_2019_Release_Notes?mon=201901BASE -
Add the 'Not contains', 'Not contains phrase', 'Not equal', 'Is not empty' search logic to Keywords, Creator, Subject etc. search indexes
Please add the 'Not contains', 'Not contains phrase', 'Not equal', 'Is not empty' search logic to as many search indexes as possible, and particularly to Keywords, Creator, Subject search indexes.
The 'Not contains', 'Not contains phrase', 'Not equal', 'Is not empty' search logics are very essential to advanced searches.
7 votesFor an All titles searches using the Subjects index, the following matching criteria were added to the Advanced search options: Is Empty, Not Contains Keywords, Not Equals, Not Contains Phrase, and Is Not Empty.
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Run Update BLDSS Requests job more frequently/at better times
The Update BLDSS Requests job runs at 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., which is effectively once a day. It needs to run more frequently and at more sensible times, i.e. 2 + times during the working day, between 8 a.m. and 3 p.m., so that Event Type updates from the BL are more frequent and timely.
4 votesThank you for your idea, the functionality is available as of the March release:
You may now send an asynchronous resource sharing request to the British Library using the BLDSS API without a successful locate result. If a match is unsuccessful because the locate process fails or if the locate process was not run, the request can now be sent.
For more information please Alma March Release notes:https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2019/Alma_2019_Release_Notes -
Adding a banner to the Alma/Primo page during scheduled maintenance
During the scheduled maintenance both Alma and Primo VE sites do not have a maintenance page alerting the users that the websites is under going system maintenance. It will be really helpful for the patrons and users to know that the sites are undergoing maintenance instead of the sites not loading at all. Please consider this implementation
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Please make the new Print Queue available to Fulfilment Operators
The Print Queue is a great addition to ALMA but only having it available to Fulfilment Administrator is difficult. We would love you to make the print queue available to Fulfilment Mangagers and Fulfilment Operators. This would significantly improve it's efficiency.
4 votesIn the November 2019 Release, the use of the printout queue was opened for all users.
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The issue of generating 008 filed in MARC 21 Bib
While creating a new MARC 21 bib record, Alma generates the 008 automatically, such as "191126s2013####xx######r#####000#0#eng#d"
The value in position 7-10 is a fixed date "2013". We would like the position 7-10 can be customized and retrieved from 264$c or 260$c.4 votesMARC21 OTB template of Books/Computer Files/Maps/Music, field 008 positions 7-11 had the year 2013. This was modified to the current year 2021.
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Make "Manage Users" table sortable by all headings.
The "Manage Users" table is sortable by a few columns but not by all. Add the ability to sort by the columns that aren't sortable yet:
User Group
Status
Expiration Date
Blocks
NotesThis will make that table much more useful and easier to work with.
4 votesAs of Alma May Release:
Alma enables the User List to be sorted by User Group, Purge Date and Expiration Date. When using the advanced search, a set can be created to include multiple user groups. These groups or the expiry/purge date can now be sorted. The purge date column is hidden by default and can be added to the displayed columns.
For More information please see Alma May Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes?mon=202105BASE -
PO line type - able to change from Electronic one time to Physical one time.
So we are a separate special collections library within a larger university. Our records are separate from the university libraries. We have no electronic records. In the migration over a thousand of our order records got caught up in P2E and got changed from Physical one time to Electronic one time. I was informed that in order to fix this back, I would have to cancel re-imput the records which would result in invoices being sent out again.You can create a set and run a job to change physical one time records to electronic one time records but not the…
4 votesIt is now allowed to change the PO Line type.
For more information, please see the documentation in the Developers Network https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/switch-po-line-type/.
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Display MARC 250 subfield "b" in "Edition" in the Brief Results List
Even when a record has 250 subfields a and b, Alma brief results display only subfield $$a with a slash in the Edition field. Alma should also display subfields b according to the MARC21 standard:
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd250.html4 votes -
Batch Return in ALMA
For Stocktake, we're required to do a batch return upon collection of barcodes. Unfortunately, there is no batch return feature in ALMA. It would really be helpful to have a batch return as feature or as a job so that it could cut down the hassle.
3 votes
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