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Enable Alma institutions to report on bX service impact
I'm interested in the possibilities of the bX recommender service that's integrated into Primo - I believe that this tool has great potential for institutions and users. But, to my knowledge, there's no ability for an Alma institution to produce data showing how users interact with bX from the Alma Link Resolver services menu (to determine service impact). For bX to be relevant, this needs to change.
Data points of interest include: The number of end users who clicked on at least one recommendation; the total number of recommendations clicked on; the services accessed by users clicking on bX links…
8 votesSharing ALma link resolver statistical information with bX is supported , please see https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Integrations_with_External_Systems/030Resource_Management/260Sharing_Alma_Link_Resolver_Data_Statistics_with_bX
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Alma RS: Borrowing - Receive Slip Letter cannot be reprinted after 'Receive action' completed
Issue:
For borrowing physical item requests, if staff forget to select 'Automatically print slip' when receiving an item or need to change a request's temporary item barcode, the 'Receive Slip Letter' cannot be reprinted.Currently there are no APIs that can create the printout on demand so a Cloud App cannot be created.
Requested Outcome:
Can an option be added to the Alma RS Borrowing Request Actions menu to allow staff to reprint the 'Receive Slip Letter' for received items?8 votesAfter receiving an item in the Receive Items interface, it is possible to reprint the slip using the Print Slip action, see https://www.screencast.com/t/B93NQoKt8
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Add roles to a user with the same roles as an already created user
Many times we need to add a user with the same roles already created in another user.
Alma should allow copying of all roles from one user to another.8 votesYou can create a role profile with the exact roles and scopes you want to re-use, and then use this profile to re-assign the same set of roles to other users.
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Link to edit POL when a purchase request is approved
When a purchase request is approved, a pop-up appears with a confirmation message and a link to the POL that has been created. This link only allows you to visualize the POL.
It would save time if it was an edit link of the POL or that from the display there would be a button to edit the POL.A video is attached
8 votesDear community, when a Purchase Request is approved and ordered, a PO line is created, Alma provides the user with a confirmation message with the newly created PO line number, this number is clickable and will navigate the user to the PO line in view mode. In case the user hase the relevant role, there is an “Edit” button on the top right corner of the screen which will convert the PO line from “View” to “Edit” mode.
Noam Fass | Alma product management team
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reporting codes
We find the information available from reporting codes really useful, but staff often forget to apply them when creating a PO. We'd like to have the option of making reporting codes a required/compulsory field
6 votesCurrently when a PO line is saved without having at least one of the ‘reporting code’ fields populated, an alert is added to the PO line and a confirmation message states this to the user upon saving of the PO line.
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Enable content of patron queries to be attached to Borrowing request
Content of Patron Queries: Add information sent in a patron query as an attachment to a Borrowing request to enable staff to see previous communication sent to patrons.
6 votesPlease see clip in comment
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API for fetching datetime for Alma Analytics data
Add an API call to fetch the value of the two datetime objects that can be seen in Alma GUI:
- Data available as of
- Data updated as of
This will make it much easier for jobs that run daily and that is dependent on Alma Analytics data and that needs to be run as early as possible.
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Asigned_to-tabs optional in resource sharing
Our workflow requires that every member of the resource sharing team can work with all resource sharing requests. Depending on who created or edited a request the request will apear in one of the three asigned_to-tabs. The coworker who needs to edit the request next, has to check all three tabs to find the request. This causes extra work and some irritation for our coworkers. We would like the option to have only one tab, since we really don't need the others.
6 votesHi,
Please note that it is possible to prevent borrowing and lending requests from being automatically assigned by using the rs_disable_borrowing_auto_assign and rs_disable_lending_auto_assign parameters. This way, requests will always remain in the Unassigned tab, unless manually assigned.
See these parameters at https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/030Fulfillment/080Configuring_Fulfillment/110General
Thanks,
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History of Transactions
After a transaction (checking out/in material) has been performed, is it possible to access that transaction? There have been numerous occasions where this would be beneficial. This will allow us to access patrons records where information was not written down, but needed, in order to clear a hold or other restrictions that had been placed on their account.
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Print slips for requests should have copyable Request IDs
Our fulfillment staff are alarmed at the amount of paper that requests (both digitization and physical) generates in the form of print slips. We're always looking for ways to minimize our impact on the environment.
They were able to work out a largely digital-only workflow by "printing" the request slips to PDF and using a laptop on a cart to retrieve the physical items. But they are stuck on having to enter the Request ID into Alma.
Barcode scanners won't scan the barcode for the Request ID from the computer monitor, and even though the Request ID field looks like…
5 votesDear community, this idea can be supported with existing Alma functionality, to learn more please review the comments associated with this Idea.
Alma product management.
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offer Unimarc to Marc21 conversion or Marc 21 to Unimarc conversion
this would improve the effectiveness of data sharing and we feel it is very necessary to have this function in Alma. this can base on the function: rules.
mapping document can bu found in https://www.loc.gov/marc/unimarctomarc21.html4 votesAlma supports crosswalk between various formats including MARC21 and UNIMARC
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A search action/filter limited to locally created portfolios (i.e. non-CZ portfolios)
A search action/filter limited to locally created portfolios (i.e. non-CZ portfolios). Among other use cases, it should be a way to keep track of deleted CZ portfolios that have become local portfolios. As I recall, SFX had/has such a search possibility.
4 votesIt is possible to locate local collection and local portfolios using Advanced Search index ‘Is Local’
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Have both preferred and regular user names populate User Management search list
Currently when searching for a user by their regular name, only the preferred name populates the search list. In our sandbox, with a nod to Jane Austen, a user named Elizabeth Bennet has the preferred name Lizzie Darcy. A search for Bennet only pulls up the preferred name in the list of results. This results in some confusion because there are numerous Bennets. If both names appeared, no matter what the circumstances, the patron could be readily found.
4 votesYou can set up the display of names to include preferred names see example at https://www.screencast.com/t/n5cIvMCqVd.
This is done by configuring the table at the the "User Name Display ’ menu to use ‘both’, see https://www.screencast.com/t/rKMkhl2lXK
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Greater functionality for the Manage Deleted Repository Function
The other day I accidentally deleted several thousand portfolios that should not have been deleted. When I went to the "Manage Deleted Repository" functionality to restore them I found I could only restore them one by one. There was no option to mark multiple items on a page or to restore a page of items at a time. There was no option to reverse the job. This shows a remarkable lack of sophistication and is quite simply unacceptable in a modern LSP
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Please add Silverchair as a SUSHI vendor
A lot of publishers have migrated their platform from Highwire Press to Silverchair. It would be nice if Ex Libris can add Silverchair as a SUSHI vendor, so we can harvest the electronic resources for all the publishers in one COUNTER report in each month, similar to Highwire.
4 votesDear Colleague,
Silverchair is one of many certified SUSHI vendors which Alma knows to integrate with and harvest usage data automatically.
Thanks,
Noam Fass | Alma product management team
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Add a column on the User Details display under the User Roles section that contains the Expiry Date for each role
An additional column that includes the Expiry Date for the listed role would be useful when working with groups that expire at various times as happens with emeriti at universities. I am sure that public libraries would also find this useful as their patrons expire at many different times so they would be looking at the expiration data for roles for users much more often.
The addition of a column that shows the Expiry Date for a role would make finding the expiration date take one fewer click.
This enhancement would also make monitoring of temporary roles that are given…4 votesHi,
This column is not in the user roles by default, but can be added, see https://www.screencast.com/t/GGdVWztYxCN
Thanks,
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Resource Sharing - display Primary Identifier in Requester pop-up in the Request - Edit
As a librarian processing RS requests, it is useful to be able to see the patron's Primary Identifier when I am editing a request. I can copy this to quickly check a patron's account in Fulfillment.
This information used to be available and is visible in the patron pop-up in the Requests list.
4 votesHi,
The primary ID shows up in both the request form (see https://www.screencast.com/t/ExFVb1dORh5) and the requests list (see https://www.screencast.com/t/r26BrEmpg)
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Option to rank order in which manual jobs run
We have had issues with small activation jobs (15 portfolios) having to wait and wait and wait while large jobs (60,000 portfolios) run very slowly. These small jobs could run very quickly if the large job were paused and the small jobs done first. Could an option be created to allow customers to choose to prioritize small jobs over large instead of prioritizing whichever job was queued first?
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Sort Order option in ALMA for file list displayed in Primo for a Digital Representation
For files attached to a Digital Representations, provide an option in ALMA to choose a sort order for how these files display in the U-Resolver in Primo.
This would allow a scenario where the year could be placed at the start of each label (for multiple files in a series) and a choice made in ALMA to display the sort order in Primo so that the file for most recent year is at top of list. In this scenario, the current fixed sort order places the most recent file at bottom of U-Resolver list (which means it can potentially drop…3 votes -
Update exchange rates more often
The exchange rates for foreign currency invoices are not updated very often. I understand that the Alma network team manually update them weekly or less often. It would be better for consistent financial reporting if the exchange rates were linked to an international standard or at least give libraries the ability to update the exchange rates manually every day themselves. The out-of-date exchange rates are causing massive reconciliation headaches with the Finance department as we try to work out how many thousands of dollars are out of synch. Alma Analytics is only as good as the data it collates and…
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