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Only send Ful Item Change Due Date Letter for changes to due date
We've run into a real problem with recalls. We can set some items to be recallable, and others to not be recallable. However, both categories get their status changed to "Recalled." Non-recallable items simply don't get a change to their due date. Despite this, patrons who have checked out non-recallable items still get the Change Due Date letter, with a notice that tells them their due date has not actually changed. This letter currently is triggered by recalls with due date changes, recalls without due date changes, other due date changes, or recall cancellations. We think this is too much…
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Pick From Shelf Notification for Staff
We would like to have the ability to have "Pick from shelf" send email notifications to certain staff members when a patron requests a book be put on the hold shelf for them to pick it up. This would be easier and more efficient for us, than periodically logging into Alma and clicking on "Pick from shelf" to see if anything is there. Thank you.
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Add Library Filter to Create Fulfillment Sets
The Create Fulfillment Sets functionality would be so much more useful if we could choose to create sets by Library rather than by the whole institution.
It's a very rare case to want to see Overdue, Lost, or Claimed Returned items for a whole institution and having to export the data into a spreadsheet in order to filter the results is very time consuming.
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Add export start/effective date to Bursar integration profile configuration settings
When creating a new Bursar integration profile, we want to be able to limit the transactions being exported to only those generated after a specific date. This is in addition to ‘Time before export (days)’ setting. We've never used an integration profile to export fines/fees to be transferred to our bursar office and have instead used the API. We're now stuck in a situation where we can't switch to using an integration profile because without a start/effective date there's no way to prevent the exported files from creating double billing of transactions that have already been transferred to our bursar…
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Add ability to customize the data exported by Bursar integration profile using System = Other
When creating an integration profile of type Bursar which uses a ‘System’ setting of ‘Other’ there should be more granular control over what data is included in the export.
If a ‘System’ setting of ‘Other’ is selected, then a 'Data' tab should be made available which will allow you to select via checkbox what fines/fees and user data is included in the exported file. The data available should at minimum include, but not necessarily be limited to, what is accessible via API.
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Add a date measure to Digital Inventory/Usage Analytics
For Digital Inventory/Usage, we can only see total (cumulative) downloads and views. It would be helpful to have a date measure to see usage over time for digital files.
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Addition of the invoice fields 'Invoice-number' e 'Invoice-date' to the Physical Items subject area
It would be useful if Alma Analytics could allow the creation of a report of newly purchased physical items including not only bibliographic data but also administrative and invoice data, such as for example the number and date of the invoice. Currently, the 'Physical Items' subject area only contains the 'Invoice Status' field and it is not possible to integrate it with the 'Invoice-number' and 'Invoice-date' fields present in the 'Funds and Expenditure' subject area.
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Copyright Work Percentage Rule
It should be possible to apply the Copyright Work Percentage Rule for:
1. Patron Digitization Requests
2. RS Borrowing requestsAnd not just for:
1. Staff Digitization Requests
2. Library Physical Digitization Requests15 votes -
RS - show more fields (such as Note) for Partner when using Add partner
When selecting a Partner in Resource Sharing Borrowing Request , one can only see 4 fields (see attachment) for the Partner. It would be useful if other fields, such as Note , might be enabled. There are many criteria and information helpful when slecting a partner, and in the real world they are often saved in the Note field, and this field should be visible at the step of selecting the partner.
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Enable setting of Personal Delivery Locations from Resource Sharing Form
In November 2023, The following was developed for holds based on this Idea Exchange suggestion Allow users to enter an address for home delivery – Have an idea for Ex Libris? (exlibrisgroup.com) We would like to have the same functionality available for the Resource Sharing Form as well. Our consortium policy allows for home delivery of materials from another's library. Obviously, this might not be welcome for all but without this functionality, we cannot see it being feasible to turn on this functionality for just local requests.
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Show 866 holdings field text on item records screen, so don't have to go back and forth to check holdings dates.
Presently from the list of item records, we have to click on "Holdings" to see the 866 summary holdings for vol & dates. It would be very helpful for the 866 holdings to be visible on the item record screen.
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Reading lists - notification on Alma if an attempt is made to delete an item on a Leganto reading list
We would like there to be a notification on Alma if any attempt is made to delete an item that is on a Leganto reading list, whether it is deleted individually or as part of a batch-job. The deletion could be because the physical item is in poor condition or has been lost by a user, in which case we would need to know to purchase another copy. Alternatively, we may be deleting because we have purchased a newer edition, and would need to make sure that our reading lists are updated. This would apply to both physical and e-resources.…
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Add the ability to search ( and save query ) for holdings with suppressed tag yes
Please add the ability to search ( and save query as a set ) for holdings with suppressed tag yes.
Right now we can search for Holding having Tag Suppressed at Title level. This is not enough and is sometimes misleading (e.g. when a Title has 2 holdings, one suppressed and one not suppressed).We need to identify, save as set and manipulate holdings having tag suppressed at holdings level. This info has been added at Items level in Analytics, and is useful in case of report, but we need to work at Holdings Level in Alma with real time…
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Allow keyboard shortcuts/hot keys to be configurable
Allow for the creation of keyboard shortcut/hot key profiles that will support re-mapping of shortcuts. Some of the preset shortcut are not currently available due to the removal of function keys by manufacturers.
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It would be a nice touch to let customers share the shortcut profiles among each other as well.
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Column and/or filter for Privacy in Manage Sets
In Manage Sets it would be really helpful if there was a column to show if a set was Private or Not, and a filter for Privacy (Yes/No).
This would help when I'm trying to delete from "My Sets" or All Sets" tab. To make sure I don't break someone's business process I need to go into each set to check the privacy before I delete a set.
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Make Notes/Blocks tabs more noticeable
When users have blocks or notes attached to their account, it would be helpful if the tab changed colour or had a red exclamation mark icon in the corner. This would alert members of staff immediately if there was something on the account that needed to be seen, i.e information about disability arrangements, reasons why a user is blocked, fine payment arrangements etc.
Currently the folded blue tab in the corner, meant to indicate that there is information in that space, makes the Notes/Blocks tabs just blend in with the rest.
Making Notes/Blocks tabs more noticeable would mean important and…
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Allow the font to be changed/enlarged in the MD Editor
In the MD Editor it is currently impossible to change the font size or type. Could this please be changed? Catalogers expect this functionality, as both Voyager Cataloging and the OCLC Connexion client allow users to change the font size and type. Thank you for considering this request.
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Create a "natural language" editor to create Normalization rules
The process for creating Normalization rules is unnecessarily complex and difficult, particularly for those of us who are not familiar with Drools logic. Our previous LSP had an intuitive interface which made creating rules to change details in MARC records much less time consuming. Ex Libris would do well to create such an interface.
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Navigating list of records
Would like to have a forward option when working in a list of catalog records. It's cumbersome to have to go backward to go forward to the next record in the list.
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Manage Cataloger Roles at the Library Level
We would like the roles Catalog Administrator, Catalog Manager, Cataloger, and Cataloger Extended to be set at the Library level instead of the Institution level. We have special collections that we only want only some of our staff to edit. Assigning catalogers to one or more libraries is much more efficient than assigning cataloging levels to users and records.
15 votes
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