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Improve Request Limit configuration to match Loan Limit configuration
Request limit configuration is currently extremely limited:
- It applies across the whole instutition
- It is a single limit which can't be distinguished for different material types, items or kinds of requests
- It is linked only the user group of the patron.
We propose that request limit config should match loan limit config and allow for other variables:
- Application to a specific library
- Limit by item policy, location, material type, user group, statistical category and job category.
An additional improvement would be to allow some link up between request limits and loan limits. They are particularly problematic for remote storage integrations…
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Problems receiving documents from POL (Purchase order Line)
Since the change to Alma's new visualization, when receiving the document from the order (POL) there are two behaviors that, in our opinion, are regressions:
- When we mark the check for “Keep in department” Cataloging copy, this check is not marked for future reception. We request that this check be kept marked by default.
- When the reception date has to be entered, marking a date before the current date on the calendar is not allowed.What we are asking for is that, since this improvement that has been presented (display of all data integrated in the POL), when…
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Allow granularity in API limits
The Universities of Wisconsin make extensive use of APIs, both Alma and Primo, in our consortium.
We use APIs for our locally developed discovery environment, for reporting purposes, and for staff/business processes where Alma functionality does not meet our needs.
However, all these uses of APIs are forced to contend with one set of limits. So if we hit our limit for whatever reason - a bot crawling our catalog, a call-intensive app used by our staff, etc., ALL of our API using applications suffer and/or fail.
UW is a responsible user of APIs and has an experienced development group…
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Sync Tasks widget display groups to match the user-selected display groups under Customize Tasks List
Currently the persistent menu Tasks function and the home page Tasks widget do not sync to display only the groups the user has selected. This leads to the Tasks widget being cluttered with information not relevant to the user and distracts from the groups they need to pay attention to.
In an academic library environment, staff members often have specialized roles (e.g., an Electronic Resources Librarian who does not need to see Fulfillment or Resource Sharing task categories). When unchecked sections continue to display, it creates unnecessary UI clutter, forces users to scroll more than necessary, and reduces the overall…
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History Note Indicating Shelf Report Processing
For physical collection care/management teams, it would be valuable to have an indicator in an item's history that notes a barcode was fed through the Shelf Report Function along with the date. This small note can be immensely valuable when tracking down missing physical items in a collection.
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Alma as a linked entity User Interface
The Alma backend comprises a large bunch of linked entities of different types like title, holding, request, item, report, ... However, on the user interface side theses links and references often are only displayed implicitly. We propose to make these references explicit. Example: The list of requests shown in "Monitor Requests and Item Processes" display a MMS-ID as well as (in certain cases) an Item ID. In order to view the respective title or item entity one has to copy the ID and paste it into the title, respectivly item search. We propose to add a "one click link" for…
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Select partners from multiple pages when adding to rota or template
When adding partners to a borrowing request rota or rota template, you have the ability to add multiple partners at the same time but only if the partners appear on the same page of the partner pick list. Whenever you move to a different page of the pick list, selections on the previous page are lost.
Alma already has the ability to remember selections across multiple pages in other functional areas (e.g. selecting portfolios for activation from a CZ collection).
It would make creating a rota more efficient if this ability could be extended to the add partners list.12 votes -
RS Lending, Overwrite Renewal Restriction
Rapido participating libraries aren't able to manually change the due date in the Resource Sharing Lending request record or update the "due back" date for the item in process when the borrowing library is RapidILL. When RapidILL libraries contact us as the lender and ask us to renew something, there is literally no way to do this. This is probably true with other broker partners that don't allow renewals. Lending libraries should be able to update/overwrite due dates in Lending request records and manually change the due back date for items in the ILL lending process.
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Improve discoverability of rejected requests in the Monitor Requests page
We often have to locate cancelled patron physical and digitisation requests in the Monitor Requests page. However, these requests are difficult to locate as they can only be retrieved by Title (a non-unique field) and cannot be filtered or sorted.
Please add:
-A filter for request status which includes 'rejected'
-The ability to sort requests by date created or date updated so that recent rejected requests can be seen at the top of the page
-retain the requester id. The main search term we use to locate a rejected request is the requester name or id. However this is removed…12 votes -
Attach multiple courses/sections to a reading list more quickly
We use a single reading list for many sections of a course, and also reuse these reading lists from semester to semester. Attaching courses to a preexisting reading list is a very slow process which must be done one at a time. I'd love in the reading list courses tab, when you click "Associate Course" and then "Select from List", you were given the option of a checkbox so that many course sections could be added to a reading list at once.
Alternatively, in bulk upload of courses, if you can attach a NEW course to an existing reading list,…
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Make "Send Query to Patron" option available in other areas of Alma
The Send Query to Patron function found under Fulfillment - Resource Sharing - Borrowing Requests - More actions (on item) is a great tool for notifying patrons within a request without having to cancel the request to send a note. Can this be made available elsewhere in the system (e.g. Pick from Shelf, Patron Requests, Network Activity, etc.) for quick and easy access to the function?
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Change item to damaged in patron's account - not in item description
If we could change the status of the item to damaged on the patrons account (like you can to lost) then the fee would appear - it would save many steps.
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Automatic printing of ILL lending (pick-up) request slips
A Pick From Shelf request (for physical or digital item requests) automatically generates an email (slip) and, through an automatic email manager, a printed request slip as well. We would like the same for incoming Lending Requests (RapidILL). For now, there is no option to print this Ful Incoming Slip Letter automatically. The only option is manual printing.
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Display loan limit for patrons at Manage Patron Services Screen in Alma
At present, there is no indication at the Manage Patron Services screen (when you go to a patron's account) of the loan limit for the patron (i.e. allowed to borrow 8 loans; of which 2 loans may be from the SL collection, etc.). This information is only available at Configuration - Fulfillment - Loan Limits.
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failure to display the location of items in a user's loans
we are facing a major issue in the new User Management Interface regarding the display of loans. No matter which view we choose, we cannot see the location if there is an alternative location in the copy record.
If in the display customization I choose 'Item call number' and 'Call number', I only see what is written in the 'Item call number' and not the 'Call number'.
Even if I deselect 'Item call number,' I do not see the 'Call number.
I don’t see the call number, which is an important information that operators need to see immediately in the…12 votes -
Packaging PO Lines into a PO: properties
Currently PO lines are packaged into a single PO if all the following properties match:
- Vendor account
- Owner
- Currency
- Continuity – One-time/continuous
- Acquisition method
- Source type
- Ordering Library
- FundWe order from some suppliers in different currencies. Therefore, the match criteria "Currency" is unfortunately not ideal for us.
It would be great if you could adjust the criteria here for your own institution.Thank you in advance!
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User note: prevent overwritten via API when the check box is set option
We would like to add a functionality (check box) in the admin Alma user record UI that allows preventing a manually added USER NOTES field from being overwritten by the API when the check box is set.
This functionality will allow Alma admins to store some manual information in a USER NOTES without being overwritten via API when a record is being updated automatically
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Add feature to change the background dark and the letters white in Alma
Please develop a way to change the background dark and the letters white. Reworded in hopes of getting an update on the previous idea from 2019. At that time it was stated this feature would be on a future roadmap, but we haven't seen anything yet. This is an important feature for those of us who spend a lot of our work time in Alma.
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Fulfillment: User receives an email when an item that has requests on it is issued to them and the loan period is shorter than normal
In our loan Terms of Use the Recall Period and Requested Item Due Date are set to 3 days. If a user requests an item, but then another request is placed on the item before they collect it from the library and it is issued to them, when the item is issued to them they are not informed that there is another request on the item so the loan period is only 3 days. The first the user knows about this is when they receive the overdue notice on the day after the item was due. Most of our libraries…
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Display of the 1,000 most recent linked data records in Alma and Primo
It is not possible to display all linked data records since the number is limited to 1’000. For better user convenience, at least the 1’000 most recent records should be displayed and not the 1’000 oldest or randomly selected records.
Especially in the case of journals and monographic series that have been published for a long time, 1,000 linked records are not uncommon and the most recent ones are usually of interest.12 votes
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