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resource sharing lending participating items, exclude by provenance
Would it be possible to add a new filter to the Resource Sharing Lending Policies Participating Items? At present it is only possible to exclude by material type, item policy and location. We would like a new filter for item provenance please.
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Display logic to hide services by user assigned RS library
Allow Discovery Interface Display Logic rules to hide service Rapido Physical Offer based on user's assigned resource sharing library.
In our instance, we have one default/generic RS library and several location-based RS libraries. Users are put in the generic RS library by default, then reassigned to a specific RS library depending on where they are enrolled. For example, a patron in Chicago would have the Chicago RS library assigned, while an online patron would still have the generic RS library assigned.
We would like the ability to hide Rapido physical offers from users with the generic RS library assigned. Currently…
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License Terms
Allow for users room to add institution specific license terms details as the ones provided are not always a good fit for the individual institutions needs.
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Institutions working in a Campus level generate a monthly Alma Collection Report with InCites
Please allow institutions working in a Campus level to use the institution’s electronic holdings with InCites to generate a monthly report in Web of Science. Per Ex Libris tech support (case #07213024), the JRC Cloud App is not designed to work when an institution has campuses configured. These reports would provide institutions with multi-faceted collection development and utilization analyses for journal titles.
Documentation: https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/appcenter/journal-citation-reports-jcr/6 votes -
Enable sending of emails to non-preferred email addresses
Currently, when contacting users using the Update/Notify Users job in conjunction with the User Notifications Letter, the process will only send to the preferred email address in the patron record. For our former students whose patron records have expired in Alma, this means that the notifications go to their student email address to which they no longer have access.
To contact our former students once their Alma account has expired in line with university IT regulations, we have to take their unique identifier out of Alma and contact them using a separate external system. This entails a lot of extra…
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receipt letters
Fine receipt letters are being sent automatically. Either manually or automatically, it needs to be optional. Sometimes we might not want to send a receipt.
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Ex Libris completes required documentation (SAQ-D) for Alma-integration with credit card payment systems
As an Access Services Department Head, I supervise workflows that include payment by credit card. We would very much like to connect Alma to our university approved payment system, but our Division of IT advises that even platforms that redirect to or from pages where credit card information is entered must be PCI (payment card industry) compliant. To meet this requirement, Ex Libris must complete a Self Assessment Questionnaire D (SAQ-D) and Attestation of Compliance for Merchants (https://listings.pcisecuritystandards.org/documents/SAQ_D_v3_Merchant.pdf). Until we have this documentation in hand, we cannot link directly from Alma to our payment system, worsening the user…
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Add "number of renewals" as a unit of measure for configuring maximum renewal period
Telling patrons that something can be renewed a maximum of one, three, or six times is much clearer than explaining a renewal period, and patrons are often caught off guard when a renewal goes through for fewer days than usual. Adding "number of renewals" as an option for configuring maximum renewal would greatly cut back on confusion.
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Allow for greater variety in the scheduling of export invoices.
Allow for greater variety in the scheduling of export invoices.
We need to expand the times at which invoices can be exported automatically. Specifically 5 pm on Mondays. Thanks.
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Use same format for all dates in Analytics
When combining different subject areas (I use the button “Combine results based on union, intersection, and difference operations”, and I am using union) I find that it is not always possible to combine dates.
For example: The date "Event Start Date"."Event Start Time" from Physical Items Historical Events cannot be combined with "Loan Date"."Loan Date" from Fulfillment.
This is due to differences in date formats.
It's hard to predict which parts of Analytics a library would want to combine. So I suggest that the date formats be standardised across Analytics6 votes -
No requesting when available items in institution
We would very much like there to be an option in Alma fulfillment units (On Shelf Request Policy): "No requesting when available items in institution".
The meaning of which would be that if there is at least one (requestable) item available at any holding, the user will not be able to make a title request. The system will consider all items in the institution, not just one holding at a time.
Currently we use the "No Requesting from available holding" option which means that when all (requestable) items on one holding are checked out, then the user can make a…
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Private labels
In acquisitions we have tagged the POL Line Subscriptions, we have put the label with the renewal month on each POL Line (In Recurring Renewal all the POL Line Subscriptions are mixed, Book Subscription, Journal Subscription, Electronic Title Subscription, etc., these labels make it faster to locate the ones we want to renew each month.
We need these labels not to be seen by other Library Services. Is it possible to have private or public labels? We would also like to group the labels into sublabels.6 votes -
Automatically waive fees when redating
Sometimes we can only deduct returned books from the user's account a few days later, e.g. if books are returned by mail. If fees have already been incurred, these must be waived manually. It would be nice if the fees were automatically waived when backdating the return date, so that we wouldn't have to calculate whether fees need to be waived or not.
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extended export to single file rather than multiple files for large collections
We would like to be able to run an extended export for large local collections that have more than 50,000 portfolios and receive a single file, rather than having to spend time manually pasting them together in excel to actually use them. the arbitrary limit serves us no purpose and adds steps to our workflow. we have very limited tools to manage local collections and this is something that has bothered our staff for years.
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Enable reporting and filtering in Alma Analytics based on specific MARC indicator values by exposing them as separate, filterable fields
Please consider enhancing Alma Analytics to:
• Include MARC indicators as separate, filterable fields in the data model.
• Allow reporting and filtering based on specific indicator values for any MARC tag.
This would greatly improve our ability to manage bibliographic data quality and streamline workflows that depend on precise MARC structure.6 votes -
Lost in Transit Items Alert
I would love it if we could get an alert sent to the task list widget for staff in charge of fulfillment when an item has been in transit too long ("too long" as defined by the institution could be set somewhere in config settings). This would then alert the staff member to check shelves, and if not found on local shelves, contact the other institution to ask them to check theirs. If the staff member alerted wanted someone else to follow up on things, they could assign it to another user.
Right now, staff must remember to check the…
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Select multiple POL in communications with vendor
When using the communications functionality in the vendor account, it is only possible to select one POL from the list. It would be very convenient to be able to choose more than one POL.
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NZ and IZ environment: deletion of electronic collection in IZ should also delete records from NZ
NZ and IZ environment: deletion of electronic collection in IZ should also delete records from NZ
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Enable fines and fees to be searchable by barcode
Search in a Patrons Account
I know you can search by barcode in a patron's loans; however, it is not an option when searching in Fines and Fees. Is this something that could be added?6 votes -
Top Level Collection Analytics
Please add top Top Level Collection information to Analytics. Specifically, we are looking for data on changes to the collection such as items added, who added them, when they were added, and any changes to the collection or sub-collections and who made the changes.
6 votes
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