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Create the button "claim never borrow" on Loan service
Since Alma has a "Claimed Return" button, could create a button for users who never borrow this book in the loan tab.
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Add SUSHI “Status Description” field for uploaded files as column option in Analytics
Ex Libris has said “No valid report items found in the file” is behavior that should still be listed as a “Fully Processed” file, but it would be helpful if we could more easily find files that we believe may not have loaded properly based on their Alma “Status Description” in Analytics.
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"in process items" screen - circulation desk management: adding fields
At circ desk we use "in process items" screen to manage items in circ work order processes. Unfortunately the screen is unusable, if we are processing periodicals which are sent/recieved from binding: currently there is no way to distinguish at a glance which volume it is. as we send several volumes of the same periodical at once and our physical copies of periodicals don't have barcodes/barcode numbers. so please add a description field to this screen.
another field that is necessary is: Locationyes we can see this information via 3 dots...but it is not at a glance....
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slip for items sent to binding - improvements
we send to binding not only periodical issues that are bound together. we also send individual periodical volumes/books which binding wears out. in this case there is no option to add a note for the binder - options which exists when 2 or more issues are bound together in alma.
we send to binding hundreds of items. printing out hundreds of slips, when a slip takes up the whole page - is a waste of paper. so we stuck with continuing writing the info for the binder manually, on small pieces of paper. it would be a large improvement to…
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Add 'loan date' to items list
after 6 long years, finally "due date" as added to items list..
"Loan date" field is as important to see, as the "due date". if we have 50 items which were loaned in different times, most of them can have the same due date (because we have periods of closed days-holydays). we have to be able to make the same decision, as system, regarding, which item can be recalled first, if we need to make manual request on specific item.
please consider adding this field also - and really hope it wouldn't take another 6 years1 vote -
Assign to
In the "Electronic Resource Activation Task List" the list can only be assigned to specific users (or unassigned so everyone can see it), it would be nice to be able to assign it to a group of people, (perhaps by user role profiles, or a new profile type of 'group user' that links other profiles together, like user role profiles) as different tasks fall on different areas of the department.
This would also be helpful in "Reading Lists Task List", as in our case it is location specific handling of the tasks.
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Increase the maximum 'page size' limit for a 'set of results'
Currently the 'page size' setting only allows a maximum of '20'. This means that whenever a search is conducted only the first 20 records can be displayed on the first page of the search results. We would like to be able to set a default of '50' or more, so that when a search is conducted on user records, statistical notes, courses, bibliographic records, etc. we can easily see all and or more results.
Please see the below knowledge article for more information about the 'page_size' field:1 vote -
Gender and Sexuality Studies Collection from the Big Ten Open Books Project
Project MUSE is pleased to host the Gender and Sexuality Studies collection of open access book titles, from the Big Ten Open Books project. Please add this collection to the ALMA community zone.
Thank you.
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Optional Campus Restriction on Personal Delivery
PROBLEM:
If an institution has multiple libraries and campuses and provides hand delivery of items to faculty offices, when a faculty patron requests personal delivery of an item from another library the item will be routed to the closest circ desk that support campus delivery, even if that circ desk is located miles away from the faculty patron's office.PROPOSED FUNCTIONALITY:
As a fulfillment manager, I want to be able to configure Alma so that the personal delivery option can be restricted to the user's campus, so that items requested from another library will be routed to the circ desk…1 vote -
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auto holdings for Oxford eBooks
Please consider adding Oxford eBooks to autoholdings
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Allow AFN loans and returns via Offline Circulation
AFN (Automated Fulfillment Network) items can neither be loaned nor returned via Offline Circulation. The Offline client accepts the AFN barcodes, but when we attempt to load the file into Alma the resulting error message is "Item not found. Barcode: [barcode number]". Since non-AFN resource sharing loans are considered “local” records in Alma, they can circulate via Offline Circulation. Please add this functionality for AFN loans and returns as well.
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Excel - Allow personalization of the fields to be export
Our proposal, is to allow include bibliographics fields to the excel archive.
In order to manage the purchase requests, we need an excel archive that iclude fields like ISBN, edition, year, ...1 vote -
Time stamp on printed Resource Request Slip Letter and Hold Shelf Request Letters
Add the time stamp to Resource Request Slip Letter and on Hold Shelf Request letters when printed.
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Analytics widget - customize/remove Open in a new window link
I'd like to be able to remove or customize the "Open in a new window" link that appears on top of a widget of an analytics report.
The widget can only fit a very short report. Opening this short report in full view is not that useful. It would be better to link to a longer report or a dashboard.
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New role for limited user account editing
It would be helpful if we had a separate role for User Operator that could edit any user account's contact details and merge user records as well as run analytics on users BUT not change or add roles attached to that account OR delete records. This is primarily to allow circulation staff more control over user accounts but to restrict access to higher-level abilities for cybersecurity reasons.
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Add options to Terms of Use "is renewable"
We would like the ability to require staff mediated renewals for certain items based on Terms of Use. Currently, TOUs have a flag for is renewable, but this allows patrons to self renew in their Primo account.
Desired state: the is renewable flag would allow us to customize into options:
- is renewable by staff and patron
- is renewable by staff only"is renewable by staff" would allow staff to use the existing renew options in manage patron services to renew the item, but would prevent the user from renewing from within Primo.
The other option would function as…
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Selecting multiple courses at once when assigning them to a reading list
When I am "working on" a reading list, on the Courses tab, I can only associate one course at a time. Is there a way to make multiple course selections possible? An example would be how we can select multiple titles in the repository search when adding titles to a reading list.
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Order list letters file format PDF
Attach the order list letter to the POL instead of the PO. Also, the letter should be attached as a PDF, not an HTML file.
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