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Need more facets electonic collection search
When searching for items in the CZ, I find the left side facets and sort by options to be too limited.
Would love a way to sort electronic collections by most recently added to CZ.
for example, I am looking to see if any new gale collections were added so I can activate them. There is no way to sort by this, and there is no facet on the left to limit to non-activated collections. Adding a left facet to search for In IZ or activated/non-activated collections would be very helpful.1 vote -
bluk edit vendor information
There is some information in vendor records which could be the same for all vendors, such as library, vendor type, whether to make vendors active or inactive, delivery claim information, etc. It would be great if there were a way to edit these details for multiple vendors at one time rather than going through each vendor to change their information.
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ADD RECORDS TO SETS
Be able to add selected records to a set that's already created. There is often multiple ways to find records that are part of a group. It seems there's no ability to do a search and select records to add to a set that's already in existence. This could also help if multiple people are trying to find a large number of records that could belong to one set for export or modification.
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Retrieve metadata available in MARC-XML also in JSON
When requesting "bib", all metadata should be available as JSON. Most fields are by now represented as a MARC-XML string, bundled into a field called "anies".
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Improve integration between 'Place on hold' in Rialto and Tasks widget in Alma
If the 'Place on hold' option is ticked when placing an order in Rialto, there is no notification in the Tasks widget in Alma to let Library staff know when an item has arrived. This means we are unable to prioritise the processing of those newly arrived, requested items. If we were to use 'Place on hold' in Rialto, then we wouldn't find out an item had been requested until we happened to scan it in. We would like an integration between Rialto and the requests functionality putting in place to make it apparent to Alma users when items received…
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Include a web service for renewing all loans at once in the API Users and Fulfilment
At the moment, POST /almaws/v1/users/{userid}/loans/{loanid} must be called individually for each loan. This is very time-consuming, especially in large accounts, and the general API limits must also be observed. It would be conceivable, for example, to introduce the loanid ALL, similar to GET /almaws/v1/bibs/{mmsid}/holdings/{holdingid}/items for the holdingid.
The "Retrieve Items list" has a feature, where ALL can be used for the holdingid parameter to retrieve all items from all holdings. In a similar way we could use POST /users/{userid}/loans/ALL to renew all loans.
Using POST /almaws/v1/users/{user_id}/loans as the most obvious solution is…
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Display PO Line Notes entries in Analytics with the newest notes first, to ensure their inclusion within the character limit
Currently the 'PO Line Notes' field in the Alma Analytics 'Funds Exchange' subject area, displays the content of all note entries attached to a particular PO Line as a single block of text, starting from the earliest-dated note and ending with the latest-dated note. However, as the field's display in Analytics is limited to 4000 characters, this means that the most recent notes are omitted from the report for any PO Lines that are particularly longstanding or have particularly copious notes. This is true both for the report as displayed within the Analytics interface, and for a version exported to…
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Alma Mobile is currently not designed to provide the call number after scanning an item. It will be nice to have the call number displayed
Alma Mobile is currently not designed to provide the call number after scanning an item. It will be nice to have the call number displayed
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Allow sort configuration in Primo (VE and NDE) brief results view and Collections View
Currently as far as is known, search results and collections items can only be sorted by year. Multiple records with the same year creation date cannot be further sorted.
See https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/Technical_Guide/010The_PNX_Record/080The_Sort_Section"[The Sort section] is not applicable to Primo VE environments. Only the Display, Facets, and Search sections are configurable in Primo VE"
I would like to be able to sort a set of records by specific date (day, month, year) in any list of multiple records (collection with items view, basic brief records view, etc.).
This could be based on whatever date structure is necessary (yyyymmdd, etc.) and could…
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Enhance Support for Non-University Libraries
Issue: Alma is heavily focused on academic libraries and electronic resources, making it less suitable for cultural institutions or libraries managing physical, archival, or unique materials.
Improvement:
Develop specialized modules for archival and special collections, including better support for preservation treatments, valuation, and non-MARC metadata (e.g., Dublin Core).
Create configurable workflows for physical resource management that are less acquisition-centric, addressing the needs of state or special libraries.
Expand Community Zone metadata to include more diverse formats and sources relevant to non-academic libraries.
RapidILL Synergy: Extend RapidILL’s support for non-traditional resources (e.g., datasets, 3D objects) to align with Alma’s expanded metadata…1 vote -
When doing "Scan In Items" for "Pick From Shelf" request, say that if a patron has an overdue, say that he has an overdue and cancel reques
When doing "Scan In Items" for "Pick From Shelf" request, say that if a patron has an overdue, say that he has an overdue and cancel request
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شهادة الأبوة في المغرب
كل ما تحتاج معرفته حول شهادة الأبوة بالمغرب
https://www.targir.com/2025/04/blog-post_14.html
يمكنك تحميل الطلب من خلال الرابط المباشر
https://www.targir.com/2025/04/blog-post_14.htmlمعلومات شاملة لاستخراج شهادة الأبوة والإجراءات القانونية المرتبطة بها
ما هي شهادة الأبوة في المغرب؟
شهادة الأبوة وثيقة قانونية تصدر بناءً على حكم قضائي، وتُثبت العلاقة البنوية بين الطفل ووالده البيولوجي، في حال عدم وجود عقد زواج رسمي أو تسجيل سابق. تُعَد هذه الشهادة جزءًا من الإجراءات القضائية التي تدخل ضمن قضايا الحالة المدنية.
الحالات التي تستوجب استخراج شهادة الأبوة
1. الأطفال غير المسجلين في الحالة المدنية
عندما يولد طفل خارج إطار الزواج أو لم يُسجَّل بصفة قانونية في دفتر الحالة المدنية، يحتاج الأب إلى رفع…1 vote -
Add ILL cost/fee upon receive
Completion of scans via Resource Sharing - this now has to be done in 2 steps:
• First receive for the creation of a cost; then Upload File/Send file to patron
• Please note we also investigated the policies of creating a cost automatically based upon fulff unit rules and a dedicated TOU (with fee creation). However due to a lack of criteria and due to a complex range of agreements on adding fee’s we are not able to use this.Optimization is to avoid two steps:
Can adding a file be added in the receive stage?
Upload file/send file…1 vote -
Visibility of additional page range for citation records in Alma
The recent update to Alma allowing the addition of multiple page ranges has been very helpful—thank you for that.
However, I’ve noticed that in the Alma citation record preview, only the first page range is displayed. This can be a bit misleading when we’re monitoring citations, as it doesn’t reflect the full set of page ranges entered. However, the full page range is visible in the Leganto record.
Would it be possible to implement a similar preview that exists in Leganto, in the Alma citation record, that shows all the entered page ranges?
I’ve attached screenshots from both Alma and…1 vote -
Allow widgets to be resized to larger proportions on the Welcome screen
The widgets on the Welcome screen are incredibly helpful for viewing statistics like Lending Fill Rate and Borrowing Requests, but I'd access this information faster if the widget's container was larger and I didn't need to use the scroll bar or click "Open in a new window". There's already a 3-by-3 bento grid for these widgets, so it'd be nice to explore the possibility of scaling the widgets according to that same grid.
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Convert digitization request to purchase request
I would like to convert a request from a scanning request to a purchasing request, particularly when the permissions cost is high. I am not sure if this is a Alma or Rialto workflow, but it would be nice to do a "search in Market" to find out price and auto-reject the way we can do in Rapido. Additionally, we would like 'Pay-per-use" functionality from Alma digitization requests.
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Batch modification of fulfillment unit service information
We need to update some or all of our location fulfillment Unit of all of our library.
Unfortunately, the Update Location API does not support bulk updates for multiple locations in a single request. Each API call is limited to a single location code.
We'd like to be able to make batch changes to our libraries' reader service units.1 vote -
Allow the use of both Fixed and Non-fixed values when setting due date policy
Faculty at our institution are allowed to check out materials until the end of summer. They are also used to renewing their materials before the end of summer so they are extended to the end of next summer. Currently the recurrence of End of Summer will change the End of Summer date to the same date next year is the same time that faculty materials are due. They cannot renew them before the current End of Summer.
I propose the ability in Advanced Policies to set due dates based on how many days before or after a certain event.
For…
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Add Fiscal Period Month, Full Month and Month Key to E-inventory Cost Usage
The ability to drill down to usage by month is absent in the E-inventory subject area.
Can this be added, please?
This subject area has much richer data than Usage.
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reuse sets with uploaded Excel Files
Currently, we can create itemized sets of physical books by uploading an Excel sheet of barcodes. But, we are not able to reuse the set in the same manner.
We would like to be able to create one set (for withdrawing books, etc.). Then, when the job is completed, we would like to reuse that set, upload a new Excel sheet and run another job. This will cut down on the number of new sets we need to create for a single task.
Thank you for considering this idea!
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