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Delete unwished licenses
We need the feature to delete unwished licenses. We mean delete and not display those licenses to the licenses list.
523 votesDear Community,
This is to update you that we are developing the option to permanently remove licenses from Alma as per this idea.
We plan to allow users to remove deleted licenses from the Licenses list. The permanently deleted licenses will not show in Analytics. License with the previous status "Deleted" will get the status "Inactive" upon the release of this development. They will remain in the licenses list and will not be automatically removed.
We will also add two actions supporting this change, "Deactivate" and "Activate", which will change the license's status accordingly.
Please follow up on Alma Release Notes to see when this development is released.
Kind regards,
Zohar Shemesh
Alma Product Team
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Include "Quantity for Pricing" in EDI for ebook POLs
It is currently not possible to send the correct quantity to the vendor via EDI. When EDI is sent for POLs of type "Electronic book - one time", the quantity field in the EDI is always 1, even if the Alma POL has a different Quantity for Pricing value. We often need to order multiple "copies" (i.e. sets of access credits or user licences) for an ebook, but only want 1 portfolio on Alma.
Please consider using the "quantity for pricing" in EDI for electronic - one time POLs.225 votesDear Community,
This is to update you that we are developing the option to send the exact "Quantity for pricing" to the vendor via EDI, for electronic PO lines.
Additionally, we will add the "Access mode" field as an optional field to select for the "EDI Vendor Note Fields".
Please follow up on Alma Release Notes to see when this development is released.
Kind regards,
Zohar Shemesh
Alma Product Team
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Copy PO Line Prices to Item Replacement Cost
Add a new configuration parameter to automatically copy the physical one time PO line price to the item Replacement cost. If the PO line's currency is different than the institution's default currency, the amount is exchanged and copied to the item (with no currency). The possibility (for an operator, a job or an API) to update or remove the amount in the Replacement cost should remain. Customers should be free to activate or not this configuration (true/false parameter).
196 votesDear Community,
This is to update you that we plan to develop this requirement in a future Alma release.
The PO line price could be automatically copied to the item's "Replacement cost" field in the following scenarios:
- Upon PO line creation
- When changing the PO line price
- When adding or removing items to/from the PO line.
We plan to allow this by settings 2 customer parameters:
(1) One that will turn the functionality on and off, and will have the following values:
0- false
1- copy the price from the PO line's "List price" field
2- copy the price from the PO line's "Net price" field and divide by number of items in the "Ordered Items" section.
(2) Another that will allow to add or reduce amount from the PO line price when being copied to the "Replacement cost" field. This will allow:
- To add/decrease amount… -
Searchable invoice notes
Add the capability for analytics and/or sets to generate a report based upon the note field. I have not been able to easily extract invoice notes from Alma. This would allow acquisitions departments to extract useful invoice data that may be unique to their institution. Also, if a library has Alma directly connected to an external payment system error reports will generate within the invoice note field. Having a way to easily extract these note through a report feature would be beneficial.
118 votesHi,
Notes are indeed a very useful tool to tag data for searching. We will make the POL and Invoice notes a searchable element in the relevant Alma interfaces.
Thanks,
Moshe
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