I came looking for an update and found the roadmap that I think would support this enhancement:

https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Materials/010Roadmap/Alma_Roadmap_-_July_2021/Acquisitions#Search_Acquisition_Entities_by_their_Notes

Looks like this will not be available for at least another year (2022 H2 - 2023).

Hi, Is there an update?
will the indexing enable finding this field in analytics as well?
Thanks

I'm glad to hear that a solution is planned - is there any news?

Dear community,
In order to support the ability to search PO lines by the content of their notes there was a need to improve the indexing infrastructure of purchase order lines, these infrastructure improvements are currently being developed and are planned to be introduced in early 2021.

This idea exchange is still in the general acquisitions road-map.

Thanks,
Noam Fass | Acquisitions product manager

This has been marked as Planned since October 2018.

When will we see this functionality, please?

AS noted below, checking on the anticipated release date of this planned enhancement.

We would also like to see an updated response to this. We migrated data into those notes fields and now can't use it to pull together sets or run an analytics report, which seems strange in a database environment.

This is greatly needed and desired functionality, especially since PO Line Notes are not reportable in Analytics. The Ex Libris planned response is well over a year old (10/18/2018). What is the status of this enhancement?

This functionality is essential. I am pleased to see that it is planned, however, given that it has been planned for over a year now I wondered if there is any update on when we can expect to see this enhancement. Given that we cannot report on notes in analytics (which I would also prefer to see but I gather has been declined by Ex Libris) then the functionality to search notes is essential.

Can we have an update on a Release when this data will be indexed for search in Alma?

Yet another community request to have this data in Analytics has been declined (222 votes: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/19123837-way-to-report-in-analytics-for-the-pol-note and 177 votes: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/37173745-reporting-po-line-notes).

It would be appreciated if Ex Libris could prioritise this, in recognition that there is no way to search on this data via Alma or Alma Analytics. Field Mapping forms for Implementation projects include this field, and customers make a very reasonable and logical assumption that they will be able to interrogate and retrieve data from the LMS, only to find that this is not the case.

This is a very nasty gotcha for Alma and Ex Libris that such a significant flaw is left to customers to discover, and then are forced to beg for ‘enhancement’ to have access to our own data. It should be a mandatory part of an LMS that all data can be searched and retrieved.

I hope this will also make those notes part of the Excel download that is available when looking at search results from an order line search. We migrated a lot of critical information into notes on the recommendation of our migration specialist, so it's a bit frustrating that they're virtually unavailable now.

Hi Moshe - it's been a while since you confirmed this would be added to Analytics - can you remind me where it will be added please?

Thanks,

Andrew

Andrew Brown where did Moshe confirm it will be in Analytics?

Thanks for asking Wayne, and thanks to Moshe for confirming it will be in Analytics.

It's not clear from this request, the response from Ex Libris and the discussion, if this is being applied to Analytics or not.

It will be hugely beneficial to report out PO Liner Notes information for a wide range of purposes, e.g. circulating vendor reports to purchasers.

Thanks to everyone who voted for this!

If Ex Libris is reviewing the PO Line indexing in Alma, please also consider in your approach to make the 'ERP Number' field searchable like the 'PO reference number' (see #00557072, Development).

Great news Moshe - thank you! Is there a date for implementation yet please?

A massive 'Yes' from Coventry University too. This field doesn't show when you download a set of Open PO lines within Alma either - so there's a very limited benefit to having those notes there if you need to act on outstanding PO lines, for example. Producing a report in Analytics would be invaluable in providing information in one place for making cancellations, obtaining second-hand copies if needed urgently, etc.

Huge yes to having PO Line Notes available in Analytics! Have desperately wanted this since we migrated in 2013. Would revolutionise many one-time and subscription tasks.