Enable case-insensitivity for indication and other rules
Indication (and other) rules in Alma are case sensitive by design. Case sensitivity of course is often desirable, to ensure most exact matching and prevent inadvertent data problems. However, in some instances, especially with indication rules, it would be very helpful and time-saving to be able to use case insensitivity, as is possible with regular expressions (ex: /i). An example of a scenario in which this would be helpful is when using an indication rule to identify records which contain a particular textual note, when that note may have been entered with varying cases: sometime all uppercase, sometimes sentence case, sometimes title case, and so on. Currently, one must try to imagine and include all possible text case variants and add them to the indication rule; being able to toggle case sensitivity/insensitivity would make it possible to more easily search for and find all variants.
Nancy Babb
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Angela Rhodes
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I'm going to pile onto Nancy's suggestion here to also include case-insensitivity for subjects in Analytics. A similar issue: subject headings may be upper or lower case depending on where in the field they are listed, and currently to search for materials based on subject, a person would have to search all variants of a subject to return results.