Improve Alma's Licence „Controlled Vocabulary“ functionality
Background (as it works now):
Under „Manage License Terms“ a field can be defined as „Controlled Vocabulary“ and the defined CV values can be selected within a License. However, these CV values are only some kind of text module / boilerplate text which are copied into a specific license field. This means: when a CV value is changed or deleted, the content of this specific field in all licenses did not change. The change must be made in each license itself. A deleted CV value is displayed in the license field as: „<CV value> (not listed)“. The CV values functionality is quite the same as for e.g. item statistic fields (here it is fine, that code/text is only copied into item statistic fields and never changed again).
Enhancement:
To have a real benefit of CV values - in the case of licenses - it would be fine, if every change of a CV value (in the „License term controlled vocabulary“) is reflected in each license which uses this CV value. This means: not a phrase but an ID of a phrase is copied into the license field.
Changes of license fields via API:
We use links to websites and e-mail addresses in "CV value" fields. Currently it is not possible to update such "CV value" fields via API :-(
With suggested enhancement there is no need for API updates.
Christian
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Jörgen Moorlag
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We encounter similar problems in the Dutch language Primo (VE) version we recently launched. The license terms that come from the ViewIt labels code table translated, but the values recorded with them in Alma ('prohibited', 'permitted etc.) don't, leading to a hybrid display languagewise.
As these are patron facing labels, a provision to translate these should be available. -
Rosa Fabeiro (Univ. Barcelona)
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From University of Barcelona, we propose to add to this Idea, the ability to translate the labels for electronic resources Licenses in PRIMO, when you mark some as public. Nowadays, in the documentation seems this is possible,
(https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/020Acquisitions/110Configuring_Acquisitions/195Viewing_User-Created_License_Terms_that_Appear_in_Primo) we can translate this labels from Configuration Menu > Acquisitions > Licenses > Discovery Interface Labels Customized. But when we access here, there isn't any label to translate or restore. We have defined some fiels as shown in public display but we can see how to translate them.Thanks
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Anonymous
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We just started working with licenses. This improvement would be very helpful!
