Allow for the updating of license terms using scripts or spreadsheets.
Currently all updating in licenses is a manual process. To add or reorder terms has to be done manually and to add a new term to existing license has to be done manually. Wouldn't it be nice for either type of updating to be achieved via a script or spreadsheet? For managing terms, it would be great to export the existing terms to a spreadsheet, make changes and then upload the new terms order and organization. It would also be great to be able to update existing terms in the same way, via either spreadsheets or scripts, whereby we could export the existing term fields (with presumably the identifier for each license), change the term data in the spreadsheet and then upload it back to Alma. It would also be useful functionality for folks who are new or just starting to work on their terms, to be able to work on the terms and order in a spreadsheet and then just upload it. It would also be nice to be able to write scripts that would say, change the language in every iteration of a particular term, if you wanted to – to standardize language or reflect a change in local policy. These are just a few ideas.
j.morrow@neu.edu
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