comment/note field for configurations
A comment or note field for configurations would be incredibly helpful in general, but the current pandemic has highlighted the need for a way to easily track the reasons behind changes. This would keep the notes in the places where they'd be seen by the people working on the configurations, rather than us having to track things in a separate place.
All of the fulfillment configuration menu would benefit from this ability when short-term or emergency changes are being made. But it would also be good in places like: Letters; DARA recommendations; and all Other Settings areas. These are places that we might only touch once a year or less, so it would be helpful to know why X was deactivated, or who asked for Y change in wording.
Alma now incorporates a comment/note field to the code table configurations, including Mapping tables and Rules pages.
For more information please see Alma November Release Notes
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Annelie Edelmann commented
Can you, please, give us a timeline, when we can expect this for fulfillment configuration? Especially in times of Covid we are desperately waiting for this developement.
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Anonymous commented
Sølvi Alfnes: Sounds like a good idea
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Bente Hatlevoll commented
Yes please :)
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Anonymous commented
ys
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Liv-Elin Hansen commented
Yes please.
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Noel Edmonds commented
Yes, it's vital to have an audit trail for important config changes, as you would for other major IT systems.
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Jim Bowen commented
Smashing idea.
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Kirsten Davis commented
Totally agree about searchability for these notes. Advanced Search functions in Alma, at a minimum. But likely should go into Analytics as well. As Betsy Friesen pointed out on Alma-L, these have implications for auditing and so being able to easily export them would be good.
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Ann-Louise commented
This would be very useful. Have no more votes left, but: Yes, please!
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François Renaville commented
Yes please. I would like to add that it would be nice if those notes would be seachable in a way and the note creator automatically identified.
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Peta Hopkins commented
Yes please. A bit like an in-place change log.
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Sharon Nelson commented
This would be very helpful. We currently track all of this offline in a Word document, which is inefficient and hard to search if you're looking for a specific change and why/when it was done.
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Jean Vik commented
Sounds like a great idea.
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Stephanie Michel commented
It would be helpful to have a comments field on the Discovery Interface Display Logic (which is also under the fulfillment configuration menu)