Sort booking requests by Start Time
When monitoring resource requests on Fulfillment > Monitor Requests & Item Processes, a "Sort by" button with an option to sort by Start Time would ease the handling of booking requests.
The booking requests are currently sorted by Request Date, which is not very useful, and can not be sorted by any other field.
A "Sort by" button actually does appear on Fulfillment > Pick From Shelf.
Another option could be adding the Start Time on the drop down menu of the bar "Requests" on top of the page.
Encarna-Maria
shared this idea
-
Corinne Gilroy
commented
This would be a huge help to my staff. Our only option at present is to sort by the time the booking was made, which could be any time within the previous week. What we need to know is when the booking itself will take place. 3 votes.
-
Cindy Bowen
commented
Yes, please!! The Resource Requests Monitoring page is virtually useless for monitoring and managing Booking requests as the page currently operates. After selecting "Booking request" from the Request/Process Type facet, none of the rest of the facets are any help for trying to review what items have bookings coming up in the near future. Sure, we can find out what was requested recently, but we currently allow bookings to be placed up to 90 days in advance, so the Request Date means nothing to us.
Instead, our staff have to export the list of Booking Requests and use Excel to sort the requests by start time. This is ridiculous and introduces the possibility of missing new requests that are placed for tomorrow, which is a problem when the list is being generated so items for upcoming bookings can be prepped. This functionality should already be possible in Alma and the fact that it isn't is extremely frustrating.
-
Ute Hillenkamp
commented
It would be very very helpful when there was a Sort Button for the resource request list and also an option to search within the list, e.g. for a certain book or a certain user...