Check box option to disable Alma from appending file names in publishing profiles
We publish files to many third party vendors. Some vendor systems must have their files named with a certain convention and CANNOT process them if that filename convention is altered in any way.
Alma publishing profiles are current configured to append "_new" to the end of files it publishes, even if you specify a file name already. We would like the option to either enable or disable each publishing profile from appending the filenames it sends. They can be enabled by default, or not, but the option would be helpful.
Use case: We are publishing files of electronic holdings to OCLC because the current OCLC Data Sync profiles as they exist within Alma do not handle electronic materials (see https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/090Integrations_with_External_Systems/030Resource_Management/110Publishing_to_OCLC#Publishing_Electronic_Holdings_to_OCLC ). OCLC asks for a specific file naming convention, and that name cannot be altered. The profile adds "_new" to the end of the file name, which prevents their system from processing the file entirely. As a result, we have to either manually download these incredibly large files, change the file name, the put them on OCLC's server, or write a script to do this for us with no coders on staff.
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