Add Electronic Service Information Update Job
Electronic Portfolios and Electronic Collections each have an Information Update job in Alma. Electronic services need the same functionality because they are also affected in bulk by changes.
Job Name: Change Electronic service information
Job Description: Update Electronic service information for a set of Electronic services
Job Content Type: Electronic Service
Job Type: Information Update
Use Case: ProQuest began requiring a value for the CLIENTID parameter in the Linking Parser Parameters section of all ProQuest electronic services. With over 50 ProQuest electronic collections activated, that meant that over 50 electronic services had to be manually edited one at a time to add the same CLIENTID value in the Linking Parser Parameters section of the Linking tab.
Desired Workflow: Create a set of all affected electronic services. Run the Change Electronic service information job to edit the linking parser parameter in bulk by specifying both the parameter name (CLIENTID) and value (e.g., 12345). The job systematically updates the value of the CLIENTID parameter for each electronic service in the set.
Valerie Florez, APUS
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Patricia Farnan
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Good idea. I have no votes but wanted to comment.
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Elizabeth York
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This is a good idea! Here is another use case: sometimes, a provider updates their parser parameters but fails to update their service parser, so all the parsers break. As a temporary fix, we need to locally override the service parser parameters to work with the new portfolio parser parameters. At present, we have to manually edit every affected service's parser parameters. With this job, we could manually override all the affected collections' service parser parameters in bulk.