Background:
The General Electronic Services (GES) provides essential options to customize the view and features for patrons. Currently, the GES only allows service availability rules to be added one at a time. However, libraries often need to manage extensive and complex availability rules, sometimes with very little notice.

Request:
Add the ability to add, update, or remove service availability rules in bulk using an Excel or CSV file. In addition, provide the ability to export service availability rules in a format compatible for future uploading.

Why:
* In cases where we're providing alternate access to a resource, we may need to add a hundred or more individual ISSNs. This is extremely time consuming.

• It would allow easier testing of complicated rules. Unsuccessful tweaks to the rules could be overwritten via a prior saved file without having to remember and back out the specific changes or creating numerous test GES.

• For consortia, the current distribution setup requires us to distribute all the General Electronic Services to every member institution or none. This setup only works for consortia that are highly harmonized. In concert with the Consortia Dashboard, adding a batch import option would allow us to streamline customized management of our member institutions without requiring a rewrite of the current distribution mechanism.

• It expands Alma's capabilities to prepare us for use cases we haven't even thought of yet but may need to implement quickly.

Note: Sharing General Electronic Services in the Community Zone could help with consortium sharing in some cases but may include more information than we would want to display to people outside our system, particularly when in the middle of negotiating with other vendors. Regardless, it does not help with the initial work of needing to add service availability rules one at a time.