Alma
Your feedback matters to us. Help us improve Alma by telling us what you’d like to see using the message areas below. You can also can support something already posted.
We would love to be able to respond to every idea that is submitted, but this is not feasible. We are, however, committed to responding to the most popular ideas—those that have received the most points.
For more information please review our FAQ and guidelines. Thank you.
183 results found
-
Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record
Electronic Collection PO lines should appear in "More info" at bib record level when Collection is linked to bib record
Description Hello,This is an enhancement request.
Even when an electronic collection is linked to a bibliographic record in the Additional descriptive information field of the collection record and when an Electronic Collection PO line is linked to the collection, it currently is not possible to get to the PO line when we look up the title as "All titles" and click on the "More info" link. We have to use an Electronic Collection search to get to the title…
10 votes -
Let Persistent Search Box stay sticky to All Titles
We would like the ability to keep the All Titles Search option sticky after we choose to order something, when browsing the results of an All Titles Search. This is the default way we create new orders, so the change of the persistent box to default to PO Lines after creating an order is counter-productive.
10 votes -
Add 'View' action and maybe hover functionality to Note fields
Add View action (and maybe also a hover action) to:
- Activation Task List ? Task Note
- Invoice Line Note
- POs Invoice Line Note
This way no need to Edit, reassign,
8 votes
Anonymous
responded
Submitted by Ex Libris PM on behalf of our customers
-
When you change vendors in the PO, there should be a warning note if a PO# is not entered
When you change the vendor for a PO, there needs to be a warning note if you do not fill in the PO#. If you are doing a large number of these (say you changed vendors for a e-journal package) it's very easy to miss putting in one po number, thus changing all your open PO's with that vendor to another vendor.
9 votes -
Add previous price information to Column options
Already some time ago a new feature, to see previous invoices, was added in Acq in Alma. This is useful and even better if the previous prices were visible too (see screenshot). Is this something that Libis could configure for us?
Already some time ago a new feature, to see previous invoices, was added in Acq in Alma. This is useful and even better if the previous prices were visible too/added to the column options (See attachment)9 votes -
Include the same details in an Acquisitions Placed HOLD as for a Patron Request placed through the repository search
Currently, we cannot use the checkbox to hold an item for an interested user in the PO Line to place an item on hold. This is because the information provided when this option is chosen is so much more minimal than what is seen if we put a request on the book from the repository search, that our Fulfillment department often does not expect the hold -- it does not show up when the scan the item in, and it does not indicate who it is for. As a result, items where we use the hold item checkbox from the…
9 votes -
9 votes
-
Reminder notification for licenses due to expire
We have licenses that will expire in X number of years. It would be good to have an option for Alma to send out reminders/notifications (e.g. email) for licenses that are due to expire
9 votes -
manual orders: adding the possibility of selecting/deselecting the POLs for an invoice
a. an invoice arrives:
b. as very often is the case, it is referred to only a few POLs of a big PO (a PO containing a lot of POLs)
c. we use the function “create invoice” with parameter "invoice from PO";
d. all the POLs are automatically assigned to the invoice, then you have to choose the relevant ones, and that’s OK.
In order to choose POLs, it should be necessary to have the possibility of selecting/deselecting the POLs with a check: now it is not possible, and you have to cancel the POLs one by one: this…8 votes -
Stop POL lines closing from Receiving?
Currently when receiving an item back ordered item (ordered 4 but received 1) the process is you receive just the one and the invoice just the one item. But when the other 3 items have been received Alma is closing the POL once they have been received? This is causing issues as the Supervisor must then delete the invoice and unreceive the item and start again. After checking all the learning material and ex-Libris/Alma videos there is no way for a person to be doing this and the Pals from the area have even watched the whole process and it…
8 votes -
Trials workflow : enable to fill in block "Analysis and Result" only from trials with In Analysis status
At the moment, it is possible to fill in the block "Analysis and result" in Summary tab at any time of the trial workflow. Even in an evaluation with Draft or Active status.
It doesn't make sens, does it ?
We would like to ask EXL to fix this and enable to fill in block "Analysis and Result" only from trials with In Analysis status.8 votes -
Add the Amount Paid in Current FP field to invoicing
Presently there is a field which displays in the PO Line Summary for continuous orders which details how much has been spent on that PO line in the current financial year - useful for items which are subscriptions but paid for individually, such as Law looseleaf subscriptions. If this field could appear when entering an invoice on the Invoice Line Details that would be a great help in deciding whether to disencumber these orders, particulary towards the end of the financial year.
7 votes -
Simplify license printing
The latest printing option for license management is to require that we configure a print-out. To require that we can code so that we can obtain a print-out seems a bit of overkill and the "out of the box" form has randomly selected ERMI terms in no apparent order, making it unusable. I believe what we really want/need is to just be able to screen print a license for annotation or documentation. But if our only option is to use the configured print-out, the "out of the box" form should reflect the "out of the box" terms we've selected to…
7 votes -
Can ALMA give a warning msg when a duplicate barcode has been assigned?
Sometimes duplicate barcodes can be assigned manually. Can ALMA give warnings?
7 votes -
Configure issues to appear in chronological order rather than alphabetical order for recieving
For titles (especially newspapers but some others) that don't have a volume number, ALMA lists them in alphabetical rather than chronological order when receiving new issues. This is highly inconvenient as well as illogical. It means clicking through page after page of issues for newspapers, which are predicted a year out. Surely there must be some way to arrange them chronologically? If not, then it would be helpful if ALMA could show more than twenty results per page.
7 votes -
Shopping cart color change depending or open or closed orders.
Currently the shopping cart, indicating order/s, is green. It would be helpful if all the orders were cancelled or closed if the cart were another color, say red. If the order or even 1 order of may are active then the green cart.
7 votes -
Re-assign a SUSHI 5 account
Suppose you assign a COUNTER 5 SUSHI account for a specific vendor. You discover later that the SUSHI account should be set to a different vendor. You delete your vendor account and remove the SUSHI account. When you try to assign the SUSHI account to the correct vendor, you get an error message. The SUSHI job runs for the account regardless of whether or not it is on the correct vendor record. Please make it possible to re-assign a SUSHI account to a vendor record when you make a mistake. See SF# 00809337
7 votes -
Allow user to select ASCII (with) sort or Library sort (without) initial articles.
Allow choice of schema for sorting any title list with or without the initial article. Right now my packing lists are sorted by title without the A, An, The.
Receiving when the packing list is library sort and Alma is ASCII sort is highly confusing and requires lots of scrolling and paging back and forth.7 votes -
Add other participants to trial after initial trial email is sent
There is only one opportunity to send out a "participate in trial' email. This means that although it is possible to add a participant to the trial, no email is sent out to this person if the initial trial email has been sent.
It would be great to have the option of sending an email to individual or all participants again.6 votes -
Expand the options for rolling over different types of PO Lines differently
We would like to be able to differentiate how print and electronic POLs roll over.
If either of the following could be done to address this, it would be great.
Expand the roll over only certain types POLs list from
One Time
Continuous
Standing Order
To the full list of POL types, or at least to factor in print vs electronic.OR, alter the option to roll a single POL over to instead let you roll over the POLs in a public set.
6 votes
- Don't see your idea?