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Display all orders for physical item searches, even when individual item records are not linked to a POL
When doing various collection development tasks, acquisitions and resource managers may want to know whether there is order information for a title at the same time they're viewing physical item details via the More Info link in Alma. Currently, Alma does not display orders for physical item searches when a POL is not linked to an item record. This is a problem for closed orders that migrated from another ILS because the POL does not get linked in the item record during the migration process. We see accurate information when conducting an All Titles or Physical Titles search, but not…
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Sort option required for Vendor Account in Vendor Details > Invoice tab
When navigating to a Vendor record and clicking on the Invoice tab, it's immediately apparent that one can sort several columns in ascending/descending alphabetic or numeric order:
- Invoice
- Date
- Creation From
- Creation Date
- Last Updated Date
- # of Lines
- Total Price
The one column that seems to be missing the up/down arrows that would facilitate sorting is Vendor Account. Why is this?
We'd like to request that sorting is applied to this column as well. Staff find it odd to have to download all invoices into a spreadsheet and then sort according to this criterion, but not have to do…
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Option for whether or not to carry forward Funds and Ledgers in a rollover
This concerns the Financial Year Rollover rules for rolling over the Funds and Ledgers.
It has become evident after each annual rollover we perform that these rules are carried forward to the new Fiscal Period in their entirety, without any option not to.
This is frustrating for us, because as an institution we set our expenditure limits on a fund by fund basis. However, we appreciate that this may not be the case for other institutions.
As such, would it please be possible to press for an additional option applied to the rollover job for Funds and Ledgers, whereby we…
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Revert record view back to more "centered" view - "left-shifted" view hard to read
Monday Feb. 6th, 2017 : new release - has "left-shifted" the record view in the bibliographic and holdings records (this is making viewing more difficult) - can we go back to the more "centered" view that was there previous to this latest update?
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Reporting codes in Slips
If you could add the ability to add to the slips reporting codes, it would be great.
Thanks.2 votes -
Display of licence terms in View It tab from PO lines
We have turned on the display of licence terms in the View It tab in Primo.
We have noticed that the licence terms only display if they come from the portfolio or electronic collection.
If the licence is only attached to a PO line, the terms do not display in the View It tab.
It would save time if the terms could display from the licence attached to the POL as well.2 votes -
the closed pol cannot be modified
Currently the POLs could be modified even if the status is closed. In order to prevent the mistake we wish that the closed pol can not be modified and have a view function for the closed POLs.
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Combine "Close" and "Cancel" into one function.
We prefer to always "Close" instead of "Cancel" an order for several reasons. It would be really helpful, and less confusing, if the two options were merged into one and it always behaved like "Close".
The reasons we prefer "Close" include:
Most Print Journal-Subscription orders will still have print issues that need to be received after the liaison has decided to end a subscription. If the order is Closed these issues can still be received. If the order is Cancelled they cannot.
If an order is Closed it cannot be linked to an invoice unless you search for PO lines/titles…
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Display 'suppressed bib' icon consistently in every Alma context.
I'm looking at a list of portfolios in Alma, many linking to suppressed bibs. None of those portfolios whose bibs are suppressed display the 'eye with a line through it'-icon (which should also maybe include alt text for screen readers?)
How about making suppressed-ness sticky throughout the UI, with a baked-in rule to protect exceptions. (ARE there exceptions?)
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Information about the "Interested Users" in the List "Electronic Resource Activation Task List" is needed
To work with the "Interested User"-Functionality in the context of Electronic Resources we need the Information about the "Interested Users" in the List "Electronic Resource Activation Task List" in a seperate column.
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Percentage load on vendor/order records
On the screen for Vendor account details: Develop a data field entitled Overheads, with an input box that can take a percentage. This percentage indicates the percentage with which the value of each order linked to the vendor should be loaded automatically, with an override facility on the order record.
On the screen for creating a PO Line: Develop a data field entitled Overheads, with an input box that can take a percentage. This field should be populated automatically from the Overheads field on the associated vendor record, loading the value of the order with the percentage, with an override…
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Electronic Collection Type - One Time
Here the scenario. I use a B3Kat package title record per profile "Titelübernahme aus dem B3Kat". Then I create via MD editor a PO line for "Electronic Collection - One Time". The field "Electronic Collection type" include the value "Database". We would like to configure the standard value for new records.
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Pause function in PDA module needs to deactive e-portfolio not suppress bib record
The PDA (patron driven acquisition) module doesn't work as well as it could - for example reporting limitations and the inability to link to an existing electronic collection but the big problem for us is the Pause function. Currently when you Pause a PDA list the bib record is suppressed which can lead to resources available in print or in other electronic collections to be hidden. Can the Pause function deactivate the electronic portfolio instead?
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Item search in amazon. Can we add the webpage of our local vendor?
When we order books, we have to fill in the data in metadataeditor. Could we be able to search the homepage of our local supplier?
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Add Order button to Record View
Currently, only Copy, Link, Back and Edit are options in Record View. It would be nice to be able to "Order" an item while in record view, instead of needing to click on back and then order from the All Titles results list. Not only would this save clicks/mousing, it would substantially reduce the risk of accidentally ordering from the wrong record, then having to go through relinking everything.
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Currently in Technical Services Until...
In Acquisitions: When we use the "Post-Receiving Processing" scan to "Set Status To" a particular technical services area, it would be fantastic if we had the ability to give each area a specific default number of days the item will be in that area. For example: we're setting an item's status to be pam-bound in-house and when we scan that item's barcode to set its status to Pam Binding, the Alma system would automatically give it a certain number of days to be there. Alternatively, when we set a status for sending another item to our out-of-town bindery, the default…
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Item Search in Amazon
Acquisitions - Item Search in Amazon: Needs the ability to search for resources other than Books and Magazines (DVDs, Audiobooks, etc...)
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Title IVA recovered, type of invoice breakdown. We need another possibility in the Invoice form wich apear IVA RECOVERED. (100% electrónic,
Title IVA recovered, type of invoice breakdown. We need another possibility in the Invoice form wich apear IVA RECOVERED. (100% electrónic, 7% phisical)
Description We need another possibility in the Invoice form wich apear IVA RECOVERED. Our laws aloan to recovered a little quantity of this IVA (VAT) and we want ithis type of invoice breakdown1 vote -
PPDA issue: POL automatically created with Order line type: Physical – One Time upon clicking Approve and Order for PPDA requests.
DDA purchase request are one such requests created automatically through Primo and goes into Alma as a Purchase Request. The request is created automatically as opposed to one that is created by raising the PO Line. And the POL is automatically created with Order line type: Physical – One Time upon clicking Approve and Order for PPDA requests that the libray receives. We are not able to change the configuration on our side to Print Book – One Time and there is no option to change. In the February Enhancement 2018, there is a workaround, but it does not help…
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