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Expanding Task List
For resource sharing, the task list should include "Canceled by Staff". Specifically:
Borrowing requests - Canceled by Staff - assigned to you
Borrowing requests - Canceled by Staff - unassignedFor institutions which do not use an ILL package such as ILLiad, this is the only way to be informed that a request was unfilled besides manually searching in the Borrowing Requests field.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Add user notes to user_for_printing in letters XML
We use a hold shelf for most books, but some need to be sent by mail, and this is indicated in user notes.
Would be really useful if user notes could be included in the XML for letters like FulPlaceOnHoldShelfLetter and FulReasourceRequestSlipLetter. Then we could modify the output from these according to content found in the notes.
1 voteHello All,
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Keystrokes For Shortcut Ctrl+W (Close) Is Too Similar To Alt+W (Patron ID)
Ctrl+W Should Not Close The Window. It Is Too Easy To Mix It Up With Alt+W. Often a person is waiting to be helped and I accidentally use Ctrl+W instead of Alt+W to pull up the box to scan a patron's identification card and consequently the Alma Window closes, requiring me to find your web page and log-in again while the Patron stares at me getting frustrated.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Offer same Row Actions List options from the results list on both Scan In Items tabs
It would be useful to be able to cancel a request and edit items from the results list in the Change Item Information tab of Scan In Items, like you currently can from the Scan In Items tab. It's confusing that both editing items and cancelling requests necessitate a Scan In Item tab change.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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reading list automatic status
When working on a reading list from within Alma it would be useful if the status changed automically. For example when a member of staff chooses 'Work On' from the dropdown in actions list the status should change to 'Being Processed'. Currently this has to be done manually.
1 voteHello All,
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Support filtering in a task list to identify items with an empty status value
We have set up a work order department within the location 'Library Fulfilment', and within the tasks list there are 'items - in department', within this there are various items which do not have a process status applied yet and we note we are unable to filter this list to show those items which do not yet have a status.
We would like it to be possible to filter the task list so that only items with and empty process status would be displayed.1 voteHello All,
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Alert regarding Multiple chapters requested from one item by one patron
We would like an alert to let us know if a patron has placed multiple requests for chapters from one item. Copyright only allows for 10% or 1 chapter. As we are multicampus, it is hard to keep track of what a patron has requested to avoid breaching copyright.
1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Correct inaccurate "Loan Status" in Alma
If a patron requests a title that has multiple items when all available items are in loan,
all items will not be renewaled, because the request is pending.In "My Library" the remark is "cannot renewal", but at that time,
in Alma,the Loan status is shown as "Normal" for some items and "Recalled" for others.
All items of the title should be shown as "Recalled".We suggent to reflect the request data accuratelly on the Loan Status in Alma.
1 voteHello All,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Request data should be fowarded to available item immediately
The patron A requests on title-level that there are multiple available items,
one of those items will be in "pick from shelf" list.
Patron B might check out the requested item before staff picks it from shelf.
If the library has a policy that allows to override requests, Patron B can check it out
even if an alert is displayed.
In that case, even if there are other availble items, the request will remain under the first item
and the first item will still in "pick from shelf" list. Alma does not make a next action.If patron C accidentally…
1 voteHello All,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Alma Product Team
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Hope to have a separate Read-Only privilege for Users' contact information
The role "Circulation Desk Operator - Limited" lost the priviledge to check user's contact information after July release. To protect users' privacy and manage data, we cannot assign "privilege ： User Manage Update" to this limited role as it has right to change customer's information. However our librarians will need to check users' contact information frequently at the Circulation Desk. Requesting the contact information from higher level librarian will reduce the efficiency.
We hope to have a separate Read-Only privilege for Users' contact information, then we could assign this privilege to limited role based on our workflow.
1 voteHello All,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Alma Product Team
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Customize the position of the Patron information on the Patron services page
In the new Alma UI, the position of the Patron information on the Patron services page is on top or at the right of the page, depending on your screen resolution.
Our staff works with width screens, causing the Patron information to show on the right of the page.
We would like to have this information always on top of the page: currently we can't customize this.1 voteHello All,
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Alma Product Team
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Make "Borrowing patron" a customizable option on Scan In Items screen
When a book is scanned in from the Scan In Items page, there are some options under the Settings gear that be added to display more (or less) information. One of these should be to show the information on the borrowing patron and a link to Manage Fulfillment Activities or the Patron Record. I understand this is an available field on the "Return Items" page. However, there are times when I am scanning in books that I'm not sure if they are signed out or not. If I use the Return Items page I get a pop-up for every book…
1 voteHello All,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Alma Product Team
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More circulating rules and displays
The display of the elements of the Conditions of Use (TOU) in Primo VE offers only one choice: "loanable" or "non-loanable" (or other local labels). This poses a problem for us for the elements which we wish to communicate on site during the day and which must therefore not appear as borrowed to avoid misunderstandings (cf. computer equipment) but which we wish to lend without "override". At the other end of the spectrum, we have the confidential copies which must not appear with a mention as "communicable ..." either. These conditions of use should be displayed according to 4 modalities:…
1 voteHello All,
This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.
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Alma Product Team
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