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Ability to amend the Reason MappingTable
Currently if an item has its due date shortened due to a Recall or a Patron Expiry the text provided to the end user, via the shortened loan due date letter, is not customisable. There doesn't appear to be a Reason Mapping table, so the text for the RECALL or PATRONEXPIRY reasons is somethign we have no control over.
It would be really useful to be able to amend these .14 votesHello All,
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Allow non-circulation desk service units to re-shelve items
Right now only circulation desks can re-shelve items after they've been received. You can set up a circ desk to receive, but it would be nice if you could also set up a non-circ desk service unit to re-shelve.
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Ability to see all holdings when viewing citations in a reading list
Currently a maximum of 3 Holdings is displayed for citations in a reading list. This means operators won’t see the details of all copies the library holds if there are more than 3 types of Holding. Viewing complete information is important for operators reviewing a reading list.
Furthermore, this default display of 3 Holdings is based on Availability therefore operators are likely to see information for materials held in lesser reference collections (these are always available!) rather than information for stock held in more popular lending collections.
Libraries should be allowed to set their own limit.13 votesHello All,
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Provide gender in search results of patron search
In the Manage Service Patron, when searching for a patron, it would be useful if the search results included the patron's gender (if it’s known) so that library staff can address the right pronoun to the user in front of them and thus avoid misgendering .
13 votesHello All,
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Configure better functionality (letters and fining) to calculate a new due date for an overdue item when it has been recalled
In an institution where we do not use automated renewals, we encounter instances where patron 1 has an item and allowed it to get overdue but it is then recalled. The letter that goes out does not use our configurations to calculate a new due date from the date of the request and it starts to calculate fines immediately. This causes much patron distress as they can't go back into the past to return the item, nor are they informed that there might be a grace period to return the item. Staff then also have to follow up (if they…
12 votesHello All,
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Borrowing Activity Report Job – send to smaller sub-sets of borrowers
Once letters have been sent, this generates a glut of borrower loan and fine queries all at the same time.
Need an ability to send the letters in smaller sub-sets in order to even out the follow-up enquiries to not all be at the same time.
For example, vary the day sent according to User Group12 votesHello All,
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Be blocked due to overdue but can be renewal
If I had loaned more than one item, one of them be blocked due to overdue so I cant renewal.
Can I renewal another items？12 votesHello All,
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Add "Call Number" to the item information box when creating Brief records in reading lists.
When creating Brief records, a box for call number is missing under Item Information. An extra step is necessary to add it by 'changing item information' in the 'scan in items' function. Brief records are also missing "Replacement Cost". When creating records for personal copies I use:
Title, Author, Call #, Barcode, Material Type, Collection, Item Policy, Replacement Cost11 votesHello All,
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Make notes in task lists of in-process items visible by hovering the mouse pointer over the tick
Currently in the task list of in-process items there is a green tick in the "notes" column indicating when an item has a note. Unfortunately there is no quick way to see the content of said note except by clicking on the "dots" button and choosing "edit". It would be great if the note were displayed simply by hovering the mouse pointer over the green tick.
11 votesHello All,
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'recently viewed patron accounts' option
Have option for 'recently viewed patron accounts'. Our previous LMS remembered the last five (if I remember correctly) patron accounts recently viewed. This will avoid the frustration of accounts timing out whilst still dealing with the patrons query, for example.
10 votesHello All,
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Create formatting for easily readable printing/PDF of Reading Lists and Pick from shelf lists
Our reserves team would greatly benefit from having a printable or downloadable PDF option of a full reading list. Currently, you can export the list to an excel sheet, but this is not easily readable or convenient for printing/otherwise storing data from past semester's requests. Additionally, it would be excellent if a similar option were available in Pick from Shelf. To pull items now, we need a printed sheet for each book, which is wasteful and redundant. If there were a single function to print the book info on a full list of needed items, it would save a lot…
10 votesHello All,
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Add additonal payment information options to circulation desk configuration, ed: Student ID
Some institutions allow users to pay fees with funds loaded onto their student ID. This should be an available option when configuring payment options.
10 votesHello All,
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Why no 'last edit' history with operator and date in User Notes?
We would like to query why there is currently no way to tell who has edited a User Note; rather only the Created By and Creation Date are recorded?
Are there plans to improve this? Or if not, can this be considered for an enhancement request, in order that Fulfillment staff may add and edit notes and be able to follow the progress of such amendments from the data logged.
Currently the only way to see a trail of updates is to add freetext in the notes themselves, or else recreate a note each time an update occurs.
An enhancement…8 votesHello All,
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Overdue notification blocks - remove automatically when overdue item is returned
When a patron gets the 3rd overdue notification (after 21 days), we would like the account to be blocked. When the overdue item is returned, we would like the block to be removed. If several items are overdue for 21 days or more, the block should be removed when the last overdue item is returned.
When a patron gets the 3rd overdue notification (after 21 days), we would like the account to be blocked. When the overdue item is returned, we would like the block to be removed. If several items are overdue for 21 days or more, the block…
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Add open for edit option to patron query types emails
Add open for edit option to patron query types emails, so that patron query types can be sent to other email address as well as the patron. As this only works in patron query templates.
9 votesHello All,
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Include description column for items checked out by a patron on the patron record
We check out equipment to patrons such as laptops, cameras, etc. All the parts have the same description number. It would be very helpful when viewing what the patron has checked out not only to see the title, barcode, etc. but also the description number. If we want to know what the description is of an item currently we have to hover over the title to get that information. When downloading the items onto the excel spreadsheet we need a column for the description so that we don't have to make our own column.
9 votesHello All,
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Create the ability to delete or disable individual demerit points from the Demerit tab on the User Details page.
Currently it’s only possible to disable or delete a demerit block once the demerit threshold has been reached. There are problems with this as when a patron disputes a demerit point the library is unable to disable or delete the point and are instead having to monitor the patron’s demerits and disable or delete the complete block once or if it’s applied. Having the ability to disable or delete individual demerit points would rectify this problem.
9 votesHello All,
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Change override return date and time default value.
Hi,
Hope that there has a way to change the default time that comes up on "Override return date and time" from 00:00 to 23:59?
Otherwise, it's an extra step for our staff backdating returns.
8 votesHello All,
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Include Barcode in Reading List Search Results
If a user performs a search in Fulfilment > Course Reserves > Reading List > All tab for a course, book titles are listed, and the record shows there are 2 Physical copies. Clicking to see the 2 copies, the barcode number is not displayed.
By contrast, searching Physical Items, barcode is clearly visible on the results screen by default.
It would be very, very helpful to have the barcode displayed, in order to distinguish items more clearly. For example, the barcode column could replace the “Accession Number” field that is displayed, or it could be added as a custom…
8 votesHello All,
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Provide controls to prevent expired users from being sent Alma generated emails
Currently, when it comes to sending emails, Alma does not distinguish between current and expired users. For the weekly statement, this can result in a huge numbers of non-delivery reports (bounce emails) where the expired users' email account has been removed. Because Alma is generating so many failing messages within a short period of time, this can result in further non-delivery reports failing to be delivered.
Alma should provide controls, preferably fine-grained as well as global, to prevent expired users from being sent emails.
8 votesHello All,
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