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Make list of configured circulation notices viewable to circulation desk staff
Circulation desk staff without administrative privileges have no way of knowing which circulation letters have been configured for a particular circulation desk or library branch, or what they will look like/what the "stock" text is when they are sent, without first creating test scenarios that will generate the relevant notices. It would be very helpful if a circulation desk supervisor could at least have a read-only list of notices for their area, and perhaps be able to preview each type of notice (again, read-only) so that they know what the notices will look like when rendered. This should be a…
4 votesHello All,
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calendar
It would be ideal if the exception and closed days would display in the calendar widget -- so that when we "Add record" we can choose the "Valid from" and "Valid to" dates.
1 voteHello All,
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Walk in user proxy function is need at institutional level
Our ALMA is institutional level ALMA. When our law library patron went into another institution library, as walk-in user, our patron can checked out book to himself. However, he cannot checked out the book for proxied user.
In another word, the proxy function is not there for walk-in user. Another library told us that the proxy check box is there, however the proxy drop down box is gone. Without this proxy drop down box, another library has no way to select proxied person.
This function is needed very much!
5 votesHello All,
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Enhance Alma to offer notes that are displayed for electronic resources to every user, campus member or non-campus member
We would like a way to display local holdings information on Primo for ebooks held by libraries from individual campuses.
We are 1 institution of Alma but have a number of libraries linked to Campuses across the institution.
Some of these campuses have their own local subscriptions to ebooks and we are unbale to display this information on Primo.
We have tried using the public note from the Notes field in the Electronic Portfolio Editor but this only displays when a patron from that Campus is logged in (we use OpenAthens to authenticate).
If a patron is outwith the campus…
3 votesHello All,
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Add SIP2 Bin rule parameter for Fulfillment Notes
It would be useful if the Alma internal SIP2 Bin rules were a little more granular, i.e. to help pass a different BIN number if there is a Fulfillment Note present.
Although there are SIP fields which can be used for this at the sorter machine logic level, it would be useful to be able to use Alma's own granular item information to distinguish the sort for requested or transiting items for those with fulfillment notes and those without.
No doubt other criteria could be asked for but the Fulfillment Note seems to be such a commonality to 'trapping' items…6 votesHello All,
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Include "replacement cost" field in Brief Citation form for reserve reading lists
Currently, when adding an item to a reserve reading list using the brief citation form, the replacement cost field is not available. This means that once the item is created, staff must locate it in the reading list, click "items", click "edit," then add the cost and save the record. The replacement cost field is very important when adding textbooks to reserves, since many of them far exceed the default replacement cost. The additional steps are detrimental to the reserves workflow.
5 votesHello All,
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Have the System Job Notification return a list of barcodes to show which items were skipped when running a job on an itemised (itemized) set
Use case: As part of our workflow we have to add a fulfilment note and an internal note to items in an itemised set. When creating the text for Internal Note 3, we specify that it only be done if the field is empty (so as not to overwrite an existing instruction, because there is no way currently to ADD text to an already-populated field). When running the job, we are told the quantity of items which were skipped (due to their already having text in Internal Note 3); it would be very useful if the report told us exactly…
1 voteHello All,
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new TOU: pickup in (permanent) owning library
We have different pickup-TOU:
- pickup in all libraries
- pickup in owning libraryIf an item with TUO "pickup in owning library" is transfered to a temporary library (ILL), the a user see as pickup location the (temporary) ILL-library and not the library that owned the item permanent.
to solve this, it should exist es new TOU:
"pickup in permant owning library"
Best regards
Michael Voss
6 votesHello All,
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Item checked out to another patron
When you check out an item to another patron, and you get the message that the item is already checked out to someone else, do you want to override?, make it so that when you select override, the item is removed from the user's record, and any fines waived. Now, the way it's set up, you have to stop what you're doing, and either backdate-checkin the item or check in the item and waive fines, and THEN complete the transaction with your current user. This is a huge waste of time. The item was almost always returned on time, and…
5 votesHello All,
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Make barcodes display on first reference in a title with fewer clicks.
Barcodes are used by staff to ensure we pick correct title. Please make it easier to find these without multiple clicks. Display full barcode, not part of it that you have to click or hover over to get. We use these for so many things. They should be easier to find in Alma with a minimal of clicks!
4 votesHello All,
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Simplify updating calendar
Currently, when adding a time to the calendar, users must click both "Apply Changes" and Save. This causes a lot of wasted staff time when they can't figure out why the changes they made were not applied. In the interest of efficiency, please make it so that users only click Apply Changes or Save, but not both.
8 votesHello All,
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hold renewals
I believe that it would be more efficient to patrons if we did not allow renewals on items requested as a hold by other patrons
4 votesHello All,
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Bulk reassignments of reading lists and "assigned to" features.
We would like to be able to select by check box multiple reading lists or select all to reassign them instead of having to reassign each one manually. If a staff member leaves, everything needs to be reassigned to the replacing staff.
5 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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Prevent notices from being sent when using "return items" - have notices sent to users only after using "Scan In"
Once we switch from the classic to the new UI, we've discovered that when we check items in using "return items" hold notices are sent to patrons automatically. Previously, notices were not triggered until we used the "Scan In" option. The item location would appear as "on the holdshelf" regardless, so this is just about notices only. Since there may be reasons why an item may not be ready for patron use (e.g., missing parts / damages / repairs needed, etc), we'd like to have the ability to address those issues before the patron is informed that an item is…
2 votesHello All,
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Allow Alma to allow renewals if a certain number of copies are "In Place"
We circulate short loan laptops and equipment but have a threshold that needs to be in stock before we will manually renew for users. As a result, we need to mediate renewals. It would be great if Alma could do this automatically so we could allow self-renewals of short loan equipment.
16 votesHello All,
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Ability to Type Over Date For Physical Item/Booking Request
When creating a Physical Item Request or a Booking for a future day and time for a patron, I think it would be nice if you could just type in the date and time as opposed to having to wipe the existing date and time or click around on the calendar.
5 votesHello All,
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1 vote
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Title-level request and item-level request
Currently it is only possible to configure either item-level-requests OR title-level requests in Alma for Primo . We request the possibility to configure title-level-requests in the terms of use when specific parameters are met, for example when all items are located in a certain location.
255 votesHi,
Alma Fulfillment manages requests as title level, which is the easiest requesting option for the patrons. The request form allows to specify specific required terms of use or material types. If there are specific items that should be requestable on the item level, Alma expects their unique attribute to be described in the Description field. That will make them requestable at the item level.
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Automatically populate Material Type and Terms of use dropdowns in request forms
In the physical request form in Primo it is common for there to be a single value in the Material Type and Terms of Use dropdowns. It is common for users to click on these dropdowns to see what the options are only to find there is only a single value to choose from.
When there is only a single value to choose from it would be nice if The Material Type and Terms of Use fields were displayed to the user as not editable and with no dropdown displayed. This would save the user having to click into the…
4 votesHello All,
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