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Add 385,386,655 to Alma export list
Please add columns to Alma Export to List (Excel) from these fields: Creator/ contributor term (386/a), Audience (385/a), and Genre/form (655/a,2). These fields are important to include to the list.
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error message
when you want to add a title into a collection, if this title already exists in the collection, an error message should appear "title already in the collection". It would be very useful.
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Having the ability to configure the presence of all available Licensing terms in the Repository Search in Alma
There are a number of License terms that appear in the Advanced Repository search that are not configurable, that is there is no option to stop them appearing as options to search under in a simple or advanced search.
We want to delete some of these terms from Advanced Search. We want to get rid of the terms that we're not using in our current Licensing workflows (they clog up the search). The terms we want to delete from the Advanced Search are not available to configure in the Alma Configuration Menu > Resources > Search Configuration > Search Indexes.
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Index 049 field.
We tie the OCLC holding library in the 049 closely to our Alma holding locations. Searching the text in the 049 field as keyword is quicker than an advanced search. If the idea below to allow free text searching of all MARC fields and subfields is implemented it would cover this request.
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Open second search box when "Advanced" is selected from persistent search
The default persistent search box in Alma is one line. For a more complex search, I click on "Advanced". I then (always) have to click on the plus sign to get a second row for additional critieria. I would like for the system to automatically open that second search box when "Advanced" is chosen. Thank you.
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Duplicate title analyis : able to detect duplication on 856
It would be good to be able able to detect duplication on the MARC 856 field
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Authority linking issue with bibliographic field 240
We'd request that when Alma links up bib field 240 with a uniform title entered in authority record, it should take into account of bibliographic contents in field 240 PLUS field 100 ALTOGETHER, and link these combined contents with uniform titles entered in authority records.
Currently, it links up the uniform title in field 240 only with authority record. So, those generic uniform titles e.g. Works, Poetry, etc. will be ambiguous, and do not have proper linking with their authority records established with author's name.
Details, please refer to Salesforce case # 823121
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Automatically deactivate any scheduling of repository import profiles when import method changed to Upload Files/s
When the import method of a repository import profile is changed to Upload File/s, any scheduling previously set for another import method should be automatically switched off.
Currently the scheduling status for FTP/OAI has to be manually changed to inactive, in addition to changing the import method.
This could easily be forgotten by staff making changes to import profiles and results in the scheduled metadata import jobs continuing to run and subsequently failing.
The process would be streamlined and more efficient if scheduling could be automatically removed when an import profile is changed to an import method which does not…
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function "back"
Metadata Editor: We miss the simple function of being able to undo the last steps when cataloging or editing records. In Aleph there was the function
CTRL + Z. This would be extremely helpful. The ability to restore an earlier version is not suitable for this.0 votesHello All,
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Publishing profiles should be able to produce valid MARCXML
The ability to produce valid MARCXML exports from publishing profiles, with the namespace included, would be useful.
Currently the "MARCXML" option produces a file that is not valid MARCXML. It doesn't include a namespace.
The rationale given by ExL Support for not including a namespace was that it would be possible for the user to use norm rules to change the data on export, in which case the data might not be valid, so they didn't want to include a namespace. In some cases it may be necessary for libraries to produce data exports that are not valid, but even…
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