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  1. Modify predictive pattern template season capitalization, SS chron fields.

    We are wanting to modify the template that holds the formatting for the Season - SS chron fields- so that it follows the rules in RDA and AACR2.

    21 - Spring
    22 - Summer
    23 - Autumn
    24 - Winter

    to

    21 - spring
    22 - summer
    23 - autumn
    24 - winter

    Thank you for reviewing this request.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  2. Add ability to see name associated with user ID in MD Editor

    User IDs are visible in MD Editor for "Created by" and "Modified by", but unlike other pages, there is no way to quickly see the name associated with that ID. Currently, one must leave the record and search the Users index for that number to get the person's name.

    There should be a clickable icon like you see on the Monitor Jobs screen that shows you the name associated with the ID.

    2 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  3. Move Browse bib headings and shelf listings function away from MD Editor

    Currently the Browse functions stick to MD Editor. And this poses too many restrictions to browsing. Please consider making browsing easier, and make it independent from MD Editor, and instead, incorporate browsing into normal simple and advanced repository searching.

    The major disadvantages of doing browsing within MD Editor are:
    1. Space constraint: the MD Editor does not have much space for results display
    2. Too many parameters to choose e.g. vocabulary, IZ vs. NZ

    6 votes
    1 comment  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  4. Add Back to results button to Browse bib headings after Editing each record

    Currently if we want to edit an author name form, and use the Browse bib heading function, Alma will give a list of records with the author name. But if we want to edit the bib records, after clicking Edit, there is no Back to results button. So it is very difficult if the list of records is very long.

    There is the Back to results button if we choose to view the record. But often we need to edit the bib records also. Please consider adding this Back to results button and all navigation options as many as possible…

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  5. Designate location for Restore Temporary Shelved Items job

    We've recently begun investigating Due Back Date functionality and using the Requests - Restore Temporary Shelved Items job to help manage restoring temporarily shelved items more consistently and less manually. Currently, there is no option to designate a specific temporary location for the Requests - Restore Temporary Shelved Items job to pull from, so All items in a temporary location with a due back date in the past are processed with this job.

    Due Back dates are assigned to course reserve items placed in a temporary location, resources sharing items in temporary locations, and items in other temporary locations such…

    5 votes
    3 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  6. 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

    0 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  7. More sophisticated functionality in the Duplicate Title Analysis function

    The Duplicate Title Analysis functionality does not allow you to clear previous duplicates when you run a new job.

    For example, you may run a job to find duplicate titles. You investigate those titles and decide that they are not problems for your library, so you wish to leave those titles in Alma, but you don't want them to come up on the next Duplicate Analysis title job.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  8. Run a job on a collection

    When we want to run a job on all the titles/portfolios in a collection we should be able to run a job on those contents without having to put the contents into a set first

    3 votes
    1 comment  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  9. Email CZ Contributor

    When a library contributes a portfolio to a CZ e-collection and there is an issue with the portfolio, Ex Libris Support is unable to update the error because of the policy in place for local contributions. Would it be possible to have the contributor add their email address to the contribution so errors could be reported to the contributing library? A link similar to Report to Ex Libris could be added, Report to Contribution Library. It isn't easy to locate someone at a contributing library to notify them of the an error with the portfolio.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  10. Update the Email address

    I wish to update the student email address (appr 3000 records) in one time. I am having in excel format. Currently not supporting need to update one by one.

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  11. MD Editor restrict release

    We'd like for the ability to release records locked by another staffer to be limited to the Cataloger Extended or Cataloger Manager role, to ensure that not everyone can release records that others may be working on, at will.

    Thank you,
    Erika Quintana

    10 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  12. Should be prevented from saving a bib or holdings record where a non-repeateable field/subfield is repeated.

    One specific example which just came to light while testing something is the holdings 852 field, which (unlike the bib 852) is NOT repeateable. Alma does not generate an alert in the ME and will save the record with the repeated field (tracking ID E05-2906180135-S9VHD-GENERAL)

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  13. Automatically tick the checkboxes in the "run a job" screen when entering text in the accompanying field, or...

    When running a job and adding a fulfilment note to items in a set I have occasionally added text in the relevant field but forgotten to tick the checkbox next to it so that that running the job has had no effect.

    It would be really useful if one of the two follow scenarios could be implemented to avoid this happening:

    EITHER have the system automatically tick the checkbox when text is entered into the accompanying field. After all, if a user has entered text deliberately then it is because s/he wants that field to be populated and hence wants…

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  14. Making Alma Job Reports for Failed Record ("Total record not imported / deleted" ) more visible

    We schedule our import profiles as much as we can. However, monitoring "failed record" is hard to follow:

    When there are "records not imported" for whatever the reason, Alma's Monitor job History states "Completed Successfully" and
    Import profile states: "File Processed" 100%

    One has to look deeper into every scheduled Report to see if there are any "Total record not imported / deleted" and fix those faile records.

    If the data of "Total record not imported / deleted" could be pulled and displayed as one of the Columns under "Monitor jobs" - monitoring staff will only need to check reports…

    6 votes
    1 comment  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  15. Ability to see inventory of matched records in 'Side by Side Matching'

    It would be very helpful to be able to see the inventory for matched records in 'Side by Side Matching' when working on records with import issues. Currently, it's necessary for me to have Alma open in a second browser and search for each matched title to see which collection the title belongs to, which then influences my decision on how to deal with the new record. This is shown if there is more than one match, but it would be great if it was shown for single matches as well.

    15 votes
    2 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  16. relinking

    Relinking monographs is clumsy, time consuming, and inefficient.

    Add an option to search by MMS ID or OCLC Number in the NZ during the split screen search.

    An automatic prompt asking whether to suppress or delete the old record from the IZ zone (upon saving) would be helpful.

    3 votes
    2 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  17. About the default inventory when view inventory in Metadata Editor

    When I click "view inventory" in Metadata Editor, if there are print holdings and electronic portfolios connected with the bib, the default inventory show the electronic portfolios.

    I think the deault inventory showed should be holdings. Because we seldom edit portfolios in metadata editory.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  18. 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.

    0 votes
    1 comment  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  19. Allow full customisation of the keyword index

    Since every institution has a different idea of what constitutes a "key" word, we would greatly appreciate the ability to customise the keyword index for ourselves. A table to allow us to add and remove MARC fields and subfields would be in keeping with much of Alma's back office design.

    15 votes
    0 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

  20. Results from "Browse Shelf Listing" and "Browse Bibliographic Headings" searches should be exportable

    When you do a search using "Browse Shelf Listing" and "Browse Bibliographic Headings", the results show up in an editor that does not give you the option to export the search results. The results from these searches are hard (or impossible) to replicate using a search or analytics.

    14 votes
    2 comments  ·  Resource Management - General  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminErez Shabo (Senior Product Owner, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 20 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Alma.

    Alma Product Team

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