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Easier Toggling Between Modules
Add the ability the quickly toggle between commonly used modules, like check-in and manage patron services. OCLC's WMS does this very well and allows a much faster workflow.
3 votesHello All,
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Offer option to prevent website automatic log out after idle time.
Offer option to prevent website automatic log out after idle time.
3 votesHello All,
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Improve Navigation to Allow Switching Between Tasks
There should be a way to quickly move between tasks in Alma without having to start from scratch. If I'm in a user record and go search for an item barcode, I should be able to get back to the user record in a single click, without having to search again. WMS provides this functionality and it's really helpful. Essentially breadcrumbs that track ones work in the system so you can quickly pull up something you were working on even hours before.
3 votesHello All,
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Facetting, RESEARCH
Facetting: to display the current publishing year at the top and not at the end of the list. The librarian should descide if he wants the Facetting of the YEAR shown from.
In our library its Always the most recent published books we are interessted in.3 votesHello All,
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Change "Orders" link to improve user accessibility
The "Orders" link that appears in the title information after a repository search needs to be improved to address accessibility concerns. Currently, the only "clickable" part of the link is the small number beside the shopping cart and 'Orders' icon. Please consider making this link bigger or the entire shopping cart - orders - and number be "clickable". This would make it accessible for people who have fine motor challenges, as it is difficult to get the mouse to a very small piece of clickable text.
3 votesHello All,
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Option to customise Alma labels from US to UK (or AU) English
We are new to Alma and have identified that we would like to be able to customise language in Alma to be AU English, instead of US English, the way we can with Summon (and Primo).
Our current ILMS which we are migrating from allows us to change the display wording for options, and it is a very 1990s sort of ILMS. I would like to see this functionality added to Alma too.
3 votesHello All,
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E-resource trial reporting
Include additional fields, result, result reason and purchase decision data, for E-resource trials, for export or in analytics.
3 votesHello All,
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Add option to continue using old layout
The new layout is not as easy to use as the old layout. I would much rather have the option to continue using the old layout. Thank you.
3 votesThe new layout has many benefits and already 88% of the users are using it. Specific feedback on elements that can be improved is most welcome. If a bug is detected please open a case according to regular support process
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Give us back the old menus from last month!
That was a very abrupt break. I am not an advanced Alma user by any standard, and this change has me somewhat floundering! We have a small staff consisting of 2.5 FTEs and two student work studies and this was not well-received. It would have been one thing to make the original menu bar hidden and easily retrieved, but to remove it altogether was a bad move. And I'm coming from the perspective of over 3 decades in software development and system administration/help desk.
3 votesWe are working collaboratively with the Customers Alma UX Focus Group on the new layout. The new layout has many benefits and already 88% of the users are using it. Specific feedback on elements that can be improved is most welcome. If a bug is detected please open a case according to the regular support process. We will keep adjusting the menu behavior according to customers’ needs.
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Add Access Type to Customize View
I love the option to customize my view and choose what info is displayed under portfolios and collections in my search results. It would be very useful to be able to display the Access Type: Current, Perpetual, or Current and Perpetual. Right now we need to open the record and navigate to the field.
Please add Access Type as a field we can choose to see.
3 votesHello All,
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Configuring the Alma Services Page
I would like to move the "View Online" section above the "Send To" section on the journal search results page (Alma Services Page). While I can reorder the other sections on that page, I am not able to move the "Send To" section.
3 votesHello All,
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Alma / Primo VE: Configuration - Including the category headings in search results
The configuration's search function in Alma and Primo VE allows us to find specific components. However the category headings are not included in the search results. For example, if I search for Letters, I only get Letters Configuration but not Components Configuration (which is under the Letters heading)
Adding the category headings and all their entries to the search index & results might help improve findability of certain configuration screens.
3 votesHello All,
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Enable to change "Set content type" when editing a set.
Enable to change "Set content type" when editing a set.
3 votesHello All,
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Accessibilty issues
I suggest ( and personally need) the possibility to adapt the layout to people with visual challenges. I have a limitation of the visus from both eyes to the left side (emianopsia) and I would work better if I could move the toolbar to the right and adapt the screen size (mantaining its proportions).
3 votesHello All,
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Make Holdings information available in the Job Report
The Job Report page which can be navigated to via, for example, Monitor & View Imports is useful, but would be better still if data pertaining to imported-in holdings were also added.
The Physical Items pull-down lists total physical items imported, added and updated; and as the successful maintenance and troubleshooting of issues regarding holdings is arguably as important (to us, at least) as that for bibliographic records and items, it would be appreciated to see similar numerical indications of how successful attempted holdings updates have proven.
2 votesHello All,
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Stop the difference in the item display between Alma and Primo when the description field is filled in
I would like to see all monograph items display as such in the Primo location tab.
Currently if an item (even if tagged elsewhere as a one time monograph) contains anything in the Items description field Primo is treating the item as a serial.
For an explanation of how Primo does this see the following knowledge center article: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Knowledge_Articles/Difference_in_the_item_display_between_Alma_and_Primo_when_the_description_field_is_filled_inThis is a problem as it prevents users from easily seeing the availability information.
See for example the attached screenshot where the number of available titles does not display.Please change the logic in Primo so that it does not treat…
2 votesHello All,
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Make ID fields for which a barcode scanner can be used, programmable to omit first or last characters read in by scanner.
We import user records for 4 campuses. One campus uses a 9 in front of the student's primary id which can be scanned into Alma. Getting barcode readers to modify a scanned string is difficult, especially on older readers. It would be great if somewhere in the institution parameters, the Primary ID field could be programmed to omit first character only when scanned in using a barcode reader. Ideally, this programming would allow someone to define the parameters so that you could tell Alma, read in from scan digits 1-9, 2-9, 2-8, etc. as there are often alpha/numeric prefixes and…
2 votesHello All,
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Add Process Note as extra column on the In Process Items screen
Add Process Note (for e.g. Binding Work Order Type) as an extra column to the In Process Items screen.
2 votesHello All,
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Add link to 'note' tab in actions menu
We quite often have to add notes to electronic collection records that advise users of outages. Some vendors have nearly 100 collections in their inventory that each need to be updated when there's an outage.
It would be less time-consuming to add a note to multiple records if there was a link to the note tab in the 'actions' menu.
2 votesHello All,
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Scroll-up button in a list of items
Currently there is in Alma only a scroll down botton when there is a long list of items. Is there any way to add a scroll up button (in order to the beginning of the list)?
2 votesHello All,
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