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Establishment of stronger passwords for the creation of internal ALMA/Primo users
As an universities consortium from Galicia, CISUG, we are representing three member universities. Our univesrities have a security problem in the management the keys for internal users in Alma.
Alma's internal authentication system allows the user can create complex passwords, but this should be a requirement, not the user's responsibility as to whether they are secure or not.
Our request is that:
ALMA enforce passwords to be at least 8 characters long, and allow the system administrator to increase that minimum.ALMA allows to force mixed case, numbers, and special characters to créate paswords.
…Alma checks that the password is
53 votes -
Change e-mail sender address for Collection Contribution Letter
We have observed that Alma sends a “Collection Contribution Status Letter” for CZ contributions, which is different from the ones we can configure in our IZ letter administration. The letter that Alma sends comes from the “Alma Community Zone”, which prevents us from modifying any labels, HTML or sender addresses for these letters. This causes an issue for us because the e-mail sender is set to the Ex Libris’ default non-valid e-mail address “your.department@organization.com”. This sender address is flagged and filtered by our campus wide spam detection software.
We do not require a personalized or customizable sender address,…
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Hodder Education Magazines
I found the Hodder Education Magazines collection in the community zone
GLOBAL E-COLLECTION ID: 614900000000002715
E-COLLECTION NAME: HODDEREDUCATIONMAGAZINES
The 'Type' is Database but this should be a Selective package with portfolios attached. Please see the website: https://www.hoddereducation.com/magazines?campaignid=20731573436&adgroupid=154982214693&adid=678956359353&gad_source=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMInoXZqrevggMVVPh3Ch3vAQx7EAAYASAAEgJ2BvD_BwE.
Please can this collection be changed to selective package with portfolios to activate.3 votes -
attachement tab in e collection editor
can we have an attachements tab in e collection editor so we can attach useful docs/comms relevant to that source, thank you
3 votes -
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Selecting multiple courses at once when assigning them to a reading list
When I am "working on" a reading list, on the Courses tab, I can only associate one course at a time. Is there a way to make multiple course selections possible? An example would be how we can select multiple titles in the repository search when adding titles to a reading list.
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Increase the maximum 'page size' limit for a 'set of results'
Currently the 'page size' setting only allows a maximum of '20'. This means that whenever a search is conducted only the first 20 records can be displayed on the first page of the search results. We would like to be able to set a default of '50' or more, so that when a search is conducted on user records, statistical notes, courses, bibliographic records, etc. we can easily see all and or more results.
Please see the below knowledge article for more information about the 'page_size' field:1 vote -
Tables need an option to clear the default value
There are various code tables in Alma that prompt you to choose "Default Value -- Yes/No" when adding a row to the table. Once multiple rows have been added, it's possible to select one value to be the default value. However, once one value has been chosen as the default at any point in time, there is NO option to clear the default value (short of deleting the default value row which causes other problems). There are times when we don't want a default value but "Yes" was chosen by mistake when adding a new row.
One example of this…
17 votes -
add log information in the request view audit trail menu.
We hope to add the operation account and specific operation time for each operation in the request view audit trail menu.
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The warning information system of the new metadata editor can be directly displayed, or the librarian can be configured to display or not di
The warning information system of the new metadata editor can be displayed directly, or librarians can be configured to display or not display it. The current warning in your record requires manual clicking of the arrows at the back to appear, with each item being highlighted, seriously affecting the efficiency of cataloging.
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Add the Inventory price, Receiving date,Inventory date fields on the output results display
It is important for the acquistition staff to add the following items to the display options based on the output results display retrieved by the physical item:
Receiving date
Inventory date
Inventory price4 votes -
Workforms
Coming from Leap this is the most missed feature. Being able to have multiple tabs open, remembering recent patrons and item records opened, and switching back and forth without losing what I'm working on.
Ex. If I look up a patron's account and they ask me to look up an item, I shouldn't lose their account page when I go back to "Manage Patron Services".
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Archived Reading Lists show up in Reading List Tasks
When I archive reading lists, they show up in reading list task section and there isn't way to remove them from there. I don't need know that they've been archived, so it would be nice if they didn't show up in this area since I use it to monitor reading lists I'm currently working on. If there is a way to configure this, so they don't show up, I haven't been able to find any documentation for it. (Most of the time I get pointed to Leganto and we don't use it)
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Interested In Letter - Remove from preferred email
Could we please have this letter removed from the list of letters affected by:
"For some letters, such as several resource sharing letters, the From: address contains the library's email preferred address, if this address is configured. If the address is not configured, the letters use ILL@exlibrisgroup.com as the From address. The list of letters with this behavior is:"
It doesn't make sense that a letter triggered by an acquisitions workflow is lumped in with a bunch of (largely) resource sharing letters.
3 votes -
Toggle the copying of Configuration to Premium Sandbox
A recurring theme in NERS voting is the ability to maintain Premium Sandbox Configuration changes on refresh.
I suggest that instead of allowing for export and import of tables an extra toggle be added to the Premium Sandbox Configuration area. When this toggle is selected NONE of the configuration tables from the Production version are copied at refresh. This would allow sites who wish to maintain their sandbox changes to do so while sites that would prefer the overlay have the option. It would also be somewhat easier to code since it is an if/else in the current refresh workflow…2 votes -
Add a job that can set the CDI option collectively
We would like you to add a job to set "Activate for search in CDI" collectively for the electronic collection set of CZ.
Also, please add a job to batch update the following CDI options for the electronic collection set of IZ.
- CDI Search activation status
- We subscribe to only some titles in this collection
- CDI-only full text activation
- Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma58 votes -
Increase password strength requirements
Our institution's security protocols require certain password strength requirements that do not align with ExL's general password guidelines of 8 characters or greater. With the rise of identity theft and database exploits, ExL standards are not up to date with current guidelines. Our institutions minimum password requirements are:
i. Be at least 15 characters long
ii. Be no more than 127 characters long.
– Some applications limit the number of characters that can be used.
iii. Not be used for the user’s other accounts.
iv. Not consist of a common phrase.
v. Not be based on something that’s guessable by…9 votes -
Improve Primo view override function in Alma
The override function in the Configure Views section in Alma does not what one would expect, at least not for me.
It would be a lot better that you can override your default view with the settings of a newer view, but without irreversibly altering either and allowing to switch back, or use another view altogether.
And it should not only use the new settings, but also use it's customization package.
This way it's easy to update your default view with new settings and style while continuing to use the same view code.
3 votes -
Allow bulk updating of citation sources
It would be very helpful to be able to run a job to delete, add or update a set of citation sources in bulk.
3 votes
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