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  1. German Translation and Knowledge Base-Usability Enhancement

    There are many misunderstandable field translations in Alma.
    If these cannot be repaired ad hoc in the program itself, one could at least touch this up in the KB, so that the explanations help further.

    Analytics is mostly untranslated, except for some buttons.

    It would also be more user-friendly if the KB could be switched between English and German content at the current location via dropdown, without having to walk the path to the decisive location again.

    3 votes
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  2. Exclude results in "Facets"

    When viewing search results in Alma, it would be nice to easily exclude items based on their pre-determined facets. For example, showing all results except for those on loan. This can be accomplished via an advanced search as well, but it would be more convenient to have it available via the facets menu, similar to how it is in Primo.

    3 votes
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  3. Alt-Text Capability for Images in Alma-D

    To improve accessibility, libraries should be able to add alt-text to image files uploaded to Alma-D.

    3 votes
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  4. Add feature to change the background dark and the letters white in Alma

    Please develop a way to change the background dark and the letters white. Reworded in hopes of getting an update on the previous idea from 2019. At that time it was stated this feature would be on a future roadmap, but we haven't seen anything yet. This is an important feature for those of us who spend a lot of our work time in Alma.

    9 votes
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  5. Customizing search result sort options for Physical Titles/Holdings/Items searches

    When conducting a Physical Items/Holdings/Titles search in Alma, it would be ideal to have the capability to: change what the default sort options are; customize additional sort field options for the Primary and Secondary sorts so an institution may sort by any field in their catalog that they desire; hide sort options from the drop-down menu that are not needed or not used.

    1 vote
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  6. Add option for inventory's title to the "Interested In" letter

    When we receive items on a standing order POL, our interested users listed in the POL receive the standard "Interested In" letter notifying them that an item has been processed. However, when the standing order POL is attached to a brief bib for the series, the letter only gives the series title and not the individual item's analytic title. As a result, the interested user is only notified that a new item in that series has arrived, but not what that specific item is.

    The letter's XML does pull the individual item's call number through @@callNumber@@ : <xsl:value-of select="notification_data/poline_inventory/call_number"/>". Replicating…

    6 votes
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  7. Add the option to custom harvest the entire institution's SUSHI accounts

    We usually analyse the usage data of the whole previous year. In our "Monthly usage data" overview many reports failed. We have 100+ vendors with SUSHI accounts.

    To manually go to each vendor and custom harvest the year's usage data takes a long time.

    Please include the option to run a job that harvests ALL SUSHI data as a custom harvest.

    37 votes
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  8. (Option to) make an aborted search request permanent and prevent it from loading in the background

    Sometimes you hit the search button to early by mistake, starting a request that takes quite a long time to load. If you cancel this request and make a new request, the new one will often be completed earlier, giving you the right results. Yet the original request would continue to load in the background, making the results list to switch back to the wrong results.

    For example you are searching for "appendix" but hit enter after typing "a". Now you can cancel this request while it is loading, and do the right one for "appendix". Some time after you…

    5 votes
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  9. Import Special Characters from ILLiad to Alma's temporary item via NCIP Connection

    Special characters, such as in Asian, Arabic, and Slavic languages, turn into question marks (??????) when Alma's temporary item is created via the NCIP connection with ILLiad for incoming Borrowing Loan items. So, the patrons cannot tell which ILL item is which in their Primo library account, also Hold Slips are printed with "?????" as the titles and authors and very confusing for both staff and patrons.

    Because the API for ILLiad and Alma connection was created by a third party and is not going to be updated, please consider creating Exlibris' own API (ILLiad Addon) for the NCIP connection…

    17 votes
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  10. Having the possibility to change the drop-down menus’ default value in Alma

    It will be great having rights to change the drop-down values in the way we want and selecting the default value. For example, changing the default value of the fulfillment menus to Any Institution instead of My institution will help our team when searching for users. It will be less confusing for them.

    1 vote
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  11. Provide better bib relinking functions

    Provide better relinking functions. For example, when I need to move all the items (with multiple holdings) to another record, I need to transfer one holdings record at a time. It would be nice to be able to select the holdings records we want to move and relink them one time. Also when we are moving course reserve holdings from a short bib record to a full bib record the reading list does not update to the full bib record. I have to go into the reading list and remove the old bib and attach the new bib record to…

    6 votes
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  12. Improvement for label handling in letters

    Improved handling of labels in letters

    Add all labels in the selected language of the letter to the XML file (same structure as code-tables API). So in the XSLT stylesheet it can be referenced with XPATH and not with @@substituion.

    In this way, the power of XPATH and XSLT can also be used for labels.

    Example: QueryToPatronLetter (we only ever use line1): now each Patron Query Type must have a block with the same content. With labels in the data XML, it can be a block where the correct type is selected with XSLT and XPATH.

    It also makes it…

    3 votes
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  13. sorting of printouts queue should remain when logging off

    when the Printouts Queue opens, the three filters are always defined like this „Printout: All“ „Printed by: Me“ „Status: Pending“.We can of course make changes in the moment, but when we log out the next time we go to the Printouts Queue, the filters (All, Me, Pending) are back again.
    The Staff-Users have different needs here and have to change the filters every single time they log in. Is there a possibility to make these changes stay?
    The best option would be if the filters could be defined by the Staff-User themselves.
    The second best option: defined filters by ExLibris…

    3 votes
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  14. allow testing of Alma letters by specifying parameters rather than having to create the correct situation to trigger the letter

    Currently you need to create the 'real' situation in Alma in order to trigger a letter to send. E.g. in the case of making changes to the overdue and lost loan notification letter like sending a message every 2nd day, testing this in the sandbox means you need to setup a test scenario, then make sure you run the correct job every day to see what Alma will be doing. Instead, it would be great if there was a test dialogue that would allow you to specify letter specific relevant parameters, eg. in the above example which user, which items,…

    2 votes
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  15. Customizing the Citations section of the Alma task list

    Our staff members want to be able to easily locate citations with specific citation statuses and copyright statuses via the Alma Task List widget that are not currently included in the list. We therefore would like the ability to add additional or custom statuses to the options that appear in the Alma Citations task list (which then filters the citations list to just the citations matching those statuses).

    1 vote
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  16. Tasks Widget: Show 'Assigned to me' consistently in ALL Task Lists

    In the Tasks on the homepage, 'Purchase Requests' ALWAYS show any tasks 'assigned to me' when I expand the curtain.

    'Reading Lists' NEVER shows any tasks 'assigned to me' when I expand the curtain. There are often Reading Lists assigned to me, so it would be helpful to just be able to see that like with Purchase Requests, rather than having to look in on all reading lists every day.

    Same with Borrowing Requests, and Lending Requests. 'Assigned to me' does not show, whereas Electronic Resources assigned to me do appear.

    This variability in the conditions for display of 'assigned…

    2 votes
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  17. Correct "Print licence" functionality

    When we print the licenses the order of licence terms is not the same one that appears in Primo and in the Licence terms details.
    We would like to have a print with the same order of the licence terms details or to have the possibility to reorder its as we prefer

    9 votes
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  18. Create a "sticky note" widget for individualized staff notes.

    It would be helpful to have a "sticky note" type widget available on the Alma homepage so that staff could record personalized ideas/instructions/reminders to themselves about Alma-specific work.

    The simplest version could just be a plain text box where staff could add/delete text as desired. A fancier version could allow for multiple notes to be created, storing them each with a title and create date and listing them all in the Widget.

    If we get really crazy there could be a setting to enable the user to choose whether the note is a public note (for all other Alma users…

    81 votes
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  19. ""Display in Discovery" link should go to Primo view based on your location in Alma

    Currently if your Alma instance has multiple Primo views, you can only choose one for the ""Display in Discovery" link to go to. This can be incredibly frustrating for anyone needing to see the display in a different Primo view, as they have to edit the url.

    Every Alma user already has to choose a location when they log in. Therefore, Alma should be configurable to go to a specific Primo view based on the current location of the Alma user.

    25 votes
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  20. Improve UI of tables with many columns

    Working with citations I opened the "Available in other lists" table and got a view where the table headers are so tall that I could only see one line of actual content at a time. (See attached screenshot.) I eventually "solved" the issue by removing columns but that doesn't help if you actually need the columns. Someone on support who tried to help me "solved" it by having better eyes than me ;-) so being able to use a smaller font on their screen.

    Columns in these tables should have a fixed minimum width. When there are more columns than…

    3 votes
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