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Patron contact info - more fields?
Adding discretionally more fields (i.e. city, see city.jpg) to the fields displayed in the user details - contact info panel
(see user_details.jpg for the fields available at now...) would be a great thing...:=)1 voteHello All,
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User Group fee
I would like it to be possible for a fee to be added to a user record when a certain user group is selected, eg.Postal Loans. The patrons are not imported with this user type - it is changed when they make the request to receive loans by post. There is currently no functionality that allows a fee to be added automatically when a new User group is manually selected.
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Order the toolbar
For each user the order of "Manage patrons", "Return items", and "Scan in items" is in a different order. You should be able to arrange these so that it is the same for each user.
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See user's Institution Id in drop down menu
Our request concerns the display in the Patron Identification form
Currently, when searching for a user in Scan Patron's ID or search for patron, a pop-up appears with the name, the group and the Primary identifier displayed for each user.
We would like the user's Institution ID to be displayed as well.
Alternatively we would like the admin can choose whether to display the primary identifier or institution id.1 voteHello All,
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Patron tab customization
We would like to be able to customize tab labels in the patron folder. In fact, in french "Audit" is not very appropriated. We'll prefere "Modif. lecteur".
Is it possible to offer the possibility to ajust label directly by the Alma administration Interface?
Or/And to change the name of the Audit tab in the french interface "Modif. lecteur".
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Give institutions the ability to have local versions of user roles
We have just gone live and I'm setting up accounts for our liaison librarians. I'd like to create a copy of the Purchase Request Operator role to use with liaisons. I'd like fewer permissions than the canned version but I can't have ExL edit the current one because other staff need the role as it is currently. I think we should be able to make a local version of a user role that can then be edited without changing the canned user role. That or just let us keep the Selector role so I can have that edited.
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General Mail Attachments
Could the General Mail facility be amended to allow staff to add attachments to an email sent to a patron via the USer Management screen?
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How about sending or allowing to send e-mails to users that previously booked any material from the library?
Please, configure ALMA to send e-amils to users that made a booking or let the librarians to do it manually.
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warning when saving changes in patron record before closing record
When editing a user record, it would be helpful to get a warning pop-up if you try to close the record without saving it. Sometimes when you get interrupted, it's very easy to just close the record without saving the change.
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Add the code to the list of Statistical Category while adding statistic for user
While adding statistic for user, Alma only shows the description in the list of Statistical Category. We would like to show the code and description both together in order to filter the value by code easily.
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Batch deletion of notifications by date or letter type
I notice that I have 356 system job notifications in the attachments tab of my Alma account. Apparently these can only be deleted one at a time, which would take at least an hour or so. It doesn't appear in the letter retention section, so please could you introduce an option to batch delete these?
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Add payment method column to Fines and Fees Details view
On the user details screen on the Fines and Fees tab in the Fines and Fees Details view it would be helpful if the column Payment Method was given as a possible column to view.
1 voteHello All,
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Improve how operator transactions/history is displayed throughout system due to privacy concerns
Operator identifiers are displayed throughout the system in various places, such as History and Notes tabs and the Receiving Operator field in the Physical Item Editor. These display as the operator's employee number, which has been raised by staff as a privacy concern. Currently, configuration can be set to disable this display only in the History tab, and only for users that do not have Manager or Administrator roles assigned to them. This is problematic for several reasons:
- Privacy concerns being raised by staff that their employee id is viewable by other users throughout the system
- "Hide" function…1 voteHello All,
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Ability to Disable the Dispute Functionality for Fine/Fee
Feature Requested:
An option to turn off the ‘Dispute’ functionality for fines and fees.Use Case:
With middleware connected to Alma and our university, anything that is done in Alma needs to be propagated to the rest of campus. Since there is not a need for the dispute functionality, we have not written any middleware on handling the dispute if it were to come in through the web hook. Currently, we are training staff to just not use the dispute functionality. It would be ideal to just turn off that option so that there is not a chance of discrepancy…1 voteHello All,
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Having "nested" user records for users with dual or multiple statuses
I think that it would be useful for user records to have the option to have "nested" records where you have one user with one user profile, but under that profile, they have 2 or more identity profiles that contain other data that is linked to their different statuses.
The only parallel I can think of for it is when you have one bibliographic record and multiple item records attached to that one bib. record. All of them have the same main information, but individual record identities below.
This would be helpful because we have users that are current students…
1 voteHello All,
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home page notifications not to be linked to General admin role
currently only General Administrators can create Alma home page notifications. these notifications are very useful for operators e.g. issue desk staff, and it would make more sense to allow area managers the creation of these notifications. General Admin gives you access to some very complicated admin functionality, which we'd rather not make accessible to staff who shouldn't have access.
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