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Ability to exclude records with a linked inventory when doing a search All titles "Has inventory" equals "No"
Bibliographic records related to the holding of another bibliographic record should not be considered without inventory
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Add printable shelf list functionality to MDE 'Browse Shelf Listing'
There is a need for a convenient Shelf List tool for libraries to conduct inventory / shelf reading projects for physical items. A logical place for this would be the Browse Shelf Listing function of the Metadata Editor. What's needed is the ability to enter a range of beginning and end call numbers, and make the result set printable from that screen.
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Ability to combine two or more existing items into a kit without losing POL information
If there's a way to do this, I can't find it.
What I would like to have is to take existing/previously received items (presumably with their own barcodes) and then combine them under one barcode as a kit. In theory, you can use "Bond Items" to do this, but the problem is that you effectively lose your POL receiving info (as well as all other individual item info) from the combined items. In my organization's case, this can cause an issue for the auditing department if the is a question or issue involving one of the merged items since there…3 votes -
Add process type (work order) and update call number to Repository Import profile
I know there are two jobs available - create physical items work order and update call number from bibliographic - that can be done with item sets.
But why not make it easier so we can do these two things with the Repository import profile?
It would be a huge timesaver if the physical mapping has these options:
Assign Process type (work orders)
Update holdings call number without creating new holdings record/item records when using the repository import profile.
Thank you.
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Apply different Physical Item Sort Routines to different material types
It would be useful to to apply a different sort routine to different item formats. So for example, we'd prefer books to sort by description ascending, but journals to sort by description descending.
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Enable default "At" department selection for Process Type in Physical Item Editor
To change the Process type in the physical item editor, you have to select Process type, then the "At" dropdown. Instead of clicking on the dropdown and selecting the department, it will be much easier if there's always a default selection. Please make this possible as repetitive data entry is a pain point in the physical item editor. I know it's possible to do this in batch using an Alma job. But some staff just cannot handle or have permissions to run jobs to make item changes.
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Maintain membership to physical collections when merging bibliographic records
Currently in the MD Editor, when merging bibliographic records, if the non-surviving bib record was included in a collection the membership to the collection is lost. The problem is made worse by the fact that operator will probably be made aware of the matching duplicate record at the point of saving the bib; at this stage only the duplicate bib record is displayed, there is no indication that it has been included as part of a collection.
The bibliographic merging process in the MD Editor should be improved to take account of records included in physical collections, transferring membership of…
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Add "number of renewals" as a unit of measure for configuring maximum renewal period
Telling patrons that something can be renewed a maximum of one, three, or six times is much clearer than explaining a renewal period, and patrons are often caught off guard when a renewal goes through for fewer days than usual. Adding "number of renewals" as an option for configuring maximum renewal would greatly cut back on confusion.
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Add Reporting Codes and Dates to Items screen
Reporting Codes can be applied to POLs only.
Reporting codes and dates allow libraries the freedom to set codes and manage items.
For example, items can set Funds when it is no longer linked to a POLs with Change holding.
Also, missing book codes and date can be entered in case of a missing book.
Allowing Reporting codes, or some similar code, to be applied to Items would add a great deal of flexibility and utility to an already good idea.3 votes -
Item Statistics Notes fields - choose controlled/not controlled individually
At present it is possible to choose for all three of the Item Statistics Notes to be controlled (i.e. select field contents from a drop-down list) or for all three not to be controlled (i.e. free text).
This is restrictive and inflexible. It would be preferable to be able to choose field by field which are controlled and which are not, i.e. have some of the Statistics Notes free text and others controlled.
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Physical Item Editor - activate Confirm button upon Save action
In the Physical Item Editor, upon Clicking the Save button, please automatically activate as default the "Confirm" button in the Confirmation Message pop-up window.
In the same way that all other Confirmation Message pop-up windows already have the Confirm button activated, so all you have to do is hit the enter key to select it. (Instead of having to make another click on the Confirm button.) This would help improve efficiency.2 votes -
It would be helpful to have small checkboxes in the holdings records next to each line item
It would be helpful to be able to delete or move multiple line items in a holdings record at the same time as we are able to do in the inventory records. A line at a time is very time consuming when we transfer large numbers of items from one library to another.
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Ability to select more than one set to run a job
I can only select one set when I run a job. As processing shelf reports and adding statuses via the shelf report function, I should be able to run the same job on multiple sets at one time. It's frustrating to have to keeping running the same job over and over for each set.
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When entering periodicals, I can only choose a precise date under "Issue date". This is not working for all periodicals
Not all periodicals have precise issue dates. Some are seasonal (like Fall, winter, Spring and Summer), some are by quarters (1st quarter, 2nd quarter...) some have are weekly issues, ... Alma doesn't give the choice for these particular periodicals.
We need more date options to reflect the issue's period. Even something like Issue date: From X date to Y date, would be more accurate than what the date option actually offered in Alma right now.
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Link to list of holdings from the results list of titles
The Holdings button in the row actions menu takes a user to the MARC record view of the holdings record if there is only one holding but you go to the list of holdings page if there is more than one holdings on a bib.
Clicking on the Items button in the row action menu always takes the user to the list of items page no matter how many items there are.
The Associate a PO line row actions option that can only be accessed from this menu takes multiple steps to access if there is only one holding on…
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Resource Search Brief record's displayed fields
When performing Resource Search for external resources, the edition statement or series name is not displayed.
However, Alma does show these when searching for records internally by adjusting "Manage column display", which makes it easy to know what record we are dealing with.
If a record is known to have an edition statement or series statement, it should be displayed in external resource search as to make it easy to identify the records without having to open them one by one to check such information.2 votes -
Add integrated spine label printing for collection items
Allow for spine label printing direct from Alma rather than having to use a third party API. ie- Spin0Matic
Thank you
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Error message: The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.2 votes -
Allow import profiles to create items under existing holdings
Add an option in Alma import profiles to add item to existing holdings, when there is only one holdings on a bib. When there are multiple holdings already on the bib record, allow user to specify that the item should be added to the holdings that matches the library and location mapping specified. Or, allow it to look and match on holdings that match data mapped from the incoming bib record. And then, the fallback is if matching fails, to add a new holdings record based on information specified either in the inventory mapping or mapped from the incoming bib…
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Add 130 and 246 fields to brief results in Physical Titles search
We would like data from the 130 and 246 fields to display in brief results for Physical titles searches. We would want the 130 field to be labeled as "Uniform Title" and the 246 field to be labeled as "Varying Form of Title." This is useful for serials where the title in the 245 field isn't necessarily the most well-known form of the title.
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Make accession numbers in configuration editable
In the Accession Configuration it is only possible to change the next sequence number. Not the sequence name, the library or the location. For example, when you want to add a library or change the library, you have to delete the row and enter the prefix again - with the correct sequence number. Because of the closure of our Central Library we had to delete nearly every single entry and make new entries for each prefix.
2 votes
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