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  1. Item Material Type master List lacking several types

    The master list of Item Material Types is lacking three types commonly used by Special Collections cataloging. Please add Archival material, Broadside, and Poster to the master Item Material Types list.

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    3 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →

  2. Enable bulk updating of items from spreadsheet based on barcode

    It would be very useful to be able to bulk edit item records from an uploaded spreadsheet of physical items in much the same way that portfolios can be updated via uploading a spreadsheet.

    I'm particularly interested in being able to bulk change data in the Enum/Chron fields in serials. I imagine this might have to be coupled with a regenerate job.

    146 votes
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    10 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →
    Already Supported  ·  AdminLiza Voloshin (Product Owner, Alma Resource Management, Ex Libris) responded

    Dear Community,

    We've reviewed your suggestion for enabling bulk updates of items and found that a relevant solution already exists in the "Item Updater by Excel" CloudApp. Therefore, we are closing this idea as 'Already Supported' to focus our resources on new developments.

    If you have any feedback on the existing solution or feel that any functionality is still missing in this area, please let us know.

    Best, Liza

  3. Add Storage Location ID as column choice in Item View screen

    We would like to view Storage Location ID in the item view screen within Alma: https://www.screencast.com/t/1fJ1IyCq

    We can now access in Analytics however staff would like to be able to see this field without having to run a separate analytics report to see the data.

    Thanks!

    90 votes
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  4. Job to scan in items

    Our spine labeling workflow is quite bottlenecked because we have to scan each item 3 times: once to print the label, once to scan out of Tech Services, and once into scan into place. If there were a job to scan in items, we could at least reduce the 3 scans to 2 by scanning into an .xls and then running two scan in jobs on the same file.

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    13 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →
    Already Supported  ·  AdminMoshe Shechter (Alma Senior Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    The “Scan-in operation on item” API may be useful for this. You can use this API to scan in a bulk of items. The API is documented in the Developers Network.

    A script for performing bulk scan-in of items is also described in the Developers Network.

    Please see comment for relevant links.

  5. Automatic generation of call numbers

    The call numbers play an important role as source of information for staff and users and in the workflows, that is why we also strongly miss the automatic generation of call numbers (in Aleph the Z311 table "to register the last sequence number assigned for a sublibrary + prefix, so that the next highest number can automatically be assigned when an item record is created"). When we have to do it manually it deeply lowers the efficiency of the workflows and is open for human mistakes that cause further problems.

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  6. Add the ability to select, open, and edit more than one item record at a time.

    Currently, Alma only allows one item record to be edited at a time within cataloging. To have the ability to selected multiple items, and then open them all at the same time (either in the same screen, or pop-ups) would be a HUGE time saver. Not only for catalogers, but for binding and material physical processing users as well.

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    13 comments  ·  Resource Management - Physical  ·  Admin →
    Already Supported  ·  AdminLili Daie (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    As of July 2020, it is possible to run jobs on selected items from both the physical items search and the items list, according to your roles and permissions. Note that a role at the institution-scope is required to run jobs in Alma, as they may affect items from various libraries. Repository managers, who can manage sets, can also create itemized physical items sets or add the selected items to an existing set from these pages.

    For more information see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_m0zP_1JVE

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