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Is it possible to implement a timestamp when "Pick up from shelf" items have already been printed but not yet been processed?
If a timestamp could appear, including the date/time that slips were printed for "Pick up from shelf" items, it would be known slips have already been generated and items are in process of being fulfilled. Sometimes staff have to attend to other matters before actually processing these items, but already have print slips in hand.
This would be a lot more sustainable then the alternative: the same Pick slips being printed several times since it appears that these tasks haven't been tended to.
Thanks for considering!
7 votesHello All,
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delivery option for booking
Add personal delivery option for Booking request
7 votesHello All,
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Request cancel: Can we make the reason drop down options configurable?
Some of the options for canceling a request do not apply to our institution, so I would like to put the most likely options at the top of the drop down menu.
7 votesHello All,
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Force article request form for ebooks
When patrons place a resource sharing request on eBooks, we would like the article request form to appear. Currently the request form type by genre cannot accomodate this for eBooks because both eBooks and print books share the genre type book. If Ex Libris could assign eBooks a different genre type, we could easily force the correct form. However, any way to accomplish the same thing would be great! Don't care how it happens.
7 votesHello All,
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Option to add "Held Until:" column on the "Scan in Items" page.
It would be helpful to add a "Held Until:" column on the "Scan In Items" page. This would assist our teams when they are processing requests.
6 votesHello All,
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Enable requests of multiple items of the same BIB-record
In Alma, it is generally not possible to request multiple copies of the same record. This possibility only exists if items are differentiated by the item description.
When it comes to special collections, patrons regularly want to compare multiple copies, which may differ. Such differences have generally not been recorded (hence no item description), which is exactly why people want to compare them. For collections in closed stacks, requesting from the catalog is the only way to obtain an item. However, we can currently not offer the option of requesting more than one copy to our patrons. Neither can library…
6 votesHello All,
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View pick-up location in Requests tab of Manage Patron Services
It would be helpful if pick-up location was displayed on the Requests tab under Manage Patron Services. Currently, in order to view pick-up location when helping users at the desk, staff need to click '...' and 'Edit' in order to view that part of the request.
Attached is a photo of the current interface where staff would like to see pick-up location as an optional column display.
6 votesHello All,
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Default digitisation department for digital request types
Ability to set a default digitization department for each digitization request type.
Currently in Leganto, you can set a default digitization department for readings digitization requests. What we would like to do is to set a default digitization department for the patron digitization requests, and staff digitization request types within fulfillment.
This is because when the patron request type is created within Primo, no managing department is set - unlike those same request types when lodged within Alma, where the managing department can be set.
When the request is lodged via Primo, it seems to pick the managing department based…6 votesHello All,
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Add Print slips option on Active Hold Shelf Screen
It appears ALMA does not have the ability to generate an email (print job) to print hold slips for items that are returned with pending holds.
A great option whether the ability to have those slips print automatically upon return is developed or not, is to force print applicable hold slips from the active hold shelf screen.
In theory, if an item is returned with a pending hold, when the item is scanned as returned the hold is activated and as a result should appear on the "active hold shelf" list . If a slip does not print, the staff…
5 votesHello All,
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We need to be able to limit the number of patron holds
We have patrons inundating us with hold requests. We'd like to be able to configure Alma to limit holds by amount.
5 votesHello All,
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Display Requester when "activate next" on expired hold shelf
On the Expired Hold Shelf - Activate Next the expired requester name is displayed, however when you "activate next" Alma processes the request but doesn’t display who it is for.
It would be really usefull for Alma to display the Next Requester information at this point.
Currently you need to track down the item in Active Hold Shelf to find the next requester.
4 votesHello All,
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Filter Pick From Shelf List, Active Hold Shelf, and Expired Hold Shelf by Patron Physical Item Request or Ship Physically
Currently, the Pick From Shelf list, Active Hold Shelf, and Expired Hold Shelf don't allow the items displayed in the list to be filtered. If Resource Sharing requests ("ship physically") and Patron Physical Item Requests must be combined, it would be much more useful to be able to filter out one or the other. It makes it difficult for Circulation staff to monitor the pick list and active and expired holds when we can't filter out the Resource Sharing requests that we don't work with, and the same holds for our Resource Sharing staff.
4 votesHello All,
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Add Location facet to Active Hold Shelf and Expired Hold Shelf screens
We would like to filter the items listed on the Active Hold Shelf and Expired Hold Shelf screens to show either patron physical item requests or inter-library loans, but that isn't possible at the moment. We use Location to tell the difference between our items and those borrowed from other institutions.
On the Active Hold Shelf screen, there are no facets at all currently. We would like a Location facet to be added please so that staff who are auditing our requests shelves or inter-library loans shelves would be able to view only the relevant items.
On the Expired Hold…
4 votesHello All,
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4 votes
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Export normalized call numbers for requested items in the "Print Slip Report" feature
When the "Print Slip Report" feature in Fulfillment > Resource Requests > Pick From Shelf is exported into a spreadsheet, LC call numbers are included—but normalized call numbers are not. This leads to less efficiency in pulling requested items (e.g., size designations sort under "Q" for "Quarto," LC class numbers of differing length sort improperly). Please add a normalized call number column to the output for proper sorting by call number.
4 votesHello All,
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Add fields to specifiy the work order type or workorder status to the print slip for 'manage in process items'
The print slip for items in the Fulfillment > Manage in process items uses the ReceivingSlipLetter.
This is the workflow suggested by trainers for things like repairs or other technical work order flows.
The letter does not have the XML fields that would reflect work order type or work order status.
Development says this is an enhancement request, as they designed this letter for acquisitions work orders (case 00725539)4 votesHello All,
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Clone Requests
We have a need to easily copy requests, especially booking requests. For example, our media library frequently needs to book the same item for the same faculty member multiple times. A faculty member may be teaching 3 sections of the same course, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. The library staff member would like to make a single request on Monday, and copy the request for Tuesday and Thursday easily, or add multiple dates/times to the same booking request.
4 votesHello All,
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Add an option to control the request types that are presented in Alma
We suggest to add an option to control the request types that are presented in Alma. For example, we would like to present only: "Patron physical item request" . It would be helpful if we could at least control the items order.
4 votesHello All,
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Hide non-circulating library from 'pickup location' options for all requests as desired
Example 1: We had an issue where a staff member had chosen an incorrect library for the pickup location for move requests (when putting items on Course Reserves). The library they chose was our Resource Sharing Library (which we don't use at all and so is irrelevant to us in every way). I submitted a case to Support asking if we could somehow hide this library from view in the pickup location options in Alma, but was told that this wasn't possible.
I was advised to create an idea here relating to this problem, so here I am!
It would…
4 votesHello All,
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Enable comments to patrons in digitization requests
Enabling comments to the patrons in digitization (and physical too) requests.
For example a patron requests Chapter 1, pages 1-40 in their digitization request but Chapter 1 is actually pages 1-24. There should be a way to attach Chapter 1 then send along a comment to the patron: "Chapter 1 has been attached. Request indicated pages 1-40 but this included Chapter 1 and part of Chapter 2 which goes beyond copyright allowance."
There is currently a comment field, but this comment is internal. So, rather than having the ability to add comments to the file as it goes to the…
4 votesHello All,
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