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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 -
Make electronic collection portfolios searchable by MMS ID
Within an electronic collection, we would like the ability to search for portfolios using MMS ID. This would be useful for some maintenance tasks. Currently, it is only possible to search by Title, ISBN and ISSN.
2 votes -
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 -
Verificación de usuario al realizar préstamo de material.
Cada vez que se realice un préstamo el sistema identifique a través de una huella digital u otro sistema al usuario.
6 votes -
auto populate the end date for an invoice
When entering a date range for a subscription, it often crosses into the next fiscal year. Having to select the year before you use the drop-down to select the month and day adds a lot of clicking. It is rare to have a subscription that isn't one year in length. It would save a lot of time and clicks if the end date (1 year later) would auto-populate.
4 votes -
Add "Streaming" Purchase Order Line (POL) Types
There are currently no POL line types for streaming content.
I'd like to see the following POL Line types added:
Streaming Video - Subscription
Streaming Video - One Time
Streaming Audio - Subscription
Streaming Audio - One Time77 votes -
Seasonal Serials Prediction Patterns only work when beginning with Spring.
Area of concern: Serials Prediction in Alma.
Currently, when creating 853 predictive patterns, there are limitations to titles with a seasonal frequency. Attempting to create seasonal prediction patterns, whose enumerations begin with anything but Spring (21) results in errors, such as skipped issues, or improper numbering.
This limitation means that many journals with seasonal patterns cannot have their issues correctly predicted out through Alma’s automated process. Staff members are stuck manually creating/receiving issues for these titles. This decreases efficiency, increases the likelihood of human error, and prevents Alma’s claiming process from working correctly.
What should be changed: As Serials Processors,…
47 votes -
Provide complete Factiva full text service
The Factiva full text service is incomplete. When searching with Primo, a complete set of results from Factiva is not retrieved. it is explained that the Factiva collection does not provide full coverage from the provider, but the alternative coverage mechanism also does not work. This was not an issue when we used Summon. It will be good for users to get a complete set of results from Factiva.
7 votes -
Functionality to support rolling over POLs by Fund.
Rollover all POLs associated with fund SERIAL and have the ability to add FPC to just that fund. Without having to roll line by line.
1 vote -
Customizable fields for Electronic Collections
We would like to be able to introduce custom, local fields into our Electronic Collections to help us manage workflows, reporting, and inventory management. Currently, we store a lot of information in our Internal Descriptions to help with this work. It would be great to have dedicated, customizable fields that can be defined for local uses. Ideally, the management of these fields would look like the license term management, with options for free text, controlled vocabularies, and yes/no fields. If that is too complicated, then just making a handful of "local fields" available would also be helpful ("local field #1",…
3 votes -
Position sensitive NRs (Normalization Rules) - ISBD punctuation
ISBD punctuation is determined by the following subfield.
For example:
In 245 the subfield preceding $$b must end in one of the following:
1. space + colon
2. space + semicolon
3. space + Arabic semicolon (if your cataloging language is Arabic)
4. space + equal signThe NR syntax currently does not offer any straightforward solution for correcting ISBD punctuation.
We request the development of an NR function that will suffix the subfield with a string based on the subfield that follows it, including the case in which a subfield is the last one.
I think it would be…
78 votes -
Analytics Reports for Deleted Purchase Requests
I would like to be able to run Analytics reports on deleted purchase requests. Currently, deleted purchase requests are not available in Analytics. Therefore, we don't want to delete any of our hundreds of purchase requests because we'd lose the ability to generate Analytics reports on them. Having hundreds of old purchase requests accumulate in Alma becomes unwieldy.
136 votes -
Please expand the volume of Internal note fields to the Physical Item Editor
Our library has more than three kinds of information need to be recorded in the internal note field, such as property number, new books statues notes, compensation books notes and so on.
Hope is could add more, or became expandable let staff to select numbers of fields they needed.100 votes -
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 -
Alma Analytics> Fulfillment> notification sent indicators
In the Alma Analytics Fulfillment subject area, there is a "Courtesy Notification Sent" indicator field.
I would appreciate similar indicator fields for the other types of notifications sent to the user for the transaction, such as the "Ful Overdue and Lost Loan Letter", the "Ful Overdue Lost Loan Notification Letter," and the "Return Receipt" letter.
It would be helpful to confirm that Alma generated each letter for the user, for the transaction.
Since we have a retention period set on how long each letter copy will stay on the patron's attachments tab, it is possible that the patron may still…
19 votes -
Enable additional types of requests via API
The API documentation for the Create User Requests endpoint notes that "is currently NOT possible to create GENERALDIGITIZATION, MOVE or WORKORDER request." Enabling this functionality would facilitate batch processing of items for various workflows.
2 votes -
User letters anonymization
It would be useful to be able to delete the letters attached to the user records with the Anonymization job.
In particular, we would like to keep the users records of expired users but delete their attachments, adding an option item to the anonymization job section in Fulfillment Jobs Configuration.
Thanks and regards.
Alberto & Stefano9 votes -
Resource Sharing Borrowing Requests - Renewed by Partner Status
It would be great if there was a way to configure requests so that they do not retain the status 'renewed by partner' and instead automatically revert to 'loaned item to patron'
8 votes -
Ability to hide/compress inventory list in POL
For POLs that have extensive lists of electronic inventory (i.e., many electronic collections are associated with one POL), have capability to hide or compress that inventory list in the POL, and then show/expand as needed. Otherwise, we need to scroll down past a long list to get to other sections of the POL for both View and Edit. Example is our POL for JOVE, which is linked to 54 collections. CDL has similar examples for consortial content managed in the UC NZ.
1 vote -
Add Description field to Physical Item Lending Policies in Resource Sharing Directory
We have several different resource sharing lending policies within our country, which depend on the particular reciprocal borrowing agreement we have with our partner libraries. It would be nice to automate this somehow in the future, but, for now, could we have a Description field on the Physical Item Lending Policies form?
1 vote
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