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  1. Auto-tick Notify User box in Request Cancellation dialogue on Alma

    Is there a way to set the ‘notify user’ box within the Request Cancellation dialogue box (Alma) to auto-tick by default? At the moment, the box is blank and we would like to set it up to tick by default so that user notifications don’t accidentally get missed.

    The box is within the Request Cancellation dialogue box where you enter the cancellation reason and notes.

    3 votes
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  2. Receiving Note - Ability to see when the note was last modified and by who

    It would be great if there was a way to see which operator added Receiving Note and when the note was added. We are trying to go through and update receiving notes, and are coming across some that we would like to get answers for. However, we aren't sure who placed the note in the first place and it could have been years ago.
    Being able to see who modified the receiving note last and when it was created would allow us to follow-up with the appropriate people or realize they no longer work with us, and move forward on…

    5 votes
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  3. Report list of records changed after abort job

    After a user was running a discovery suppression job, and aborted they assumed nothing was changed. It would be very useful if the records that were changed before the abort were reported to the user.
    Here's an example showing an abort that occurred and the user running the job assumed since they aborted the job, nothing was changed:

    https://www.screencast.com/t/PoFqKwEjHIuH

    18 votes
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  4. Generate accession number by typing directly in field 852

    Generation an accession number in 852$$h or $$j can only be done by using the menu (Tools -> MARC21 holdings -> generate accession number), or by keyboard shortcut (ctrl+schift+A) in the new MDE.
    Even though the keyboard shortcut saves some clicks, we would like to type the prefix directly in field 852, followed by a character like # for example, that would indicate to Alma to generate the sequence number after saving the holding record.

    Example : 852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA #
    -> after saving the record :
    852 $$b library $$c location $$h RIA 6785

    If…

    39 votes
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  5. Improve navigation in Alma by providing breadcrumps

    Improve navigation in Alma by providing breadcrumps (pathways) like the ones you have in the training portal as seen from the enclosed screen shot.

    7 votes
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  6. Add Last Login attribute to Users subject area in Analytics

    The current Staff Login Report in Alma Configuration is of limited use, in that it doesn't provide additional details about users beyond Primary ID and last login date. In Analytics, we can find full details about named users, but cannot determine which accounts are actively used without the "Last Login Date" field.

    We would like to see the Last Login Date--i.e., the last date a user logged in to Alma to perform staff activity--added as an attribute to the Users subject area in Analytics. Having this date along with users roles and expiration dates will help our libraries better manage…

    11 votes
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  7. Remove "Valid Until" in calendar entries

    The current behavior in Alma is that any calendar entries have an effective date and a valid until date, that is automatically 3 years beyond the date the event was last edited.

    The effective date does not in my mind serve any purpose and creates puzzling and frustrating situations for fulfillment services staff if the current date approaches any of these valid until dates, because patron loans will start being shortened, seemingly for no reason.

    For exceptions, date ranges are called explicitly. For standard hours there either should be no valid until date, or this should be specified explictly, to…

    3 votes
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  8. Openurl resolver to search CDI when no full text services found in Alma

    Sometimes the Alma openurl resolver can't locate an item, but you can find it in the CDI, so could the openurl resolver search the CDI by title + authors for possible matches? Perhaps present any results as suggestions, a bit like bX recommendations, so as not to raise expectations that the correct document has been found.

    Here's an example. JSTOR has a record for a paper that was published in print in SAE Transactions, ISSN 0096-736X, 2001, Vol.110, p.86-92
    https://www.jstor.org/stable/44724287

    But the paper is published online as SAE Technical Paper 2001-01-0233, ISSN 0148-7191
    https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/2001-01-0233/

    It is available in SAE Mobilus…

    3 votes
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  9. Allow additional CITATION TYPES for resource sharing requests

    When creating a borrowing request from ALMA 'manually', the only options are BOOK and ARTICLE. The same is true from the 'blank resource request' form presented to patrons. It would be nice if we could support additional resource types, like video, audio, maps...or even just an "OTHER" option. With only book and article, it appears as though those are the only types of things that are requestable.

    11 votes
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  10. Set Linking Parser Parameters at the Interface level

    It would be more efficient to set the Linking Parser Parameters at the interface level, with an option to override the parameter at the Service Link level.

    For example, I want to set our university's ProQuest clientid at the ProQuest interface level rather than have to open each of our 20+ ProQuest collections to edit the Service Link Parameters.

    35 votes
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  11. A new design for the homepage of ALMA

    It would be really lovely if the homepage to ALMA was colourful and bright with easy access to the major functions we use in the library. For example there could be a homepage that has different bubbles (5 in a circle with one in the middle for example) and people can drag and drop their 6 most used icons. For library assistants this would be super useful if we could open ALMA and instantly be able to issue / return books / search for a service users name / card number for easy access. It would also be great if…

    4 votes
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  12. Add Library Tag (Course Reserves) field to the subject areas where Active Course code is already (eg Physical Items and E Inventory)

    Currently we can get the Active Course codes to display in other Subject areas, such as E inventory or Physical Items, and this is very useful for several of our reports... but it would be significantly more useful if the report could also display the Library tag to indicate how important the item is. There is a big difference between items that are CORE and items that are Further reading. While it is possible to do a report based on another report- it would be much simpler if we could just add the tags to our original report.

    6 votes
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  13. Allow network zone e-collections to be made available to inventory management groups within an institution using different proxies

    When providing access to electronic resources from the NZ, resources are made "available for" member institutions and if applicable a proxy is set, meaning the institution's default proxy. However, these institutions may themselves be providing distributed access to e-resources via network inventory groups using different proxy integration profiles (such as different colleges using a single Alma institution, with inventory management groups mapped to campuses). In this case it is not possible for the member institution to use NZ e-resources since the proxy might not work for one or another campus, or one campus in the institution might have access and…

    46 votes
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  14. Alma Digital - Batch ingest make the first page always be the thumbnail

    When doing batch ingest, it will auto-generated thumbnail.

    Sometimes the thumbnail will generate other than first page.

    When we migrate the images to Alma-D, the representation files are indicated XXX1.tiff, XXX2.tiff, XXX3.tiff, etc. The "first page" means XXX1.tiff.

    We tried to use job called "Thumbnail generation", which use for generating thumbnail for each digital file in the manage set.
    However, this job can only generate thumbnail randomly.

    The Alma-D experts said if thumbnail doesn’t exist in representation level, Alma-D will take the smallest PID sorted in ascending order as the thumbnail automatically.

    Is it possible to…

    10 votes
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  15. patron names

    Could the Patron name be displayed in the "Pick Up Request " window in Alma just as the 'Requestors Note". This saves time instead of having to click to find the name of the requestor.

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  16. Nueva rutina de análisis (Call number Parsing) para la impresión de tejuelos

    Solicitamos añadir una nueva rutina de análisis de clasificación / signatura para la impresión de tejuelos, que permita separar en diferentes líneas los subcampos ($$h y $$i) .

    25 votes
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  17. Visibility of extension packs and possibility of selecting them one by one for editing and/or deleting

    Extension packs once added to a local MARC-based profile are not visible and cannot be retrieved in any way. It would be much better if each extension pack loaded to a bibliographic profile could be visible to system admnistrators in order to be downloaded from bibliographic profile for purposes of editing and reloading, should the need arise. This feature was part of the tentative future developments proposed by Ex libris back in 2017 (see: internal: 2017 Q1 URM-45100)

    65 votes
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  18. Create option to keep CZUTL deleted portfolios active in Institution Zone

    When portfolios are deleted from a non-auto-active electionic collection and notifications for this appear in the Community Zone Updates Task List, the portfolios stay unlinked in your institution zone but are deactivated. Often these are portfolios that represent access that still exists for the institution and we merely reactivate the local portfolio. We would like to be able to select an option to keep these portfolios active in our institution zone. If they are really no longer necessary, we can delete them when we review the CZUTL, but it would save us time if the portfolios were not deactivated automatically.

    3 votes
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  19. Download COUNTER data as tabular data in addition to JSON

    Alma does a good job in harvesting COUNTER data via SUSHI, and Alma Analytics is a good place for analysis. Sometimes, it is necessary to work with the data in a program such as Excel. Currently, we can only download the COUNTER reports that Alma harvests as a JSON file. It is a process to convert this file into a spreadsheet format (CSV, XLSX, TSV, etc.).

    I suggest that Alma offer the option to download the COUNTER reports in tabular format, as a CSV or XLSX file.

    67 votes
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  20. Ability to remove/hide the "Liable for VAT" checkbox from all vendor records

    Institutions that do not use VAT should be able to configure their vendor records so that the "Liable for VAT" checkbox does not appear.

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