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  1. Keystrokes For Shortcut Ctrl+W (Close) Is Too Similar To Alt+W (Patron ID)

    Ctrl+W Should Not Close The Window. It Is Too Easy To Mix It Up With Alt+W. Often a person is waiting to be helped and I accidentally use Ctrl+W instead of Alt+W to pull up the box to scan a patron's identification card and consequently the Alma Window closes, requiring me to find your web page and log-in again while the Patron stares at me getting frustrated.

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  2. Add "View" action for publishing profiles

    When creating a new publishing profiles, it can be helpful to look at other profiles for guidance. Currently, the only option to view another profile is to select Edit from the actions menu. If the user is trying to edit a profile and wants to view another one at the same time, the only practical way to do that is to open a different browser and view the profile there. Having two profiles open in the same browser can have negative consequences, as we learned at Oklahoma State-Stillwater, when two publishing profiles were merged and EXL had to help us…

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  3. Bibliographic records editing history

    Here is an enhancement request concerning bibliographic records editing history.

    Currently, the "View Versions" can only tell the different version of a bib. record. However, this cannot tell logging history of updating/editing the bib. records, e.g. who add/remove a MARC fields/who suppressed/released the bib. record etc. This is no history tab to keep tracking the changes of a bib. record which is unlike other history tab functionality available in other Alma pages, e.g.

    • The PO Line Summary page when editing a PO line
    • The Physical Item Editor page when editing item records
    • The License Terms Details page…

    88 votes
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  4. Browsing habits

    Use the browsing habits of users in Primo to send automatic content suggestions

    3 votes
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  5. Alma RSS feed shouldn't be limited to physical items set

    The RSS feature in Alma provides a feed to Primo, identifying new items published or added to the inventory. Currently, it seems that RSS Publishing is limited to PHYSICAL items (as mentioned in the documentation), and that that newly activated portfolios or electronic collections cannot be taken into account and included in a set. It matters a lot to us that RSS Publishing is effective for physical items and electronic portfolios

    9 votes
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  6. Progressive overdue fine calculation in Fulfillment

    The existing overdue fine settings in Alma Term of Use (TOU) can only allow library to set a 'flat' rate for fine. (e.g. $1 per day for the whole overdue period). It would be great if Alma can allow progressive overdue fine setting (e.g. $1 per first 3 days and $2 thereafter).

    This suggestion allows greater flexibility in fine setting and also encourage patrons to return overdue items earlier.

    1 vote
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  7. Allowing the ability to freely assign different jobs to different users.

    There are cases where we want the user to only be able to handle a specific task that is beyond their user role, but currently in order to do that we have to assign them with roles that allows them access to jobs we don’t want them to have access to.

    61 votes
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  8. Add additional text in Metadata Editor - Holdings Form

    When editing a holdings-record in Metadata Editor when using the holdings form, we would like to see additional text added to the field information to inform the cataloger about which MARC-field they're editing.

    For example, when editing the field "Location" there is no information about which MARC-field this belongs to in the record. There should be an additional text next to the field name saying either (MARC-field X/Subfield X) or (XXX $X).

    11 votes
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  9. 43 votes
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  10. Allow batch deletion of digital collections

    Batch creation is possible by EAD import, but batch deletion is impossible. Even though batch deletion for a collection with its sub-collections is allowed, there are limitations that the collections should be empty and must be in the same hierarchy. It would be great if I can make a set with the scattered empty collections' PIDs and delete them at once, as long as there is no sub-collection of the to-be-deleted collection.

    4 votes
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  11. Include an item's total number of checkouts within the item record or physical item editor

    There doesn't seem to be a way to view the number of times a item has been checked out, aside from going in the item history and manually counting every transaction. Frequency of use is an important data point for catalog curation and maintenance.

    15 votes
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  12. Set the sender address to the address of the staff that made the PO and automatically forward the mail to the said staff.

    With multiple librarians handling PO, this can help us keep better track of PO details and increase process efficiency.

    63 votes
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  13. Purchase Request Suggestion

    Enable Purchase Requests to be auto-assigned to a specific user based on either fund code or name/EID of the person submitting the request.

    1 vote
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  14. Change Fulfillment to Circulation

    Fulfillment isn't an intuitive label for us. Circulation is the term we use, or allow libraries to call it whatever they want if you don't want to change it globally.

    6 votes
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  15. Add "This Fiscal Year" to options for subscription dates range in Invoice Line Details

    Add "This Fiscal Year" to options for subscription dates range in Invoice Line Details. "This Year" is very helpful for many subscriptions, but "This Fiscal Year" would be a great shortcut and reduce the work involved with using "Custom Range."

    10 votes
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  16. Analytics: Make Holding Suppressed from Discovery field values Yes/No instead of 0/1

    The bib "suppressed from discovery" field uses values of Yes/No. The holdings field should do the same.

    2 votes
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  17. We would like an option to search vendors by address/country.

    We would like an option to search vendors by address/country since many of our vendors are from other countries.
    Currently, we have no way of finding all the vendors from a certain country, if it is not part of their name.

    2 votes
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  18. Improve Navigation to Allow Switching Between Tasks

    There should be a way to quickly move between tasks in Alma without having to start from scratch. If I'm in a user record and go search for an item barcode, I should be able to get back to the user record in a single click, without having to search again. WMS provides this functionality and it's really helpful. Essentially breadcrumbs that track ones work in the system so you can quickly pull up something you were working on even hours before.

    3 votes
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  19. loan status / item process changes in a date range

    We would like to be able to run reports detailing the dates when a loan status / item process type change was made over a certain time period e.g. loan status changed to 'lost' between 1/10/2019 and 1/11/2019. Using the item modification date is not the perfect criteria as this date will change when any modification is made to the item e.g. adding a note etc

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  20. To be able to search citations in Alma by instructor's name

    Please add "instructor" to the "Citations" search to make it easier to see all of the materials a certain professor has on reserve. Some professors teach multiple classes and will ask for a list of everything they have in Course Reserves rather than just lists for certain courses. Thanks.

    3 votes
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