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  1. Make Holdings information available in the Job Report

    The Job Report page which can be navigated to via, for example, Monitor & View Imports is useful, but would be better still if data pertaining to imported-in holdings were also added.

    The Physical Items pull-down lists total physical items imported, added and updated; and as the successful maintenance and troubleshooting of issues regarding holdings is arguably as important (to us, at least) as that for bibliographic records and items, it would be appreciated to see similar numerical indications of how successful attempted holdings updates have proven.

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  2. Add new call number fields to Fulfillment area to assist with reporting

    In the Fulfillment subject area there are no fields allowing the breakdown of the call number in the holdings record.

    Please add fields that allow LC call numbers in the holdings record to be broken down into LC Code and LC number and also a normalised field which can be exported for sorting in Excel.

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  3. Display all orders for physical item searches, even when individual item records are not linked to a POL

    When doing various collection development tasks, acquisitions and resource managers may want to know whether there is order information for a title at the same time they're viewing physical item details via the More Info link in Alma. Currently, Alma does not display orders for physical item searches when a POL is not linked to an item record. This is a problem for closed orders that migrated from another ILS because the POL does not get linked in the item record during the migration process. We see accurate information when conducting an All Titles or Physical Titles search, but not…

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  4. Physical Item Editor - activate Confirm button upon Save action

    In the Physical Item Editor, upon Clicking the Save button, please automatically activate as default the "Confirm" button in the Confirmation Message pop-up window.
    In the same way that all other Confirmation Message pop-up windows already have the Confirm button activated, so all you have to do is hit the enter key to select it. (Instead of having to make another click on the Confirm button.) This would help improve efficiency.

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  6. Metadata Editor : Record locking and releasing

    We need to be able to release an individual Bib or Holdings record locked by another cataloguer, in order to work on it immediately, without having to release all records locked by that person.

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  7. On shelf hold button as Smart option

    Placing holds. Instead of having the "override 'On Shelf Request Policy'" button permanently display, only show it when applicable.

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  8. Add text message notification option for patron overdue notices

    Allowing patrons to request text message notifications for overdue items would better ensure that they receive the overdue reminder notices, increasing the likelihood of having the materials returned more quickly, and decreasing the number of bills and collection efforts. Text messages are received on a more timely basis, while emails are often checked infrequently and can be more easily missed. Asking patrons at check out what the best way to contact them regarding overdue items and being able to offer text message notices (at their request, since some people do not have unlimited texting on their mobile device plan) as…

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  9. Publish the electronic collection name so that it can be made displayable and/or searchable by configuring Primo BO normalisation rules

    Publish the electronic collection name so that it can be made displayable and/or searchable by configuring Primo BO normalisation rules.

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  10. Sort option required for Vendor Account in Vendor Details > Invoice tab

    When navigating to a Vendor record and clicking on the Invoice tab, it's immediately apparent that one can sort several columns in ascending/descending alphabetic or numeric order:

    • Invoice
    • Date
    • Creation From
    • Creation Date
    • Last Updated Date
    • # of Lines
    • Total Price

    The one column that seems to be missing the up/down arrows that would facilitate sorting is Vendor Account. Why is this?

    We'd like to request that sorting is applied to this column as well. Staff find it odd to have to download all invoices into a spreadsheet and then sort according to this criterion, but not have to do…

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  11. repository search sort by collection name (asc/desc)

    Ability to sort searches in the repository by collection name (ascending & descending) when searching by titles & portfolios. This sort feature is only available right now when searching for electronic collections; this feature, when turned on, applies to the other searches you can do (i.e. electronic portfolios) but only if one searches by collection first. Would like the sort feature to be available for all searches in the repository, not just for collections.

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  12. Stop the difference in the item display between Alma and Primo when the description field is filled in

    I would like to see all monograph items display as such in the Primo location tab.
    Currently if an item (even if tagged elsewhere as a one time monograph) contains anything in the Items description field Primo is treating the item as a serial.
    For an explanation of how Primo does this see the following knowledge center article: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Knowledge_Articles/Difference_in_the_item_display_between_Alma_and_Primo_when_the_description_field_is_filled_in

    This is a problem as it prevents users from easily seeing the availability information.
    See for example the attached screenshot where the number of available titles does not display.

    Please change the logic in Primo so that it does not treat…

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  13. Option for whether or not to carry forward Funds and Ledgers in a rollover

    This concerns the Financial Year Rollover rules for rolling over the Funds and Ledgers.

    It has become evident after each annual rollover we perform that these rules are carried forward to the new Fiscal Period in their entirety, without any option not to.

    This is frustrating for us, because as an institution we set our expenditure limits on a fund by fund basis. However, we appreciate that this may not be the case for other institutions.

    As such, would it please be possible to press for an additional option applied to the rollover job for Funds and Ledgers, whereby we…

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  14. If user notes are marked "external" send an immediate notification to user's email

    If user notes are marked "external" send an immediate notification to user's email

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  15. Delivery Format Codes

    Is there any way to order the delivery format codes, or just have the ones we use regularly. Currently there are several in the drop down list that are not used, there are 14 and we only use 3. It can be difficult to find the one you need sometimes. If we can order them this will stop errors occuring.

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  16. Sort Activity Report Letter by Due Date

    The Activity Report Letter currently seems to be sorted by Loan Date in ascending order.

    But patrons are probably most interested in knowing which items are due soon. So I think sorting the letter by Due Date in ascending order (first due comes first) would make more sense.

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  17. Display View-Only option for e-collections in NZ tab

    It would help to be able to view the information about the e-collection in the NZ tab. Currently libraries can only see the portfolios included in the e-collection but they are unable to see information about the e-collection. It would help to be able to see the acquisitions data attached to the e-collection, including a link to the license.

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  18. allow patrons to opt out of notifications from the Primo page

    allow patrons to opt out of notifications from their account as accessed via Primo page.

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  19. General hold request only to display for journals

    Currently, the General hold request (GHR) is triggered based on whether or not at least one item on the holding has a description in the item description field.
    We would like to change the trigger to target specifically series, as many of our items have descriptions without being a journal issue. As criteria, the bibliographic level of the bib record (=s) could serve.
    The GHR would then only appear for actual journals.

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  20. Search package titles in "All titles"

    We would like to search package titles in the index "All titles". This is not possible in the moment.

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