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Alternative work order behavior - Usage should be departmental, not individual
We would like an alternative to how work orders work now. We want the department (or “agent”) to initiate the request, rather than an individual using their own personal account. So that usage is calculated as “departmental” or work order, rather than the individual.
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Ability to put Mailto links in electronic portfolios within a collection.
We have vendors that have lots of individual titles that are associated with different products. We create electronic collections and add the portfolios. Users must email the provider to request an ID. While you can add a URL, you cannot add a mailto link in the general electronic service.
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When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved
When deactivating a portfolio on a list of portfolios in an electronic collection your place in the list should be preserved. Right now it returns you to the top of the list each time.
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Allow deletion of a loan transaction after the item has been returned
Sometimes as library staff we loan an item to a user by accident. The staff member returns the item accidently loaned in Alma and then realises that it's not possible to delete the loan transaction.
Please can this functionality be added as follows:
1) Be available by permission to certain Alma roles
2) Require a note to be added explaining why the loan transaction has been deleted for audit purposes.
3) Ability to report in Alma Analytics on deleted loan transactions with the deletion note field also available for reporting in Analytics.
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Allow for separate top level collections in Alma-D
There needs to be the option for separate collections in Alma-D. For example, we are using Alma-D for both archival collections and CDL textbook collections. I would like, in Primo, to have them separate as they are two very different collections, but because everything is added as a top collection they are all lumped together.
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Increase report limits on Delete bibliographic records job
The Delete Bibliographic Records job does not include a report on the records deleted and any errors if the set is larger than 10,000 records. This number is not sufficiently large enough for operations in a network zone, and the main workaround is to create smaller sets of records and running multiple delete jobs.
Please increase the reporting limits on the delete bibliographic records job.
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Customizing the Citations section of the Alma task list
Our staff members want to be able to easily locate citations with specific citation statuses and copyright statuses via the Alma Task List widget that are not currently included in the list. We therefore would like the ability to add additional or custom statuses to the options that appear in the Alma Citations task list (which then filters the citations list to just the citations matching those statuses).
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If POline is cancelled, want to reduce the price from PO
If POline is cancelled, want to reduce the price from PO, or can this be configured per library?
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Prevent drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer
When Access rights indicate to “Allow View” but not download,
Alma viewer currently allows downloading the pdf by “saving as”.The digital Viewer should prevent this option.
Preventing drag copy of pdf files from alma viewer is required to manage digital content resources in alma.1 vote -
Allow the "Type of Unit" field in the item record to be edited in the item record rather than in the holdings record
Right now you can add the Type of Unit to the item record by adding an 85X $$o to the holdings record. If you have more than one you can do this:
853 $$8 1 $$o Ten year cumulative index
853 $$8 2 $$o Supplementthe Type of Unit will become a drop-down and you can choose.
However, this is a lot of work, and not intuitive. We would like the ability to type into the Type of Unit field in the item record.
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API to get and upload Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles
It would be great to have an API to get a list of all Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles as well as being able to get and upload individual profiles.
We have 300 libraries, each of which has 3 or more Overdue and Lost Loan Profiles. Being able to manipulate the profiles with an API would be of great help in keeping track of all these profiles.
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From my assigned purchase requests, allow selection of multiple requests to be assigned to someone. Doing it line by line is cumbersome.
From my Assigned Purchase Requests, allow assigning multiple requests at once to someone else. Going in line by line is cumbersome.
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self checkout sip2
Self checkout sip2 - ability to restrict checkin by item type/location
Certain items need to be checked in at the circ desk such as reserves or equipment. Currently self checkout does not support any restrictions.
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Add "Electronic Collection Content Type" to Alma Analytics
In Alma, you're able to filter and view electronic collections by "Electronic Collection Content Type" (i.e. Book Package, Journal Package, etc.) -- However, this isn't a column or field available in Analytics.
It would be great if it could be included so we could create reports on electronic collections based on how the content is defined for that collection.1 vote -
License terms
We have multiple licenses for various databases from the same vendor - each with with different licensing terms. We would like to be able have separate License Terms pages for these individual databases under a single vendor in ALMA
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Possibility to see cancelled resources in alma, as a real ERM system
Make it possible in a good way to see cancelled resources, to add notes and information. To have a history of cancellatioans. Like a real ERM system
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Batch url checking for Portfolios in Electronic Collections
Can Alma test all of the links in all the Portfolios in an Electronic Collection, in batch, and report back a count of successes and fails?
AND (very importantly) give me list of the fails, so I can check/fix them?1 vote
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