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Display Rapido partner status accurately on the partner record
Currently, when a Rapido partner is manually added to the rota for a borrowing request, the partner record status is displayed as ‘Active’ even when the partner is temporarily inactive for lending. This can be confusing for staff members who are responsible for adding partners to the rota and can result in more time being spent mediating a request than is ideal. To address this issue, the partner status should be displayed as ‘Inactive’ during the period when the Rapido partner is temporarily inactive for lending. This will help ensure that staff members only send requests to active partners and…
23 votes -
Move to branch automation exception when all items are unavailable
Create an exception for move to branch automation when all items held by the library are unavailable. could just add an option like the ones in the screenshot attached.
22 votes -
Bulk upload of resource sharing partners
Occasionally, we need to add a large number of libraries as resource sharing partners in Alma – for instance, when we partner with consortia. In order to make this work more efficient, we would like to be able to add resource sharing partners by uploading a spreadsheet that includes the needed partner metadata. This would keep us from needing to add partners one by one in the Alma interface.
22 votes -
Differentiate Rapido Physical Offer
Is ist possible to differentiate Rapido Physical Offers by POD or by type of order?
We would like to have the possibility to be able to suppress the display of the Rapido Tile more specifically.
E.g. we would like to suppress the Rapido Tile for courier but not for home delivery.18 votes -
Add mediation rule action to add general message
Add a new mediation rule action to add a specified general message to the request before sending.
17 votes -
Adjust a lost item fee to the Lenders cost
Summary:
Currently, when staff members need to adjust a fine or fee (for example, to correct the replacement cost of a lost item), the process requires deleting the existing fee and creating a new one. This creates a significant issue: the newly created fee is not correctly linked to the associated item record.Problem Description:
When a patron reports a lost or overdue item and is unable to locate it, staff adjust the charge to the cost from the lending library. However, because the system does not support direct modification of existing fees, staff must delete the original fee and…15 votes -
Add Lending Mediation Rules
It would be extremely helpful to have Lending Mediation Rules similar to the Borrowing Mediation Rules. Even if the rules only added labels to use with Sets would be a huge improvement.
Thank you,
Chris14 votes -
Auto‑Associate Article Records with the Correct Print Journal Issue in Primo/Rapido
Problem
When a patron discovers an article in Primo that is held only in print, the request workflow forces the user to manually choose a “Print volume” from a long list of volumes/issues. Patrons frequently select the wrong volume or issue because the mapping between the article’s metadata and the print holdings is not clear. This results in incorrect requests, delays, and additional staff mediation.
Desired Functionality
Primo/Rapido should automatically match an article’s citation metadata (volume, issue, year, month, pages) to the correct physical journal issue in Alma and pre‑populate the request accordingly—avoiding manual volume selection.
If multiple possible matches…13 votes -
Daily per user limit on Rapido borrowing requests
Rapido mediation rules currently allow institutions to set the maximum number of requests per user within a certain number of months.
An additional improvement would be to expand the mediation rules to allow institutions a maximum number of requests per user per day(s). This functionality would support the workflows of departments with limited staff to process the needs of a larger user population.
Current functionality is insufficient or overly cumbersome. For instance, copyright rules allow institutions to set a maximum number of requests per user for a specific resource, but this only resets at the start of each calendar year.…
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Print multiple slips for multivolume requests
For multivolume requests, only one shipping slip or return slip is printed even though Rapido knows there are multiple items involved in the request. Practitioners have a few workarounds right now: we can rubberband items together; we can photocopy the printed slip; or we can reprint the slip however many times is needed to have a slip per item. The second two options are a waste of time, and the first can lead to items with no paperwork attached to them if the rubber band breaks or the books otherwise become separated from each other. Rapido knows how many items…
13 votes -
Mediate requests based on presence of certain fields
We would like to be able to mediate requests based on the presence or absence of certain fields, such as the page numbers. For instance:
For physical requests which include the number of pages in the book due to either an error in the patron understanding the blank form or a database importing information wrong, anything that gets sent directly to a RapidILL partner gets interpreted by the system as a copy request. The lending library will either send back a bad citation or pass it on without filling it, delaying the request and wasting potentially multiple lenders' time. We'd…
12 votes -
Add more fields to the right pane quick edit 'Request form (as filled by requester)' in Rapido
In Rapido, the 'Request form (as filled by requester)' section on the right pane has some great features. It allows staff to quickly access and edit some of the request form fields. However, certain crucial fields are missing from this section, limiting its effectiveness.
Current benefits:
1. Hovering over a field shows a tooltip containing its complete contents. This means staff don't have to open the request to edit, navigate to the field and use the across arrow on the text field to slowly read its full contents. Sometimes important information is missed if this step isn’t taken.
2. Staff…11 votes -
Transit times via Analytics Reports
We would like to have a clear view of transit times in Rapido, in order to ensure an efficient user experience, optimize internal workflows and enable accurate calculations of the various relevant dates.
To assess these service times, it is important to define the topology for which the solution is being proposed: We will assume two universities (UniversityA and UniversityB) participating in a Rapido pod. Each university has a central point (branchI and branchJ), which is the only branch responsible for handling shipments. In addition, each university has many other branches.
The total time from when…
11 votes -
Match "Send email to partner" design with “Send query to patron” to include External ID and CC
The 2024 August release introduced the "Send email to partner" feature. We would like this feature to match the current “Send query to patron” function found in the Borrowing Request.
Currently the "Send email to partner" feature lacks some critical information.
In the Lending Requests, the External identifier and Bibliographic details are missing. We also notice it does not have the cc (carbon copy) functionality.
Lacking External ID in the subject makes it extremely difficult for libraries on both sides to action the request. Lacking the ability to cc addresses means we must check between the generic email and the…
10 votes -
Hide Rapido offer in locally held multi-volume works
We would like to hide the Rapido offer tile in the records of locally held multi-volume works. Please see the attached file for reference.
10 votes -
Add additional fields to Rapido request form for physical requests
When patrons request odd editions of items, we’re left wondering whether that’s what they meant. Do they really want the British edition for some reason, or is that just what they found first? Do they really want the German language edition of this graphic novel? We would love the ability to add fields for “this edition only” and “this language only” added to the Rapido request forms for physical requests. Additionally, these could be customizable fields that each library could give text to and add to the form. Asking for additional information from the patron up front would lead to…
9 votes -
Automatically repopulate bibliographic data when changing standard number
Sometimes when we’re changing an ISBN or OCLC number, we’re changing editions - from ebook to print book, from international edition to local edition, etc. We know Rapido is pulling metadata from somewhere when those numbers change because the cover image of books change. It would be helpful if the system also changed the other standard bibliographic data - edition, place of publication, publisher, and year - based on the new ISBN. This ensures that we’re sending consistent information to our lenders without having to waste time inputting all that data ourselves.
9 votes -
在My Request--排序方式中,除“状态”、题名以外，增加以“请求日期”排序的方式,方便申请者查找。谢谢。
在Rapido Starter用户界面：My Request--排序方式中,增加以“请求日期”排序的方式,方便申请者查找。谢谢。
9 votes -
Allow Borrowing Request Print Slips to Print Regardless of Status
Currently for Borrowing Requests that were not received, no print slip is printed. We would like to be able to print a pick slip at any point during an active requests. There are times were self-owned items require a shelf-check as our items such as journals do not have item records so we need to confirm that we own the item before forwarding it to a lending library or cancelling the request as owned. There is no way to print this information easily if Print Slip cannot be initiated. Please allow for Print Slips to print regardless of the status…
8 votes -
Enable back-and-forth of requests between Resource Sharing and Purchase Request
Request Description: Often we’ll send requests that are difficult to get via resource sharing to acquisitions by creating a purchase request from Rapido. However, in doing so create a separate request and never find out whether the patron actually got their item. This means that if a patron comes with us with questions, we can’t answer them. (Is acquisitions working on it? Did they cancel it? Who knows!) It also means that if acquisitions can’t purchase the item for some reason, they have no way to send the request back to us so we can try again with those more…
7 votes
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