Allow Alma library relationships to control purchasing via Rialto
We want our staff to have Rialto roles that are scoped only to our National library, and don't want to have to give them Rialto roles that have any other scope. We want them to be able to order electronic books for the National Library, as well as physical books for the other libraries in the institution, but we only want them to be able to do all this while logged into our Acquisitions Department (which is granted to them via the Work Order Operator role having the Acquisitions Department associated).
We have Library relationships set up in Alma Configuration which allow the National Library to order for all other libraries, but Support has confirmed that these relationships are irrelevant for Rialto. When they only have the National library scope, our Library staff get but then all physical items disappear from their cart and can't be reached. Staff only manage to see the offers in their cart again after we have added more Rialto roles to their accounts that are scoped to the libraries they're ordering for.
We are trying to achieve centralised ordering, so it's very disappointing that this is not currently possible with Rialto.
To summarise our request, we want Library staff to be able to do all ordering (electronic and physical) via Rialto while logged into the Acquisitions Department, with a Rialto Purchaser role scoped only to our central library.

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Best,
Heidi Whitehead
Rialto Product Manager
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Patricia Farnan commented
I've made a typo in the above post but for some reason can't edit it ...
The second paragraph should have read more like:
"We have Library relationships set up in Alma Configuration which allow the National Library to order for all other libraries, but Support has confirmed that these relationships are irrelevant for Rialto. When they only have the National library scope, our Library staff are able to apply cart templates to physical items in their Cart, but once they take a next step in the ordering process, all physical items disappear from their cart and can't be reached. Staff only manage to see the offers in their cart again after we have added more Rialto roles to their accounts that are scoped to the libraries they're ordering for."