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Alma Digital: Option to unsuppress bib when mark object active
When working in Alma Digital and you change an object to Inactive, you are prompted about suppressing the bibliographic record, which is great. We want that. However, if changing it back to Active, you do not get that same prompt - you have to go into the Metadata Editor to unsuppress the bibliographic record. It would be really helpful if we could unsuppress the record when making an Digital Object active again.
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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.3 votes -
Index MODS fields
The documentation on this page (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/Metadata_Management/180Search_Indexes) suggests that MODS fields are not currently included in many internal search indexes. We would like to see MODS fields included in applicable internal indexes, or (if such indexing is already in place) better documentation of this indexing.
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Support for burned-in captions
We've uploaded a video file that has burned in captions, but they don't appear in the viewer.
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The record (Deposit and Staff-mediated Deposit) can only be saved if at least one image, video, or MP4 file is uploaded.
Your assistance in implementing this idea would be greatly appreciated, as students completing the form (thesis) frequently forget to include images. Enforcing this requirement would help prevent such omissions.
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"The record (Deposit and Staff-mediated Deposit) can only be saved if at least one image, video, or MP4 file is uploaded.".
I kindly ask for your help in implementing this idea, because the students who will be filling out deposit need to remember to add their pictures (images, files).
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Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the f
Bezalel archive contains many vimeo files. so it is necessary to add vimeo files to digital titles, we ask to develope a solution that the file name will be included in the section זמינות גירסה דיגיטלית with name, not in קישורים wihout title.
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Allow Citations as Logical Set for Digital Collection Creation
Currently only "Titles" sets are able to be used in the creation of logical Digital Collections:
We would like the ability attach logical sets of Citations to digital collections so that as reserves are added/removed, we do not have to delete all the titles and re-perform the search, nor do we want to add/remove one-by-one. This way, our course reserves digital collection will always be up to date every semester, without worrying about whether professors have submitted their reserve requests on time.
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View upload status in Alma Digital
I'm uploading large files to Alma Digital (by designating a folder path on AWS). Once I save the representation, I get a message that "The file upload is in progress and may take a few minutes." But there is no way to monitor the progress of the upload from within Alma. It would be very helpful to have some sort of status bar showing the progress of the upload in MB. Thanks.
Please add some way to view the status of an ongoing upload2 votes -
convert bib. records to sub collections in bulk
We discovered in Alma the possibility of creating collections of archival materials, which gives us the opportunity to create a hierarchy of collections and subcollections. Visually it also looks good. We do not yet have DIGITAL ALMA, we cannot load materials themselves, but a reader receives comprehensive and detailed information about library collections.
At the same time, we encountered a problem: we have collections with dozens of subcollections, and each subcollection needs to be edited separately. It takes precious time and a feeling of wasting energy on creating records of subcollections, when we have their bibliographic records ready with all…2 votes -
searching subcollections
Searching in Primo within a subcollection from Alma Digital does not work. When visiting a subcollection page, and a page with multiple subcollections and using the search bar at the top, you get zero results. There is a message underneath saying, "Didn't find what you were looking for?
Try searching all collections" which has a hyperlink. Once you click on "try searching all collections", it works.2 votes -
Add an additional audio track in the Alma Digital viewer
With the announcement of the new ADA rules implementing WCAG 2.1 requirements for audio-assisted descriptions for streaming video (see https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG21/#audio-description-prerecorded), we would like Alma Digital to accept an additional audio track in its film viewer that would play simultaneously with the video. While we can currently add an additional file to the Alma Digital representation, it cannot play simultaneously with the video.
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Digital Import Profile - it does not manage the existing digital representation
We use the digital import profile to update our digital collections. Currently, the system does not allow us to update the digital representation linked to the title; it only adds the new one, regardless of whether it is identical to the existing one or not. It would be desirable for the Merge and Overlay parameters to apply to digital files as well, not just to the MARC fields of the record.
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Add "depositor" name to "approve deposits" and/or desposit search screen
We'd like to more easily see the name of the patron who submitted each deposit. It would be useful to see this information on the "approve deposits" screen, and also when you do a repository search for deposits. We mostly want to see this for patron deposits, though if it's relatively simple to add a submitter's name for staff-mediated deposits as well that's even better.
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Add Close Caption file information to Alma Analytics
We need to report on the status of our digital collection, including which videos are close captioned. This data is not available in Alma Analytics. How hard would it be to add this to the "Digital Inventory" table?
2 votes -
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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Allow digital collection items to be restricted by campus in Primo like electronic portfolios
We would like to be able to limit the visibility of an item in a digital collection based on the the campuses we have set up in Alma in the same way that we can do with electronic Portfolios.
If we set up a digital collection item that is a database for example, we would like to have it only display in Primo under digital items if the current view is aligned with the campus that is allowed to see and access that digital item.
EG: We have a database "Cinahl" that we subscribe to for the RMH campus, but…
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Alma Digital - Allow digital object controls in Full screen view as well as the minimized view
Right now when a user views a digital object in the Alma, particularly a PDF, they have all the controls for zooming, moving to a particular page, etc., only when they they are the viewer is in a frame within the larger Primo window, with the metadata at the side etc. No functionality is available in full screen mode except to escape full screen mode. It would make for a much better experience for users if they had these functions in full screen mode as well, particularly since many of them would be reading the content on a laptop screen…
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thumbnail download blocking function from ALMA-D viewer screen
In addition to the Main Window where the image is shown in the Universal Viewer, user can right-click and print in a separate window showing the guide and the empty space of the Contents window showing the file of the title as a list. Please block the download function so that the function is not used.
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Report of Draft Deposits in Alma Digital
The 'Delete Draft Deposits' job can be run to delete draft deposits, those never submitted older than a predefined number of days. There is no reporting mechanism in place in Alma or Analytics to provide a report of those candidates before performing the deletion. You basically run the job not knowing how many records it will affect. A reporting mechanism should be made amiable before performing the deletion, so the operator can understand the impacts of running the job.
1 vote
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