The job category field is a viable fulfilment rule filter (appears in the rule parameters), but can only currently be manually updated one-by-one from within the Alma user interface.
We were going to use this field to give researchers and external students enhanced fulfillment privileges, since patron groups wasn’t really viable due to external records being locked down as part of our University’s identity management policies to standard roles – ie student, staff, postgraduate etc..
Unfortunately the patron loader integration allows for empty job categories to be updated, but does not currently allow for any updates once a non-empty value has been defined.
For external records I think this field needs to be updated from the patron loader integration and APIs. Otherwise there is no sane way to manage this field in any sort of automated way.
The job category field is a viable fulfilment rule filter (appears in the rule parameters), but can only currently be manually updated one-by-one from within the Alma user interface.
We were going to use this field to give researchers and external students enhanced fulfillment privileges, since patron groups wasn’t really viable due to external records being locked down as part of our University’s identity management policies to standard roles – ie student, staff, postgraduate etc..
Unfortunately the patron loader integration allows for empty job categories to be updated, but does not currently allow for any updates once a non-empty value has been defined.
For external records I think this field needs to be updated from the patron loader integration and APIs. Otherwise there is no sane way to manage this field in any sort of automated way.