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That NERS submission was delivered with the ability to set preference of delivery category, such as assigning SFX at a lower preference.
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Hi Gran - Thanks very much for clarifying the intent of the idea. I agree that the Blocks display in Blocks + Messages are very limited at the moment, and it would be good to have them all displayed there for user information. This would also help in making up for the 2 block limit for nonrenewal reasons in the Loans tab. I will add a vote in support.
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User specific blocks and loan specific blocks are both displayed, but the key is the design decision to only display 2 blocks maximum.
The user specific blocks display first and then the loan specific, in a certain order. I had a case querying this and asked for the details were added to the OLH:
1. The following patron blocks are checked first to see if all loans are blocked for renewal. Alma will return the first two reasons found and will not perform any further checks.
a. Patron is expired.
b. Check if patron overdue recall limits were exceeded.
c. Fetch patron's active blocks.
d. Check if patron overdue limits were exceeded.
e. Check if a patron's cash limits were exceeded.2. The following loan-specific checks are performed next. Alma will return the first two reasons found for that loan.
a. Validate that the item is renewable.
b. Check if the user has a patron role for this library or the whole institution.
c. Validate that the current date is before the maximum renewal period expires.
d. Check that the item does have any holds.We changed the first code table display from 'Cannot renew this item' to 'Cannot renew this item. Reasons include:' to try to establish the user expectation that there may be more than the 2 displayed reasons.
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I actually thought this was likely to be a deliberate design feature (although I've never asked). The half panel display on either side suggests to me that there are more resources available, rather than just the ones on screen, reinforcing the user expectation established with the bars on either side with the arrows. Up to 100 records will be displayed, combined to the left and right, with the open record in the middle, so it's correct that the list is not complete.
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Could you share the use case of why this would be useful? For staff this information is available in the equivalent form within Alma, and I can't think why a user would care how many times an item was loaned.
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Hi - This can be done by adding Loan Status to the fields in the Loans List. It will show with data such as Normal, Renewed, Recalled, etc.
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I would also like to add that my preferred development for this would be to do away with the Popular Searches SA completely and replace it with a new Search Strings SA. This should be on the same daily ETL as all the other SAs (unlike the monthly aggregation for Popular Searches), and offer all the other functionality of the other SAs such as granularity of date fields down to the search date by day.
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Note: BIRT is now deprecated as of the February 2019 release.
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The OpenURL was added in April 2019, and Article Title and Book Title are also available (not sure from when though).
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Hi,
Could you explain more, as when I do a Repository Search by Electronic Collection and then run the Export URLs job, I get a csv file with the Electronic Collections listed at the top with their 61 ID and URL and then - for instances where they have portfolios - the list of 53 IDs and URLs for the Portfolios. -
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Hello,
Most of the collections are available in the KBs.
The missing ones are:
- British Library Manuscripts Part I and II
- Luso-Brazilian History and Culture: Oliveira Lima Library I & II
- Early Arabic Printed Books Religion & Law
- Early Arabic Printed Books Science & History
- Early Arabic Printed Books Christian Literature
We will reach out to Gale to establish a feed for these collections.
Thanks for your support,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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You might have more luck with this one if you post it to the Content Idea Exchange.
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Interesting! I hadn't noticed this before, and it's not very good :(
I agree that Alma changes are undesirable and I would think PCI data changes are unlikely given the scale, so the best option would seem to be to adjust the search index behaviour.
I found an example in our instance, and you're on the money that the PCI record includes the initial article in Sort, whereas Alma OTB norm rules strip it.
PCI
<display>
<title>The Power of Cities in Global Climate Politics: Saviours, Supplicants or Agents of Change?</title>
<sort>
<title>The Power of Cities in Global Climate Politics: Saviours, Supplicants or Agents of Change?</title>
Alma
<display>
<title>The power of cities in global climate politics : saviours, supplicants or agents of change? / Craig A. Johnson.</title>
<sort>
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Hi,
I agree that’s not ideal at all. Adding the 245 c to the Title is one of the first things we configured locally during our Primo BO Implementation. I see from the guide that it is indeed hard coded and I believe the only option for adding MARC fields in VE at the moment is to create a whole new local field, which is obviously only useful in practice for completely new MARC fields not already hard coded, and especially not Title which is such a key one. This seems like a pretty clear cut use case for VE sites to be able to customise display. Out of curiosity, did Ex Libris suggest this Idea Exchange submission, Lori?
Cheers,
Stacey van Groll, University of QueenslandAn error occurred while saving the comment Stacey van Groll
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Hi Lori, I added the 245 subfield c to Display in our Alma normalization rules in the Primo Back Office. If you are not Total Care, you should be able to do this also, otherwise I believe Total Care sites can open a SalesForce case to ask for it to be done.
Cheers,
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Good point, Ann, as it is a bit cumbersome to muck about with accounts. The ability to masquerade easily would be a nice one for staff to have. I wonder how that could be implemented just for staff though, as I wouldn't think it'd be something you'd want to make available for users. A snazzy concept for admins though, so I've added a vote :)
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Sorry if I am not understanding this correctly, but can you not set up test accounts for this sort of display and functionality configuration testing?
Or briefly change your account to the different user group? Obviously that’s predicated on your role privileges in Alma, but I would assume you would have this level given the nature of the question and the work?
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I agree that the policy set by the institution should be upheld regardless of the method for removing a user account.
I also find it confusing that the 'Delete User Policy' is completely disregarded when you delete a user account manually directly in the account, but it is taken into account when running the Purge Users job. Why is it not called 'Purge User Policy'?
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I've smoothed out our workflow a little as a workaround by changing 'Encoding' to 'UTF-8' in the Keeping This Item Tile Code Table. The little drop down arrow still appears with just UTF-8 listed, but hopefully users will just go straight to Download. This only works as a bit of a kludge though because we only have the one encoding option enabled, so more configuration options are still sorely needed.
Cheers, Stacey van Groll
Discovery and Access CoordinatorAn error occurred while saving the comment Stacey van Groll
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We'd also had feedback from users that the New UI display for Export RIS is confusing and takes many more clicks than is necessary.
We would love to see this idea implemented, with more configuration options such as:
* Allow encoding options to be relabelled, for example to change UTF-8 to EndNote UTF-8
* Allow encoding options to be reordered, for example to move UTF-8 to the top of the list
* If all bar one encoding option has been disabled, clicking on RIS should trigger the download. Clicks currently needed: 1st click on RIS, 2nd click on Encoding, 3rd click on UTF-8, and 4th click on Download. Or, if a user figures out that steps can be skipped: 1st click on RIS and 2nd click on Download
Cheers, Stacey van Groll
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What a great idea! It would make Analytics so much more user friendly to have more guides and Alma specific search index information in-system. Out of curiosity, did Ex Libris suggest the submission of this idea after a SalesForce case?
Cheers, Stacey van Groll
University of Queensland Library
Also for CZ into IZ as well please!