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This Ideas Portal enables you to share any ideas you have for GOBI, ECM or the upcoming new books ordering platform, as well as vote and comment on any submitted ideas.

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Include links to new editions

When a new edition is available, please include that link in the older edition. Other book vendors include this and it ensures we order the most current edition. especially if a title has changed.
Linda Nilles over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 1 Future consideration

When an ISBN with hyphens is used to search, automatically remove hyphens

In ISBNs hyphens are often used (for example 978-981-19-7160-0). To be able to search by ISBN I have to remove the hyphens manually. With hyphens the result is 'No results were found'. It would be great if the hyphens were removed automatically (e...
Judith Gulpers over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / Selection Workflow / User Interface 2 Future consideration

Preferred sort order

The default sort order of the results is 'Relevance'. I would like to be able to change that into Pub Year > Descending (to see the newest titles first) and keep that sort order (at least) for the next searches in the same session.
Judith Gulpers almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Subfolders

It would be beneficial to be able to organize folders into subfolders. For example, I keep lists until all items arrive, but they clutter my lists when adding new items. Being able to sort lists or hide some that have already been submitted would ...
Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Print on Demand Status Indication

I ordered a book that has a status of in stock and turns out it is a print on demand item and will take extra time to get it. I don't see anything in the record that indicates print on demand. It would be nice to know that before hand. Instead of ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Calculate Est. Net total for selected items

In the Gobi platform, being able to see the net and list price totals of selected items would cut down on extra work to make sure funds are not over spent.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

search titles within a folder in My Folders

Can we search just the titles in a folder? That would be handy. Did I already add this to my folder or not?
Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add ISBN to slip search parameter options

There are times when we need to be able to search for a specific title among our approval slips. It would be helpful to have ISBN as a search option.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Search and report GOBI notes

It would be extremely helpful to be able to search the note field and to have notes show up on reports.
Laura Vogler almost 2 years ago in Reporting and Analysis / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Add regular keyword field to Gobi advanced search.

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R H almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration