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Gobi API Purchase Order creation for DDA autopurchases

Please enable the GOBI API to create purchase orders in Alma for auto-purchased DDA titles. This automation will allow for accurate tracking of DDA purchases in Alma and reduce manual work/errors in POL creation
Guest 11 days ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Set default sort/filter

It might be useful to enable users to set up a default sort/filter for their search results on the new ordering platform so they don't have to apply the same filters every time as we do in GOBI. If they are often searching with the same parameters...
Guest about 2 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Bring back ECM search profiles

The ECM search profiles made is easier for us to find and purchase ebooks. We do not use GOBI, and the new "book ordering platform" is of no interest. Removing the search profiles will reduce our usage of the platform. I can't imagine why you woul...
Guest about 2 months ago in Evidence-Based Acquisition 1 Will not implement

Order Acknowledgements Sent to Multiple Emails

We would like the Order Acknowledgements that are automatically sent to individual users upon completing an order to be sent to multiple email addresses automatically after purchase. We have a number of individuals who need access to this order in...
Guest 3 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Gobi Manage Folders sort - either preserve choice within setting or allow us to set default

Within a single Gobi login session, when I sort the Manage Library Folders list, I have to keep re-sorting it every time I follow one of the folders to do some ordering, and then come back to pull the contents of the next folder. And the default s...
Guest 3 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

Remove All-caps from the title and download list since it is not ADA compliant.

All-caps is hard to read and when using screen readers it reads as acronyms.
Guest 4 months ago in  3 Future consideration

Notifications for "currently unavailable" titles

When a title is currently "unavailable in your country" it would be wonderful to be able to create an alert if the title/format does become available to order.
Guest 4 months ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration

Increase cookie timeout for Eadmin

Eadmin forces a re-login far too frequently for those of us who are in and out of it several times per day. And often when it times out, it does so very badly, with a corrupted cookie that needs to be cleared in the browser settings before one can...
Guest 4 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Will not implement

GOBI: Add Language search parameter to Advanced Search

This is about GOBI, not EBSCO search. The ability to filter search results to Language is in Standard but not Advanced search. I often need the language search parameter combined with options only in Advanced, like Content Level. Please add the La...
Guest 5 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Open Order Status Reports -- allow recipient designation by subaccount

We have around 25 subaccounts, but one of them is completely handled by an administratively separate library on campus which orders many fewer orders than our main library. It would be helpful if open orders could be split out by subaccount and al...
Guest 5 months ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration