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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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Fund Code - Selector mapping

I would like the system be able to detect Who is responsible for selecting titles for which fund code to avoid accidental selecting "wrong" fund code for a title.
Guest 4 days ago in Selection Workflow 0

Mosaic selector workflow

Ability to add notes and "GobiExpress" feature to add information (adding fund code, etc.) to titles in search results rather than only in Select/Order cart
Guest 4 days ago in Selection Workflow 0

GOBI DDA title removal

For anyone that has DDA set up in GOBI, it is easy enough to request to have a title manually added to a DDA collection. However, there is currently no way to manually remove it. It appears you have to contact support to have this done. Please con...
Laura Vogler 9 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0

Exclude publishers from search parameters

Selectors would like the ability to exclude certain publishers when searching in GOBI
Guest 23 days ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Editing DDA titles

Enable ISBN searching in Active DDAs. This would facilitate streamlined weeding of the DDA collection. Currently, when I am removing a title I need to sort through the list. When doing an ISBN search (top search bar), I don't see an intuitive way ...
Guest 26 days ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 1

Delete Material Type Field

A "Material Type" field has recently been added to the "Enter Order Details" box. This field includes such categories as Museum Passes, DVD, Faculty Item, etc. GOBI does not sell Museum Passes or DVDs, so why should a selector have to waste time o...
Guest about 2 months ago in Selection Workflow 1 Already exists

Delete Location Field

A new Location field has recently been added that requires selectors to choose the destination of the item within the selector's library. This field serves no useful purpose and should be deleted.
Guest about 2 months ago in Selection Workflow 1 Already exists

Delete file

I have accidently deleted selections. I selected the delete button, instead of print. My hand is quicker, than my eyes. If there were a delete file. I could have a second chance of restoring the selections, instead of have to go back to the select...
Guest 2 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

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 3 months 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 4 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration