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Acquisition Workflow

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Search by POL

I would like to be able to search for a selection after the order is in by the POL number assigned.
Sharon Whittle over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 1 Already exists

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

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

Share GOBI order templates

Allow sharing of GOBI order templates with other GOBI users in our library. Currently, each GOBI user must create their own order templates. This is labor intensive and prone to errors. Our library has multiple subaccounts and numerous required fi...
Carmel Thompson over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow ebook only limiter to notifications for "New editions of my library's titles"

The new "new editions of my library's titles" notification is useful, but would be more useful for those of us purchasing primarily ebooks to be able to liimit to ebooks only. Currently when you select the "new..." option, the control over ebook s...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

notify us when an order is cancelled

Please email us when a print or ebook order has been cancelled.
Linda Nilles over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Already exists

show number of available copies

Show the number of copies available. This helps when ordering multiple copies. Knowing that number on hand ahead of time will avoid having orders cancelled.
Linda Nilles over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Ability to select titles and give total cost in Select Cart before ordering

We currently have the ability to select 1, 3, and Unlimited versions of ebooks from different vendors. It would be great to be able to calculate the cost of these in the Select Cart before we order them. This would help the workflow greatly, espec...
PG almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Gobi needs search/filter option to include/exclude library owns already

Add an option to include or exclude "library owns/library owns alt ed" in advanced search, or alternatively add it as a post-search Filter. Or another alternative would be to include that information when Saving a batch of marked records with "ful...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add DDA-eligible=Y to the Standard and Advanced Search options

For those of us with Gobi DDA programs including manual "Request DDA", it would be useful to be able to search using either Standard or Advanced and have as a limiting option to only include in the results titles that have at least one provider th...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration