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More format choices and better file extensions for Gobi open order status reports

Gobi sends us open order status reports with an attachment that ends ".dat". That has no meaning at all to anyone's desktop software and just causes problems. Further, the most common format usable for this kind of data is NOT offered as an option...
Guest over 1 year ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Gobi: tag books written by Nobel prize winning authors in all fields, not just literature

I would like to make sure we own every book written by Nobel prize winners in all fields. Unfortunately, outside of the Literature Prize, Gobi doesn't reliably tag (with Approval notes) books that aren't necessarily themselves direct award winners...
Guest over 1 year ago in Profiling and Approval Services 2 Future consideration

Need an "Exclude Fiction" filter

There are a lot of Religious publishers who publish both fiction and non-fiction. Most of the time we are only interested purchasing non-fiction titles. It would be much easier to find titles to purchase if fiction could be filtered out.
Guest 10 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Already exists

Analytic recommendations based on purchasing

Gobi recommends automated workflows based on firm ordering or recommends titles to add to DDA based on triggers.
Jeremy Garskoff over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Allow customizable invoice filenames

Our accounts payable department requires a very specific file naming structure. If GOBI could deliver the PDFs with a customizable filename, it would save us from having to rename every single file.
Guest 10 months ago in Invoicing 0 Future consideration

Make GOBI Invoices searchable by keyword

I would like it if GOBI's account documentation were searchable by keyword. In my library I often want to look back at how something was invoiced by title, eCollection title, or description. Being able to search by keyword would save me time and h...
Guest 11 months ago in User Interface 1 Already exists

Please add Jewish Studies to your Diversity, Equity & Inclusion by Subject lists.

Given the long, global, and uninterrupted history of anti-Jewish racism, not to mention today's rise in antisemitism world-wide, but especially in the United States, it's strange that you don't have a Jewish studieslist.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Content 2 Already exists

Sort by "Added to list" date

In my lists, I wish I could sort by the date it was added.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Selection 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

"Interdisciplinary Topics" as Approval parameter

We would like to use "YBP Interdisciplinary Topics" as parameters setting up approvals. To be able to do so, this parameter would need to be applied consistently for all titles.
Guest about 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration