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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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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 over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 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

View E-book licensing within GOBI for publisher/aggregator platforms

I would like to be able to see platform licensing (any restrictions on access and usage) within GOBI when I am selecting or purchasing an ebook.
Victoria Suslak over 2 years ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration

Immediate access to E-book URL

I would like to have immediate access to proxied e-book url to support rapid discovery of e-books purchased through GOBI.
Victoria Suslak over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

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 30 days 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 30 days ago in Selection Workflow 1 Already exists

Self-service for order changes

I would like to be able to make changes to placed orders without having to call customer service rep
Victoria Suslak over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 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

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 3 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Get notification when ebook becomes available when I select a print book of interest

When a publisher releases a new book print only, and I'm only interested in purchasing it as ebook, I want to set some kind of notification on individual titles I am interested in, so that when Gobi gets the ebook, I get emailed telling me it's no...
Guest 11 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 3 Future consideration