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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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Add ISBN to slip search parameter options

There are times when we need to be able to search for a specific title among our approval slips. It would be helpful to have ISBN as a search option.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Exclude publishers from search parameters

Selectors would like the ability to exclude certain publishers when searching in GOBI
Guest 3 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Search and report GOBI notes

It would be extremely helpful to be able to search the note field and to have notes show up on reports.
Laura Vogler about 2 years ago in Reporting and Analysis / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Show when a title is already in my GOBI Select Cart

In GOBI, when looking at a record, I want to be able to see if it is already in my Select Cart. I find myself putting titles into the Select Cart two or three times because of my library's workflows. I search for titles to consider selecting perio...
Guest over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add "Exclude titles already owned" from GOBI Add titles by ISBN search

Add a checkbox to "Exclude titles already acquired or on order" from GOBI's "Add titles by ISBN" search. This function is extremely useful in the similar Alternate Formats search. Having it available in Add Titles by ISBN would allow my library to...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 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 9 months ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration

GOBI sell books with more languages around the world

My library collects titles written in non-English languages, and GOBI's options are limited. I would like GOBI to profile Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and other world language content.
Guest 12 months ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration

Ability to transfer and make derivative copies of GOBI Folders, Searches, Templates between user logins

My library has had lots of staff turnover and we also collaborate on ordering/collection development projects frequently. I would like GOBI templates, folders, notifications, etc. to be searchable across the library so that I can easily transfer t...
Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Allow current List Price default view to change to my country's currency

I'm from Canada but all the prices display for me in USD by default. I'd like this to change, either automatically by GOBI recognizing my country based on my profile, or by me selecting it in my preferences. This would be a huge time-saver.
PG almost 2 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

Rethink presentation of information

ALL CAPS is hard to read on a screen. The variety of typefaces, capitalizations, and colors creates visual clutter. The three views of results show respectively too little, too much, and way too much information for most of my selection decisions....
Guest almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration