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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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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 about 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 over 1 year 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 over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

Gobi Manage Folders sort - either preserve choice within setting or allow us to set default

Within a single Gobi login session, when I sort the Manage Library Folders list, I have to keep re-sorting it every time I follow one of the folders to do some ordering, and then come back to pull the contents of the next folder. And the default s...
Guest 6 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 Future consideration

Show Purchase History in eBook Manager

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Kara Kroes Li over 2 years ago in eBook Management 0 Future consideration

Remove perpetual purchases from DDA pool automatically

If we purchase an ebook perpetually, we would like it removed from our DDA pool to prevent paying for the same item twice. Currently we do this manually. It would be great if GOBI could identify and remove these automatically
Guest over 1 year ago in Demand-Driven Acquisition 0 Future consideration

Add regular keyword field to Gobi advanced search.

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R H about 2 years ago in User Interface 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

Credit card payment of Gobi invoices on the platform

Eliminates the need for payment by business office. Can pay, reconcile and activate in more seamlessly.
Jeremy Garskoff over 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Total cost of items ordered per session

It would be good to have a total of the cost of books ordered per ordering session. This would be useful to Selectors who often have broad weekly/monthly expenditure guidelines.
Guest almost 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / Reporting and Analysis / Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration