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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 regular keyword field to Gobi advanced search.

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R H about 2 years ago in User Interface 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

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 7 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 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 about 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / Reporting and Analysis / Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Delete file

I have accidently deleted selections. I selected the delete button, instead of print. My hand is quicker, than my eyes. If there were a delete file. I could have a second chance of restoring the selections, instead of have to go back to the select...
Guest 4 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

GobiAPI Integration with OCLC WMS

Real-time order API supporting transfer of bibliographic and order data between GOBI and OCLC WMS.
Caroline Zappasodi about 2 years ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Allow "ebook only" limiter for YBP-US/UK Titles when setting up Notifications

When selecting "eBook only" for a Notification, the only universe options are "All titles," "My Library Slips" or "New Editions of my library's titles." This option should also be made available for "YBP-US Titles" and "YBP-UK Titles"
Guest about 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

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

Toggle between alternate editions

Allow me to add an item to a folder one time and select or change the edition with one click. (Currently to swap paperback for hardcover or eBook I have to click away from my list to alternate editions, add the edition to my folder, then delete th...
Guest almost 2 years ago in User Interface 1 Future consideration

Search library activity by cancellation date

Each week we search our cancelled orders under "library activity" to update our records and reorder. However, we can only search cancelled orders by an order date range, then manually check the cancellation date of each title. The ability to searc...
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration