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Manage Library Folders: Show column

Make the "No" in the Show column for managing folders something other than grey, ideally blue and underlined so it appears to be clickable to users.
Guest almost 3 years ago in User Interface 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 4 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls / Reporting and Analysis / Selection Workflow 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 about 2 years ago in APIs and Integration 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 3 years ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 0 Future consideration

eBook Manager: more options to refine search, and export result lists

We have the following suggestions for improvement of the eBook Manager interface: An option to refine search by titles that have "Copies reserved for online use". Currently, it's possible to refine search by "Title-level download settings". We wou...
Heidi Jahnsen over 2 years ago in eBook Management 3 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 about 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 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 over 3 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Fund Code - Selector mapping

I would like the system be able to detect Who is responsible for selecting titles for which fund code to avoid accidental selecting "wrong" fund code for a title.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Selection 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 over 2 years ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 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 almost 4 years ago in APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration