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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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Make GOBI Saved Reports permanently saved instead of expiring after 10 days

Make GOBI Saved Reports permanently saved instead of expiring after 10 days. I want to be able to save particular Expenditure Report parameters that I only need to run once a month or once a semester. The Saved Searches function doesn't auto-delet...
Guest 11 months ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Integration with library system

We need integration with our library system (Alma) to better expose the following within the selection process: current available balance on selected funds current holdings including whether we own or only have access to a book title
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

Add description of the book to data displayed

Please provide the publisher's description of the book so I don't have to check the publisher's website to get an idea of what's the book about.
Susanne van Rijn over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add "Submitted By" & "Initials" to Library Activity Search

Currently, there is no way to generate a report of who submitted orders/selections in GOBI. It would be very useful to have the "Submitted By" and "Initials" fields available in Library Activity Search.
Guest over 1 year ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

GOBI Order cancellations email alerts should be able to be sent to the person who selected or ordered the book

GOBI Order cancellations email alerts should be able to be sent to the person who selected or ordered the book in real-time. This is important at my library because each individual selector is responsible for closely tracking their budget allotmen...
Guest 8 months ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Enable easily adding an alternate edition from the drop-down menu

The current alternate edition drop-down list only lists titles; if you want to add one to the cart you have to click into the menu and then select the appropriate title and add it, or click the item's ISBN and to view the individual title and add ...
Sara Carman over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

List author affiliations in GOBI notifications so we don't have to check them ourselves before deciding whether to purchase.

Useful for librarians who prefer not to purchase titles in their subject areas by authors outside those disciplines.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services / Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Approval Platform

The more parameters we can set on the platform ourselves for our approval plans, the easier is the administration of the approvals.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration

Out of Print titles

We would appreciate an Alert for alternative editions, as soon as these are available, for titles that are out of print.
Guest almost 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Full text search of eBooks available to find the titles students need

I have often been looking for eBooks containing a particular concept and will not find a title using the currently limited search. I have needed to go to Google Books, search full text there, and then come back to see if the eBooks found are avail...
Guest about 1 year ago in Selection Workflow / User Interface 3 Future consideration