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Modify Estimated Price Via Rapid Update
Our Acquisitions staff does not use List Price when ordering, & is hoping that Estimated Price could be modifiable via Rapid Update. At the moment, this would help them modify 200+ order records, which they now have to do manually.
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Sorting Search/Holds Queries
Staff would like to see the ability to sort results retrieved from queries performed in Sierra's Search/Holds mode.
Say for example they do a keyword search for Star Wars at our Forest Park branch. 124 items are found. The results are displayed alphabetically by default. But if the staff member wants to quickly sort by DVDs, they can't even click on the Format column heading, as it exists currently.
While they can run multiple limits to narrow down the results by format, language, shelving location, publication date, etc., they might just as equally be inclined to SORT the entire list…
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Two First Names, No Last Name
We periodically have customers that have two first names, but not a last name. When hold slips are printed, Sierra interprets the second name as their last name, but this is not the case. We would like to just have their two first names show up on the holds slip, if possible. We have done a workaround for now to ensure that the name they use is the second name listed so that their holds slips show the first name they use, but it would be better to have both names printed.
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Spending Limit Pop-Up
I know its shocking when the subject of pop-ups in Sierra comes up that anyone would want "MORE!," but our Acquisitions staff would like to see a warning of fund spending over limit at invoicing in addition to ordering.
Their rationale is that shipping & Mylar costs usually cannot be pre-determined. Once posting happens, the fund goes negative. Since there is no going back, like when you're about to go down the chute at the end of a log flume ride, there should be a warning.
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Data Exchange > Send PRINT FILE using FTS - Include Login Column
I am often having to clean up/delete files that have been saved/"printed" via FTS File Exchange to Data Exchange (send print files out). I sort by date, clear old ones, but some I am hesitant, may still be needed. It would help immensely if the system identified the login associated with this printed file. Then I'd know who to ask/who owns this file (and who isn't deleting their old files). The login column is used elsewhere in the system (Create Lists, etc.), so would ensure consistency.
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macros
Add additional macro modifiers in Sierra.
The 6.3 update removed the Control + F1 modifier macro. Can we consider adding more modifiers such as left/right control, left/right alt, and left/right shift keys?
Thank you!
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innovative_footer
The Innovative_Footer token for webopac does not have any CSS styles or identifiers associated with it so that it can be controlled through stylesheets. The footer is inappropriately placed on our website due to this lack of control.
Propose adding identifiers to the underlying HTML code so that it can be styled properly. Replace its <span> tag with a <div> tag might be appropriate.
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RFID switching
One of our branches uses shielded RFID pads, and the software could hook in to their previous ILS and context switch the current RFID action (tag on, tag off, no change) depending on the active function screen by overlaying a screen over the ILS to track the toggling.
Can support for this functionality be offered for Sierra? I assume it would involve working with the RFID vendors to get it up and running.
The current workaround is to use Sierra macros to trigger the RFID function change, but this is reliant on staff remembering to press the keys which may…
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Clear and Set Permissions at one go
We have implemented SDA Context User functionality so staff will open Sierra using shared library login and then add their own login (permissions). We would hope faster way to change the user. At this time you must first remove previous user (Admin - Clear Permissions) and then add new user (Admin - Set Permissions). Staff suggested one function that would both Clear previous and Set new Permissions. E.g. Set Permission could remove the old user and then ask the new user. We set up macros for both functions so staff can use them instead of drop-down menu. However, I suppose…
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Schedule and automatically place contents of a system-generated review file into one or more designated list
Each week staff go into Create Lists and repopulate a designated review file with current data from a system-generated list. Two examples of system-generated lists include the OVERDUE ITEMS and PURCHASE ALERTS files. It would be great if our site could schedule Sierra to identify a specific list number and replenish or refresh the contents of it with most current system file's data. This would make the task fully automated. It's important to our system to be able to designate which list or review file number to use for each system-generated file job, however. We are a consortium and our…
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Expand the options tied to permission 109, update uncataloged records
Currently Sierra permission 109, update uncataloged records, is tied to whether or not the bib record has a CDATE (no catalog date) field. It would be great if permission 109 could be customized by a library to be controlled by another option outside of just the presence of the CDATE field. For example, we use field 31 to control the level of cataloging of a record (including full MARC) and to suppress the bib. It would be helpful if we could tie the codes from that field to this permission. It's worth mentioning that permission 109 and the presence of…
3 votesThe product team will review this idea for consideration for a future release.
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Save Query As - Alphabetical by Query
When using Create Lists and using Retrieve Saved Query, you are able to sort the list in ascending order. When you go to Save As a query, it goes in and there doesn't appear to be any sort of order (in the past I swear it went in the order it was added/saved). So if you have to tweak your query and need to Save As again, good luck finding it, esp. when you have 100+ saved queries. Ideally you could sort the list of queries, like you can when you initially retrieve them.
3 votesThe product team will review this idea for consideration for a future release.
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Make printer option defaults available by workflow, and have "send to email address" send only to staff email addresses
This is two fold. First, we would like to be able to set a default printer option determined by the staff users workflow (circulation workflow/function would default to "email to patron", and cataloging function would default to local printer, etc). So staff log in and select their function area and the system uses a specific printer default accordingly.
Secondly, we would like to have the "Send to email address" printer option changed somewhat. When selected, it would have a drop down of emails available to send to. These would be set up by the system admin. It would reduce the…
3 votesThe product team will review this idea for consideration for a future release.
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Disable Reprint bills button In Sierra
We can’t use this button because we don’t use print templates for our bills.
We would prefer them to look pretty with Print Templates instead of the plain text we currently have. To avoid staff confusion, it would be great if this we had the ability to disable/grey out this button.3 votesThis idea will be reviewed for consideration as an enhancement in an upcoming release.
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Choose Priority between Item-level holds queue and bib-level holds queue
More control over choosing priority between the item-level holds queue and the bibliographic-level holds manually so that the Processing department can pull back specific items on popular, high-volume holds with more ease.
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Sorting Searches in Patron Indexes
When creating a new customer record from scratch, or when updating & finalizing those submitted through our online application, we have staff perform some checks to prevent duplicate records.
They'll begin by searching the Name index to make sure that there's no pre-existing record for the same name. Then as backup, they'll try searching by birth date or phone number.
However, when you search by birth date or phone number, the results do not come back in alphabetical order, making things a bit harder than they should be for frontline staff. See example image where the search for the DOB…
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Make Vendor Payment Info More Readily Accessible
The vendor payment address should be accessible at invoice payment function. Currently, the invoicing function needs to be closed & address information accessed at order record, vendor, etc.
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Add the ability to search for more fields for volumes in create lists other than just holds.
The only option in create lists for volumes is to find holds. It would be helpful to be able to search for volumes that 'match' or 'has' variable fields. Then we could search for volumes that say 2024, for example. It would also be helpful to have this in Global Update as well when toggling to variable fields.
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Remove leading diacritic from normalised author fields
Sierra currently removes any leading apostrophe for example from the normalised author fields on bibs. For example, normAuthor over API. Other diacritics such as ʻokina (ʻ) is not removed from normalised fields. Because of this, any systems that use norm fields over API are not alphabetising the author correctly.
It would be great if Sierra could remove the ʻokina (ʻ) from the normalised author fields. Specifically normAuthor.
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Add required checkboxes for ILL conditions and optionally enforce mandatory fields to reduce premature and inaccurate ILL submissions.
We use forms in Sierra for inter-library loans. We have, however, found that some users are too quick in submitting requests. I think it would be a good idea for ILL forms in Sierra to have additional functionality to slow user behaviour down and to allow for more accurate ILL requests:
- We have ILL conditions included as text below our ILL forms that would be better served as check boxes in the form e.g., "I understand I am responsible for copyright"; "I understand I am responsible for any replacement or repair fines".
- I also think if we could make certain…
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