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Additional (Staff Only) Message Field In Patron Records
We have been considering enabling the display of the free text Message field in patron records in the WebPac (& a corresponding tab in Bibliocommons). It seems like an easy & useful way to quickly & effectively communicate with customers on issues related to their account.
For example, we might want to create a list of patron records at a library location that is closing for renovation to let them know that for the duration of the closing, their holds will be routed to another nearby branch. We'd apply the message to impacted patron records for as long as it's…
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Allow notices to be sent to e-mail addresses entered in separate fields.
In Sierra we have to add additional e-mail addresses comma separated in the same field for Print template notices to be sent to more than one address.
Right now we are implementing Vega Discover and there patrons can add additional e-mail addresses. They end up in separate e-mail fields in Sierra though and doesn´t work for Print template notices.
The integration built for us between IMMS and Sierra does pick up addresses from all e-mail fields to send out pick up notices for holds.So it would be great if this could also be the case for Print template-notices from…
10 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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MARC tag - exporting
When exporting MARC tags, export should have all the subfields marked. Now that I try to export say 041, I can´t see if the language code is in a, b or d... And this would be important to know as it is not the same to have say |a fin |h eng and |a fin |a eng.
10 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Preferences font settings can affect catalog display
When you increase the font size to 20 for cataloging, it enlarges all the other information except the title line which remains the same. As a result, the title line appears smaller in comparison to the other information. It would be great is the title also displayed in the larger font.
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Allow staff to toggle between printing and not printing a date due slip
When checking out a patron within Sierra, it would be best if the staffer could easily toggle between offering a paper date due slip, an email slip or no slip. This functionality seems to have gone away.
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Allow missing Web Management Reports Data to be re-added with the correct time period
Twice in the past year we have encountered errors in which the overnight statistics process did not complete leading to a missing day's worth of transactions in Web Management Reports. In both cases we only learned of this missing data later upon running monthly reports and finding an undercount.
Upon being alerted Innovative has been able to retrieve the missing data and add it back to WMR, but doing so adds it to the current month instead of the correct timeframe. This latest occurrence crossed fiscal years for us, essentially breaking the reporting tool for our needs.
Fortunately, this is…
10 votesThe product manager will review this idea for possible inclusion in a future release.
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OAI-PMH marc21 to marc21 crosswalk
Allow for editing of the the marc21_marc21 crosswalk in order to define what fields are presented for harvesting by external agents. This crosswalk is currently hard coded and cannot be edited as you can with the DC crosswalk
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More spine label queue options / label printing options
Spine Label Queues are only available in the current session and do not save. We are able to print spine labels (sheet or continuous) from Create Lists, but cannot apply print templates with this function. Can we either have the option to apply print templates when wanting to print batches of labels via Create Lists and/or have the option to hold on to our spine label queues for more than just the current session?
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Increase Sierra Username Character Limit
We need to increase the number of characters allowed for the username - currently a maximum of 12. We prefer to keep our Sierra usernames the same as a user's network login name (one less thing to remember). Anything over 12 characters forces us to make a different Sierra username that fits within the Sierra parameters.
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed for consideration as an enhancement in an upcoming release.
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Add multiple "Public View" options
Currently, Sierra only allows the "Public View" of a bib record to direct you to one of the public catalogs. Libraries with Vega Discover and/or Encore have to choose between WebPAC or one of the more enhanced public catalogs. It would be nice to be able to view both to check how bib records are displaying, especially since Discover only updates once a day.
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed for consideration as an enhancement in an upcoming release.
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Increase Invoice Cap
The current cap of 99 invoices downloadable per day can impede & dictate staff workflows.
Because of this, our Acquisitions staff must also set limits with vendors like Baker & Taylor, as we can receive more than 99 in a day. It would be optimal if they could download at will up to invoice limit.
Not all shipments are dealt with sequentially, which further complicates matters.
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Print or create review file of only selected items in Headings Reports
In Headings Reports, it would be useful to send only selected listings to a printer or to export as a new review file. Currently if you try to select only a few of the total shown, it will print or export the entire report, not the selected listings.
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Limit Pickup Location Based on Item Type
We have three pickup locations: lockers, curbside and hold pickup shelves inside the library. For our Library of Things item type we would want to eliminate the lockers as an option because they cannot hold those items because of space.
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Allow for Diacritics in E-mail Receipts
We've been exploring new ways that our library, as an institution, can meet the evolving interests of DEI efforts. One very small but meaningful way we thought we might do this is to allow for the inclusion of diacritic characters in customer names in Sierra.
Their inclusion appears as desired on the customer record when created/displayed in Sierra (images dia1 - dia2).
They do not appear to impede searching for the customer by name - the search just ignores them (images dia3 - dia4).
They appear as desired in the name display in the Classic Catalog (image dia5).
They appear…
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Penalty points for patrons who reserve books and then don't pick them up at the library
Currently, on Sierra it is possible to block patrons based on overdue penalty points (OD PENALTY) when they check in or renew overdue items. This is done with the patron fixed field OD PENALTY. The system calculates the penalty points that have to be added to the patron record and when a patron exceeds the maximum number of penalty points allowed by the library, the patron is blocked. More info at https://documentation.iii.com/sierrahelp/Default.htm#sgcir/sgcir_fine_penaltypoints.html
THis feature is very useful. Wouldn't it be a good idea to be able to apply a similar strategy for patrons that request a hold on a bib/item…
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Allow Create Lists to export the best title and best author normalized fields
These two fields can be incorporated into searches performed within create lists but are not available among the fields that can be exported. Best title normalized is particularly helpful for data brought into a spreadsheet as the removal of special characters and diacritics can greatly improving sorts and searching.
These fields are available via SQL, where I make frequent use of them, but for most of our users Create Lists is the only option for extracting data from the system.
9 votesThis idea will be reviewed by the Innovative product team for consideration in planning the upcoming product roadmap.
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Make Selecting 'All' Genuinely Purposeful
As I'd done in similar scenarios countless times before, yesterday, I was in the process of modifying the activeholds on my account in Sierra to change them to a newly created pickup location.
There were several that needed changing, so I selected 'All.' However, rather than make a batch change of the half dozen or so that needed updating, Sierra cycles you through each item individually, forcing multiple arguably unnecessary clicks, when the expected & more intuitive outcome in this scenario would be to indicate the desired change once & see it changed for all selected records.
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View Public Display - Allow for Multiple Choices
https://ideas.iii.com/forums/951745-ils-sierra/suggestions/46670854-sierra-5-5-direct-view-public-display-to-disco is closed/says it's already supported, but the part for being configured to more than one display option is not addressed. We would like to be able to have more than one option to display - Vega, Classic, Encore and even III Mobile if possible - so we can see how all iterations look right from the SDA. So in the menu it would be View | Public Display | array of choices
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Allow the "remember me" in Sierra Desktop App login screen to remember passwords as well as username (as previous versions of Sierra did)
Previous versions of Sierra (version 5 and below) allowed the saving of usernames and passwords in the Sierra desktop app login screen. Since upgrading to 6 this functionally has been lost.
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Superuser account with access to all accounting units from one log in?
Could we have an enhancement option to create a Sierra user administrator account that has access to all accounting units? I am the only system administrator and cataloger for a library system with multiple accounting units and I would very much appreciate the ability to do everything I need to from one log-in (managing/creating new check-in records, for example).
9 votesThe product manager will review this idea for possible inclusion in a future release.
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