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Easily move a list to correct sized file in Create Lists
I would like a function that would move a file to a correct sized list automatically. You just press this button and it moves the file to the smallest open file that will fit your list. It would automatically empty the original file and select the new one.
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We frequently have to move lists because they turn out to be smaller than expected, and we want to put them in a better sized file. This is possible with the copy function, but then you have to go back and empty the original file. This is cumbersome.54 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Add a filter to allow searching of unsuppressed records only
At present, a general search on Sierra brings up all records whether suppressed or unsuppressed. The plus sign next to the search button allows filtering of these results by material type, language, collection etc. but there is no way to just return records for unsuppressed bibliographic records or unsuppressed items. Having the ability to search for unsuppressed bibliographic records means that you do not then have to trawl through copious irrelevant records to find the desired record.
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It will speed up searching.41 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Spine Labels: Make it Easier!
Convert current Sierra print templates for spinelabels to something like what is available for email notices in LX Starter. We need an easier, more user friendly way to customize spine labels in Sierra. It is way too cumbersome and time-consuming with current print templates in Sierra and requires a third party application.
Idea Value
This will benefit the already-crunched for time and resources for Acquisitions and TechServices teams as well as PublicServices and ultimately benefits Patrons.39 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering. The development of a replacement system for printing spine labels (and potentially other forms used in Sierra) would require resources that have been committed to other projects in the near-term roadmap.
Product Management will archive this idea for future reference and may re-evaluate this enhancement for a later release.
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Identify when a staff user last logged in to Sierra
Provide data for tracking Sierra users (library staff). For example, log sign on and sign out dates and times. Perhaps add a "Last signed in" date field to the user record. Other data points might also be worthy of recording, such as types of records accessed.
Idea Value
Given that libraries handle possibly sensitive personal data, system users who have access to such data should be trackable. Currently, it's not even possible to find when the last time a user has signed on to the system.36 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
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Clearer distinction between expired holds and clear the holdshelf
When a patron's hold expires or an item is cleared from the holdshelf, the Program column in View Canceled Holds reads "Clear Holdshelf" for both processes. A more apparent distinction between the two would be helpful to both patrons and staff.
Idea Value
The ability to see the difference between an expired hold and an item cleared from the holdshelf would allow staff to accurately explain to a patron why their hold was removed from their account. Differentiating between the two would also assist staff in troubleshooting issues with the Clear the Holdshelf and expired holds processes.33 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Create List export should have option to include subfield delimiters
When exporting data from Create List, it would be useful to be able to include subfield delimiters in the data.
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Sometimes I want to export data so I can search and manipulate the data in another system like Excel or OpenRefine. However the Export Records function leaves out subfield delimiters. So for example 020|a and 020|z become exactly the same in the exported data.33 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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transfer holds between bibs
Allow transfer of bib level holds to another bib! Documentation states that only item specific holds can be moved, and then only to bib level on the same bib or to another item. We need to be able to easily move holds or even entire hold lists to another bib.
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Moving holds to a new edition of a title, or a new volume of a series. Depending on individual library cataloging and their use of monograph versus serial records, not to mention volume information, there are many instances of having title level holds on something that has been…32 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Sierra User Accounts - Globally Apply Options, Settings & Preferences
Make the management of Options, Settings and Preferences operate the same way as Applications, Permissions, Workflows and User Groups, where you can drag and drop users, making it easier to set these globally.
Today I had to disable the cover images being displayed in all of our user accounts. Had to click in one-by-one, go to their Settings > Display and uncheck the box, "save," and do this for over 50 user accounts. It would be so much easier if I could have just selected/dragged all our users over to this setting, much like I do for permissions, etc.
While…
31 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering. The architecture of the Admin App makes this idea difficult to implement. Product Management will archive this idea for future reference.
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Selecting a username in Admin App should open the user editor
In the web-based Admin App, currently you need to click on the edit button in order to open a user record. However, that button is hidden at first and only appear once you have expanded the entry in the browse to see the list of associated applications and workflows (which personally I never need to see from this screen).
This very much fits into the category of pet peeve but that extra click is not at all necessary and it would be simpler and save some screen real estate if that hidden edit button were removed and the username were…
31 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Remember patron preference about receipts
This is connected to Paul Costa's idea "Check for Due Slip Delivery Method Change Before Closing Patron Record" (link). Many patrons, probably most, have a consistent preference about receipts -- either they almost always want one printed or they almost always don't. (Or prefer to have it emailed.)
What if we had a field in the patron record that recorded this preference, and when the patron record was opened for checkouts, the print receipt button defaulted to the patron's preference?
The field would default to "no receipt" when the patron record was created. I'd want input from others on whether…
31 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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hold placed more than 180 days ago : hold pickup location should always be editable by staff in SDA
Staff cannot change the hold pickup location if a hold was placed more than 180 days in the past (perhaps the hold is frozen, there is a long hold queue, or the book publishing date was delayed). Essentially this means that once past 180 days, Staff cannot manage the hold. We don't want to cancel the hold and then apply an arbitrary "Not Needed Before date".
Idea Value
Many Idea Lab tickets request the ability to batch change hold pickup location or change the pickup location of items with a status of "on the hold shelf". This is another instance…26 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
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Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Auto Trim trailing spaces from varfields
It's quite easy when entering data into varfields across the record types of Sierra to inadvertently include some trailing spaces, particularly when cutting and pasting text. I don't believe there is any value in retaining those excess spaces and they can cause problems with various tasks such as SQL searches and global updates if those invisible characters are not accounted for.
I'd like to suggest that whenever text is entered into a varfield and the record is saved, that a right trim is performed upon that field to remove any trailing spaces.
Idea Value
Excess spaces and they can cause…26 votesThis idea would need to be refined to be implemented in Sierra. The idea would need to be implemented on a system-wide basis and thought would need to be given to whether there are use cases where trailing spaces would need to be retained.
This idea will be archived for future reference and may be re-considered for a future release.
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Block patron circulation based on the number of overdue items
As libraries eliminate fines they would like alternative ways to provide an incentive for patrons to return items. We would like the option to block patron circulation based a Library determined number of overdues. This rule could be added to the Patron Block table so that libraries could customize rule as necessary.
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Libraries use the patron block table to determine when a patron is blocked from circulation. As this table exists, could the # of item overdues be added to this table? Libraries could set this behaviour (as they do all patron block settings).Value: Although we never…
25 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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URL Checker should not check Suppressed records
Enhance the URL Checker so that it does not check suppressed records
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When downloading or importing a group of records, they sometimes have many extra URL's or 856 fields in them. Some other fields such as subjects also have nlm url's in them and one of the publisher fields has a publisher url in it. It can take time to clean up this records but the URL Checker checks before they are ready for public viewing. This wastes time going through the URL Checker and ignoring these false positives. It would be a good enhancement for all libraries…23 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Add option to email checkin receipt to patron
Currently Sierra offers the option to email the patron due date information. We use courtesy notices via email as a backup notification of due dates. We would like the option to email the checkin slip as well. We always offer the option to print a receipt upon checkin, and may patrons appreciate that, but have often commented that it would be more convenient to receive the checkin confirmation via email instead of being printed on a slip of paper that can get lost.
Idea Value
Email is easier to search and archive, whereas a paper receipt is prone to getting…22 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Group email to users with a particular Sierra permission
What if you could send an email to all the Sierra users with a given permission? Like everyone with access to Global Update, or Data Exchange, or Print/Send Orders.
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This would allow a system admin to communicate directly and easily with all the people using a particular feature. For example, I'm working on a project now cleaning up saved searches in Create Lists. I could email everyone, but I know that a lot of people are not on Create Lists, and don't want that email. Right now, I don't have a good way to contact just those people.21 votesThis idea has been reviewed with Engineering and would require a large effort to add emails to staff user accounts and create a way within the Admin App to select a group of users and send them a message.
Although this idea would benefit staff users, Innovative doesn't have the capacity to include this development in the near-term product roadmap. It will be archived for future reference.
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Ability to create a load profile that will automatically use review files
I want to be able to create a load profile that will default to use review files when loading.
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I have record loading projects that always need the Use Review Files function, but I don't always remember to check the box. It would be useful if I could make a setting in the load profile that would check the box for me, so I don't have to remember.21 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Option to Copy Invoice Price to Item
Our libraries would like a second option regarding the price copied from the order record to the item record. Currently, the option to Default "Copy EPRICE to item" is available, but if the library wants to use the actual price from the invoice, they have to input the price manually. If there were the second option in the login settings: to "Copy Invoice Price to item," this would allow staff to use the actual price and the convenience of this shortcut to reduce the amount of time it takes to create item records. We envision this as an option in…
21 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Better differentiation in holds checkout warning messages
Currently, the Sierra message that you're checking out a book that's on the holds shelf for someone else is almost identical to the message that someone has a hold on the title at a bib level, and it is extremely easy for harried, hurried staff to skip right over the more important message, that they're accidentally checking out the book to the wrong person, because they think that the message is not important. I would like a way to either differentiate those two messages in Sierra to be more clear, or to eliminate the message that says the book has…
20 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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Check for Due Slip Delivery Method Change Before Closing Patron Record
Currently, Sierra goes by the delivery method selected before the last item is scanned, instead of when a user clicks the Close button. Having recently changed to not automatically print due slips, we are still working on asking patrons their preference before scanning items, but will often forget until all items have been scanned, which is too late. The workaround of using the Print Table option is less than ideal, as it doesn't follow our print template for Due Slips. As far as my knowledge goes, it also completely cuts staff off from the option to email the due slip…
19 votesIn accordance with the Idea Graduation Workflow guidelines agreed upon by Innovative and IUG, this idea has been closed because it was submitted more than two years ago and has not been selected for inclusion in the product.
This idea is still available for commenting but is no longer eligible for voting.
Ideas that were submitted three or more years ago are archived for future reference.
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