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| # | Topic | Status | Description/ use case | Date added | Discussed on | Provided by Name, Institution | Interested parties | Has been discussed in meeting: Link to agenda/ minutes | Action required | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 18 | Print Journal Routing Lists | IN PROGRESS | The Duke Law library uses functionality in Aleph to manage lists to route print journal subscription issues to faculty and staff. Do other institutions do this and if so, would it be possible to add a JIRA so this could be considered for future development? This isn't a high priority request, but it is functionality that exists in our current system. GBV also using a similar function in their system. Is being used less and less just because many journals are available electronically. | 7/1/21 | Dennis Bridges Need to create JIRA for prioritization. This is a lower priority at the moment. Would need to be visible at point of receipt. Users generally want to print the list of people this would be routed to. Joseph Reimers created UXPROD-4087 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 24 | Invoices: Export to Accounting checkbox default value | IN PROGRESS | Would it be possible to discuss design improvements for the "Export to accounting" checkbox? There are no templates available for Invoices to help guide users and this checkbox is not prominent, yet significant headaches are caused if it is overlooked. If a user forgets/overlooks this checkbox for invoices that need to be sent to an external AP system how do they fix that mistake? Once the invoice is paid it doesn't seem possible to edit the checkbox value to "on", so would we need to cancel that invoice and create a new one in order to create a voucher for export to AP? A preferred workflow could be to allow institutions to configure the default value of the "Export to accounting" checkbox in Settings > Invoices based on the Payment type since that typically drives whether an invoice is sent to an AP system for payment processing or not. Example default settings below:
Note added 1/14/22: There is an "Export to accounting" checkbox in Organizations >Vendor information section. The setting of this flag determines the default value when an invoice is created for that vendor, so a workaround for libraries that are concerned about missing this flag during invoice creation would be to turn it on for all vendors. | 10/1/2021 | Julie Brannon | Allow user to configure which payment types trigger export to accounting by default - need to create feature Dennis Bridges Discussed 2022-02-25 Acquisitions Meeting notes | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 30 | Organizations: Add "note" column to Contact People accordion | CLOSED | Our ERM staff at Duke have asked whether the Organization app Contact people "note" field could be added as a column on the detail pane. They don't need to see the phone info there (since contact is by email). The notes help them to identify which person in the Sales category, for instance, to contact for databases and stores other useful info about the contact. They'd prefer not to have extra clicks to open the full record for each contact to see that note, if possible.
| 11/3/2021 | March 8th, 2023 | Julie Brannon | Need story for adding notes filed as column at the end of contact person view MCL Dennis Bridges Discussed 2022-03-08 Acquisitions Meeting notes UIORGS-352 - Getting issue details... STATUS created. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 32 | Invoices: Lock total checkbox | IN PROGRESS | Invoices: We'd expect the lock total checkbox to default as checked rather than unchecked. Would it be possible to make the default value configurable in Settings so that institutions can decide which approach works best for them?
| 11/15/2021 | Julie Brannon | Default value of lock total should be "True" as generally users input the total amount of the invoice first and proceed to fill in the lines after. Helpful to have the system check your work. If not needed it can always be unchecked. If possible would also be helpful to have this default be configurable. Dennis Bridges need to create story. Discussed 2022-03-08 Acquisitions Meeting notes Update by Joseph Reimers : UINV-463 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 33 | Invoices: Add POL "Select order lines" - show all before save | IN PROGRESS | Invoices app > Invoice lines > Add > Search by POL number, select the POL, repeat. We are glad that the "Select order lines" process allows us to search for and select multiple POLs before clicking "Save" and we see the total number selected at the bottom; however, we can't see the list of selected POLs before we save. The user is likely to search by POL number, not by vendor since there would be too many results to scroll through. As they search one-by-one for each POL and select each one, it would be helpful to see the list of POLs that they've already selected and have the opportunity to unselect any mistakes before clicking "Save." The current flow leaves the user feeling unsure since they can't see which lines they've selected already.
| 11/15/2021 | Julie Brannon | Need to explore possible design solutions Dennis Bridges to reach out to Kimie about design | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 35 | Order and Invoice: Link to vendor Organization record | IN PROGRESS | Low-priority request: On the order and invoice could the vendor field be upgraded from static text of the vendor name to an active link so that the user can easily click through to view the full organization record for the vendor? This type of linking is very helpful in other fields on the order such as the Fund, Title, and Related invoices.
| 11/19/2021 | Need to create enhancement Dennis Bridges consider what to do in the header with previous story re displaying vendor code rather than name. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 36 | Invoices: Add adjustment - Release encumbrance defaults to "unchecked" | IN PROGRESS | Invoices >Invoice lines > New: The default value for the "Release encumbrance" checkbox is unchecked on the create vendor invoice line screen (which is used when the user is not linking to an existing POL). Could we discuss reversing the default value to "checked" since this could trip up users who don't check it and then have dangling encumbrances. The original thinking for leaving it unchecked was to ensure that ongoing orders didn't get automatically closed by the system. Now that we have the "Ongoing" order payment status and no longer have that issue maybe we could revisit this to set to "checked."
| 11/23/21 | Julie Brannon | It is standing orders not subscriptions that should default to false because they often have multiple invoices. for subscriptions more often there is one invoice for the year. The default may not be as important than making clear what this toggle will do in documentation. We will have some additional discussion after libraries have had a chance to review. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 37 | on POL: re: Related invoices | IN PROGRESS | I am confused by what is displayed in the Piece(s) field of the Related invoices for POLs. In my test example here, the pieces listed are not necessarily specific or related to the invoice/invoice line, but seeming just bucket-displaying all the pieces created related to the POL, which is not helpful. I would rather see specific Invoice LINE note info displayed, like: "Renewal. New subscription ; Invoicing period:20220101-20221231 (86-86)" in this case vendor provided and included in the EDI invoice, OR, something I manually enter like: 2022 Hathitrust Membership: Public Domain, versus, another Invoice line for: 2022 Hathitrust Membership: In-Copyright, each with their respective amounts, to help me understand what I just paid for.
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| As piece information is actually no longer shown in this area it would be helpful to show subscription information in a column here. User may identify in more detail in this field what the sub is for. Also ideally the sub date start and end are shown in the related info. worth scrolling to have this information on hand. This should apply to related invoice information shown on the POL and on the Invoice line See Example in agreements of combined columns in MCL. This could be a way to decrease the width of some of our tables Need to create a story Dennis Bridges | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 38 | POL/inventory matching | IN PROGRESS | At Chicago, we're continuing to struggle with identifier matches when creating POs. We want to be creating new instances in Inventory, but instead matches are occurring and the new item is being attached to the wrong instance record in Inventory. This is on our test system (running Juniper). We are getting matches when the publisher provides an ISBN in the 024 or a publisher/distributor number in the 028. This is really common for Harrassowitz with music scores. So a short, non-unique publisher number, like "8021" matches multiple records already in Inventory, and then FOLIO picks the first one it finds and attached the new holdings/item. These aren't even the same title, different format - these are two very distinct publications. If you want to see this in action, here's a short video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MOnMnF7u-RKb0pmFy80wulCjIfBmnwJ8/view?usp=sharing. One interim solution is to remove any identifiers (which is kind of a bummer, since these can be useful to identifying the material). Lotus will bring the ability to turn off identifier matching. Orders will use all "Product identifier types". These match up to "Resource identifier types" in instance records
It would be good to discuss how we might want matching to work since the current process is way too broad. |
| Perhaps rather than increasing the detail of matching FOLIO could report on the matches that were made? Perhaps specific to source. ie. GOBI. Need to identify specific situations were the matching is failing in order to improve accuracy. Otherwise it might make more sense to focus on improving the visibility of incorrect matches. Dennis Bridges to add detail to Wiki page. https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/4QtU | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 39 | Organizations: Add field for contact person on contact information | IN PROGRESS | Add a field for the mail address of a direct contact person to the cards in the accordion "contact information". If I need to contact an organization on e.g. shipments I rarely use general mail addresses but rather direct contact people.
Primary issue is understanding who to add as attention to when you are just sending a communication to an address. Address 1 and 2 are used for many things. Alternative: use the categories for contact people in the same way as for the general contatct information
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| Martina Schildt | Need to create story for adding an "Attention to" field to the address field set. Free text would suffice Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for review update: UIORGS-348 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 40 | Organizations: Add "Name" field on contact information | IN PROGRESS | This is somewhat related to issue #39 above. When migrating our vendor address information from our current system we noticed that there isn't a data element on the contact information address for the "name." We've mapped the various address names to the alternate/alias name in FOLIO just to store them somewhere. Similar to #39 above, we need to store the first line of the address (the name) since it is usually more specific or slightly different than the organization name we store in FOLIO and isn't necessarily the same for shipments vs. payment vs. claims. | 12/16/21 | Julie Brannon , Duke | Multiple organizations had to be creative with migration because of the lack of fields for address info. The additional field for address details could be an "Attention" or "Department". It might be helpful to have an additional Address field and a separate name field. Dennis Bridges to create story | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 43 | Invoices: "Pay immediately" flag | IN PROGRESS | Would other institutions find it helpful to flag invoices that need special "pay immediately" handling by their AP system? At Duke, we sometimes need to process payment more quickly than the standard processing time and we need a way to communicate that in the voucher extract to alert AP staff. In our current system (Aleph), we use a defined string of text in a note field, but it would be preferable to have a distinct data element. This would essentially be a rush flag for invoices that need to be paid more quickly than the standard Net 30. It doesn't not specifically mean this needs to be paid in X number of days just that AP should not hold payment for any length of time. No use cases that the group could think of for partial "Immediate payment" | 1/6/22 | Julie Brannon , Duke | Dennis Bridges to create story to capture design and implementation detail. Suggestions is to use a simple flag on the invoice. Jira story UINV-462 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 44 | Orders: Add order POL Receipt date - why editable? | IN PROGRESS | Orders > add PO line: Why is the "Receipt date" an editable field when creating a new PO line? If the user enters a receipt date this could cause confusion since the order hasn't actually been received through the Receiving app. Unless there are use cases for editing this field during PO line creation, could it be changed to an inactive field on this form to avoid mistakes and confusion? Screenshot to show that the "Receipt date" is editable on the Add PO line form:
Screenshot showing the PO Line details window after saving a new PO line with the receipt date populated and Receipt status showing "Awaiting Receipt" since the order hasn't been received yet through the Receiving app.
| 1/11/22 | Julie Brannon , Duke | Dennis Bridges to review logic for updating POL receipt date based on receiving actions. Review how this setting affects receipt status. For approval orders, a user may actually want to set the receipt date for the POL when creating the order. Clarify and discuss results of review with SIG. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 45 | POLs and Invoice lines: subscription dates. | IN PROGRESS | Prompted by a question from Kimberly Pamplin at Texas A&M in slack on 1/12/22: "I notice that the "renewal date" and "subscription to" dates cannot be edited once an order is opened. Is it intended that these dates will update automatically? If so, what triggers them? I notice for example that filling in the subscription to and from fields will then populate them for invoice line creation, but I'm not sure how they are supposed to be updated once a subscription year is paid for." Also from Julie Brannon at Duke: The field labels are inconsistent between orders and invoices for these dates even though data flows from the order line to the invoice line. Is there a reason they're different, because if not, we should probably keep them consistent between apps: Order line: Subscription from, Subscription to | 1/12/22 | Dennis Bridges create story for allowing user to edit order subscription to date. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | Control default values in Settings | IN PROGRESS | Prompted by Slack discussion on 1/15/22. Request to control default values in settings. This relates to topics #24, #32, and #36 on this page. The ability to control default values for key fields in the Orders and Invoices apps would enable libraries to align the UI with their needs and improve the user experience. Eg. Checking the re-encumber checkbox. The library does a lot more orders that do not encumber and this was taking time and effort when creating orders. it can also be error-prone. Not using order templates for all orders. Eg. In invoices, we consistently have to remember to check "Lock Total" and uncheck "check subscription overlap" for different orders. Eg. Also need to remember to adjust "Export to accounting" checkbox and new Invoice line > "Release encumbrance". | 1/18/2022 | John Ballestro Julie Brannon, Duke | Dennis Bridges to create wiki page for collecting use cases for additional default settings. Users will add more detail to the description here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 49 | Organization Delete Behavior | IN PROGRESS | Currently, an organization record can be deleted even if the organization is in use on other records. No warning is given to the user that the organization is linked to exisitng records. This behavior seems inconsistent with other delete actions in FOLIO and could lead to unanticipated impacts if a user unknowingly deletes an organization that is in use elsewhere. After deletion of an organization, an order (for example) will display "Invalid reference" in the vendor code field.
| 3/15/2022 | Julie Brannon, Duke | Are there use cases for deleting an org for which you have active invoices or orders? Group: no other than a user having made a mistake creating a new vendor and processing a record against it there are no valid reasons for allowing deletion. Dennis Bridges to create a story that prevents deletion of organization record that are referenced by orders (Open or Closed) and Invoices (Approved or Paid, Canceled) Update by Joseph Reimers UIORGS-353 - Getting issue details... STATUS | Julie Brannon Please confirm the JIRA is accurate as written. | ||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Invoice approve/pay with pending Order | IN PROGRESS | The approvement/payment of an Invoice should not be allowed if the linked Order is pending since transactions will not behave as expected. Opening the Order after approval/paying creates new encumbrance transaction for current FY with values for Awaiting payment resp. Expended = $0.00 even though the Invoice is already processed. For this reason, the encumbrance/expended amount is not taken into account during FYRO. Right, it's the wrong workflow. But a warning would definitely help to address this issue. For my liking I would prefer a modal warning when approving and paying an Invoice with pending Order (with options Cancel/Proceed). Or even more restrictive just present an error message and not let it happen. I would really appreciate a solution for that since it caused a lot problems with us. Thanks for your consideration. Addendum: After fixing transactions on database level and bringing it to the attention of colleagues, this workflow error occurs again and again. Please contact Björn Muschall when this topic comes to agenda. Thanks! | 3/22/2022 | Björn Muschall, Leipzig | Group consensus is that we would should prevent approval and payment of invoices when they are related to one or more orders in the workflow state "Pending". Dennis Bridges to create story for implementing this. Update: UINV-465 - Getting issue details... STATUS created by Joseph Reimers | Björn Muschall and Sara Colglazier please confirm the JIRA is accurate as written. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 51 | Create Contact person or interface on organizations | IN PROGRESS | When a user creates a new organization record and wants to add a new contact person or interface, the user needs to save the organization record first. In a second step the user needs to edit the organization record again, click on "add contact" to then create and link the new contact person (or interface). For a more fluent workflow with less clicking it would be helpful to be able to create a new contact or interface without needing to save the organization record first. |
| Dennis Bridges to review with development team to see if it is possible to implement a save and continue when you have a "dirty form". Option 2 would be separating the contact people and interface creation and assignment from the editing organization. Argument for is that often times reassigning a person involves editing their email etc. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 52 | Receiving and closing POs | IN PROGRESS | Can we change the business logic for automatically closing POs so once a one-time PO has all POLs listed as "Fully Paid" the PO will close regardless of the Receipt Status? As we get toward fiscal year close, we are facing a situation where we have a lot of POs (around 5000) that are open and will re-encumber because we have paid in advance of receiving. We are going to have to manually close all of these POs, which is obviously going to take away time from actually receiving. If there are use cases for wanting a PO to stay open, if paid, but not received, then can libraries be given the option to have paid POs closed regardless of receipt status? |
| It seems this is a good use case for bulk edit functionality. Being able to bulk edit order line receipt and Payment statuses. Also being able to bulk edit order workflow status. Dennis Bridges to share this use case with Magda Zacharska Dennis Bridges to Create an enhancement story/feature for "Long term, maybe we could eventually move toward enabling each institution to locally configure their business logic for automatically closing orders. In settings they could indicate what criteria should be met before an order is automatically closed by the system (receipt status, payment status)..." Created UIOR-1092 - Getting issue details... STATUS and UIOR-1091 - Getting issue details... STATUS for both a BL and batch job scenario. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | POL able to be deleted off of OPEN One-Time Order | IN PROGRESS | [in Kiwi, hotfix 2] Is the following expected behavior? Scenario: I set up a One-Time Order, with one POL, Receiving Workflow: Sync ... & Create inventory: Instance, Holding, Item. ... I open the Order. Now in Inventory, I have an Instance with Marc as Source (previously imported to link Title to), a Holdings record, and an Item with Status OO. All good so far. ... Now I receive the item via the Receiving App. I check off: Display on holding. ... All good still. & Inventory the Item now shows status In Process, and the Holdings shows the Receiving history and Acquisition info. Just as I want: great. ... Now I go to Check-in, and check-in the Item, and in Inventory now the Item shows as Available. .... ... Now here is the thing I am really asking about: I go back to the OPEN Order Record, then to the POL--Fully Received, but not Fully Paid at this point--and I am able to Delete the POL--even without first having to UNopen the PO. And when I do that, the POL is gone, the Receiving record is gone, the Piece is gone, the Acquisitions and Receiving history info disappears from the Holdings record. .... The Item remains because Available (I assume) .... When the Item is In process, it also remains; but if On Order, it disappears. ... The Open PO also remains open, but has no POL, and so it a bit of a mystery thing. .... Once I have linked an Invoice (even if only Approved but not yet Paid) then the POL won't delete off an Open Order. .... Still, this does not seem like good behavior to me. I can see if I UNopen the PO then I should be able to delete the POL, but NOT if it is Open. If there is some reason for being able to do this, then at the very least there needs to be a pop-up modal that asks me to confirm that I want to do delete the POL EVEN THOUGH there is a Receiving Piece already received etc. | 28 April 2022 | Sara Colglazier | Dennis Bridges to create a story for preventing the deletion of POLs from Open or Closed one-time orders. There are use cases for removing a POL from an ongoing order so this logic needs to be more specific. UIOR-1052 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 54 | Capturing binding information for order and receiving so records can be filtered by this data | IN PROGRESS | We would like to have a way of identifying Titles that represent material that will be sent for binding at a given point in the year–for example, in Receiving if there were a check box at the Receiving Title Record level for To be Bound or Bindery that one could then Filter on. We now include information in the Receiving Note that indicates that the title is a Bindery title, but one cannot search on the Receiving Note in the Receiving App. (I suppose we could use a Tag, but ...) It would be better if what indicates that the Title is a Bindery Title could be seen and filtered on from both the POL and Receiving Title record. ... Something more like the Rush or ?? I have a monthly magazine that I receive and at a certain point of the year when I have all issues for the year they will be sent to the bindery. What we plan to bind is revisited over time as the budget fluctuates. Some titles may no longer be bound to say money. Understanding what is being bound in orders in helpful for making purchase decisions. The information may also change over time so ideally these are editable at any stage of the orders lifecycle. Users that actually carry out the binding need this information in the receiving area to gather materials that need to be bound. Users need to access receiving to identify what needs to be bound. They also need information about how to bind and when (how long to retain issues before binding, how many issues to bind in a volume, whether to bind or discard etc.). Need to know a little more about how the user finds what needs to be bound and what historical information they need about this activity in receiving. |
| edited/updated 2022-09-26 | The limitation of tags for this use case is that they need to be applied in Orders and Receiving separately. More work and more prone to error. Dennis Bridges Create wiki page with use cases. Need feature for Capturing Binding information for order and receiving. Joseph Reimers Created wiki page with workflow description | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 57 | Finance: Currency setting for fund | IN PROGRESS | The Finance > Fund displays a currency value which isn't editable during fund creation and is set to the primary currency set in Settings > Tenant > Language and localisation. Do any institutions need to have some funds desingated as a different currency than the tenant? I'm thinking through how to handle funds for Duke's campus in China and they would likely prefer to set up their funds with ¥/CNY/yuan as the basis rather than $USD. Update 8/17/22: Duke's campus in China will operate using their own instance of FOLIO, so this question is no longer relevant for Duke. |
| Julie Brannon Duke University | A logical approach here would be to expose the currency setting at the fiscal year level such that users could explicitly set it when creating a fiscal year. Dennis Bridges Need to create a JIRA. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 58 | Action performed on record bounces user to the top. | OPEN | In invoices when you access an invoice line to review or edit and close out of the invoice line, it will bounce you back to the top of the invoice. PLEASE ADD MORE INFORMATION AND INCLUDE YOUR NAME SO WE KNOW WHO TO ASK FOR DETAILS. THX! | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 59 | Orders: Link to existing holding and item | IN PROGRESS | Add ability to link an order with an existing item (not only with an instance). When material is purchased and the user creates a POL, holdings and items can be created in Inventory. But there are workflows - when working with a third party system for cataloguing -, where on order items are imported to Inventory. Those items cannot be linked to orders currently, the user can only create a link between order and instance. As a user, I need to indicate which item I have ordered. And what would happen if the item is moved in this scenario? Primary use case would be when items are created independently of the order records we would like users or third party tools to have the ability to connect the items to the order and update the order<>inventory links such that acq data is displayed appropriately in inventory. This is needed for both order types and receiving workflows. |
| April 25, 2023 | April 25, 2023 - Martina will do a demo of the use cases here to help move this discussion forward. Sarah will also be adding additional topic to page the describes similar use case where user may want to "Split" a POL/add new instance reference even though it is not a package or not becoming a package per se. Dennis Bridges need to create a feature. Aaron Neslin working on it | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 60 | Orders: Move PO line accordion | IN PROGRESS | Orders UI: For ongoing orders we usually have to scroll down while viewing the PO Details screen to see the title information since there is an additional accordion section for ongoing orders. Could we discuss whether the layout could accommodate seeing the PO line titles further up since titles are such a critical data element when looking at orders? Maybe this is more challenging for institutions that have multiple PO lines, but for those with one PO line per order this could be a valuable user experience improvement.
Title sometimes appears below the fold which makes it difficult to find. Adding multiple notes to the PO accordion pushes the POL accordion down even further. Some users will increase font size (Zoom in) which also pushes the POL accordion off of the screen. |
| Julie Brannon Duke University | If the notes were to be collapsed by default with only one showing it would be helpful to include a bubble that shows how many there are. Bill to and Ship to can also be very long and could be truncated by default or something like that. On-going order information could potentially be shifted down. The subscription field would need to be kept near the top. It is key information for ongoing orders and should not appear below POLs PO summary could be collapsed into the PO accordion to save space. Dennis Bridges need to review with Kimie Kester | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 61 | Receiving: Receiving title are not removed when package POL instance links are changed | IN PROGRESS | The only way to remove Receiving titles is to delete the POL. With Package POLs you may need to clean up the receiving titles but not want to remove the POL. Titles can even be linked in error and there is no way to correct that without deleting the entire POL. There are circumstances where we want to keep the receiving record and some when the user does not want to keep it. May have originally ordered a specific version from Amazon as a rush. Circumstances change but user wants to keep the order history so it can be communicated to the requester. In this case the Receiving title would need to be removed and the more relevant instance connected. | July 15, 2022 | Sara Colglazier | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for review. need to consult devs about ability to remove R Titles. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 62 | Order templates | IN PROGRESS | To speed up order template creation, it would be helpful to have these two options:
| Julie Brannon Duke | Group offered a number of use cases for making small changes to templates. Duplicate was the preferred approach. Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for Duplicate template and separate JIRA for create template from order at lower priority. | Jira Ticket UIOR-1056 - Getting issue details... STATUS created and presented to Thunderjet for duplicating existing template | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 63 | Receipt status for withdrawn items | IN PROGRESS | When libraries withdraw and delete resources from the library system, they will delete items/holdings/instances in Inventory. The order and receiving record will stay in the system, but needs a status "withdrawn" (or similar), so that the system user knows this has been part of the libraries holdings, but is no more. Use case:
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| Martina Schildt | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for capturing item has been withdrawn in piece record. There is a status in inventory for item, this should potentially update the piece data point. Allow piece/order to be filterable. | UIREC-273 - Getting issue details... STATUS review proposed solution | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 64 | Receiving against closed POs. | IN PROGRESS | Prior to the end of our fiscal year, we closed all paid POs, so that they wouldn't re-encumber on rollover. Now we are receiving the pieces. For our monographs, this is working fine. The POL Receiving workflow was set to "Synchronized order and receipt quantity" and when the item is received, the POL Receipt Status does get updated to "Fully Received" and the PO remains closed. But for some individual series volume orders (which are one-time orders), the orders staff coded them as "Independent order and receipt quantity." Now staff are creating the piece(s) to be received and receiving it (them). This is creating two problems: 1.--the Receipt Status becomes "Partially Received" but there is nothing else to be received. 2.--the PO reopens (ack, ack, ack)! We can go to the POL, edit and change the status to "Fully Received" and this will close the PO again, but we would prefer to have the PO remain in a closed state. Dennis suggested on Slack: It’s the change in status that triggers the PO workflow status to change. Perhaps the receipt status should not be updated when receiving pieces against a closed order. OR the only update made should be to “Fully received” which would close the order if it wasn’t already closed. We like the second. We are using the "Awaiting Receipt" Status to track items to be received, so we wouldn't want to leave the POL in an Awaiting Receipt status. Requirement: The PO does not reopen when receipt continues against a closed PO. This was found in Lotus. We believe it is the Adding and receiving of a new piece after order was closed that confuses the system and changes the receipt status and opens the PO. |
| Dennis Bridges to retest in current release and create JIRA bug. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 65 | Add "Created by" filter to Invoices | IN PROGRESS | We do not currently use Acquisitions Units, but we do have several departments creating invoices (one-time vs. ongoing). Normally these are all approved by one person, but when that individual is out of the office the invoices are approved within each department. We are looking for a way to filter the invoices so that departmental approvers only see those invoices that are relevant to them. As there are a limited number of users generating invoices, having a "Created by" filter (just like in the orders app) would be of benefit. As an invoicing users it would be beneficial to be able to filter invoices based on the ones I created |
| Kimberly Pamplin Texas A&M | Dennis Bridges to create a story for implementing filter by invoice "Created by". Aaron Neslin UINV-494 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 66 | Order templates: View hidden fields while editing an order | CLOSED | Update 11/1/22: We can now see the Action menu option "Show hidden fields" while in edit mode, so this topic is resolved. Orders: In Lotus we can't view hidden fields while in Edit mode for an order that was created using a template that hides fields. We're concerned that if we hide a field and later need to adjust the value that was set in the template we won't have a way to edit the value on the order. |
| Julie Brannon Duke | No discussion required - resolved. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 67 | Order templates: Hide tags | IN PROGRESS | We love the new hidden fields options in Settings > Orders > Order templates. We'd like to hide tags and wondered why the PO Tags and POL Tags and aren't "hideable"? Could we add that functionality in the future? Note: The tags functionality can be hidden completely across all of FOLIO if it is not needed in any application. Desire the ability to disable tags in the order and order line such that users are not able to apply them to orders. Tags are currently difficult to manage and we would like to prevent users from making a mess now that could be difficult to clean up in the future. |
| Julie Brannon Duke | Question: Are other libraries interested in hiding tags from the orders interface but not other applications? Create a feature for allowing users to hide tags from orders and order lines. It would be logical to incorporate this into the hidden fields functionality of the order template. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 68 | Receiving: Don't display "Receipt not required" orders | IN PROGRESS | We're wondering why records display in the Receiving app for orders that are created with a Receipt status = "Receipt not required"? We're not seeing anything in the receiving app record to indicate that the order is a "Receipt not required" order, so they wouldn't know from the Receiving app that this order was set to "Receipt not required." Use cases for packages:
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| Julie Brannon Duke | When a POL has a receipt status of "Receipt not required" the Receiving title should be hidden from the result list. Note: currently this is the only place you can see package POL titles. Not able to search POL by package title. Dennis Bridges need to create story for not displaying title with POL receipt status "Receipt not required" by default. Package POL titles can be marked as "Receipt not required" but users still want to find them. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 69 | Orders: Configure whether material type is required | CLOSED | Orders: We'd like to make material type required for electronic order types so that users don't accidentally skip that field and it's important for tracking/reporting. Could that be configured by each institution in Settings > Orders so that institutions can decide whether to require material type based on order format (physical, electronic, P/E mix, other)? Capturing things like annual access fee for reporting purposes only clutter the "Item material type" list. We have discussed implementing a orders specific material type. If you see that as a more complete solution please comment on this Feature UXPROD-2455 - Getting issue details... STATUS |
| Julie Brannon Duke | Will focus priority on implementing https://folio-org.atlassian.net/browse/UXPROD-2455. Please comment on this story regarding your institution's priority so it can move up the queue. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 70 | Orders: API for third party vendors | CLOSED | We'd like to explore what other providers we could set up API's for - specifically, Kanopy and Amazon. | Mich State | Dennis Bridges to create a page for desired integration in the acquisitions wiki. Reveiw this page as a group and add information about the type of integration, data exchange needed etc. I will make sure Kanopy and Amazon are on that list. (Done) SEE: https://folio-org.atlassian.net/wiki/x/fhVU | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 71 | Invoices: Display of fund not always available without scrolling to the right | IN PROGRESS | When approving invoices if the description is long I need to scroll right to view funds. Far better would be to move the fund next to the POL number or allow for customization of displays. The description is not something we want to completely remove. However, it can be unnecessarily long and could be truncated or wrapped at 30-50 characters. (group seems to favor truncation) Allowing users to adjust the order of the columns would be another desirable solution if it persists at least for a session. Ie. it is persisted as you move from one invoice to the next. Other Fields users are often scrolling to see: Total price, PO status. | Jan.1, 2023 | Scott Perry UChicago | Mich State | Dennis Bridges to discuss with design team and create a JIRA issue for proposed solution. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 72 | Orders: warning before opening POL with unassigned funds | IN PROGRESS | It would be nice to have a warning coming up when you want to open a POL and there is still an amount remaining to be distributed in the fund distribution. The warning could be something like: “There is still a remaining amount to be distributed. Do you really want to open this order?” User can forget to add a Fund code even though they want to add one. Ultimately this is not identified until point of invoice and users need to go back and edit the POL (Which has cause issues with approvals in past).
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| Jan.1, 2023 | Sven Thomsen | Suggested approach is to present a confirmation modal when trying to open an order that has one or more POL with no Fund code. There could be libraries that are not using the finance module and in these circumstances, every order would require extra confirmation. This function should be opt-in and adjustable in settings. Dennis Bridges to create a JIRA. | writeup MODORDERS-917 - Getting issue details... STATUS issue addresses pt1 Discuss pt2, prompting for a fund for a gift | |||||||||||||||||||
| 73 | Display currency on Fiscal Year and Budget | IN PROGRESS | Could we consider displaying the currency associated with a Fiscal year record and also display currency on the budget? Currently, we can only see the currency on the Fund detail pane. This came up because Molly Driscoll noticed some odd behavior when the snapshot environment tenant currency was changed from USD to PLN.
Dennis explained that "in some places on the order we show currency based on "currency setting" in tenant settings. However, transactions are converted based on the budget currency. Which is set based on the fiscal year currency. The fiscal year currency is set based on the currency setting when the fiscal year is created." When she looked at the JSON for the fiscal year, I could see that the fiscal year currency was, in fact, USD, which accounted for the converted encumbrance. Molly brought this to my attention to request that folio.docs.org documentation be updated to explain this expected behavior, but I think it would also help if users could view the currency value assigned to a Fiscal Year and to a budget to help troubleshoot in the event that they change their default currency in Tenant > Settings. Currently, the currency value is displayed only at the Fund level. |
| Jan.10, 2023 | Julie Brannon Duke | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA to add currency setting to UI for all records that store a currency setting OR display currency values. Could be a bug in UI that allows Budget (FUND) to show currency based on tenant setting rather than fiscal year currency. | MODFIN-326 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 74 | Renewals integration (EBSCONET) | CLOSE | Could Publisher Cancellation Policy received from the EBSCONET Renewal Integration flow into the e-resource agreement line(s)? Here’s a typical cancellation policy: Cancellation Policy: |
| April 25, 2023 | 5C | This was discussed on Apr 25, 2023 and the group did not express any concerns about populating this data. No one in attendance seems to have use cases for adding data to agreements apps. Group would be interested in a Demo of Integration. Aaron please feel free to add more details regarding a use case here. This was mentioned to me by Anne Campbell and I'd like to discuss with the group. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 75 | Add Accession number during receiving | IN PROGRESS | An Accession number is not infrequently assigned during the Receiving process. It would be helpful if the accession number could be entered during receiving and this information could be transferred to the item, just like the call number. In this context, we would also like to discuss the implementation of the number generator currently under development, which would also be valuable in Receiving. UXPROD-144 exists, however, this is linked to Inventory epic at the moment. Please inform Martina Tumulla and Björn Muschall when topic will be discussed. DB Notes:
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| March 31, 2023 | André Hohmann SLUB Dresden Martina Schildt VZG | Dennis Bridges to add a story for allowing user to input accession number while receiving (receive all view) a record (pattern will follow barcode). User should also be able to use the number generator to input the accession number at point of receipt. Aaron Neslin and Martina Tumulla working on it Draft | Aaron Neslinand Martina Tumulla to collaborate on UIREC-285 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 76 | Delete connected item when piece is deleted from Receiving app | IN PROGRESS | When you delete a receiving record for a withdrawn periodical I would also like the option to delete the item record. As it is, I have to delete both separately and it is a lot of clicking. The receiving record says connected but it doesn't delete the connected item record and vice versa. When deleting a piece in the receiving app it is possible that the user wants to remove item as well. Even when item is in a status other than "On-order" or "Order closed". For a certain journal the library might only keep issues from the current year. All have items for circulation and all would be deleted at the end of the appropriate year. In this case the item deletion must comply with inventory item deletion rules. The actual error message from inventory should be displayed to the user in receiving. Often times libraries will retain the existing holdings in this scenario but they might also remove the holdings.
I would like to have the choice of deleting a corresponding item, but I can see a time when we would want to delete pieces because of sheer quantity only, but would want to retain items. |
| Jan.17, 2023 | Molly Driscoll on behalf of Lisa Hoskins lhoskin2@utm.edu Paul Meek Library | Lisa Hoskins | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA that allows user to indicate that they want to remove the item even though the status is no longer "on order" or "order closed". | UIREC-287 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 79 | Receiving and Invoices: clicking on "receive" from a POL can bring up more than one POL | IN PROGRESS | At Chicago, many POs were migrated from earlier systems, so some have very long PO numbers. When clicking on "Receive" from the drop down menu from the POL, a search is initiated by the POL number to bring up the Receiving record. But the search is a keyword string, as opposed to an exact match. As a result, if the string of one POL number is contained in another POL number, this results in multiple results, which is confusing. It would be better to have an exact search to avoid confusion when trying to receive. Example video here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YOw9OH1FMFy6aEfzU2Fn6bbVYBewpdnL/view?usp=sharing. The number "54338" bring ups that POL for receiving but also the POL for "454338." The search for a POL to add to an invoice line has the same issues.
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| Jan.13, 2023 | UChicago | Mich State | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for updating ID number indexes to be exact match but allow wildcards. Story for updating indexes should be reviewed to make sure there are not certain indexes that users believe should not be exact match. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 80 | Provide comparable Invoice line to invoice navigation as POL to PO navigation. | IN PROGRESS | Recently, I went to look at an invoice in our Chicago FOLIO instance. Our Payments unit is scanning an uploading images directly in FOLIO (so awesome!) under Links & Documents on the Invoice. On the POL, I clicked on the Invoice Line # under "Related Invoice lines. This took me to the invoice line, but not the invoice. When on this page, it's not immediately obvious how to actually view the full invoice (and for me, get to the attached scanned image). I went under the Actions menu, to see if there was a "View Invoice" as there is on the POL to "View PO," but there was nothing. I ended up searching for the invoice to bring it up. My colleague shared with me that if you click the X by invoice line, that will close the line and bring up the invoice, but this isn't at all obvious. Could this have a more intuitive way to navigation from invoice line to invoice (and preferably similar to how it works with PO/POL)?
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| Jan.31, 2023 | Uchicago | Dung-Lan Chen | Dennis Bridges to add JIRA. Invoice should employ the same pattern for navigating between invoice and invoice line as the order app employs on orders tab for order and order line. Invoice should use back arrow. When clicking on invoice hyperlink the invoice should display in result list. | UINV-505 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 81 | Enabling the deactivation of obsolete parameter values | IN PROGRESS | At SLUB Dresden, obsolete parameter values are currently deactivated for users to avoid their use. However, the values should still be available for evaluations or administrative tasks. It is proposed that obsolete values of parameters can be deactivated in FOLIO. Please inform André Hohmann when the topic will be discussed.
Use cases:
DB Notes:
Option 2 (After evaluating both options it seems this is still the preference)
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| Jan.31, 2023 Feb.2, 2023, March 3, 2023 | André Hohmann, Silvana Kirschner | Dennis Bridges to create story for the deprecation of vocabulary terms and review with Crossapp SIG. | Ready for cross app discussions | |||||||||||||||||||
| 82 | Picklists for country and language | IN PROGRESS | Is it possible to use the DIN standard (ISO-639)? For language selection in organizations app The selection should only contain current (living) languages and country names as a selection option in the UI - e.g. Old English would not be used as default language for an organization
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| Jan.31, 2023 | Dennis Bridges to create a JIRA for this. Refining the available languages such that only the living languages are shown in the list. Need to confirm with the development team whether this is a more broadly use component or only relevant to acquisitions. | UIORGS-408 - Getting issue details... STATUS requesting clarification about Country inclusion | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 83 | Export transaction list from Finance | IN PROGRESS | Finance - Villanova University would like to be able to filter and export transaction details from budgets in the Finance app.
What would be some key use cases for extracting this information?
Would you need transactions for only 1 budget at a time?
What detail from the transaction would you need (ie. Transaction date, Fund code, source, From and To, amount, budget ID, Expense class, Description, tags)?
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| March 17, 2023 | Molly Driscoll on behalf of Villanova University | Sara Colglazier (for 5C) | Dennis Bridges Create a feature to represent this work. Using pattern established in Orders, Receiving etc. | UIF-480 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 84 | Specify credential access at the interface level | IN PROGRESS | Organizations - Currently, the ability to view interface credentials is all or nothing with permissions. Villanova University would like to be able specify at the interface level who has access to credentials. For example, for an organization, perhaps everyone can access the reports interface credentials, but only acquisitions managers should be able to access invoice/payment portal interface credentials for that same organization. Use cases:
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| Jan.1, 2023 Feb.21, 2023 March 3, 2023 April 4, 2023 | Molly Driscoll on behalf of Villanova University | DB: Note: there are permissions for managing visibility of user name and password:
Seems we should discuss use cases that these permission do not cover. Discussion revealed that Dennis Bridges could create a story for restrict access based on Interface (Possibly by type or with | UIORGS-412 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 85 | Configuration to enforce entry of lock total | CLOSED | Invoices - Villanova University would like a configuration added to Invoice settings to force entry of a lock total amount on all invoice records. |
| March 8, 2023 April 4, 2023 | Molly Driscoll on behalf of Villanova University | Discussed 2022-03-08 Acquisitions Meeting notes and a JIRA has been created for implementation | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 86 | Invoice Templates | CLOSED | Invoices – it would be very helpful to have Invoice Templates like for Orders. We key in far more Invoices than we EDI them in. Templates would save us time, clicking/entry, and help us not forget to toggle on or off certain things. |
| April 4, 2023 | Sara Colglazier (MHC/5C) | A feature has been created for this work UXPROD-2374 - Getting issue details... STATUS please add any additional use cases comments or questions to that feature so we can continue the discussion there. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 87 | Display Vendor Name (Code) (as well as Vendor Invoice # – see above #56 – on Invoice Line | IN PROGRESS | Invoices – It would be helpful to have the Header on an Invoice Line display not just "View invoice line - 1" etc but also who the Vendor is (Name with Code in paren following) & what the Vendor Invoice Number is. Otherwise one has to click back to the Invoice itself to orient oneself. Or, depending on how one got to the Invoice in the first place, drag the 3rd pane smaller again to maybe see if the info is in the middle/2nd pane, which it is not necessarily, or obviously, available depending. E.g., Not Obvious: OR just not there (in the middle pane–so one has to X out of the invoice line):
and if I do that I had better remember what my invoice line or title was to be able then to get back to it again:
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| April 4, 2023 | Sara Colglazier (MHC/5C) | One: Dennis Bridges to update UINV-447 - Getting issue details... STATUS so it also covers Vendor code and the invoice line number in the subheading of the invoice line view pane. Second story: Hyperlink from order to invoice line should behave like hyperlik from invoice to order line (When hyperlinked record is displayed the search results pane should show the parent record selected. | See UINV-505 - Getting issue details... STATUS for story on uniform behavior of invoice hyperlinks | |||||||||||||||||||
| 88 | Display Vendor (Name with Code) in Order Line Header along with POL # (akin to #87 above) | IN PROGRESS | When I am in the Order Line, I do not know with what Vendor I have placed the/an Order. (The Material supplier in the Physical or Electronic resource detail accordion is not necessarily the same! and even when it is, the info is not where it is needed.) ... So if I do a Order Line Search by Title, I have to X out of my result to see with whom I have the title on order, and in some cases, if my search has multiple results, I have to click on one after the other and each time out from the POL view (not a perfect example, but mostly so): >>> to the POL view >>> Material Supplier NOT our Vendor Name/Code and so to see that I need to now Click on Actions & then Click on View PO ... which will take me to the PO, but then I will have lost my initial search & results: Preference: Have the details appear in the header of the POL rather than in the body under a "Vendor information" accordion. |
| April 11, 2023 | Sara Colglazier (MHC/5C) | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA Third story: Add vendor code to
| UIOR-1165 - Getting issue details... STATUS Review for UI/UX | |||||||||||||||||||
| 89 | Export organization records to CSV | IN PROGRESS | In light of other developments to the export of acquisitions information under UXPROD-2665 - Getting issue details... STATUS , I have had several libraries ask about the ability to export organization information to a CSV file to support periodic review of contacts, interfaces, and account information. It's also been noted that in other apps supporting export to CSV, notes added via the Notes app are not included in export. This may be a larger discussion, but I wanted to at least raise it here to facilitate that conversation wherever it ultimately needs to happen. |
| April 11, 2023 | Molly Driscoll | Related feature is UXPROD-4164 - Getting issue details... STATUS which would probably satisfy these requirements but may not be the ideal workflow. I recommend we revisit this requirement when that feature is reviewed with the group. | ||||||||||||||||||||
90 | Be able to Filter in Invoices on Batch File Status and with that re: the Date (called Batch File Name) | IN PROGRESS | I need to be able to distinguish between what invoices have been marked for 'Export to accounting'–which is a filter–with our 'Batch Group'–also able to be filtered on–from those that have already been exported and which ones have not. Once they have been exported then the accordion 'Voucher export details' gets added to the Invoice and includes that it was Uploaded under Batch file status and when that occurred under Batch file name. If I could filter by those two fields then I could figure out what Invoices marked for Export to accounting in my Batch Group had NOT yet been actually exported. Concerns summary:
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| April 11, 2023 | (MHC/5C) (see also #102 below) | Julie Brannon Duke University (this is similar to issue #12 on the archive page - need a way to preview a voucher run) | Dennis Bridges to create a JIRA for adding a filter that clearly identifies invoices that have been exported or invoices that have not been exported. Eg. has batch file name or does not have batch file name. | UINV-514 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 91 | Invenvtory: adding additional acquisition data in the item record | IN PROGRESS | To have a quick overview of frequently needed information and to avoid of "jumping" between multiple apps, it is desired to have additional acquisition data displayed in the "acquisition" accordion of the item record. Requested are:
Use case: User looses item (Ie. a physical item) and needs to know how much they will need to pay for it. Ideally this cost data would be an accurate cost for the item from the invoice app
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| April 25, 2023 June 27, 2023 July 7, 2023 | Sven Thomsen | André Hohmann SLUB Dresden | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 92 | Finance: Expended amount minus credits | CLOSED | We would like to see an amount in Finance that shows what has been expended without the inclusion of credits. For e.g.: We had a fund where we had a large credit of ($161,359.41). We processed a number of payments to spend down this amount. At the end of it, you cannot tell that this even happened from the Budget Summary screen. It only looks like we’ve spent $1,532.10. You must click into “View transactions” to see the individual transaction list. If you wanted to get the total amount of what has been spent (without credits) from there, you would then have to add up all those transactions manually.
Discussion: We would like to see the "absolute expenditure" (not including credits). This is important when large credits are processed from previous years. |
| June 23, 2023 | Okay Okonkwo & Kimberly Pamplin, Texas A&M | Sara Colglazier | Dennis Bridges to create a story (DONE) to add credit summary to the financial activity part of the table. Expended can show ONLY payment transaction summary and Credit would show ONLY credit summary. Other values would be unchanged. See UXPROD-4390 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 93 | Order Format/Holdings Type | IN PROGRESS | In the Holdings record, the format can be set. It can be electronic or physical. In the Order line, the Order Format can be set. Can this value be transferred to the Holdings record format (if one is creating a Holdings Record in Inventory using the Create Inventory Function? That way: Note: Currently the holdings type field IS NOT populated with a value when the holding is created by the holdings app. This is problematic because it is difficult to identify these holdings and clean the up Electronic Resource Order Format = Electronic Holdings Type Physical Resource Order Format = Physical Holdings Type What to do if the order format is mixed (P/E Mix) = Physical Holdings Type (User would need to manually adjust holdings as desired as they currently do) What to do if the order format is other (Other) = Physical Holdings Type (These might be an edge case as generally format other is used with a create inventory setting that does not include holding or item.) Note: Holdings type is a configurable field so in order for the application to set this field we likely need specific mappings Allowing an area in settings where users could select a corresponding Holdings type for each available order format would provide the necessary flexibility for libraries that want to use this functionality in a particular way. Being able to map a default value could be a short term win to allow these holdings to be identified post order more easily and corrected. Otherwise just allowing user to specify the holdings type per order line would account for more of the possible complexity. |
| August 1, 2023 | Kristin Martin University of Chicago | Dennis Bridges to create a JIRA for setting specific holdings type per order line. Ideally this would allow control by Template as well. Priority of this issue is not high. | UIOR-1175 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 94 | Editable fields in the open PO/POL | IN PROGRESS | Could we in general review and understand what fields are editable in a PO that is open and why? Thinking about this list of fields in the Order: Acquisitions Orders Module. Some fields can still be edited in open orders; others can't. Unopening/reopening POs can be problematic, as it impacts Receiving and the connection to Inventory, so we don't like to do that. While we understand that some fields drive workflows and really shouldn't/couldn't be edited on open POs, there are other specific fields in the POL we would like to be able to edit:
Are there other fields other libraries would like to be editable? Happy to make this a broad discussion. Discussion: Vendor account number
Added by Kimberly Pamplin - 10/4/2023 - Would it be possible to have the location on a POL changeable if it is set to code and not tied to holdings? |
| June 23, 2023 | University of Chicago | Lafayette College (specifically the Selector field) Sara Colglazier (MH\5C): at the PO level the Subscription Note & other Ongoing Order Information AND when it is not Linked to Inventory then I should be able to edit any and all Title related info Kimberly Pamplin - (TAMU) Especially problematic for ongoing orders for us. (Specifically date fields and Vendor Account # for us.) Julie Brannon Duke University Subscription Dates, specifically dealing with streaming video leases | Dennis Bridges to create a feature for making these fields editable according to the use here. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 95 | Update Org search plugin | CLOSED | When creating a new PO or adding a new Invoice and doing an 'Organization look-up', the 'Search & filter' options not match those in the Organizations app. Can we update the plugins to sync the too? UIPFO-37 | 2023/01/31 | July 18, 2023 | Corrie Hutchinson | Story has been created and implementation is complete | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 96 | Add option to indicate fund on a preset, not pro-rated adjustment | IN PROGRESS | When creating a pre-set adjustment in Settings > Invoices > Adjustments, it would be great to be able to specify a default fund for an adjustment that is not pro-rated. An example would be a shipping/postage adjustment that always needs to come out of a specific postage fund. Currently there is no place to select the fund, so it must be manually applied on each invoice:
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| August 15, 2023 Sept.19, 2023 | Molly Driscoll on behalf of Josh Roberts (University of the Arts) | There were not enough members of the group in attendance that could speak to this issue. Some non-prorated preset adjustments at the invoice level are used for shipping and tax which are often paid out of specific funds. Ideally the 'pre-set' could include one or more fund ids and distribution details. Dennis Bridges to create JIRA issue. | UINV-517 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||
| 97 | FOLIO invoice id vs. vendor invoice # | IN PROGRESS | On Purchase Order screen, under "Related invoices" segment where invoices are listed, the first column is named "Invoice #" when the value displayed is actually FOLIO invoice id, not the actual vendor invoice # which does appear under the fourth column with a precise name "Vendor invoice number" (see attached screenshot). It's a bit misleading the heading of the first column to be "invoice #" when it's not the actual invoice # from vendor that most acquisitions staff refer to and use on regular basis. Wondering if it makes sense to re-label the heading of the first column to something else such as "FOLIO invoice id" or "FOLIO invoice reference #" to convey what the data really represents and to reduce confusion?!  Discussion:
| July 18, 2023 | Skidmore College | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA issue for this update. | UIOR-1190 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 98 | Orders: Add "Receiving workflow" as filter and export to .csv | IN PROGRESS | The POL "Receiving workflow" field isn't included as a POL filter or included in the Actions > Export results (CSV) file.
Ideally also able to filter by order type when searching POLs. The limited ability to combine order and order line filters forces libraries to export order information and continue filtering in the spreadsheet.
From Julie at Duke: While we're looking at this, should we also consider adding the "Receiving workflow" as a filter in the Receiving app or is it sufficient to just include it on the POL as a filter? |
| Aug.8, 2023 | Kristin Martin University of Chicago | Julie Brannon Duke University Dung-Lan Chen Skidmore College | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA issues for adding filters. This issue should potentially be link to desired design exercise that seeks to combine the search capability of PO and POL into one search. | UIOR-1193 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 99 | Building invoices from smaller vendors: embedded MARC | IN PROGRESS | UXPROD-663 - Getting issue details... STATUS is about building invoices from embedded MARC. This is functionality we've been waiting on, because we are using an external tool with Google scripts which is not a good long term solution and has limitations. EDI invoicing will be helpful, but we have many smaller vendors/approval plans where the vendor can't supply EDI, and we are not staffed to manually enter these invoices. Could we get an update on when this will be scheduled? And what are other libraries doing without this functionality? Other libraries like GBV are also interested in other formats like XML (They are using PICA XML) for creating invoices as EDI is not always possible. Standardized common formats for electronic invoices in Germany are XRechnung and ZUGFeRD. They mainly affect financial systems but it is important for German libraries that FOLIO will support invoice import not only for EDI but also for different formats. |
| Aug.8, 2023 | University of Chicago | Julie Brannon Duke University | Group has decided to invite Ann-Marie Breaux (Deactivated) to join discussion and work through use cases to make sure all necessary features are created. There will be a discussion on this at WOLFcon 2023 https://wolfcon2023.sched.com/event/1OlcH/orders-and-invoices-import-export-what-to-do Ann Marie responded via Slack - https://folio-project.slack.com/archives/C217N937A/p1694531513736899?thread_ts=1687443002.272179&cid=C217N937A | |||||||||||||||||||
| 100 | Orders | IN PROGRESS | Viewing a PO in Orders app → looking at related invoice lines accordeon: Would be useful to show start and end of subscription as part of the table; should display the calculation period which is recorded in the Invoice Line Goal: allocate piece and invoice line
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| Aug.8, 2023 | Martina Schildt | VZG | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | After reviewing these details we decided to include subscription information as well to the scope of UIOR-1131 - Getting issue details... STATUS | Martina Schildt please review the story created and confirm that it has addressed the concerns you raised here. thanks! | ||||||||||||||||||
| 101 | Invoices: View associated budget | CLOSED | The Finance app has a way to navigate from the budget to an invoice (via the transaction log), but there is no reference in the opposite direction. It would be nice if it were possible to see (and even navigate to) what budget an invoice was paid on to determine what fiscal year the invoice belongs too. It would also be useful to be able to filter on this when searching in the Invoices app. Note: This would be very similar to the way that Nolana invoice lines link out to encumbrance transactions in Finance. |
| July 21, 2023 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Julie Brannon Duke University | Dennis Bridges to review and create stories. Now that FY is shown on the Invoice as of Poppy we just need to review the export and PO invoice details. Add invoice Fiscal year to invoice csv export details. AND display the Fiscal year of the invoice and invoice, in the related invoice accordion. DONE UIOR-1131 - Getting issue details... STATUS and UINV-492 - Getting issue details... STATUS created to track implementation. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 102 | Invoices: if Voucher Export is run withOUT a server to Upload to then download is possible but Batch file status displays as Error | OPEN | With UXPROD3600 (Morning Glory) one can now manage Voucher Export without needing access to Settings–which is great!! BUT since FOLIO is unable to upload to a secure ftp server (just yet?!) and our College will not provide us access to anything but a secure server, we run the Voucher Export and then download the file and "manually" handle the rest ... So far so good as far as being able to get Invoices/Vouchers to our College's AP department to be paid. HOWEVER, the Batch file status displays as Error, which is really confusing, because it makes it seem like we were not able to get the Invoices/Vouchers out to transfer to AP. and
Could there be a third option, Error or Failed, for when it truly failed; Uploaded for when it successfully uploaded to a server; and then something (Batched ??) for when a Batch file was created that is available for download/export but not also uploaded anywhere. Seeing Error in Voucher export details on Invoices is especially confusing. |
| July 21, 2023 Aug.8. 2023 | Sara Colglazier (MHC/5C) | Julie Brannon Duke University | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 103 | Invoices: No duplicate warning when set to Approve/Pay | IN PROGRESS | When an invoice duplicates on vendor, invoice date, and invoice number, a duplicate modal will pop up. Currently (in Nolana) this occurs when an invoice is created, edited, or approved. When the setting "Approve and pay in one click" is active, however, it seems that this modal is bypassed. Since approve is part of this process, it seems like the behavior should be consistent with approving and cause the modal to appear. When using "approve and pay" the duplicate check is not being executed |
| Aug.15, 2023 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Sara Colglazier | Dennis Bridges to create a bug for this issue. RCA might just be missing requirement but it's expected to be the same behavior. | bug reported UINV-521 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 104 | Invoices: Navigating invoice lines | IN PROGRESS | When reviewing invoices and needing to see a more detailed view, it would be helpful if one could navigate back and forth between invoice lines without having to close back out to the main invoice page and reselect a new line. So while on line 2 clicking backward (or previous) would take me to line 1 and forward (or next) would take me to line 3. Visually this might resemble the "Previous" and "Next" buttons used to navigate order searches with more than 50 results. This would save clicks and make the review process more efficient. In addition, it might be useful to have a placeholder indicator to inform you of the line you just closed out of. (Perhaps the line stays highlighted in blue?). Even though closing out of an invoice line will bounce the line to the top (unless you hit back button in browser, in which case this does not work!), a visual clue might be helpful if possible to remind the user where they are at. This is particularly so on longer invoices. Use case: The user is reviewing invoice that was generated via EDI and has multiple lines. The user may or may not need to edit the line. When editing some prefer to navigate back to the line on save and some circumstances you may want to navigate back to the invoice. When taking you back to the invoice it would be nice if it was clear which one you just updated. Note: The pattern used for selecting invoice lines should be updated to the most recent pattern used in search result pane. |
| Aug.15, 2023 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Sara Colglazier Julie Brannon Duke University | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for adding "Next previous" navigation to invoice line view pane AND another story for adding it to the POL view pane. Kimie and Gill may already have a pattern that will work for the issues of where to take the user after they click "Save & close", alternative to have multiple buttons. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 105 | Orders → Search for POLs in search and filter pane via instance HRID? | IN PROGRESS | Are there any plans to make the HRID of the linked inventory entity searchable? The POL should be able to easily access this via the UUID link. If the POL is linked to an instance, the search for the instance HRID would be possible automatically. If you also link the Holdings with the POL, you can also search for Holdings-HRID. Use selects index and executes a search for the POL based on either Instance HIRD or Holdings HRID. In the case of a package POL there might be multiple HRIDs that would return the POL. |
| Aug.15, 2023 | Martina Schildt | VZG | Dennis Bridges to create JIRA for adding these two search indexes to the POL search area. These may only be possible by changing the search technology used by the orders app. If so this ticket should be linked to the feature for converting orders search to elastic search. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 106 | Orders/Invoices: Automatic Slashes for Dates | CLOSED | Is there any way it would be possible to have the slashes in date fields automatically input when typing? This is a very minor thing, but between orders and invoices I find myself putting in a lot of dates. It would make things faster if the markings between were automatically added. Some examples: Orders - Renewal date, Subscription from, Subscription to, Using any of the date filters. Invoices - Invoice date, Subscription start date, Subscription end date, Using any of the date filters. |
| Aug.15, 2023 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Stripes issue created to address this FOLIO wide STCOM-1160 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 107 | Add "Reporting Code" field to Invoice and Purchase Orders | OPEN | Lehigh would be interested in a functionality that adds a Reporting Code (similar to Method of Acquisition) that helps track non-Acq. related data points (eg. "DEIA Shelf Project") This should be report-able via LDP. And uses vocabulary that we can edit. There is an ask from the reporting group to identify things that are bough for specific projects. These projects span multiple projects. The amounts need to be as accurate as possible to satisfy auditing requirements. Questions:
Note: Even though this code is identified at point of order there could be reporting benefits to having it be inherited by invoice AND transactions (Encumbrance, payment, credit). | Aug.15, 2023 Aug.18, 2023 | Ask Owen to provide review of supplementary properties and confirm whether any of that work could be reused to address this issue. Could be an alternative to using custom fields or enhancing tags. Dennis Bridges to start wiki page that explores pros and cons of multiple approaches. 1 use custom fields, 2 enhance tags, 3 add specific controlled vocabulary to order and invoice. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 108 | Reverse Actions order in Organizations Notes | OPEN | The Actions menu for notes in the Organizations app has the actions listed in reverse order from other Actions menu lists. Normally "Edit" comes before "Delete," but in the Notes "Delete" comes first. This is very low priority, but, it seems like it should be consistent with other menus. (We are still in Lotus at present, but this also appears to be the case in the Orchid BugFest environment.)
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| 109 | Add Subscription start/end dates to the POL Related Invoice Lines | CLOSED | It would be very helpful and time saving if the Subscription start and end dates could be included in the "Related invoice lines" section of the POL. When checking subscription payments attached to the POL, we need to see what period of time each individual invoice paid for. I'm happy the comment field displays, because that is where we record what vols were paid for on standing order invoices. We need the same display for our subscriptions. If space/scrolling is an issue, could the vendor name be replaced with vendor code? And maybe the vendor invoice number could be abbreviated a bit to Vendor Inv#, Inv Line #, etc.
Note this is related to topic 101. | 4/4/2023 | Michigan State Univ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 110 | Deleting acquisition units | IN PROGRESS | As long as no user is assigned to an acquistion unit I can delete the unit. I created a unit called "test" and deleted it afterwards. I can't recreate this unit - or create a unit of the same name. If I try this message shows up: Acquisition unit "test" already exists Right now the only thing stopping me from deleting a unit is having at least one user assigned to it. I can even delete a unit that was used in creating an order. After deletion all data in relation to orders used with this acqusition unit becomes inaccessible. |
| Nov.28, 2023 | Sven Thomsen | Dennis Bridges to create bug for acq unit name validation. Need to create a story for restricting the deletion of acq units. Currently user can delete acq unit that is assigned to orders as long as there are no users assigned to the unit. Need to create story for Deletion check. If not possible create story for adding status of "Inactive" to acq units. Inactive units would not be usable for new records. | UIAC-77 - Getting issue details... STATUS bug report created | |||||||||||||||||||
| 111 | Widgets in Dashboard for Acq Apps | IN PROGRESS | Are there plans to create widgets for acquisitions apps in the Dashboard? I could see this being really helpful with Orders or Invoice information. The specific case I can think of currently would be filtering based on the "Subscription To" date in Orders to let me know when our ongoing direct orders are due for renewal. Or maybe the ability to filter on dates in Invoices to approximate when ongoing orders should be paid by in the following year. |
| Nov.28, 2023 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Suzanne Mangrum Martina Schildt : the Bienenvolk development team is starting to extend the Dashboard functionality to add an ACQ related widget - would be good to have Owen Stephensas PO attend this discussion. | Adding this topic to a Friday SIG meeting agenda so that Owen can participate. Currently no features written but if we can collect some use cases in that meeting we can work on creating features for prioritization. | |||||||||||||||||||
| 112 | Retro fit a POL as a Package and/or add POL to Open Ongoing Order to handle Name Change (other instances) | IN PROGRESS | Coming out of the discussion re: #59, additional scenarios were surfaced esp. re: Ongoing Orders that were not initially set up as Packages, but later the functionality that a Package POL offers is found to be needed; OR, in the case, for example, of an Ongoing Subscription, the title changes, and so the PO or POL (depending) needs to be able to be attached to two (etc) Instances and their respective Holdings and Items etc. Once all the invoice information and receiving data has been collected ideally users would be able to add additional POLs because for print and electronic this can happen over the years. For libraries that are not using "Package" POLs it might be appropriate to allow users to add new POLs to Open orders. Alternatively it would be helpful to be able to convert standard POLs to Package POLs. Ideally this would not disturb existing connections but allow users from that point forward to add additional receiving titles.
Note: Order history should show the adding/deleting of POLs | 25 April 2023 | Nov.28, 2023 | Sara Colglazier | Dung-Lan Chen | Dennis Bridges to create a feature to cover the implementation of these enhancements | UIOR-1262 - Getting issue details... STATUS | ||||||||||||||||||
| 113 | Orders: Customizable Fields | IN PROGRESS | MAY BE ALREADY COVERED SUFFICIENTLY BY TOPIC # 107 - The Agreements App has the ability to create customized Supplementary properties that are also filterable in search. Something comparative in the Orders App would be really useful in allowing us to track data points specific to our library that get crowded in our note fields and that are difficult to search on. |
| Jan.23, 2024 | Kimberly Pamplin TAMU | Björn Muschall Would it be possible to have a little demo/Q&A of the custom fields functionality being implemented. It might be the more desirable solution for this topic and topic 107. But it would also be helpful to clarify whether these fields would be searchable once added to PO or POL. thanks! | UXPROD-2865 - Getting issue details... STATUS in progress by Leipzig | |||||||||||||||||||
| 114 | Organization | IN PROGRESS | Organization interface types are currently hardcoded. Universita Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia has suggested that we add a new type for "Holdings". Are there other institutions that would like to see more values added to the list of interface types? Should this be enhanced such that users can added new types as controlled vocabularies in settings? |
| Jan.23, 2024 | Universita Degli Studi Di Modena E Reggio Emilia | Martina Schildt VZG|GBV | Initial discussion didn't reveal any additional type that would be desired. Could you provide a little more information about how you would use the "Holdings" type and why you would want to use any of the other types for this purpose. The simplest approach might be just adding this additional type. VZG: We would like to add the type "metadata" or have the list a configurable list. Dennis Bridges | |||||||||||||||||||
| 115 | Receiving: would like be able to control public display for pieces received in Receiving | IN PROGRESS | Right now, on the holdings record, there is an open to choose to have pieces display to the public or not, if the pieces are added directly on the holdings record. There is a check box for "Public Display." If a piece is received in receiving, it can be added to the holdings record with the option "Display on holdings," but there is no way to choose to display the piece to the public or not. And pieces connected to receiving can't be edited on the holdings record. We use the "Public Display" to display unbound issues, and then uncheck the box once the pieces are bound together, since access is now through an item record. Because of the lack of ability to control the public display from receiving, we can't receive serial issues in Receiving, but instead receive them directly on the holdings record. We would like to be able to indicate whether a piece should be "Public Display" or not when receiving in Receiving, and then the ability to edit this once those unbound issues are bound. |
| Jan.23, 2024 | Kristin Martin , Chicago | UXPROD-3525 - Getting issue details... STATUS will be the beginning of a complete solution to this issue. It will address the "Public display" checkbox appearing in the holdings receiving history table AND allowing users to toggle that from receiving. How this data becomes available to discovery or OPAC services will likely be followup features to this one. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 116 | Show POLs linked to a package. | CLOSED | ** NO LONGER RELEVANT ** Functionality coming in Poppy ; lgs 3/12/24 **I've updated this ; the request was partially outdated, but the package portion still applies** - Lisa, Mich State 1/24/24 The red circle with a slash symbol displays for cancelled titles by the PO number when searching PO, and also by the POL number in the POL accordion. Could POLs linked to a package record be displayed, including cancelled POLs (with cancel symbol)? A filter or other tool that displays all linked POLs for packages would be very helpful. We should be able to sort the list of titles alphabetically by title or by POL. I think there is something in Jira for this, but I'm not sure if it's gained traction. As a workaround, Mich State has created an API call that will list POLs linked to a package. We can search by package title or PO and we can sort by title or POL. Information from the notes fields is displayed. We are adding PO status to the call as well. This API report helps when reconciling packages, however it would be much more efficient for us if FOLIO could display this information. (We would love to be able to see and update titles related to packages from a list in FOLIO.) And it's important to know how titles are related to packages; subscription, discounted, core title, transferred in, etc.
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| 117 | Filter by Vendor Account Number | IN PROGRESS | It would be great if POLs could be filtered by Vendor Acct Number. We have multiple accounts with some vendors, eg. EBSCO & GOBI. | 23 June 2023 | Beverly Geckle MTSU | Dennis Bridges create Jira for adding this filter so user could select from list. Less prone to error. Multi-select would be ideal but that would need to show results for any POL with ONE OF the selected account numbers | Aaron Neslin working on it | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 118 | Orders: Create PO Line: Physical Resource Details | PENDING | Create Inventory drop down does not have "Item" as a choice. This is problematic when ordering replacements or intentional duplicates. There is no way to only add an item to an existing Holding & Instance. Also, we would like to discuss being able to add a temporary location in the order for an item that is created. This would help us to differentiate items that need to be marked as non-requestable prior to receiving in a local workflow. We are interested to know if this would be helpful to other libraries and if this would be added value to FOLIO. Temporary location: Library has system where faculty recommend a purchase and as soon as that comes in the item can be requested (Or fill a title request). Ideally they are able to prevent this from happening. | 27 June 2023 | Kimberly Smith MTSU | Kimberly Smith is going to checkin with acq folks and confirm whether there are any outstanding requirements here. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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New topic: Enable staff to change default Loan Type value for item when creating an PO Line | IN PROGRESS |
The bavarian libraries would like to cancel the implementer topic "Invoice: Disbursement amount". The german libraries will reach out to the ACQ SIG with another approach how to process invoices in foreign currencies. Instead of disbursement amount, we would like to post the topic: UXPROD-4243: Enable staff to change default Loan Type value for item when creating an PO Line.
| 7 July 2023 | This functionality should be addressed by UXPROD-4243 - Getting issue details... STATUS but it should be updated to cover both use cases. please comment on this feature if you have additional feedback. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 120 | Finance: change presettings for search & filter | OPEN | We would like the status filter to be set to "active" by default when opening the Finance app. We would like to do this in the ledger tab as well as the group and fund tabs.  | 19 July 2023 | TP-ERW BVB | Dennis Bridges will add this to User based preferences UXPROD-1398 - Getting issue details... STATUS | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 121 | Orders, Order Lines, Invoices: Add a filter | OPEN | Could we add Ledger Group as a filter to Orders, Order Lines and Invoices? This would allow for a way to group transactions that are affecting a whole group rather than just one individual fund. Alternatively, could the fund code filter function the same as the expense class feature in both order/order lines and invoices. (See differences in images below)   | 10 Aug 2023 | MTSU | Discussed at 4/23/2024 ACQ SIG Meeting Dennis Bridges to possibly create a Jira for this enhancement. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 122 | Method of Acquisitions | OPEN | Could we make it so we can delete default Method of Acquisitions in the PO line creation dropdown? It gets in the way of staff UX here at Lehigh. It is unclear if this is adequately handled by UIOR-1140. Reported by Daniel Huang and Maccabee Levine | 15 Aug 2023 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 123 | Receiving App: Fields from Holdings/Item level in piece Information | OPEN | At the moment there are just some fields from Holdings and Item level in the piece information.
2. If the fields on Holdings and Item level in the Inventory App are populated afterwards, it should be also possible that these information are also shown in the fields in the piece information. | 06 Sept 2023 | Some issues: how complicated do we want the UX to be? What happens if there is conflict between the piece data and the item data? What about when call number is managed in the holdings record? Some libraries do not want to have the call number controlled or entered at the piece level. | Sabrina Bayer | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 124 | Order App: Changing the vendor does not change Material Supplier in POLs | OPEN | When changing the vendor in an existing PO, the vendor is not updated in the POLs Material Supplier under Resource Details. This happens in all scenarios - open order, reopened order, unopened order. This means staff then have to go into every POL to change the vendor. We would always expect the vendor to be changed in the POLs if it is changed at the order level - I know this may not be the case for all libraries. Perhaps it could be an option when changing the vendor whether or not to change the Material Supplier in all of the POLs.
| 7 Sept 2023 | 4/26/2024 | National Library of Australia | Most participants do not use material supplier. It is confusing because users cannot see vendor in the POL. It would be nice if material supplier is kept in sync. possible scenario: a resource is purchased from ebsco but published by someone else. will ask for clarification of use case from Susan Newbery | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 125 | Problems in handling Multi-Volume Sets | OPEN | One-Time Orders of Multi-Volume Sets are problematic in FOLIO currently [Orchid]. Multi-Vol sets come in various flavors and with different scenarios: (1) It is known at the outset that it is a multi-volume set. There is a single price, but 2+ items that are sold as a single (1) unit. In this case one can choose to either (a) use the Receiving Workflow option of Independent Order and Receipt Quantity and keep the Cost Quantity physical & Location Quantity physical as 1, OR, (b) divide the vendor's unit price by the number of expected items and enter it as the Physical Unit Price and set the Cost Quantity physical & Location Quantity physical to the expected items number so that the total for the Estimated price = the vendor's unit price. And then Open the Order. If one goes with option (a) then after receiving all pieces, one has to remember to return to the POL and change the Receipt Status to Fully Received otherwise the Order will not Close after also being Paid. In the case of option (b), the Order will Close automatically on its own after the last piece is received and the invoice paid, and all the items are created at the time of opening the order [so if needed one can place holds on all of them at that time] BUT the single unit cost is divided across them. (2) It is NOT known at the outset that it is a multi-volume set, there is a single price, the vendor indicates a single unit for sale, but in fact there are 2+ items. Assuming it is undesirable to UNopen the Order again--otherwise one could could open it again & handle like described in (1)--but if unopening again is not desirable then one can either (a) use the Receiving App to receive one of the volumes so that it is linked up with the POL and Inventory–adding info in the Piece Comment field to show on the Holdings record and Notes variously–besides then in Inventory creating the additional Items directly, on the same Holdings record with the Comment, and adding Notes to the Item etc. ... OR (b) edit the POLs Physical Unit Price to X# so that when one then creates additional Expected Pieces in the Receiving App on the Receiving record, which then triggers the Cost Quantity physical & Location Quantity physical to increase one ends up with the orginal Estimated price = the vendor's unit price again. Basically implementing (1b) above after opening with the same +/- (- = the single unit cost is divided across the items). As to (2a) the issues are: additional Items are not linked to the POL via Receiving App Pieces and do not show in the Receiving Record, etc. & the Receiving Note may be missed, which may indicate that the Items are Requested, so that only the one initial Item has a hold and not the whole set. (3) It is NOT known at the outset that it is a multi-volume set (there is a single price, the vendor indicates a single unit for sale, but in fact there are 2+ items) AND the POL has already been Fully Paid (as a single unit re: cost & quantity). At this point--as far as I can tell--while one is still able to edit the POLs Physical Unit Price, one is NO longer able to create additional Expected Pieces in the Receiving App on the Receiving record. So at this point then the options become (a) to handle like (2a), OR, (b) to Cancel the Invoice, then proceed according to (2b), and then re-entering etc the Invoice. Now however is not only the single unit cost divided across the items, but also (a) one has to tweak the invoice number to make it unique from its first-now cancelled version AND the manual entry of the invoice pulls in the now Cost Quantity physical which is greater than 1 [this may also happen for (1) and (2) depending on when the invoice is entered or EDIed into FOLIO and linked up to the POL]. What would be great [and I think take care of all of the above outlined scenarios] is re: One-Time Orders set to Receiving Workflow: Synchronized Order and Receipt Quantity [and actually generally too] if (a) the Cost Quantity physical and Location Quantity physical were not tied to each other. That is, that they did not have to match. And (b) for the Receiving Expected Piece quantity not to be tied back to the Cost Quantity physical but only tied to the Location Quantity physical. And (c) for POL Receiving Workflow: Synchronized Order and Receipt Quantity, it NOT be the creation/adding of Expected Pieces in Receiving that changes the quantity of the POL Location Quantity physical, but rather the other way around. That is, one would have to be able to edit the number of the POL Location Quantity physical and that then would change/add how many Expected Pieces there would be in Receiving. & The POL Receipt Status would have to be tied to the Location Quantity physical and not to the Cost Quantity physical. | 10 Oct 2023 | 4/26/2024 | Sara Colglazier & for ACQ SIG meeting 2023-10-10 | Skidmore College | Disassociate cost quantity from location quantity? How do others handle this? Skidmore: if the invoice as set, it is received as an item and cataloged individually. Continue conversation | |||||||||||||||||||
| 126 | Invoices: rounding | OPEN | We use prorated adjustments to apply tax to invoices. FOLIO uses banker's rounding (rounding to the nearest even) but our university does not. We round up for values of half a penny and above and round down for values below half a penny. We should be able to change or choose the way FOLIO handles rounding. Also we're not sure if this is what is causing some discrepancy between the invoice line fund distribution amount vs. the actual transaction amount, as shown in this example: | 11 Oct 2023 | MTSU | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 127 | Invoices: fund amounts not shown in json for multi-funded invoice lines | OPEN | When there are multiple funds split by percentage on an invoice line, is it possible to show in the json returned by okapi the item and adjustment amounts for each fund? It would also be helpful if the adjustment amounts are shown in the UI for each fund.
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| 128 | Invoices: invoices in foreign currencies do not show the converted system currency amounts in json | OPEN | For invoices in foreign currencies, is it possible to show in the json returned by okapi the item and adjustment amounts converted to the system currency for each fund? It would also be helpful if the converted system currency amounts are shown in the UI for each fund.
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| 129 | Organizations: add a multi-select option for languages | OPEN | As a user I need to add multiple languages to a contact person or the general contact information.
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| 130 | Display Agreement Line Description in POL instead of Agreement Name | OPEN | In the Linked Agreement Lines section of the POL the links to the Agreement Lines are actually displaying the Agreement Name not the Agreement Line Description (name). In Slack Owen Stephens said he can provide the properties needed to fix this. | 2023/10/20 | MTSU | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 131 | Orders: display of prefix and suffix at PO numbers | OPEN | Currently, prefixes and suffixes are displayed connected to the PO number. They can only be seperated by adding letters to the prefix or suffix. We would like to visually seperate both prefixes and suffixes with special characters (e.g. "-"). This would increase readabiliy.
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| 132 | Invoices: Include Invoice date in exported vouchers | OPEN | Currently the Invoice date field is not included in Vouchers. Our Accounts Payable office requires this field so when we use Voucher Export to batch export vouchers we still have to look up the Invoice dates separately. This change would simplify our process significantly. | 2023/10/26 | UMass Amherst (Five Colleges) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 133 | Orders/Inventory: Move holding/item data in Inventory should update POL-Instance connection accordingly | OPEN | Move of holdings/items from one instance to another won't transfer the POL information from the origin to the target instance. Exisiting JIRAs:
Workaround: initiate the move from the order rather than the inventory record for any inventory records that have related acq data. But: Initiating the transfer in the Orders app won't work in all scenarios, e.g. when the move of holdings is triggered in an external source and not from within FOLIO. That will most likely apply in other libraries as well, in case they let their Inventory be controlled from an external system like a union catalog. |
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| 134 | Receiving app: "Display on Holding" | OPEN | Is it possible to set "Display on Holding" to always active somewhere in the app settings = make it configurable in settings? Alternative: Would it be possible to check or uncheck the checkbox for "Display" in the process of receiving? Otherweise users need to edit the piece always as a separate step. |
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| 135 | Orders > Order Lines: Make selector a configurable list | OPEN | In the Orders app when creating a POL, a selector can be added in a free text field. For a user it would be helpful to choose one or mutliple selectors fom a multi-select list. This select list should be configurable in settings. Thereby, the input would be standardized which would enable precise searching and filtering for orders that are assigned to specific selectors. |
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| 136 | Invoice Lines | OPEN | As a user I am creating and editing an invoice line for a POL in invoices app. On the POL I have added a discount. On the invoice that I receive from my vendor the discount has increased and needs adjustment on the invoice line in FOLIO. Currently, there is no way to adjust the discount amount on the invoice line, only the the total amount can be adjusted accordingly. For submission to a third party system the discount amount should be editable on the invoice line. Requirement: Display the discount amount that has been added on the POL on the invoice line. Make the discount amount editable on the invoice line. | Martina Schildt VZG/GBV | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 137 | Unlink orders from instance | OPEN | When we withdraw items, we have been suppressing and marking instances for deletion, thinking that someday we will be able to delete instances. When an instance has a linked order, we've been suppressing the instance only. We'd like to ability to unlink the order from the instance, so that the instance can be deleted, but we'd like to retain the order details in the order record. Is this possible?? | Michigan State | MH/5C | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 138 | Filter by multiple funds in Invoice app | OPEN | We've needed to pull invoice information for reporting for our Special Collections, which uses multiple fund codes. We had to do this fund by fund. It would have been more efficient if we had the option to select multiple funds for filtering. Also, the results limit to 1000 records. Can this amount be raised? It's not enough for larger reports, which we need to do from time to time. Our workaround is to break up the exports by month (or sometime biweekly) instead of fiscal year. | Michigan State | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 139 | Have option to use invoice template | OPEN | We'd like the ability to create and use invoice templates, similar to order templates. | Michigan State | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 140 | Trigger email to requester on receipt | OPEN | In my role as the Acquisition Librarian at NUST Library, I have identified the need to integrate the requester's email address on the order or receiving side for efficient communication regarding requested items. Enclosed are screenshots illustrating the opportunity to include the requester's email address. This enhancement would streamline the process of notifying requestors about the status of their requests with a simple click. An automated email will be dispatched stating: "The Library has received the item/book you requested, and it is currently being processed." For further inquiries, please reach out to | Mutirua, Katriena <kmmutirua@nust.na> NUST | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 141 | Ability to search/filter contacts from Organization App main search | OPEN | Right now, there isn't a way to search contacts from the side search pane for Organizations. Contacts can be found by searching the organization name, but if you know the contact name, there is no direct way to bring up the contact. There is in fact a search for contacts already, which can be gotten to by opening an Organization record, clicking edit, then clicking Add Contact. This brings up the below modal with a contact search. Since this search exists, could options to search be added to the organization side bar?
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| 142 | Orders app: When linking to an inventory instance, all product IDs should be transferred | OPEN | In orders app, when linking a POL to an inventory instance, all product IDs should be transferred - exactly as it happens when a users changes the "Change instance connection" function. Current behaviour: If you link a POL to an Inventory instance (via title look-up), only a few product IDs are transferred: usually ISBN, ISSN and ZDB-ID. Problem: It is difficult to search in the Orders and Inventory apps if you do not know 100% which IDs are searchable. On the other hand, when a users changes the instance connection, all IDs seem to be transferred. Requirement: Functionality around the two actions should be aligned. Question: If there are several ISBNs or ISSNs, which ones are transferred (random, last one ...)? | Martina Schildt (VZG|GBV) |
