Open Platform and Administration

• Alma's handling of language specific searching and sorting needs will be enhanced to include the following languages:​
  • Lithuanian​
  • Iceland​ic
• In addition, the handling of Swedish and Norwegian special diacritics​ will be improved

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• A visual indication will show how many pending printouts are waiting in the online printout queue

• A new option to contribute an xsl customization will be added to the letter and printout list. 
• As with other areas of contribution, the xsl customization will be available for other institutions to copy and reuse 
• This will be achieved by adding new options to browse contributed xsl customizations, preview their format, and then copy the relevant customizations to the institution's list of letter and printout definitions

• The search gateway infrastructure will be improved in order to better handle different languages and special characters
• Improvements to the ongoing setup and management of external search targets 

A new graphic interface for the customization of letters and printouts will be introduced, in addition to the textual xsl customization capability

• A new option to design letters and printouts graphically, in place of the xsl customization, will be added to the list of customizations

• This new capability will allow formatting letters and printouts without needing to customize the layout and format using the xsl syntax

Many of the configuration entities will support the creation of staff user notes

• A new option will be added to many configurations entities, allowing for staff to add notes

• This will be possible in:

  • Code Tables

  • Mapping Tables

  • Fulfillment Definitions