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Project Board

Alma Integrations

Start Date

Sprint zero

Current Sprint

Sprint #6 22 Apr #8 - 03

Target Date

- data freeze / Ex-Libris-imposed-deadline for integrations

- Alma Go Live

Status

 See list below for status updates

Dependencies

 Delivery of Duke’s Alma instance (1/18/2024)

Notes

Target date is set by Ex Libris as part of our project plan.

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Priority #

Title

Jira Epic

Importance

Notes

Status

1

Patron Loader

AI-31: Patron Loader

Must have before go live

 

File retrievals are running as expected. We have run a full patron synchronization (70,000 records) and it took less than ten minutes, which is awesome. Functionality to include name suffix is done.

Incremental can add/update; drop has been developed but not yet tested. EN

2

TRLN Discovery/POD/Summon Integration

AI-28: TRLN Discovery/POD/Summon Integration

Must have at go live

 

  • Noticing a Resolved high-volume of API calls to populate the index table of IDs on AWS/Data Service Center table which is needed for availability. Group review of code planned on 5/18 to identify how to minimize calls to reduce AWS costs.

  • Five VMs are running in parallel to speed up processing of the full extract

  • Unit testing is underway which identified that the current code is using item-level calculations and Alma requires holdings-level calculations - working on fix for that.

JB 15
  • AWS by writing to and loading from a file

  • Running a final full test run which will begin on Friday and take 10-12 days to complete.

JB

3

Invoice Export to Accounts Payable

AI-40: Invoice Export to Accounts Payable

Must have at go live

 

Testing uncovered inconsistency in how currency exchange rates are handled. Determined that the Alma export is providing the rate at run time rather than the rate from the date of the invoice. Need to change our invoice total calculation based on this info (and suggested that ExLibris offer this info in their ERP export documentation).

Will run a fresh load of test data to send to Duke AP for validation after this change is implemented.

JB 17 Began user training with Law, Ford, and DUL users this week. Identified unexpected behavior with the prorata checkbox and publishing of invoice lines - if special charges such as shipping are listed as invoice lines AND the prorata checkbox on the invoice summary is turned on, those lines will not be included in the export to AP. Will handle through user training and a new error condition.

Provided another set of test files to Duke AP for review

JB

4

Invoice Creation from Vendor MARC records

AI-41: Invoice Creation from Vendor MARC Records

Must have at go live

Can use code from Harvard as a start

Development is underway.

  • MADS provided test files (thank you!).

  • Harvard provided additional documentation of their process.

  • API Testing revealed that two calls to the PO Line will be needed to get a full enough response body to create an invoice to load - the first does a lookup to find the PO line number by vendor invoice reference number and the second will get the full PO line response for that line. We’ll then use that info (price, vendor, fund etc.) to build the invoice.

JB 17 Making progress! Unit testing of invoice creating is underway - the app is sucessfully generating an invoice with lines. Need to change the invoice date value from current date to the invoice date provided in the vendor file.

JB

5

Catalog Request System

AI-43: Catalog Request System

Must have at go live

 

Work is ongoing on viewing item lists and placing requests. We’ve made significant progress in handling various display use cases (claim returned, transit, etc.) Working on an approach to handling records with large numbers of items to address performance. Integration with AEON (for SCL/ARCH holdings) is complete, and integration with ILLiad (for ILR and scan and deliver) is complete.

A volunteer external to the library is almost complete in rigorous testing of the CRS with major patron groups and reporting results for adjustments.

EN

6

CaiaSoft

 https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-118

Must have at go live

 

Configuration in Alma is complete. Data has been extracted from Alma and sent to CaiaSoft. CaiaSoft is actively loading the data to our CaiaSoft test instance.
KHN

7

A-Z Journals List

AI-46: Online Journals List

Must have at go live

Discovery Working Group taking responsibility

Ongoing. Tom C. provided an update at May First Wednesday ( First Wednesday 2024)

Library staff have been invited to test the interface and provide suggestions and feedback.

EN

8

Migrate Open Patron Requests from Aleph to Alma

 https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-34

Must have at go live

 

Work has begun with Jack Hill and David Chandek-Stark. EN

9

Bursar Export

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-44

Must have at go live

or at least by early August

10

Location Guide

 https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-37

Must have at go live

tied to TRLN Discovery project

Work has begun as part of TRLN Discovery work. EN

11

Migrate FOLIO Licenses to Alma

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-35

Must have by June 10 for ExLibris to load during cutover

Waiting for developer capacity.

Open tasks are to fix some bugs and add a few changes based on users feedback to the test data load from December.

JB 15

12

Migrate Aleph Order/Subscription Log Notes to Alma Orders

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-33

Post go live

Users will be able to view these logs in Aleph after go-live, but we need to import the data so that’s is available in Alma.

13

New Book Carousel

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-32

Post go live

Would need to adjust the landing page if not at go live

14

Migrate FOLIO ERM Organizations Contacts and Interfaces to Alma

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-36

Post go live

15

Alma Cloud App POC for Viewing Item History

https://duldev.atlassian.net/browse/AI-45

Post go live

Connection to DSC for item history

16

Migrate 360 Notes to Alma E-Resources

not yet created

Post go live

The notes in 360 contain information to identify the owning library (Law, Med, etc).

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