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by Lisa Wong University of California Santa Cruz February 20, 2026

How To Format a Prompted Report to Run in a Widget

There's been a problem with prompted reports running in a Widget. Alma basically just runs the report with defaults and there's no way to get back to the prompt. However, if you have a re-run button, you can get back to your prompts. The re-run the report button is coded with the path to the…

by Israel Dreyfuss February 19, 2026

Library Open Workflows - Await Job Completion for Alma Job creation

The Alma node in Library Open Workflows now includes a new “Await Job Completion” toggle on the Submit a manual or scheduled job operation. Instead of returning immediately after creating a job, the node can wait until the job finishes and return the final result (success/failure, complete metadata). How It Works When triggering a new…

by Yoel Kortick Ex Libris February 15, 2026

How to use a Primo VE Normalization Rule to remove the text (Online) from the title

Inquiry received from institution When Yoel was here to deliver training in January, he told us that we can remove the "(Online)" from the end of the title in the Primo full view. It seems to be appearing because it is in the 130 field of the bibliographic record. We did not have time to…

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