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Choose start month in Alma Analytics schedule
Alma Analytics has been improved by a lot in ways of scheduling reports. But I am still missing a way to choose a start month when scheduling a quarterly or bimonthly report.
You can choose a recurrence pattern (eg. monthly, recur every nth month), but there is no way to choose a month for the next run. Each change in recipients or touching the analytics object may start a new interval.
When choosing a weekly interval, you can also choose a weekday. An option for choosing a month should be added for monthly schedules.
8 votes -
Overlap Analysis reports
These reports would and should utilize and contain within them subject headings and subject areas. It seems like it would be a very useful functionality for staff to make use of subject headings for comparison to other vendors' reports who use subject headings/terms while doing an overlap analysis. When trying to compare CZ electronic collections to our IZ collections, it would be good to know which subject coverage area and date range each matched portfolio has.
6 votes -
Different colour in left menu for shared dimensions
It would be nice to find shared dimensions in left menu in a different colour, not the same blue.
This way, it would be eassier to recognized and use them.3 votes -
Different color en left menu for shared dimensions
It would be nice to find shared dimensions in left menu in a different color, not the same blue.
This way, it would be eassier to recognized and use them.3 votes -
Add "Field searched" Column in "Primo Popular Searches" Analytics
"Field searched" is an attribute field that stores the field being searched. This is relevant if the user performed a search on a specific field (such as authors only). But now we can only use this function in the "Zero Result Searches". We would like to use this function in the "Primo Popular Searches", so that we could do more users behavior analysis.
1 vote -
Identify subscription databases in Alma analytics
It is possible to identify subscription collections in Alma analytics by marking the service editor: Free=Not free. However, databases do not have service editor. We do mark it in the collection editor as Free=not free.
In Alma analytics, there is no way to identify subscription databases. My case was closed with the support directing me to suggest an idea here.
Please add elements in Alma analytics so we can use to identify subscription databases.
1 vote -
Analytics widget - customize/remove Open in a new window link
I'd like to be able to remove or customize the "Open in a new window" link that appears on top of a widget of an analytics report.
The widget can only fit a very short report. Opening this short report in full view is not that useful. It would be better to link to a longer report or a dashboard.
1 vote -
Remove MARC Relator terms ($e) from Author and Author (Contributor) fields (1XX/7XX) in Analytics
The Author and Author (Contributor) fields in Bibliographic Details in Alma Analytics are mapped from several subfields in MARC fields 100/110/111 and 700/710/711, respectively, including subfield e. But subfield e should not be included in the Author and Author (Contributor) mapping because it is not part of the author name. It is instead a separate element that denotes the relationship between the named author/contributor and the work, the Relator. Thus the $e value may vary or be absent from records although the author/contributor is the same, making it impossible to search upon, identify, and unite author/contributor names in Analytics. Any…
28 votes -
Add SUSHI “Status Description” field for uploaded files as column option in Analytics
Ex Libris has said “No valid report items found in the file” is behavior that should still be listed as a “Fully Processed” file, but it would be helpful if we could more easily find files that we believe may not have loaded properly based on their Alma “Status Description” in Analytics.
1 vote -
serial type
Be able to lookup bibliographic titles by serial type (Fixed field 21 SrTp: Type of continuing resource), especially for monographic series type m. Our serials desk wants a way to easily find these so when they receive materials they can separate the standing orders from the subscriptions. They could also generate reports from the data parsed in Analytics to assist their students during the receiving process.
3 votes -
Track data on what in a record was modified, and add that data to analytics.
We run a couple reports that look at when a record was last modified. But there are many reasons why a record might be marked as "modified". It would be great if we could create filters on what in the record was modified, such as item status, location change, barcode change, note added, etc. This could allow for things such as running reports on what items had their fulfillment note last modified after "X" date.
9 votes -
Adding 'Normalized Item Call Number' field to analytics, similar to existing 'Normalized call number' field
We would like to have 'Normalized Item Call Number', derived from 'Item Call Number', in analytics. This field is similar to 'Normalised Call Number' derived from holdings 'Call number'
4 votes -
Finding the data in the Old Value field in Analytics
I would like to have the ability to pull up item records when supplying certain words/numbers in the old value field in Analytics.
3 votes -
Add a timestamp to 'modification date' for physical items and holdings in Physical Items area.
The timestamp and date of 'delete date' for physical items/holdings can only be found in "Manage Deleted Repository' in Alma.
It is good to have the timestamp appeared at the field 'modification date' of physical items/holdings in Analytics. It is particularly helpful when getting records of deleted items/holdings for weeding report.
4 votes -
Add "Loans (Not in House) From Resource Sharing Lending Request" measure
Currently in the Fulfillment subject area in Analytics, there is a measure for "Loans (Not in House) From Resource Sharing Borrowing Request". It would be helpful if any item loaned from our collection to another institution as part of a RS lending request have a loan measure applied to it as well so we can see how the collection is being used using just one report.
9 votes -
Add Financial System Code to the Vendor Dimension of Alma Analytics in the Funds Expenditure SA
The Financial System Code field is often the matchpoint between Alma and external payments systems. Being able to search or query on this would help avoid creating duplicate vendors, especially as vendor names can change so much over time, that a vendor name search will not return results. Having this reportable in Alma Analytics would be more beneficial than in the Alma Advanced Search, as it could also help to de-duplicate existing instances of having more than one vendor record for the same vendor.
25 votes -
Analytics for count of resource sharing requests made via Course Reserves citations
We'd like to be able to see analytics data for resource sharing requests placed via Course Reserves citations. We are told by Support that this is not currently supported, and it was suggested that we create an idea here.
2 votes -
Add primary/user id of a Interested User as a Fund Expenditure Facet
Several Institutions have use cases that require the need to find the Primary ID of an interested User. This would allow an easier means of utilizing feeder reports in conjunction with the Fulfilment Subject Area. Currently, there is no easy way to obtain this information. Credit goes to Jihyun Song of Soul National Unversity for presenting this issue.
10 votes -
SUMIF function for Alma Analytics
There is currently no way to do a SUMIF function within Alma Analytics. In Excel, a formula like =SUMIF(A:A, A2, B:B) will perform the following operation: it will look for duplicates in the first column and if present, sum the numbers in the second column and output them in the third column. This is particularly helpful when trying to determine something like the total number of serial volumes per library (or some similar metric) without using the subtotal function. The subtotal function creates an additional row at the end of each unique set of instances instead of putting this data…
5 votes -
Add permanent location code or name to fulfillment analytics
Under Alma Analytics we want to request that Ex Libris add the field of permanent location code or name to the fulfillment area of analytics. We need to be able to grab the count of items in a library and how many of those items (held) in that library have circulated by any mean (resource sharing, digitization, loan, etc.). The current table allows us to pull what circulation desk they circulated from. That is not entirely accurate as we allow items to be delivered and circulated from any circulation desk on campus. This type of data is needed to assess…
3 votes
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