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Add "VAT Percentage" to Analytics
Currently there is no way to get the VAT percentage of an invoice or invoice line in Analytics. There is only "VAT Code %", but this is useless for institutions that don't use VAT Codes.
(see also cases 06640702 and 06605754)
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Adding the borrower code stats to the patron detailstable in the fullfiment subject area
The fullfiment subject area contains several tables related to the readers who borrowed the document including the "patron details" and "borrower details" tables. According to the documentation the data stored in the patron detail table are the characteristics of the reader at the time of the transaction. The "borrower details" table stores the characteristics of the reader at the time of the request.
It would be useful if the patron statistical codes were stored in the "patron details" table so that they can be historized.
Indeed, like many other libraries, we use these statistics to identify the academic department of…7 votes -
Add "credit" to Fees and Fines subject area
Users want to create reports that show credits issued by which operators, the date and amount of the credit, who the credit was issued to and what the credit was issued for.
1 vote -
Add general note(s) field from the Electronic Collection Editor to Analytics
Currently, only the public and authentication notes seem to be available. It would be useful to have a way to find and report on those collections that have general notes added.
15 votes -
Add a new Bibliographic ID field for OCLC Control Number 035z to display each OCN one row per MMS ID
Currently, a user may retrieve a delimited list of cancelled OCLC control numbers from the OCLC Control Number (035z) attribute under Bibliographic Details. However, this field has limited usefulness for a couple reasons. First, the field has a limit of 256 characters, which means when a bibliographic record shows more than 15 or 16 OCLC numbers have been merged, some numbers are excluded. Second, and more importantly, each individual control number cannot be matched to other cancelled or active control numbers in other records without being split to a separate field first. This is not a straightforward task in analytics…
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Alma Analytics: add area for links to CZ authorities within Alma Analytics Subject Areas
Add area for links to CZ authorities within Alma Analytics Subject Areas. In Alma author headings are linked to authorities (GND) via the authority ID (035$a) stored in the $0 subfield of fields 1xx and 7xx. In this case binocular appear next to fields 1xx and 7xx in the MDE. We have noticed that in some cases the number in subfield $0 is false and the binoculars do not display. We would like to report on author headings that have a $0 subfield in the 1xx/7xx but are not linked to an authority.
18 votes -
Expand Number of User Identifiers in Analytics
In Alma Analytics, when running User analyses, only two user Identifier options are made available under the Users | User Details subject area. Each of these two Identifier options can be associated with a single user identifier type by Ex Libris, requiring that a case be opened with Ex Libris to change that association as needed. Given that there is no limit to the number of user record identifier types in Alma for an institution, having only two user identifiers readily available in Analytics is very limiting and inefficient. Ideally, Analytics should offer up to ten user identifier options as…
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Add "Electronic Collection Content Type" to Alma Analytics
In Alma, you're able to filter and view electronic collections by "Electronic Collection Content Type" (i.e. Book Package, Journal Package, etc.) -- However, this isn't a column or field available in Analytics.
It would be great if it could be included so we could create reports on electronic collections based on how the content is defined for that collection.4 votes -
Alma Analytics: Usage Data Subject Area
In Alma Design Analytics, add "Fund Ledger" to the folders in the "Usage Data" Subject Area. Collections staff want to be able to look up titles they have ordered out of their "Fund Ledger Codes" and see how much they have been used, especially TotalItemRequests. The decimal-point breakdowns of usage in the "Cost Usage" folder in the "E-Inventory" Subject Area are too confusing/convoluted, and only use UniqueTitle/ItemRequests.
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Permitting Access to Analytics Objects via Alma User Name
Accessing Analytics objects is only controlled via roles, and that makes it almost impossible to set permission for a certain report to a single colleague or even a limited number of colleagues. Thus access is granted either for a large number of persons, or just somebody with a high level of permissions (administrators).
Our workaround is mostly using scheduled reports, which can be distributed via email address or Alma user name, but a similar approach should be there for non-scheduled Analytics objects from the Analytics menu.
I suggest allowing to set permissions also via the Alma user name of a…
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Add free/not free information about collections
Currently through Analytics it's not possible to create a report on collections with the information: "Is free?" and "Is Free? (override)".
It is just possible to find "Service is free" and "Service is free (override)" fields, that exclude all collections that don't have any services, such as databases.
We propose to add fields "Is free?" and "Is Free? (override)".31 votes -
Alma Analytics: Add "Pickup Location" to the Borrowing Requests Subject Area
We need tp know which local library locations requested how many items from each Lending institution in an analytic report. When Borrowing requests first go out go out we can easily see which of our, let's say 4, different library pick up locations ordered each item by looking at the pick up location parameter in the facets, The pick up location is even maintained in Alma once the item is filled. But it is not available in the Borrowing Request subject area of the analytic. We can only get an aggregate campus total for requests borrowed from each Lending Institution.…
11 votes -
Enable Data Flows in Oracle Data Visualization
As someone who creates data sets and data visualizations from Analytics for other library staff, it would be useful to have Data Flow enabled in Oracle's Data Analytics. This would save me time by creating a pre-determined set of steps to create and edit data sets, and to create joins between subject areas within the Data Visualization tool.
18 votes -
Ability to report on Note (5XX) fields - bibliographic details folder/dimension
We request that the Bibliographic Details dimension in Alma Analytics have an entry added for Notes, wherever the Subject Area has "Bibliographic Details" presented. This Notes attribute should include all 5XX fields and subfields in the bib record. The data should use a separator (e.g., ;) to identify the information from different and repeated 5XX fields. This is useful information for libraries for reporting purposes.
13 votes -
Ability to pull the"Unassigned tab" data in Analytics
It will be great to view the 'UnAssigned Tab' data in Analytics for for 'Waiting for Payment' invoices
3 votes -
Make the current publication location discoverable in Analytics
When a record contains both a 260 and 264 field, Analytics will only display the publication location from the 260 field, which often isn't the current publisher's location if a publisher change has occurred. This is also inconsistent with how the publisher field works. The publisher field returns all publishers, separated by a semicolon, but publication place only returns the original publisher's location. Not returning all publication locations makes it difficult to do maintenance on the 260, 264, or 008 country code fields. It also doesn't allow you to accurately record collection development statistics by current country of publication.
6 votes -
Alma Analytics> Fulfillment> notification sent indicators
In the Alma Analytics Fulfillment subject area, there is a "Courtesy Notification Sent" indicator field.
I would appreciate similar indicator fields for the other types of notifications sent to the user for the transaction, such as the "Ful Overdue and Lost Loan Letter", the "Ful Overdue Lost Loan Notification Letter," and the "Return Receipt" letter.
It would be helpful to confirm that Alma generated each letter for the user, for the transaction.
Since we have a retention period set on how long each letter copy will stay on the patron's attachments tab, it is possible that the patron may still…
29 votes -
Lending Publication Date
In Lending Analytics, the Publication Date field retrieves the date the Journal began publishing, and not the date the Article was published, despite the fact that the date in the Lending request is the Article's publication date. As a result, we are unable to check if we have supplied scans according to Copyright Law.
22 votes -
Addition of DOIs and Proprietary Identifiers as Title Identifiers to Analytics Criteria
In Analytics within the Subject Area "Usage Date" the "Book DOI" (Counter R4 Reports) or "DOI" (Counter R5 Reports) are not selectable as Title Identifiers.
The same is true for "Proprietary Identifier" (Counter R4) or "Proprietary_ID" (Counter R5).
Since this information is sometimes listed in the corresponding columns of the COUNTER Book reports, it would be helpful if this information could also be retrieved in Analytics.
12 votes -
Add all fields from Invoice Payment Information area to Analytics
Currently the only field from the Invoice Payment Information area that is available in the Funds Expenditure subject area is Payment Status. I would like to be able to retrieve Payment Date, Payment Identifier, and Payment Amount in Analytics as well. These would be helpful for some of my reporting, especially when the payment amount is different from the invoice total because accounts payable has added or removed tax.
42 votes
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