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Add Fiscal Period Month, Full Month and Month Key to E-inventory Cost Usage
The ability to drill down to usage by month is absent in the E-inventory subject area.
Can this be added, please?
This subject area has much richer data than Usage.
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enhance current authorities reports
Hi, Sir,
The current authority reports can list local authority headings that are or are not linked to bibliographic records. Please enhance the authority statistical report function by adding:The ability to generate statistics on CZ authority records, including local/CZ authority records for author and subject headings.
A statistical summary and detailed list of bibliographic records linked to local/CZ authority records for author and subject headings.
A statistical summary and detailed list of local bibliographic records with author and subject headings that are not linked to local/CZ authority records.
This will allow librarians to systematically review and update records, ensuring…3 votes -
Top Level Collection Analytics
Please add top Top Level Collection information to Analytics. Specifically, we are looking for data on changes to the collection such as items added, who added them, when they were added, and any changes to the collection or sub-collections and who made the changes.
6 votes -
To improve Alma
we could focus on enhancing user experience with more intuitive navigation, better mobile optimization, and personalized tools. Feedback-driven updates and clearer communication channels would also go a long way in making the platform even more effective.
Improve Alma2 votes -
Display PO Line Notes entries in Analytics with the newest notes first, to ensure their inclusion within the character limit
Currently the 'PO Line Notes' field in the Alma Analytics 'Funds Exchange' subject area, displays the content of all note entries attached to a particular PO Line as a single block of text, starting from the earliest-dated note and ending with the latest-dated note. However, as the field's display in Analytics is limited to 4000 characters, this means that the most recent notes are omitted from the report for any PO Lines that are particularly longstanding or have particularly copious notes. This is true both for the report as displayed within the Analytics interface, and for a version exported to…
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Add "Vendor invoice number" to PO Line dimension in Analytics
Please add the "Vendor invoice number" from the Vendor Information section of the PO Line screen to analytics. It should be specifically added to the PO Line dimension.
This field is necessary for quickly reporting on POLs that have this information stored at the POL level, but are not attached to an invoice. Workarounds include manually looking up the PO, then searching Analytics, but we shouldn't require staff to search Alma if they could directly query Analytics with an invoice number from a PDF or an email.
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Alma - Analytics - Users - Add field 'Has password' true/false
Sometimes users may have no password set. For example, in our system we have some internally managed users left with no password when Alma switched to external IDP. Filtering them in Analytics would be useful, but currently there is no way to do so.
Please add Add field 'Has password' true/false in Alma Analytics Users dimension.
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Add Electronic Collection Type (override) to Analytics
We use the Electronic Collection Type field to keep track of whether we have all portfolios activated (Aggregator Package), only some activated (Selective Package) or none activated (Database). Using an Analytics report we can check these values against our Auto Active Settings and CDI settings to make sure all our settings are in alignment.
However, there is no Electronic Collection Type (override) field in Analytics so the reports cannot be accurate. We use an override when we have selected a Type that is different from the Type in the CZ collection. It seems like an oversight that this field isn't…2 votes -
Analytics: Get POL type for the additional PO Lines
In E-inventory, we can get the POL Type for the main POL for a portfolio and we can get the portfolio's additional POLs, but we can't get the POL types for the additional POLs.
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Renewal Hour and Renewal Time in the Renewal Date folder on Fulfillment
Hello,
Some days ago one of our libraries asked for some hourly fulfillment reports. I then noticed that the "Renewal Date" folder does not have a "Renewal Hour" nor a "Renewal Time", as most of the other date folders have. Is it possible to add a "Renewal Hour" or "Renewal Time" to the "Renewal Date" folder?
Regards,
Oberdan
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1 vote
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Have AFN/FN loan/fine information available in IZ
Similar idea to https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/44761048-user-purge-should-be-made-afn-aware-and-not-allow
BUT there should be information in the IZ analytics so that an IZ can determine if a local patron has an AFN (or FN) loan or fine.
This doesn't need to be the full loan/fine information, but could be as simple as a flag that says "active AFN/FN loan", "active AFN/FN fine".
At this time, there is no way in the IZ (without opening each patron account within Alma) to see if someone has an active loan or fine outside of the IZ.
This is required at a number of our institutions for when patrons leave…
27 votes -
Combining "Request Type", "Work Order Type" & "Process Type" in a single analytics report
We'd like to retrieve a full list (with breakdown of all Work Order Type, including withdrawn, display, missing, not for circulation items…etc) of physical records by Material Type, Word Order Type & Process Type via Analytics. However, only part of records can be retrieved currently after combining Process Type & Work Order Type together. After consulting Salesforce, it is confirmed Analytics do not support to combine these fields together in a single report. It's crucial to enable combining these fields in a report as library always need to review the figures of each Work Order Type & Process Type, not…
21 votes -
Remove library and locations from Analytics created in test period
During migration to Alma we found that there were some incorrect data in holdings records for libraries and locations. This was useful because those data were not exposed to metadata managers in our previous system. Prior to migration, these incorrect libraries and locations were removed from our data in the previous system.
Now I find that those incorrect libraries and locations remain in Analytics. In order to filter these incorrect data out, one needs to remember to filter them out. This is not a long-term tenable solution as fewer and fewer staff members recall the specifics of the data cleanup…
5 votes -
Add read-only parameter to Users > Role
In the Users subject area, you can report on roles, but not if a role is read-only. This means that reporting on who has administrator roles is very confusing and implies more access than may actually exist. That value needs to be added to this subject area.
7 votes -
Add Bursar Transaction ID dimension to Fines and Fees Subject Area in Analytics
Bursar Transaction ID is a critical data element when an institution uses a Bursar integration profile to export fines/fees and import payments. We recently implemented this integration and are looking at ways to reconcile Alma transactions with data extracted from our bursar. If Bursar Transaction ID were present as a dimension in Analytics, this would be much easier. It should be added.
20 votes -
Addition of the Accrued fines field in the Fines and Fees subject area in Alma Analytics
It would be great if there was an option in Alma Analytics to create a report with a list of people with a specific amount of accured fines if they had returned overdue documents on a given day (the day before actually).
29 votes -
Ability to report on the source of a MARC record
It would be useful to be able to report on the source of a MARC record in Alma Analytics. This should be part of the 'Titles' Subject Area, providing information on whether the record was created using a record from a Z39.50 query or via a scheduled or manual import job.
If the record is imported via a Z39.50 query, the source bibliographic knowledgebase should be reportable (e.g. OCLC WorldCat, Jisc Library Hub etc.).
If the record was created via an import job, the name of the import profile should be reportable.
This would help libraries to better maintain statistics…
3 votes -
Analytics recover the fields in the original configuration language in ALMA
ALMA is configured for Spanish-speaking countries in Spanish, so Analytics reports are required to generate data in the same language in which the original fields are configured.
3 votes -
Enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics of usage analysis
For some vendors, it may have sub-databases in the subscriptions and collect usage for a particular database and the titles within seems not possible currently by Analytics. Though there’s a “Platform” field in Analytics, it did not separate the figures between different databases for a single vendor. It's strongly recommended to enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics and enhance the functionality of usage analysis.
24 votes
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