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po line notes
For the PO Line area, I would like to see the Notes. Right now only the Receiving Note and the Note to vendor are visible in Analytics, but I need the Notes cause we have stored a lot of additional information in the Notes
9 votesThe PO Line Notes field was added to the PO Line dimension in the following locations. It contains the notes on the PO line. Multiple notes are separated by a semicolon.
E-Inventory
Funds Expenditure
Physical Items
Purchase RequestsFor more information please see Alma December Release Notes:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2021/Alma_2021_Release_Notes -
Analytic report widget : remove edit link
I have created an analytic report as a widget for Circ. people to view the changes in our newspapers retention info. At the bottom of the report, there are links such as edit, print, export, etc.
I would like to have the functionality to remove selective links below the table, specifically the Edit link. No report creator wants to let users of the report to edit the report they created.
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enable more than 5 Local fields in Analytics
You can have up to 100 local field 9xx but can only publish to analytic 5 at the time, please add the option to publish all fields to analytic and if there is a problem to publish them all, enable to publish at list 25 local fields.
Also give the option to decide which fields you want to publish to the customer and not through Exlibris SF case.92 votes -
Make 245 $p, $n, $s, $k, $f, $g part of "Title" criteria in Analytics &/or make them available as separate criteria
Currently, the Analytics criteria “Bibliographic Details – Title” returns the 245 $a and $b in combination. This leaves out a good portion of the information needed to distinguish titles in series or parts from one another. Works of classical music are another area which require information from the other subfields for clarity. In the case of many archival materials, the current results leave the title field completely blank or skip many records, as there is no data recorded in either 245 $a or 245 $b. (Please see the attached file for examples.)
In order to use these reports in any…167 votesThe Title (Complete) field was added to the shared Bibliographic Details dimension in every subject area in which it appears. It includes the information from MARC field 245, subfields $p, $n, $s, $k, $f, $g.
For more information see:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2019/Alma_2019_Release_Notes -
Add NLM Classification to Analytics
We would like to see NLM classification as an option in Analytics. We have a substantial Health Sciences Library and Med Center, and this would be quite useful for this area of reporting.
98 votesNLM Classifications were added to Analytics.
A new sub-folder titled “NLM Classifications” is available in the Other Classifications dimension table.
For more information please see here
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Autosave files to .txt
File save options limited to .csv We have various local processing jobs that need .txt files for input, which means we have to rename the exports from Analytics before making use of the files. Offer other standard file extensions to Analytics
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Add Electronic collection life cycle in analytics
Bibliogrpahic records, portfolios, etc. have life cycle but not electronic collections. My project is to identify electronic collections that do not have portfolios, but the report also includes collections that have already been deleted. So adding the life cycle to electronic collections will be very useful.
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Add Proxy Users to "Users" subject area
Adding Proxy Users to analytics would allow us to search for users that are proxies to another user, and also users that have proxies for themselves.
This information isn't completely available within Alma, and it seems like an oversight that it's also unavailable in Analytics.
63 votesThe User Details subject area has been enhanced with the following improvements:
You can now create reports with fields from different folders as is possible in other subject areas.
The User Measures dimension was added, which contains measure fields relating to the number of users.
The following fields were added under the User Details dimension:
Cataloger Level – the cataloger level of the patron
Patron Letters Opt In – the letters for which the patron has opted in
Patron Letters Opt Out – the letters for which the patron has opted out
Has Role Other Than Patron – indicates if the patron has a role other than Patron
Has Role Other Than Patron and Instructor – indicates if the patron has a role other than Patron and Instructor
Is Blocked – indicates if the patron is blocked
The Proxy For dimension was added, which contains fields that indicate for whom… -
Add URL to einventory analytics for both electronic collections and portfolios
Generating a list of URLs that relate to either portfolios or electronic collections would be hugely useful. The Export URLs job that currently exists in Alma doesn't attribute URLs to resources, and also isn't complete (can't handle parser details).
212 votesCompleted as part of Alma December release:
Electronic inventory information including URL was added to the E-Inventory subject area
For more information please see Alma release notes
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/010_2018/001Alma_2018_Release_Notes?mon=201812BASE -
Add holdings / suppressed from discovery data to Analytics physical items SA
I'd like to be able to exclude any suppressed holdings from my analyses. I see the "suppressed from discovery" data point for bibliographic records, but not for holdings.
1 voteThe “Holding Details” folder of the “Physical Items” subject area includes the following two fields and therefore fulfills the requirements of this ideas exchange:
’Suppressed from discovery"
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Analytics: Add ability to search/filter by the Holdings record suppression tag
A Suppress from Discovery flag exists for both the Bibliographic and the Holdings record, but only the Bib flag is present in Analytics. This field should be added [and is yet another example of how poorly Analytics handles Holdings data as opposed to Bibliographic or Item data]
6 votesThe “Holding Details” folder of the “Physical Items” subject area includes the following two fields and therefore fulfills the requirements of this ideas exchange:
’Suppressed from discovery"
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Replacement Costs in Analytics represented as a number
Currently they are represented as text. You have to manipulate the Excel file to get them to become numbers. However, it would be nice if they exported as numbers, or were numbers in Analytics, for easier manipulation of the data.
2 votesThis ideas exchange is complete.
The replacement cost no longer works as a decimal number.
It now behaves as follows, correctly filtering for example by less than or equal to 50: -
Add Holding Modification Data to Analytics
It would be really great if you would add Holding Creation Date, Holding Modification Date, and Holding Modified By to analytics.
9 votesthe following fields exist in the “Holding Details” folder of the “Physical Items” subject area and therefore this ideas exchange has been completed:
“Holdings Record Creation Date”
“Holdings Record Modification Date”
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Add Transit Information to Analytics
In order to track materials traveling between libraries, it would be extremely helpful to have transit information such as Transit Date, Transit From, and Transit To included in analytics.
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Add fund description to analytics Fund Expenditure Subject Area
We want to add Fund Description to our Budget Status report but in testing have noticed that the Alma Fund Type is stored in the Fund Description field (this is in the Fund Ledger Dimension) instead of the Fund Description setup in Alma. The Fund Type field in Analytics is being used to store if the fund is an Allocated, Ledger or Summary fund. We don't want to lose this Fund information (we need to know if a fund is allocated, ledger or summary) but since the Alma Fund Type is stored in the Analytics Fund Description field there seems…
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Add timestamp to all date related dimensions in analytics
Some areas in analytics only have date stamps instead of date+time stamps, so reporting on for example, Events from analytics will only ever bring back the date the event occurred and not the date+time required for auditing.
We'd like all dimension datestamps to have a version of the timestamp which includes the date+time so that they are useful in working out when a transaction occurred and not just the date it happened. This is good for consistency across analytics data as well.
12 votesThis idea may now closed.
This idea was originally entered in 2015.
Since 2015 we have made clear distinctions between the “date” which includes the date and time and the “date” which is only the date.
The “date” which is only the date ends with suffix “(Calendar)”.
For example, in the E-Inventory subject area the folder “Portfolio PO Line” includes both a field “Claiming Date” and a field “Claiming Date (Calendar)”
Additionally, in the new “System Events” subject area “Event Date” folder includes two fields: “Event Date” and “Event Date and Time”.
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Add proxy setting to einventory analytics dimension
Have a desire to know which e collections have proxy enabled or not. Need the setting added to analytics to find out.
9 votesProxy information is now available in E inventory subject area of Analytics
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Add reporting on items and titles in collections (not the electronic type)
Add ability to report on collections and sub-collections (not the electronic type) and on titles (and by extension items) in collections.
For example, be able to check usage of items in a particular collection.
1 voteIncluded as part of March 2019 release
The Collection Name and Collection ID fields were added to the shared Bibliographic Details dimension in all subject areas in which it appears. These fields allow you to display in a report all of the collections to which a title belongs. -
Analytics Usage Subject Area
Provide a subject area that would support analysis of how much analytics is being used. For example, how many analytics reports are run in a given month.
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Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Mask patron addresses and phone numbers at Institution level
Patron addresses and phone numbers are always treated as confidential information and our library would like to take every measure possible to protect privacy of our library users. Currently, Ex Libris has anonymization option for patron addresses and phone numbers only at Network level and not at institution level. We would like Ex Libris to include the option also at institution level.
4 votes
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