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  1. 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

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  2. 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.

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  3. Create a single field in Analytics to identify Open Access resources

    If I want to create a report for all of our activated OA resources, I have to use fields such as CDI Search Rights, CDI Full Text Rights, Service is Free etc. to capture all possible candidates and manually remove resources that are not really OA. It would be helpful to have a field that reliably identifies OA resources.

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  4. 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…

    19 votes
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  5. RS borrowing request cancellation reason to be available in Analytics

    When cancelling a Borrowing Request in Alma using the Change Status option in the Borrowing Request screen, there is the option to specify a Cancellation Reason. We would like the Cancellation Reason selected in the drop-down menu of the Request Cancellation box to be available in Analytics.

    This would enable us to analyse reasons for the cancellation of borrowing requests by library staff and potentially identify opportunities for requester education. For example, if ‘copyright issue’ or ‘item already available’ are most frequently selected as the reason for borrowing request cancellation.

    8 votes
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  6. 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.

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  7. Analytics : "Inventory Price" and subtotal

    Currently, in Analytics, it is impossible to subtotal the "Inventory Price" column.
    The answer from Ex Libris: the "Inventory Price" field is a "Text" field; it is therefore impossible to have a sum of the field in text format (in the Oracle sense).
    Idea: to be able to calculate a subtotal for the "Inventory Price" field in Analytics.

    6 votes
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  8. 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.

    9 votes
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  9. Distinguish blank cells in Usage Reports

    Hello, currently when creating an analytics report in alma for usage date harvested from SUSHI some months in their cell appear as blank. Can it be possible for these blank cells if they have 0 usages to be reported as the number 0? That way we can distinguish between what had 0 usages vs what was an error in gathering the data.

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  10. 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.

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  11. Add Normalized Call Numbers to eBook & eJournal Analytic Reports

    Many academic departments ask for accreditation reports that count resources available for students. We typically use Library of Congress Call Number ranges from the OCLC conspectus to get counts of resources. The report runs well for all physical items. However, eBooks and eJournals (both ubiquitous to our collection) do not have normalized call numbers as a part of an analytics report. Therefore the counts of titles between a range of Call Numbers is not correct.

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  12. Add Library Tag (Course Reserves) field to the subject areas where Active Course code is already (eg Physical Items and E Inventory)

    Currently we can get the Active Course codes to display in other Subject areas, such as E inventory or Physical Items, and this is very useful for several of our reports... but it would be significantly more useful if the report could also display the Library tag to indicate how important the item is. There is a big difference between items that are CORE and items that are Further reading. While it is possible to do a report based on another report- it would be much simpler if we could just add the tags to our original report.

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  13. Map item level fields, Pattern Type and Linking Number in Analytics.

    Area of concern: Analytics Fields for Reporting on Serials 863/866 Generation.

    Please reference Ex Libris presentation ‘Automation Tasks for Summary Holdings’:

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/@api/deki/files/63890/Serials_-_Automation_tasks_for_summary_holdings.pptx?revision=2

    In order for 863/866 Summary Holdings generation to work properly, each item record must contain certain information in the ‘Pattern Type’ and ‘Linking Number’ fields. Currently, these fields are not mapped in analytics, so there is no way to report on which records lack this info. Without this reporting capability, we are stuck individually checking many thousands of records to be sure they have the required information.

    What should be changed: As Serials Processors, we would like to…

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  14. Please add location field to the subject area "Funds expenditure"

    At the moment the location field is missing in the subject area "Funds expenditure". We need this field for a report for e.g. open orders. It is only possible to create a report on the library level.

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  15. Please add a field (or change the Full Month fields) to have YYYY-MM format

    For all Full Month fields can you please change the format of the field so that they show as YYYY-MM (using 4 digits for the year and the 01 through 12 for the month) so that they can be ordered accordingly when used in prompted, etc. OR please add a new field that represents the Full Month field but in the YYYY-MM format. The current Full Month fields are literally useless.

    These would include but not limited to Due Full Month, Loan Full Month, Return Full Month, Renewal Date Fullmonth and Last Renewal Full Month fields in the Fulfillment subject…

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  16. Add Save&Release event in Analytics

    It would very helpful the tracing of the Save&Release event for an MMS record in the Analytics Events subject area.

    This event could help in organizing the workflows between cataloguers.
    With a scheduled analytics report we could let know to a more experienced cataloguer when his colleagues definitely finish their job on a bibliographic record.

    At the moment we are monitoring the Physical Items - Bibliographic Details - Modification date field,
    but intercepting the Save & release event would be a better solution.

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  17. Add Course Notes to Analytics

    In Fulfillment/Course Reserves/Courses, each Course has a Notes tab. We would like the notes in the Notes tab to be added to the Alma Analytics Course Reserves subject area.

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  18. Add "Has Related Records" Attribute to Titles Subject Area

    When reviewing a repository for bibliographic records with no inventory, the default analysis retrieves many records that are present as parts of bound-withs, or that may have other record relationships. Records have to be reviewed manually or exported and reviewed in other tools to see what relationships might exist.

    Since Alma does identify related records in search results, and in preventing records from being deleted, it would be useful to have an attribute in Analytics that identifies when Alma would determine a record to have related records. An attribute "Has Related Records" could be added to the Title Details dimension…

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  19. Alma Analytics - Add Subject classification of Ministry of Education in China

    The subject classification of Ministry of Education is used widely in academic library in China. But Alma has only Chinese Library Classification.

    The customer would like to create analytics reports based on the subject classification of Ministry of Education.

    Fore more details, see Jira URM-155615 and case 00960937.

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  20. Pull requested page number from digitisation requests etc in Analytics

    It would be useful to have the ability in Alma analytics to create a report which pulls through the details of the page numbers entered during the digitisation request process.

    The digitisation request form in Primo has fields for "Required Pages - From/To"
    The "Approval Requests List" in the Fulfillment are in Alma also shows the required pages.

    It would be useful to pull this information into the Requests Subject area in Analytics.

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