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Tableau access to Analytics (Alma & Primo)
Hi ExLibris
A number of institutions use Tableau (market leading BI platform) for Library Analytics
It would be awesome if ExLIbris would open/allow Alma & Primo Analytics to connect with Tableau (or other similar BI tools)
Currently Tableau can connect with Oracle BI (OBIEE) (which Alma/Primo Analytics use) but we need the connection
details and network access - refer documents below• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKBtLB1W5o
• http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/tableau-and-obiee
• https://www.biconnector.com/ExLibris users: Please post in the comments below if you use Tableau - or if you use a similar tool for Library Analytics please post the details
Cheers
Justin Kelly
Swinburne31 votes -
Add fund information dimension to physical items dimension and vice versa in Analytics
Need location and call number details when reporting by fund expenditure. Also need the information to generate reports for spending by individual departments as we have centralized ordering.
Support ticket #00195690
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Adding ability for reporting based on 008 holdings field
I would like to see the ability to have reports based on 008 fields specifically method of acquisition (purchase, gift, depository,etc. ), retention coding and lending policy.
3 votesThis has been completed in August 2020.
This is from the August 2020 Alma release Notes:August 2020 Analytics
Holding Details: BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC holdings record BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC holdings record Bibliographic Details: BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC bibliographic record BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC bibliographic record Government Publication – the government publication type (for MARC 21 this is based on MARC 008 pos. 28) Form of Item – the form of the item (for MARC 21 this is based on MARC 008 pos. 23)
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The following fields were added to Holding Details > Physical Items and the Bibliographic Details dimension:In August, the above fields appear in the “Bibliographic…
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Retain Statistical Identifiers
Right now when you have all the Anonymization jobs set to run, only four elements remain in a checkout history of an item related to the patron details: User Group, Job Category, Record Type, and Account Type.
This makes the use of the Statistical identifiers not very effective to measuring checkout usage with them. We have them currently set to be the user's major/department. We would like to know usage by major/department, but cannot get this information with Anonymization jobs turned on.
Any chance the Statistical Identifiers could also remain in the loan history in Analytics.
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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 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 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 Storage Location ID to Analytics
The storage location ID field in Alma should be added to Analytics
This seems like an easy add that needs to be done so the field can be reported upon.
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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”.
Thank you.
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