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Expose metadata dictionary to customers in Alma Analytics
Oracle OBIEE provides functionality to describe metadata associated with fields in the subject area tables:
https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/biee/BIEUG/analyses.htm#BIEUG587
This does not seem to be enabled in Analytics, but having it as a ready reference would greatly facilitate creation of reports.
Thanks!
34 votes -
Add 880 field to the Bibliographic Details dimension table in Analytics
In MARC bibliographic records, the 880 field is used for non-Roman script equivalents of other fields in the bib record. CJK (Chinese, Japanese & Korean) libraries, for example, may use the 880 to record the non-Roman script equivalent of the Romanized characters in a 245. We would like the 880 field to be searchable in Analytics so we can create new book lists in the CJK scripts. New book lists are very popular with our users and we would like to be able to present these lists in the CJK scripts.
52 votes -
Notes Tabs not in Analytics
We would like to be able to retrieve all the details in the Notes Tabs for Borrowing and Lending requests via Analytics. Currently, only the Request Note is retrievable.
54 votes -
Report on 'undo return' in Analytics
We need to be able to report on 'undo return' or 'self check cancel returns' (as this was in Aleph). Ex Libris confirm this is not currently possible as the 'undo return' is registered in Alma in the Loan Audit Trail (accessible via Fulfillment > Manage Patron Services, choose ... > Loan History for any loan / return) in the Action column as "Undo return". However, this Action column is not mapped to Analytics and therefore, there is currently no way to report on these actions.
3 votes -
restricts editing access to analytics to specific subject areas
Any patron with design analytics have access to all subjects areas in analytics. It would good, if we could restrict analytics design access to specific subject arease in analytics.
Michael Voss
35 votes -
Add an "added authors" field to the Bibliographic Details dimension in Analytics
List values taken from MARC fields 700, 710, 711
I get that this would be achieved if all MARC fields were reportable, as has already been requested, but that seems unlikely to happen so I hope this less ambitious suggestion will be considered.
6 votes -
Add number of resource sharing requests to physical items subject area
When analyzing an item's usage, we would like to account for both local loans and resource sharing lending requests. Both are available in the Titles subject area, but the physical items subject area allows us to apply additional limits, such as item location and receiving date, that we cannot use in a titles report.
3 votes -
Analytics - reporte on audit trail in user record
We'd like to be able to use the information in the audit trail on a user record in Analytics, for example, today we wanted to report on when an identifier had been modified and by which user.
29 votes -
Add permalink to Analytics report
We'd like to have the permalink for a bib record included in the Analytics report.
27 votes -
Alma needs ti have the ability to identify bib, holdings, and item records created by individual staff operators.
The MDE shows the operator of various versions of a bib record. When a bib record is imported via an import profile that creates inventory, however, the staff operator that ran the import is not identified as the creator of the bib, holding, and/or item record. We often did Access queries in Voyager to identify bibs, holdings, or item records created or modified by particular staff members or student assistants. I can see that we could do such a report from Alma on bib record operators of versions after the initial import and I can also see in the Item…
10 votes -
Programatically check latest ETL timestamp when running reports via API
We would like to programatically check the last ETL timestamp when running reports via API in order to know that fresh data is available. We would like to build in logic where we check again at intervals and not run the report until the ETL timestamp has updated. As things stand we risk reporting on old data when the ETL has taken longer than normal. The report concerned is accessed nightly via API and feeds into another system (a university reporting dashboard).
3 votes -
Design Analytics Extended
Analytics needs more granular roles just like other functional areas. The existing role of Design Analytics should be limited so that users can view and edit but not delete analytics stored in Shared folders. The ability to delete an analysis should be resricted to a new Design Analytics Extended role.
13 votes -
Physical Location in Title Analytics
We have to have both title and item statistics for each area in our library. There is no problem creating the statistics for items using physical location; however, physical location cannot be combined when doing title statistics. This is very important for us, since the title statistics is a count for the entire collection. This means that even our reserves and "resource sharing" library gets included in the count.
9 votes -
Course and reading-list internal IDs should be available via Analytics
Course-reserves data available in Analytics does not include
the unique 16-digit identifiers for course and reading lists. They are retrievable only via the API. This is adequate for operations dealing with a single course or reading list, but it would also be useful to be able to obtain, e.g., a listing of all
courses and their associated ID numbers for a specific academic year, lecturer or department, to facilitate batch operations.On the other hand, the IDs for reading-list citations are available from Analytics (Citation ID),
but there is no field indicating to which course or reading list a particular…9 votes -
Add Override Field Options in Analytics
It would be very helpful if there were option fields in Analytics for Electronic Collection Level URL Override and Parser Parameters Override so I can create a report to show what Electronic Collections & Parser Parameters contain the override fields.
4 votes -
Index Communications Tab in Analytics
We need to be able to run a report on the Communications tab in Alma to see if responses/replies were posted to specific communications on multiple POLs.
15 votes -
analytics Itemized sets
Be able to run Alma Analytics on set of items listed in Itemized sets. I trying to run circulation statistics on set of books captured by Itemized sets but it doesn't look like there is a way to do so.
1 vote -
Need a Physical items folder in the Course Reserves Subject area
Items details are missing from the Course reserves subject area in Alma Analytics. So can't get Barcode and other item details for course reserves.
81 votes -
Show Course Reserve Loans by Instructor
Currently I can get loan data about items on course reserve, and I can sort those items by the active course code that they are currently associated with. However, if I add the instructor field to my analysis (pulling data from both the Course Reserve pillar of analytic, AND the physical Inventory or Fulfillment pillar), I am no longer able to get loan data. Can you make these two pillars talk to one another so that we can get data on how often books associated with a particular instructor on course reserve have circulated?
5 votes -
Need Number of requests and clickthroughs per service type in Alma Analytics
In Alma, we have General Electronic Services (GES) for ReprintsDesk. ReprintsDesk is our document delivery provider. The ReprintsDesk GES appears in the services window in Primo or when linking out from a database. If there is no full text found, the patron can request the article via ReprintsDesk. I need to get statistics for each quarter on how many times the GES was clicked.
In SFX, we ran a query for the number of document delivery requests. It was in the SFX query "Number of requests and clickthroughs per service type” and the service type getDocumentDelivery. We need the same…
28 votes
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