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Additional relationships for 'based on results of another analysis' filter
It would be useful to be able to apply the following relationships when a filter is created using the operator 'is based on results of another analysis':
- contains any
- does not contain
Currently it is only possible to apply the relationships 'is equal to' and 'is not equal to' (as well as 'is less/greater than', etc). This means that it is not possible to use this operator unless the values in the specified column are identical in each report. This is not always the case, for example the Bibliographic Details > ISBN column will in most cases contain multiple, comma…
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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.
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Need a way to look at collections (all formats) in ways other than LC Class
In many out-of-the-box analytics, the capacity to look at content by LC Class exists. However, LC Class doesn't capture the interdisciplinary nature of some areas of study. Additionally, not all e-resource vendors provide LC classes for eBooks.
Could it be that one way of achieving this is through assigning titles to collections? This would seem to work since titles of all formats can be assigned to collections in Alma. If Primo does not currently allow for subject-specific "profiles," this would also achieve that functionality since collections can be turned on as a facet.
The most basic problem to this approach…
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Addition of the invoice fields 'Invoice-number' e 'Invoice-date' to the Physical Items subject area
It would be useful if Alma Analytics could allow the creation of a report of newly purchased physical items including not only bibliographic data but also administrative and invoice data, such as for example the number and date of the invoice. Currently, the 'Physical Items' subject area only contains the 'Invoice Status' field and it is not possible to integrate it with the 'Invoice-number' and 'Invoice-date' fields present in the 'Funds and Expenditure' subject area.
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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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Analytics - extract only the 13-digit ISBNs from the ISBN Valid field
Can you make it possible to only have the 13-digit ISBNs show up in 1 column from the ISBN Valid field?
There's probably a regex somewhere to do that?12 votes -
Add Full Call Number to E-Inventory Subject Area in Analytics for Portfolios
For e-inventory portfolios, a number of vendors provide an LC call number in the 050 of item’s bibliographic record.
However, currently, the most complete LC call number field available for the E-Inventory subject area in Analytics is the LC Classification Top Line field. This, however, only stores the combined LC code and classification numbers up-to the first period ; and does not include cutter numbers after the top line. There are no other field in this subject area that was mapped to this latter part of the call number such that it might be possible to combine the two fields…11 votes -
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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Add Cancellation Reason field to Borrowing Requests and Lending Requests areas
The field is already included in the Requests area.
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Add Additional fields to Course Reserves Subject area
Need Location, Barcode and Call Number to the Course Reserves.
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Alma Analytics: Add "Pickup Location" to the Borrowing Requests Subject Area
We need tp know which local library locations requested how many items from each Lending institution in an analytic report. When Borrowing requests first go out go out we can easily see which of our, let's say 4, different library pick up locations ordered each item by looking at the pick up location parameter in the facets, The pick up location is even maintained in Alma once the item is filled. But it is not available in the Borrowing Request subject area of the analytic. We can only get an aggregate campus total for requests borrowed from each Lending Institution.…
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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…
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Add primary/user id of a Interested User as a Fund Expenditure Facet
Several Institutions have use cases that require the need to find the Primary ID of an interested User. This would allow an easier means of utilizing feeder reports in conjunction with the Fulfilment Subject Area. Currently, there is no easy way to obtain this information. Credit goes to Jihyun Song of Soul National Unversity for presenting this issue.
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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…
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Statistical Categories (Crossover between Fulfillment & Users Subject Areas
Here is my problem. We want our statistical categories linked to Fulfillment. We want to know how many patrons pursuing a Nursing degree are checking out items from the library? Itt does us no good to have data on who is pursuing a nursing degree in the users section, but not be able to link that in the fulfillment section. Because of the design of the statistical categories and the fact that we do not have a way to import every possible degree, job ID, etc. and keep the list up-to-date as it changes, this is how we have them…
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Add Original cataloging agency to Design analytics
In Alma June 2019 release, Original cataloging agency search index was introduced. I'd like to recommend adding this as an element in Analytics. This will help us generate statistics of original cataloging vs. copy cataloging. Thank you!
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Analytics: Retain the External ID even when the item is canceled in Resource Sharing
Retain the External ID even when the item is canceled in Resource Sharing.
Retain the Ex ID even if the item is canceled. The reason we would like the Ex ID is because it is a patterned identifier and that makes it easy to limit down, where to us the internal ID is just a string of random numbers. Our goal is to be able to run reports on either the Lending or Borrowing Request subject areas in one set. If we need to run some on Ex ID to get the Borrowing and Lending sides to match up and…9 votes -
In Analytics allow an option to split ISBNs into single entries in one column
At present we get all the ISBNs attached to a record in one cell separated by a semicolon. A function that would allow for the string to display in one column but as separate cells would allow for easier processing once exported to Excel.
At present the layout displays as
Title: Author : ISBN1;ISBN2;ISBN3:
What would help is to have the option to switch to
Title: Author: ISBN1:
Title: Author: ISBN2:
Title: Author: ISBN3:This would mean using functions such as V lookup could be performed far more smoothly.
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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 "Loans (Not in House) From Resource Sharing Lending Request" measure
Currently in the Fulfillment subject area in Analytics, there is a measure for "Loans (Not in House) From Resource Sharing Borrowing Request". It would be helpful if any item loaned from our collection to another institution as part of a RS lending request have a loan measure applied to it as well so we can see how the collection is being used using just one report.
9 votes
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