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  1. Subject: when exporting Analytics reports into csv file, please enclose each item with quotation marks. Contents: Our labeling program does

    Subject: when exporting Analytics reports into csv file, please enclose each item with quotation marks.
    Contents: Our labeling program doesn't identify items without quotation marks.

    For example,
    Item1 (X)
    "Item1" (O)

    Please consider adding the option of putting each item in quotation mark when exporting Analytics report in format of csv.

    Thanks

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  2. Index Statistical category fields for use in reports

    Our library uses customer Statistical Categories to track usage by external students. We need to be able to filter reports on statistical categories to certain time periods but the Creation Date field isn't currently indexed.

    The Alma User Details > Statistics tab displays the following columns, see attached statistics screenshot 1: - Statistical Category - Category Type - Note - Created By - Creation Date - External Data You can also export an individual users statistics log with these fields. However in Alma analytics not all of these fields are available for reporting, see attached statistics screenshot 2. The missing…

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  3. Add logical grouping ability to Managed Sets

    Currently, logical grouping is not supported in Managed Sets. To some degree this is supported in Analytics, although the process is cumbersome, but in Managed Sets there is no option to group logical statements, in effect within parentheses. This means that mixing AND and OR Boolean operators is not possible. The only way this can be accomplished currently is through combining sets, but this creates itemized rather than logical sets.

    We would like functionality within Managed Sets that allows us to group sets of conditional statements, for clarity and also to allow mixing Boolean operators.

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  4. show POL cancellation reason in analytics

    We need to the cancellation reasons to be shown in analytics.

    We have cancelled may print book orders because we have them online in a subscription - this is listed in the cancellation note. Cancellation reason is not enough as it only has vendor cancelled or library cancelled options.
    When the subscription will end we will want to find these cancelled ordered titles and decide their fate.

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  5. Report on items that have moved from one Permanent Physical Location to another

    We would find it useful to be able to pull fulfillment usage statistics for physical items that were originally in one location, but were moved to another location.

    Use Case #1:
    A report on all items moved from reference to the general collection might tell us if those reference books have circulated at all since being made available for extended checkout or if they are perhaps outdated and should be considered for weeding.

    Use Case #2:
    A report on items that were once in our popular reading location that have since been moved to the general collection may better inform…

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  6. Improved reporting on SMS notifications

    Currently it's not possible to report specifically on the number of SMS messages generated by Alma. A lot of the options available in Analytics either include both SMS and email notifications or focus on SMS messages that failed to send. It would be beneficial to be able to report on notifications by type (email or SMS), for both auditing purposes and to get a better idea of how well used our SMS notification service is.

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  7. In Analytics Borrowing Requests subject area, add Shipped date. In Lending Requests subject area, add Received by Borrower date and Request

    In Analytics Borrowing Requests subject area, add Shipped date. In Lending Requests subject area, add Received by Borrower date and Request Completed date. The addition of these fields will allow us to more accurately calculate turnaround time, which in turn can help us improve our service standards.

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  9. Enhanced reporting on alma logins

    Provide additional reporting for alma logins.

    Required for data protection reporting,

    Events that need to be monitored (e.g. logon, failed logon, access to sensitive files, copying/modifying or deleting a senstive file, concurrent logons from different workstations using the same user id). These should include, as a minimum, user id, type of event, date and time of event, success or failure indication

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  10. Add Last Loan Date to Fulfillment subject area in Analytics

    It is great that the Last Loan Date is available in the Physical Items area in Analytics. However, to create more complex circulation reports which include aspects such as Renewals one needs to use the Fulfillment subject area. It would be useful to have the variable in both places.

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  11. loan status / item process changes in a date range

    We would like to be able to run reports detailing the dates when a loan status / item process type change was made over a certain time period e.g. loan status changed to 'lost' between 1/10/2019 and 1/11/2019. Using the item modification date is not the perfect criteria as this date will change when any modification is made to the item e.g. adding a note etc

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  12. Analytics field for the name of who modified a citation

    Add "citation modified by first name" and "citation modified by last name"fields to course reserves in analytics.

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  13. Analytics' job history activation

    On Analytics, the job history is not accessible. It would be interesting to give access to this feature, for instance when developing a new report, it is sometimes good to have the history of what has been done. Thanks.

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  14. Analytics - 028 Publisher's number

    Currently, the 028 field (Publisher or Distributor Number) is not a reporting option in Analytics. It would be extremely beneficial to the music and video community to have this field provided as an option in reports, both in the physical items and e-inventory subject areas. For music and videos, this field can be as important as the ISBN is to books. Yes, libraries can add this field as a local Param option, but many libraries have already maxed out the bibliographic 10 local param options.

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  15. Converted from hold request needs adding to Resource Sharing Borrowing Request Subject Area

    We are currently trying to get statistics of Scan and Send requests that we have completed. Over 121 of these requests where converted into Resource Sharing Borrowing Request. However, it is difficult to find out how many of the 121 request that were converted have then been completed by RS. It would be good if a column was created for the Resource Sharing Borrowing Request subject area to show whether a request was converted from a Digitization or a hold request. So we can create a report that shows the lifecycle of these types of requests.

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  16. Add the translations of library name, location name and so on into Analytics

    For facilitating the Analytics Report with local language, request adding the translation of library name, location name and so on into Analytics. Current workaround, which is uploading external data into Data Visualization, cannot fit the situation which has the name changes quite often. According to the customer, 86THU changes these names very often.

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  17. Add "num of physical items (active)" column from titles to the fulfilment, physical items and course reserves analytics subject areas

    Currently there are times where our staff need to know how many physical items we have available. They have created reports in either the Physical items, Fulfilment or the course reserve analytics subject areas. And they want an accurate column showing how many items are active. So that they can make a decision on whether we need to be purchase more items due to loans or courses on a specific MMS_ID.

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  18. In Analytics E-inventory subject area "Cost Usage" runs once in a month We are working on this report and updating fields everyday, mainly t

    In Analytics E-inventory subject area "Cost Usage" runs once in a month
    We are working on this report and updating fields everyday, mainly to see usage data can you please schedule this job to run mor often (everyday)?

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  19. 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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  20. 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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