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Specify time period for SUSHI harvests

When you manually request a particular SUSHI account/report to be harvested by Alma, by default Alma requests any data which it hasn't already loaded for that account from the last 12 months. If there are multiple months in sequence missing, Alma requests the data for these months together as a single SUSHI request.

This is an inflexible system.
Instead, at the point where a user requests a harvest, Alma should ask the user to specify the time period they would like to request.

This would have several advantages:

  • We would be able to use SUSHI to harvest usage data from greater than 12 months ago.
  • When troubleshooting data errors, we could ask Alma to harvest just a single month at a time.
  • We could avoid duplicating usage data which has been loaded into Alma manually.
  • We could avoid harvesting the most recent month's data if the vendor hasn't yet made it available.
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  • Elizabeth York commented  · 

    I agree with Barbara that it would be great to have an update on when this is coming; I think many of us are eagerly waiting for it!

  • Barbara Swetman commented  · 

    Is there a timeline for this? If it's coming soon, I don't want to spend a lot of time on manual downloads.

  • Katie Wallis commented  · 

    All of this would be really great. Also, setting the schedule of when to retrieve would be useful. I.e. Schedule to retrieve SUSHI quarterly or yearly or monthly.

  • Anonymous commented  · 

    It would be very helpful to be able to harvest more than the past 12 months. Perhaps increase it to 5 years?

  • Skalk van der Merwe commented  · 

    yes please. would be useful for NEW sites wanting to setup SUSHI harvesting.

  • Maya Amichal commented  · 

    I'm out of votes, please see this as a vote.

  • VF commented  · 

    We would also find this extremely useful!

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