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Create Alma search queries and sets with relative dates

Give customers the ability to query Alma using relative dates. This functionality is currently only available in Alma Analytics, but we would like it to also be available for repository search.

This functionality would be especially useful for creating sets, particularly logical sets that can be used to populate logical collections. One of the most common uses for collections is to showcase new materials (e.g., books, journals, databases, etc. acquired in the last 90 days). However, there is currently no way to build a logical set like this. The best one can do is to select the current year and then commit to updating the query each year. To be completely free of the need to manually update the collection, customers need a way to build queries using relative/non-fixed dates (current date minus 90 days). Ideally, this option should be available for all date types but, for the purpose of this use case, should at least include creation date, activation date, and publication year.

An alternative solution to this problem would be to allow customers to create a logical set/collection from an Analytics report. This would give customers the ability to use relative dates in addition to providing access to Analytics' more powerful array of query options.

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  • Lorenzo Ortiz Jiménez commented  · 

    Joseph

    Thanks for adding this idea.

    Any date field in advanced search queries in Alma should accept relative dates, using a logic similar to one in the scheduler in Jobs (based on days, weeks or months). Actually, the job scheduler does not make so much sense without an enhancement like this.

    You have my 3 votes for this one.

    Thanks again

    Lorenzo Ortiz Jiménez
    Systems Librarian and Library Back Office Coordinator
    European University Institute
    Firenze, Italia

  • Diederik Lanoye commented  · 

    Hi Joseph,

    Many thanks for posting this idea. It would indeed be a great improvement to have a relative date filter (today minus x) to build maintenance free acquisition sets and display them in PrimoVE Collection Discovery.

    Best regards,

    Diederik Lanoye
    LIBIS - KU Leuven Libraries (Belgium)

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