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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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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 votesHello All,
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Add Additional fields to Course Reserves Subject area
Need Location, Barcode and Call Number to the Course Reserves.
11 votesHello All,
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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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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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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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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.
9 votesHello All,
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Role parameters in Analytics to show circulation desks
Users subject area in Analytics allows us to add columns up to the Scope, which is the library assigned to the role, but there is no way to go even further to what circulation desks are attached to a role as parameters.
A call to the Users API retreives this detail, but API calls are not always the right way to go and sometimes one API call to export an Analytics report works better in terms of server performance.
Please, add the circulation desks attached to a role in a certain scope as a new field in Users subject area.
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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 votesHello All,
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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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Add renewal count to the fulfillment subject area of Analytics
Please add renewal count (the number of renewals allowed for a certain item policy and material type) to the Fulfillment subject area of Analytics.
Doing so will allow staff to create a Circulation Matrix from analytics that fully details circulation privileges for certain patron groups, material types, item policies, etc. Circulation staff frequently get phone calls from patrons requesting such information.
The attached Circulation Matrix is a handy way to answer circulation policy questions from patrons, except when they ask how many renewals they are allowed.
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Add Course Notes to Analytics
In Fulfillment/Course Reserves/Courses, each Course has a Notes tab. We would like the notes in the Notes tab to be added to the Alma Analytics Course Reserves subject area.
8 votesHello All,
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Add Amount Paid in Current FP to Analytics, Funds Expenditure, PO Line
This value is very useful when monitoring continuous POL expenditures. Alma documentation states that since it is a calculated value at time of editing, it is not searchable.
Adding this dimension to Analytics could simplify reporting on which POLs are over or under expended.7 votesHello All,
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Add "Has Related Records" Attribute to Titles Subject Area
When reviewing a repository for bibliographic records with no inventory, the default analysis retrieves many records that are present as parts of bound-withs, or that may have other record relationships. Records have to be reviewed manually or exported and reviewed in other tools to see what relationships might exist.
Since Alma does identify related records in search results, and in preventing records from being deleted, it would be useful to have an attribute in Analytics that identifies when Alma would determine a record to have related records. An attribute "Has Related Records" could be added to the Title Details dimension…
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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.
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Customization for labels on locally defined LOCAL PARAM subject areas
Our library requested to have a LOCAL PARAM defined in Alma Analytics. We asked ExLibris to map the 983 field to this field in Analytics so that we could easily run reports using information in this field. However, it is not currently possible to modify the label so as to easily remember/know that this field has been locally defined. Also, as we define more fields, it becomes cumbersome to know which field belongs to which mapped field.
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Modify the payment method label in Fines and Fees report
Thanks for ExLibris helping our library to modify the payment method label: changing "Check" to "FEO". However, the payment method label in Fines and Fee report is not being modified accordingly. Is it possible to modify the labels in the reports as well? Or, could we add more payment methods in Fulfillment configuration?
6 votesHello All,
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Sign to indicate a report/prompt is used on dashboard
It would be perfect if there is any sign in Analytics catologue to indicate that the report/prompt is being used in dashboard/widget/scheduled job. Currently, we accidentally deleted some reports/prompts that are used in dashboard which caused the dashboard crash. Sometimes we edit some prompts and forgot these prompts are used in other reports. Theses are really annoying. Hope you guys can do something about it. If such a sign is asking too much, then a quick way to generate a list of reports/prompts that are used in dashboard would also help.
6 votesHello All,
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