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  1. Analytics shared dimension

    Hi,
    We would like to be able to create a report showing remaining charges listed by user and include the block reason.

    The charge data is in subject area "Fines and Fees" and the block reason is in subject area "Users".

    We raised this as a case (06837145) but were told it's not possible without a shared dimension, this is the request to create that shared dimension.

    Thanks
    Ian

    3 votes
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  2. Analytics

    Buenos días, queremos solicitar la siguiente mejora:

    Que el área temática de Analytics: Fund Transactions --Transaction Expenditure Amount recoja la suma de todas las líneas de factura, tanto las Regular como las de Additional changes, Shipment, Insurance, Discount, Overhead y Adjustment.
    Esto es extremadamente importante para poder extraer las estadísticas de gasto.
    Muchas gracias y un saludo,

    3 votes
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  3. 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.

    18 votes
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  4. Addition of the Accrued fines field in the Fines and Fees subject area in Alma Analytics

    It would be great if there was an option in Alma Analytics to create a report with a list of people with a specific amount of accured fines if they had returned overdue documents on a given day (the day before actually).

    22 votes
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  5. Ability to report on inventory for citations

    We would like to analyse print and electronic inventory for citations for a single or multiple reading lists. We're interested to look at reading lists with high or low print/electronic inventory so that we could engage with reading list owners e.g. for lists with high amounts of print we may want to look at the addition of e-book versions of the titles.
    Currently it is not possible to report on print and electronic inventory for citations due to the fact that the 'locate' process links the citation to a particular bibliographic record and it's consequently not possible to connect from…

    22 votes
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  6. Include "On Hold Expiration Date" to "Physical Items"

    Please include the "On Hold Expiration Date" from the Alma Physical Items Search to the Analytics field "Physical Items"

    To elaborate upon why this is needed:

    A title was ordered on February 8th. The "Hold Shelf expiration date" is set for February 23rd. According to the terms of use, 10 working days are correctly taken into account. However, the "Days on Hold Shelf" value displays 14 days, as weekends and holidays are included in this calculation. This discrepancy naturally makes it difficult to rely on, as the number of weekends and holidays within the pickup period may vary. We need…

    3 votes
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  7. Add a date measure to Digital Inventory/Usage Analytics

    For Digital Inventory/Usage, we can only see total (cumulative) downloads and views. It would be helpful to have a date measure to see usage over time for digital files.

    15 votes
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  8. Enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics of usage analysis

    For some vendors, it may have sub-databases in the subscriptions and collect usage for a particular database and the titles within seems not possible currently by Analytics. Though there’s a “Platform” field in Analytics, it did not separate the figures between different databases for a single vendor. It's strongly recommended to enhance the comprehensiveness of Analytics and enhance the functionality of usage analysis.

    21 votes
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  9. Choose start month in Alma Analytics schedule

    Alma Analytics has been improved by a lot in ways of scheduling reports. But I am still missing a way to choose a start month when scheduling a quarterly or bimonthly report.

    You can choose a recurrence pattern (eg. monthly, recur every nth month), but there is no way to choose a month for the next run. Each change in recipients or touching the analytics object may start a new interval.

    When choosing a weekly interval, you can also choose a weekday. An option for choosing a month should be added for monthly schedules.

    8 votes
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  10. Overlap Analysis reports

    These reports would and should utilize and contain within them subject headings and subject areas. It seems like it would be a very useful functionality for staff to make use of subject headings for comparison to other vendors' reports who use subject headings/terms while doing an overlap analysis. When trying to compare CZ electronic collections to our IZ collections, it would be good to know which subject coverage area and date range each matched portfolio has.

    5 votes
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  11. Different colour in left menu for shared dimensions

    It would be nice to find shared dimensions in left menu in a different colour, not the same blue.
    This way, it would be eassier to recognized and use them.

    3 votes
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  12. Different color en left menu for shared dimensions

    It would be nice to find shared dimensions in left menu in a different color, not the same blue.
    This way, it would be eassier to recognized and use them.

    3 votes
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  13. Add "Field searched" Column in "Primo Popular Searches" Analytics

    "Field searched" is an attribute field that stores the field being searched. This is relevant if the user performed a search on a specific field (such as authors only). But now we can only use this function in the "Zero Result Searches". We would like to use this function in the "Primo Popular Searches", so that we could do more users behavior analysis.

    1 vote
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  14. Identify subscription databases in Alma analytics

    It is possible to identify subscription collections in Alma analytics by marking the service editor: Free=Not free. However, databases do not have service editor. We do mark it in the collection editor as Free=not free.

    In Alma analytics, there is no way to identify subscription databases. My case was closed with the support directing me to suggest an idea here.

    Please add elements in Alma analytics so we can use to identify subscription databases.

    1 vote
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  15. Analytics widget - customize/remove Open in a new window link

    I'd like to be able to remove or customize the "Open in a new window" link that appears on top of a widget of an analytics report.

    The widget can only fit a very short report. Opening this short report in full view is not that useful. It would be better to link to a longer report or a dashboard.

    1 vote
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  16. Remove MARC Relator terms ($e) from Author and Author (Contributor) fields (1XX/7XX) in Analytics

    The Author and Author (Contributor) fields in Bibliographic Details in Alma Analytics are mapped from several subfields in MARC fields 100/110/111 and 700/710/711, respectively, including subfield e. But subfield e should not be included in the Author and Author (Contributor) mapping because it is not part of the author name. It is instead a separate element that denotes the relationship between the named author/contributor and the work, the Relator. Thus the $e value may vary or be absent from records although the author/contributor is the same, making it impossible to search upon, identify, and unite author/contributor names in Analytics. Any…

    28 votes
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  17. Add SUSHI “Status Description” field for uploaded files as column option in Analytics

    Ex Libris has said “No valid report items found in the file” is behavior that should still be listed as a “Fully Processed” file, but it would be helpful if we could more easily find files that we believe may not have loaded properly based on their Alma “Status Description” in Analytics.

    1 vote
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  18. serial type

    Be able to lookup bibliographic titles by serial type (Fixed field 21 SrTp: Type of continuing resource), especially for monographic series type m. Our serials desk wants a way to easily find these so when they receive materials they can separate the standing orders from the subscriptions. They could also generate reports from the data parsed in Analytics to assist their students during the receiving process.

    1 vote
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  19. Index MARC field 440 contents to Series or Series statement in Bibliographic details of Design analytics

    Series titles entered to MARC field 440 currently cannot be retrieved using Design analytics. Many old bib records carry series titles in field 440. Thank you for your consideration!

    2 votes
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  20. Track data on what in a record was modified, and add that data to analytics.

    We run a couple reports that look at when a record was last modified. But there are many reasons why a record might be marked as "modified". It would be great if we could create filters on what in the record was modified, such as item status, location change, barcode change, note added, etc. This could allow for things such as running reports on what items had their fulfillment note last modified after "X" date.

    9 votes
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