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  1. Add NLM Classification to Analytics

    We would like to see NLM classification as an option in Analytics. We have a substantial Health Sciences Library and Med Center, and this would be quite useful for this area of reporting.

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  2. Replacement Costs in Analytics represented as a number

    Currently they are represented as text. You have to manipulate the Excel file to get them to become numbers. However, it would be nice if they exported as numbers, or were numbers in Analytics, for easier manipulation of the data.

    2 votes
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  3. Run a report of items by fund code in Analytics

    A colleague wanted to know the usage stats for books he had purchased over a certain period of time. This would have been easiest by running a report including items, his fund code, and the relevant fiscal years. This is currently not possible - Dewey range reports inevitably miss some titles.

    Can the Funds Expenditure and Physical Items SAs be made compatible?

    8 votes
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    Completed  ·  1 comment  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  4. Add Proxy Users to "Users" subject area

    Adding Proxy Users to analytics would allow us to search for users that are proxies to another user, and also users that have proxies for themselves.

    This information isn't completely available within Alma, and it seems like an oversight that it's also unavailable in Analytics.

    63 votes
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    4 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  Dana Moshkovits responded

    The User Details subject area has been enhanced with the following improvements:

    You can now create reports with fields from different folders as is possible in other subject areas.
    The User Measures dimension was added, which contains measure fields relating to the number of users.
    The following fields were added under the User Details dimension:
    Cataloger Level – the cataloger level of the patron
    Patron Letters Opt In – the letters for which the patron has opted in
    Patron Letters Opt Out – the letters for which the patron has opted out
    Has Role Other Than Patron – indicates if the patron has a role other than Patron
    Has Role Other Than Patron and Instructor – indicates if the patron has a role other than Patron and Instructor
    Is Blocked – indicates if the patron is blocked
    The Proxy For dimension was added, which contains fields that indicate for whom…

  5. Make 245 $p, $n, $s, $k, $f, $g part of "Title" criteria in Analytics &/or make them available as separate criteria

    Currently, the Analytics criteria “Bibliographic Details – Title” returns the 245 $a and $b in combination. This leaves out a good portion of the information needed to distinguish titles in series or parts from one another. Works of classical music are another area which require information from the other subfields for clarity. In the case of many archival materials, the current results leave the title field completely blank or skip many records, as there is no data recorded in either 245 $a or 245 $b. (Please see the attached file for examples.)
    In order to use these reports in any…

    167 votes
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  6. Add Transit Information to Analytics

    In order to track materials traveling between libraries, it would be extremely helpful to have transit information such as Transit Date, Transit From, and Transit To included in analytics.

    8 votes
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    Completed  ·  2 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  7. Add Holding Modification Data to Analytics

    It would be really great if you would add Holding Creation Date, Holding Modification Date, and Holding Modified By to analytics.

    9 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminYoel Kortick (Senior Librarian, Ex Libris) responded

    the following fields exist in the “Holding Details” folder of the “Physical Items” subject area and therefore this ideas exchange has been completed:

    “Holdings Record Creation Date”
    “Holdings Record Modification Date”
    “Holdings Record Modified By”

  8. add the "public note" field to analytics

    Hello,
    adding the "public note" field to the "physical items" subject area ("physical items details" dimension) would be a great thing...

    36 votes
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  9. Report on Holdings 866 subfields x and z in Analytics

    We use the 866 $x to store campus affiliation notes, which are used to direct materials to the Archives at point of removal. Currently you must go through a multi-step process, including exporting bib records with holdings info and using MarcEdit to extract the 866 $x notes. Then you must merge the data in Excel or Access in order to associate the note with the weeding report generated from Analytics.

    52 votes
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    9 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminHadas Granot (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello,

    We are happy to inform you that you now have the option to include Holdings field 866 $x and $z in reports in Analytics.

    The Physical Items SA has 2 new fields -

    Summary Holdings Non Public Note - 866 $x

    Summary Holdings Public Note - 866 $z

  10. Tableau access to Analytics (Alma & Primo)

    Hi ExLibris

    A number of institutions use Tableau (market leading BI platform) for Library Analytics

    It would be awesome if ExLIbris would open/allow Alma & Primo Analytics to connect with Tableau (or other similar BI tools)

    Currently Tableau can connect with Oracle BI (OBIEE) (which Alma/Primo Analytics use) but we need the connection
    details and network access - refer documents below

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WKBtLB1W5o
    • http://kb.tableau.com/articles/knowledgebase/tableau-and-obiee
    • https://www.biconnector.com/

    ExLibris users: Please post in the comments below if you use Tableau - or if you use a similar tool for Library Analytics please post the details

    Cheers

    Justin Kelly
    Swinburne

    31 votes
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  11. Add fund information dimension to physical items dimension and vice versa in Analytics

    Need location and call number details when reporting by fund expenditure. Also need the information to generate reports for spending by individual departments as we have centralized ordering.

    Support ticket #00195690

    4 votes
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    Completed  ·  2 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  12. Adding ability for reporting based on 008 holdings field

    I would like to see the ability to have reports based on 008 fields specifically method of acquisition (purchase, gift, depository,etc. ), retention coding and lending policy.

    3 votes
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    0 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminYoel Kortick (Senior Librarian, Ex Libris) responded

    This has been completed in August 2020.
    This is from the August 2020 Alma release Notes:

    August 2020 Analytics
    idea exchange Idea Exchange
    The following fields were added to Holding Details > Physical Items and the Bibliographic Details dimension:

    Holding Details: BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC holdings record BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC holdings record Bibliographic Details: BIB 008 MARC – the contents of the 008 field of the MARC bibliographic record BIB LDR MARC – the contents of the LDR field of the MARC bibliographic record Government Publication – the government publication type (for MARC 21 this is based on MARC 008 pos. 28) Form of Item – the form of the item (for MARC 21 this is based on MARC 008 pos. 23)

    In August, the above fields appear in the “Bibliographic…

  13. Retain Statistical Identifiers

    Right now when you have all the Anonymization jobs set to run, only four elements remain in a checkout history of an item related to the patron details: User Group, Job Category, Record Type, and Account Type.

    This makes the use of the Statistical identifiers not very effective to measuring checkout usage with them. We have them currently set to be the user's major/department. We would like to know usage by major/department, but cannot get this information with Anonymization jobs turned on.

    Any chance the Statistical Identifiers could also remain in the loan history in Analytics.

    16 votes
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    Completed  ·  6 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  14. Add URL to einventory analytics for both electronic collections and portfolios

    Generating a list of URLs that relate to either portfolios or electronic collections would be hugely useful. The Export URLs job that currently exists in Alma doesn't attribute URLs to resources, and also isn't complete (can't handle parser details).

    209 votes
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  15. Add proxy setting to einventory analytics dimension

    Have a desire to know which e collections have proxy enabled or not. Need the setting added to analytics to find out.

    9 votes
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  16. Add fund description to analytics Fund Expenditure Subject Area

    We want to add Fund Description to our Budget Status report but in testing have noticed that the Alma Fund Type is stored in the Fund Description field (this is in the Fund Ledger Dimension) instead of the Fund Description setup in Alma. The Fund Type field in Analytics is being used to store if the fund is an Allocated, Ledger or Summary fund. We don't want to lose this Fund information (we need to know if a fund is allocated, ledger or summary) but since the Alma Fund Type is stored in the Analytics Fund Description field there seems…

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  17. Add Storage Location ID to Analytics

    The storage location ID field in Alma should be added to Analytics

    This seems like an easy add that needs to be done so the field can be reported upon.

    7 votes
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    Completed  ·  2 comments  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →

  18. Add timestamp to all date related dimensions in analytics

    Some areas in analytics only have date stamps instead of date+time stamps, so reporting on for example, Events from analytics will only ever bring back the date the event occurred and not the date+time required for auditing.

    We'd like all dimension datestamps to have a version of the timestamp which includes the date+time so that they are useful in working out when a transaction occurred and not just the date it happened. This is good for consistency across analytics data as well.

    12 votes
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    1 comment  ·  Analytics  ·  Admin →
    Completed  ·  AdminYoel Kortick (Senior Librarian, Ex Libris) responded

    This idea may now closed.
    This idea was originally entered in 2015.
    Since 2015 we have made clear distinctions between the “date” which includes the date and time and the “date” which is only the date.
    The “date” which is only the date ends with suffix “(Calendar)”.
    For example, in the E-Inventory subject area the folder “Portfolio PO Line” includes both a field “Claiming Date” and a field “Claiming Date (Calendar)”
    Additionally, in the new “System Events” subject area “Event Date” folder includes two fields: “Event Date” and “Event Date and Time”.
    Thank you.

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