Analytics - May 2018 Enhancements
Create a Set in Alma from an Alma Analytics Report
You can now create an itemized set directly from an Analytics report, which eliminates the process of exporting from Analytics to Excel and then uploading the Excel to Alma. You choose an Analytics report for the set creation directly from the Manage Sets page in Alma. This is particularly useful if you want to globally update a set of records in Alma by first retrieving these records in Alma Analytics. For more information, see Creating Itemized Sets.
For a video that describes this feature, see Create a Set in Alma from an Alma Analytics Report.
Reports for Bibliographic Records with No Inventory and Holdings Records with No Items
Idea Exchange: The following changes were made to allow you to create Analytics reports for bibliographic records that do not have inventory and holdings records that do not have item records:
- The Number of Items field (Physical Items > Physical Item Details) was renamed Number of Items (Deleted + In Repository) and the Number of Items (In Repository) field was added.
- The Has Active Items field was added to Physical Items > Holdings Details. It indicates whether the holdings record has item records.
- The following fields were added to Titles > Title Measures to indicate the number of holdings records with item records:
- Num of Holdings (All)
- Num of Holdings (Active)
- Num of Holdings (Deleted)
- The following fields were added to Titles > Title Details:
- Has Active Digital Representations
- Has Active Electronic Collections
- Has Active Electronic Portfolios
- Has Active Holdings Records
- Has Active Physical Items
- The Inventory Breakdown report was added to the Title level overlap analysis dashboard (/shared/Alma/Titles/Dashboards).
- The Holdings records with no active items report was added to the Inventory folder.
- The following reports were added in the Titles folder:
- Bibliographic records with holdings record and no items
- Bibliographic records with no inventory of any type
- Inventory Breakdown
Additional Analytics Enhancements
- The Physical Condition field was added to the Physical Item Details dimension of the Physical Items and Fulfillment subject areas. It indicates the condition of the physical item.
- The Load File SUSHI Account URL field was added to the Load File dimension of the Usage Data subject area.
- Local Parameters (1-10) were added to Holding Details dimension of the Physical Items subject area and the Bibliographic Details dimension (in which there were previously only 5 such fields) in all subject areas in which it appears. These fields allow you to use customizable fields in your reports. Note that you must contact Ex Libris Support to add these fields.
- In the Analytics Community Folders, the Industry Statistics (to be deprecated) folder was removed.
- The prompts formerly under the Subject Area Contents folder were moved under the Usage > Prompts folder and the Subject Area Contents folder was marked to be deprecated.
- The Additional Person Name field was added to Course Reserves > Citation Metadata Details. The existing field under the Reading List Citation dimension was renamed Citation Additional Person Name (to be deprecated).
- The Leganto Send Lists For Review field was added to the Reading List dimension of the Course Reserves, Leganto Student Usage, and Leganto Instructor Usage subject areas. It indicates the date that the reading list was sent for review.
- The Total Events and Total Events using LTI (a learning tool interoperability system) fields were added to the Leganto Institution Student Usage subject area.
- he Fulfillment - Patron physical item requests made while item is on loan report was added under /shared/Alma/Industry Standard Reports/DBS.
- The Material Type Code field was added to the Bibliographic Details dimension in all subject areas in which it appears.
- The Item Copy ID field was added to the Physical Item Details dimension of the Physical Items subject area.