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Analytics & Reporting

Enhancements

Local Authorities subject area is now available in Alma Analytics. Using the Local Authorities subject area you can create reports and dashboards for Local Authority records that are defined locally in the institution.

Authority records are part of process that organizes bibliographic information to create uniformity in the names of people, topics, and places in a bibliographic record so that it is easy to search for the record in the repository. This creates a single, distinct spelling of a name (heading) or a term for each topic.

Each Authority record contains a subject, such as an author, topic, series, or corporation and a particular unique identifier or heading term which is then used consistently, uniquely, and unambiguously for all references to that subject.

You can use the Local Authorities subject area to answer the following types of business questions:

• How many local authority records are created, deleted, and revised on monthly and annual basis?
• How can I generate reports that allow counting authority records and listing the detail of these records, for example: by creator, date of creation or modification, heading type, etc.?
• Which bibliographic headings or records are linked to an individual authority record?
• Which authority records are not linked to any bib headings searchable authority RDA elements, for example, records that contain keyword from MARC tags 37X, 667, 670 and some local fields?

DARA subject area is now available in Alma Analytics. Using this subject area, you can create reports and dashboards concerning the use of the DARA recommendations received by your institution and can answer the following types of business questions:

• How many recommendations were used?
• How many recommendations were dismissed?
• What were the recommendations?
• What was the dismissal reason for the recommendation?
• Who made the changes to the recommendation?
• When was the recommendation created and when was it changed?

For more information, see DARA.

• Num of Recalled Requests field was added to Lending Requests > Lending Requests Details. It indicates the number of recalled lending requests.
• Invoice-Due Date field was added to Funds Expenditure > Invoice Line. It indicates the due date of the invoice.
• The following fields were added to Users > User Details:
  • Can't edit restricted users – indicates if the user can edit restricted user groups
  • Disable All Login Restrictions – indicates if the user has IP login restrictions disabled
• Irregularities across several subject areas, including typographical errors, inconsistencies between common fields, and missing fields were corrected.
• Borrowing Institution and Borrowing Library fields (Lending Requests > Lending Request Details) were renamed to Borrowing Library (Rapid ILL) and Borrowing Institution (Rapid ILL) to indicate that these fields are related exclusively to Rapid ILL.
• The following out-of-the-box Acquisitions reports were renamed:
  • P and E Expenditure Trends was renamed to P and E Expenditure Trends - last 8 quarters
  • Expenditure Trends for Physical and Electronic Resources was renamed to P and E Expenditure Trends
• Linked reports that open in a new window are a security risk and are no longer supported. If you have any such reports, you must change them to be either Embedded in Section or Link – Within the Dashboard:
  1. From the Compound View of the relevant report, select the Properties icon
  2. From the Display Results drop-down menu, select either Embedded in Section or Link – Within the Dashboard

Resolved

• Item Policy field (Physical Items > Physical Item Details) displayed a value of UNKNOWN instead of the correct value. This was fixed.
• An analytics scheduled report email contains no data. This was fixed.
• Fields from the Physical Items dimension were visible in the Purchase subject area when using a search. This was fixed.
• The possible values for E-Inventory > Column Vendor Interface > Available was 0 and 1. This was changed to ‘Yes‘ and ‘No‘.
• When a bibliographic record is deleted, the value of the Rep Lifecycle field was still Active. This was fixed.
• Renewals in the Borrowing Requests SA were being counted incorrectly. This was fixed.
• Adding the Bibliographic Details > Place of publication - Country field to a report produces incorrect results. This was fixed.
• The value of the Author field was truncated to 250 characters. This was fixed.
• The Full Inventory Indexing Job changed the value of the Holdings Record Creation Date field (Physical Items > Holding Details) to be incorrect. This was fixed.
• The values in the Users > Address field consist only of preferred address values and not all address values. This was fixed.
• Use of Receiving Operator in Physical Items in analytics displays no results. This was fixed.

Acquisitions/Finance

Enhancements

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