Analytics menu bar

The menu bar in Analytics offers multiple options for creating and editing analyses and dashboards:

  • DV opens the Data Visualization tool. This tool provides a drag-and-drop interface for creating graphical representations of data.
  • Home opens a standard home screen, with options to create, browse/manage, and review recent work. Note that the only Create option available is Analysis and Interactive Reporting. Other options are disabled in Alma Analytics.
  • Catalog opens the directory of existing reports and dashboards such as My Folders, Shared Folders > Harvard University. See Folder structure in Alma Analytics - Revision in process page for more information.
  • Favorites acts like the Favorites in a browser; add items here that you refer to often.
  • Dashboards opens a list of Dashboards that you can run from this menu. 
  • Create lets you create new objects under the heading Analytics and Interactive Reporting. Note that options under Published Reporting and Actionable Intelligence are not available in Alma Analytics.
  • Open lets you quickly open your recent reports.


  • When you open Alma Analytics for the first time, you will see an empty dashboard. Your dashboard can be customized to display reports that you use on regular basis. See /wiki/spaces/lspp/pages/43784798for more on personalizing your dashboard.