January 2023 Release - Harvard Highlights


Ex Libris Documentation

Analytics & Reporting

Enhancements

  • In continuation of the December release, an additional five statistical categories are now available to be reported on in Alma Analytics in the following additional locations:
    The additional statistical categories added to Fulfillment > Borrower Details are only available with data added going forward.
    • Borrowing Requests > Requester
    • Fines and Fees > User Details
    • Fulfillment > Borrower Details
    • Requests > Requester
  • It is now possible to have the data anonymized in the following fields of the System Events subject area:

    To request that these fields be anonymized, contact Ex Libris support.

    • Event Details > Event Key Value
    • Event Details > Event Creator
    • Security Events > Accessing User ID
    • Security Events > User ID
  • The Available From Date and Available Until Date fields were added to E-Inventory > Portfolio. They display the start and end dates that the portfolio is available.
  • The Label and Label History fields (Borrowing Requests > Borrowing Request Details and Lending Requests > Lending Request Details) are now available to Alma customers. They display the customized labels added to borrowing and lending requests and the history of label deletions.
  • The Loan Hour field was added to Fulfillment > Loan Date. It indicates the hour of the loan in 24 hour format.

Resolved

  • When adding fields from Fines and Fees > Staff Operator Details to reports not all data was displayed. This was fixed, and now all data appears as expected."
  • Analytics is lacking the labels for 2 values in the Authorities Heading Subject details (Chronological Subdivision, General Subdivision). This was fixed. The labels have now been added.

Course Reserves/Leganto

  • Enhancements

    • New “No List expected” list option indicator (NERS 7744) to indicate that course does not have a reading list (visible in Course Information tab). The “No List expected” option sticks upon course rollover or duplication.The No list expected indication will be added to Analytics in the February release.
    • Now when selecting the Reset X after searching for items within a list, the search term clears and the results are reset (Ideas Exchange).
    • To describe the attribute more accurately and match the analytics term, the Publication Status attribute was changed to Publication List Visibility. 
  • Resolved

    • In some cases, completed citations appeared in the Ready for Processing task list. This was fixed.
    • Previously, the Leganto UI language did not update until the page was refreshed. This was fixed.

Resource Management

Resolved

  • An error resulted when 'Push Selected to MDE' button was pressed when adding a title to a collection. This was fixed and the 'Push Selected to MDE' button was removed from adding titles to collections.
  • New Metadata Editor: Clicking CMD + click for rows multi-selection in the editor in macOS does not work. This was fixed.
  • When testing a normalization rule, changes made without saving in the bib record are not considered in the preview. This was fixed. 
  • New Metadata Editor: The 'expand from template' menu action was incorrectly enabled for Community Zone records. This was fixed and the menu action is now disabled in such cases.
  • New Metadata Editor: When a user with the correct role tries to duplicate a template, the new template can’t be saved or edited. This was fixed. 
  • MARC21 > "7xx authority" records containing subfield $$e. The subfield is duplicated when linking it to the bib record. This was fixed.
  • Analytics is lacking the labels for 2 values in the Authorities Heading Subject details (Chronological Subdivision, General Subdivision). This was fixed. The labels have now been added.
  • Linked 880 fields were using punctuation rules for 8XX fields instead of from the linked field. This has been fixed.