Getting Started
The Basics from Ex Libris
Analytics Basics from PALS
- Primo VE
- The Reports Work Group Recordings from May 2020 (Acquisitions, Circulation, Resource Sharing and Resources & Collections)
- Sharing Reports
PALS Training from fall 2019
- 1 – Laying the Ground Work
- 2 – Where in the world is my data?
- 3 – Getting Started, the ABCs
- 4 – MacGyvering the Box
- Cheat Sheet
Intermediate
- IPEDS
- OAS training from November 2020
- Covid and our Library Stats from April 2021
- Master Classes from Ex Libris (Physical Inventory, Fulfillment, Electronic Inventory, Acquisitions, Data Visualization, User Management, etc.)
- Please note that you will only get 65,000 rows with certain export formats. Choose csv to get up to 500,000 lines. Read more here. If you want to be sure you don’t miss any data, display the number of rows on your report.
Alma Analytics Data Visualization
- Articles from Ex Libris
- Videos from Ex Libris (If you want a good review: Analytics Data Visualization in Alma and Primo from 8/10/21)
From Oracle
- Get Started with Visualizations in Oracle Analytics
- Explore Data in Oracle Data Visualization V2
- More detailed documentation
Analytics Advanced Techniques
- SQL Filter Examples
- Regular Expression Examples
- How to concatenate two or more fields in an Alma Analytics report
- How to conditionally change the text format in an Alma Analytics report
- How to make the report prompt date begin by default three months ago using SQL
- How to filter a report by current and previous academic years
For MnPALS members, if you are trying to do something specific with analytics and cannot get it to work, put in a ticket.
