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 and from November 2022
- Covid and our Library Stats from April 2021
- 2021 Master Classes from Ex Libris (Filters and Functions!)
- 2020 Master Classes from Ex Libris
- Note that you will only get 2 million cells with the Formatted > Excel export format. Choose Data > CSV to get up to 10 million rows. Read more here. If you want to be sure you don’t miss any data, display the number of rows on your report.
- Add Primo links to an analytics report
- Combining Information from multiple sources/reports
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
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.
