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by Josh Weisman Ex Libris May 11, 2021

How We Built the Appointment Scheduler Primo Add-On

The Appointment Scheduler Cloud App has been used by institutions to schedule thousands of appointments in their libraries. It's a great way to leverage the Alma platform to provide library-related functionality, and has been especially useful as many libraries are providing service remotely or by-appointment only. The Cloud App supports defining locations and capacity, scheduling…

by Nazzareno Bedini Università di Pisa April 30, 2021

Analytics API and filters: how to send complex sql filters that work

In all example links below change {yourApiKey} and {yourPath} to your real API key and Analytics report path. As described in Working with Analytics REST APIs and How to use an API to send filters and retrieve an Alma Analytics report in 5 easy steps you can get reports sending filters as part of the…

by Moran Vardi Ex Libris April 20, 2021

Primo VE Normalization Rule Examples

See also: Configuring Normalization Rules for Display and Local Fields Note - If you copy/paste, make sure that the quotation marks transfer correctly. Create a hypertext link Create hypertext link from the URL stored in the MARC 505 field and display it in the Contents display field. Remove 'Online' indication from the title This rule is…

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