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How to use Data Visualization calculations to concatenate and create fields of loan time duration by days hours minutes and seconds
This blog post assumes that the user is already familiar with creating calculations in Data Visualization, as described in previous blog post How to use functions on fields in Data Visualization (DV) In this blog post we will do as follows: Create a field called "Loan date and time" which combines (concatenates) fields "Loan Date"."Loan…

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Concatenate columns and rows
Concatenations [kənˌkadəˈnāSHən] Author: Hisham Makki, Assistant Director for Data Quality. FLVC, FSU. Required knowledge: Advanced Analytics. Contents: Introduction Columns Concatenation Rows Concatenation Concatenation combines string data values where each value is joined together in one string value. You need to convert non-string data values to string values before concatenation. The easiest way to convert data…

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Add Barcode Font to Analytics
Add Barcode Font to Analytics Author: Hisham Makki, Assistant Director for Data Quality, FLVC, FSU. Required knowledge: Basic Analytics; HTML. Contents: Introduction Add Barcode to An Analysis Add Barcode to A Dashboard Analysis Unfortunately, Alma Analytics does not come with a built-in barcode font. However, we have been asked by some libraries in our consortium to find a…

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How to use the resumption token when retrieving records via OAI
See also: Examples of OAI SyntaxIn this blog post we will show how to use the resumption token when retrieving records via OAI.For example, the following URL will retrieve records in MARC21 format for set "person_entity_set_spec".See Examples of OAI Syntax for additional examples.http://yilis.exlibrisgroup.com:1801/view/oai/CZ_INST/request?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=marc21&set=person_entity_set_spec ONECopy the resumptionToken value from the bottom of the list of results, for…

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Splitting a Large Analytics Report into 10 Megabyte Segments to Create Sets in Alma
Overview Sometimes, it is necessary to create large sets in Alma. Alma supports the creation of sets using an Analytics report or importing a file of identifiers. Unfortunately, there is a 10 megabyte limit on these reports. So, for large reports, this will not work. 10 megabytes is equivalent to about 500,000 lines of MMS…

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Registering updates by API according to the API-key name
When API requests are sent to Alma, and an entity (item, user, Invoice etc.) is created or updated, the  modifier/creator appears as "API, Ex Libris": This is because all API modifications are attributed to the special user exl_api. Starting Alma May 2023 it is possible to configure Alma to register the modifier/creator of an entity…

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