In our case, I am the one who's done most work in our Analytics so far, and I have created quite a network of folders and subfolders. I am often going into these folders and tidying things up. But it can still be quite overwhelming trying to navigate around in there.
Unfortunately there are some reports that I'd love to move to a subfolder, or at least rename to include the words DO NOT DELETE, but which I can't change because they're part of integrations set up for us by Ex Libris, and I don't want to break anything with those, so I've left those ones alone in our main Reports directory and just hope nobody else will touch them either.
Thanks,
Patricia Farnan | Application Administrator, Discovery Services
University Library | St Teresa’s Library
The University of Notre Dame Australia
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Jonathan Sutherland
Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2021 2:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Analytics naming conventions
Hi, Erich.
We just use a code prefix for every 'public' report (i.e. ones we intend to expose to staff via analytics objects). The code represents the Alma Analytics subject area (e.g. 'FUE-01 - Acquisitions Budget Summary' would use the 'Funds Expenditure' subject area.
For the analytics object title, we drop the code prefix and use a more easily understandable prefix to group them within the Alma UI Analytics menu (e.g. 'BUDGET: Acquisitions Budget Summary').
Jonathan Sutherland
Collection Development Analyst & Developer
University of Waterloo Library
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From: Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Hammer, Erich F <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:02 PM
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] Analytics naming conventions
Hi.
We have (belatedly) realized that we would be much better off with a firm naming convention for our Alma analytics reports. Currently, it's rather chaotic and nobody can identify what is important and what is left-over junk except (sometimes) the individual creators.
There are a few discussions about analytics naming conventions online, but they are focused on ecommerce sites. We can use some of their thinking to create our own convention, but I thought maybe my job could be a bit easier if someone else has already done this. ☺
So... Does anyone here have a working, analytics-reports, naming convention (and are willing to share it)?
Thanks,
Erich
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