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
 
Telephone: +61 8 9433 0707 | Email: [email protected]
 
I respect and acknowledge the Nyungar Elders and the Wadjuk Nyungar people as 
the Traditional Owners and Custodians of this country on which I work.

-----Original Message-----
From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Jonathan 
Sutherland
Sent: Thursday, 4 November 2021 2:51 AM
To: [email protected]
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

[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>

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________________________________
From: Code for Libraries <[email protected]> on behalf of Hammer, Erich F 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 1:02 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
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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Erich Hammer            Head of Library Systems
[email protected]         University Libraries
518-442-3891              University @ Albany

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