Analytics

Main Alma Dashboard → Analytics → Design Analytics (Primo)

POPULAR SEARCHES REPORT

I’m not sure what other campuses can see. IF you can see “Jesse’s Primo Dashboard” in the shared folders, then I have a super basic report with Popular Searches since March 2020 and it’s possible that other campuses can copy it for their own use.

Shared Folders → Primo University of California Riverside → Jesse’s Primo Dashboard → My Dashboard → Usage → Reports → Popular Searches 3/2020

Analytics Catalog

Analysis Results Page

Basic Configuration and Criteria

Create → Analysis

Navigation Bar, Create a new Analysis or Report

Criteria

Primo Popular Searches
- Popular Searches
  - Searches (Required)
    - Number of times the search string was searched
  - Results (Optional)
    - Number of results delivered by the search string
  - Signed In (Optional)
    - Whether the user was signed into their library account or not
  - Search String (Required)
    - The actual search string

Editing or Creating an analisys

Select Results tab to see the results.

Preview the results of the chosen criteria

Select “Save” or “Save As” in the upper right (This can also be done in the Criteria Tab)

Save your reports if you don’t want to make them again and again…

Choose your save location, an informative name, and a description.

Pick good names and descriptions that you will understand 6 months down the road.

To get to this analysis later, go back to the Catalog

The browser back button is finicky. Just click Catalog.

Select the analysis. Open will give you the results page while edit will let you edit the analysis

Back in the Analytics Catalog

The Results Page lets you sort the columns. Just hover over the column header to get the arrows.

Results Page