Hi Annette

 

At Roehampton we have starting using the All Lists report to measure activity on a monthly basis. Column D shows the date a particular list was created and E shows date of last activity. As the default display shows lists by most recent activity date you don’t even need to filter ; you can just scroll down and isolate the month/week/however you want to sort.

 

What does make it a bit impenetrable is the way the date/data displays :

 

2012-02-14T09:30:48+00:00

 

The bit I’ve highlighted can be deleted leaving you with the date in the format : YYYY/MM/DD. It might be asking Talis to only displayYYYY/MM/DD but only a slight tweak* gives you some very useful data. “Update” does cover a multitude of activities but it does at least suggest academic engagement,

 

* Go to Formulas/Text/Left/[no of characters = 10]

 

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From: Talis Aspire Users [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Annette Moore
Sent: 14 February 2012 10:47
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Subject: Getting meaningful information from the Reports menu

 

I was wondering to what extent other libraries are using the Reports function in Aspire to obtain statistics on reading lists.  Although there is a fairly comprehensive list of reports covering a range of things, I am struggling to get the figures I need to management reporting because the report shows all the lists or all the items etc ever put on Aspire and I can't find a way to filter this to lists for a particular time period (term or academic year). 

Have others found a way to do this or are you interested in developing the Reports to filter by time period or importance to enable more meaningful reporting?  I have raised this as an Idea but currently only has 3 votes...

http://ideas.talisaspire.com/forums/32805-campus-edition-ideas/suggestions/2247431-display-the-term-of-lists-in-the-reports-results


Please add your votes to this and comments if you would like the Reports to be more flexible.

Annette

 

Annette Moore

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