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Part III - Creating acquisitions lists

Note

This part of the documentation assumes you have followed the instructions in Part I - Alma Analytics and Part II - Installation

Displaying the latest acquisitions

Important

Alma Acquisitions - Open Source expects the homepage to display the latest acquisitions; when users visits the application, they will be redirected to the /latest page. This behavior can be edited in the routes/web.php file.

  1. Login with your admin account at /login. You will be redirected to /admin.
  2. You will be presented with a list of available queries coming from Alma Analytics.
  3. Click on the 'Create' button next to the list that you want to display on your homepage.
  4. Click on Import XML to request the latest data from Alma Analytics for this acquisitions list.
  5. In the Acquisitions list name type the name you would like to display when the users land on the home page. At Leiden University Libraries we used 'Latest'.
  6. In the Acquisitions list URL you must type latest.
  7. Click on Create acquisitions list

If you navigate to the homepage, you should now see your library's latest acquisitions.

Danger

You cannot delete the latest acquisitions list, but you can modify it. Be careful not to edit the Acquisitions list's URL path as AAOS always uses latest as the path to load the homepage.

Creating additional acquisitions lists

Once you have created the latest acquisitions list, you are free to create as many acquisitions list you might need. First create the list in Alma Analytics as explained in the documentation, amd then follow steps 1 to 7 making sure to give a different name to your acquisitions list and URL path than latest.