The Purchase Alerts report lets you monitor how many borrower requests you have received to order a particular item or title. You can customize this report to show only those items that borrowers have requested over a certain number of times. (For example, if you want to see how many items have been requested over 40 times, you can structure the query to look for only those items whose order queue is greater than 40.)
Here is an example of a Purchase Alerts report, using Easy Ask to display it:
This section explains how to:
• | Generate a Purchase Alerts report from the navigation bar. |
• | Generate a Purchase Alerts report with a query. |
To generate a Purchase Alerts report from the navigation bar
1 | Start the Purchase Alerts process. |
The default location of this process is the
Your third-party reporting tool opens and displays the Purchase Alerts report.
2 | If you want to do so, print this report or save it to a file. (For instructions, see the user's guide for your reporting tool.) |
To generate a Purchase Alerts report with a query
1 | Open your reporting tool. (For example, open the English Wizard EasyAsk Query Builder.) |
2 | On the same line, use this format to enter the query to run the Purchase Alerts report: |
report all bib#, title where bib queue ord > number_of_borrower_requests grouped by bib#
Note: Where text wraps, insert one space. Do not insert carriage returns or extra spaces.
For example, if you wanted a Purchase Alerts report of borrower requests over 30, enter this query on the same line:
report all bib#, title where bib queue ord > 30 grouped by bib#
3 | If you want to do so, print this report or save it to a file. (For instructions, see the user's guide for your reporting tool.) |
4 | If you are using EasyAsk, save this query in your dictionary. |
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