Custom Reports

In addition to the reports that Acquisitions provides, you can run these custom reports using a third-party reporting tool:

Checkouts per Title report. This report lets you monitor how many times a title is checked out. You can use this report to keep track of the demand on your library’s resources and help you make sure that you have sufficient copies of a title for each location.
Order History per Title report. This report lets you see the ordering activity for a particular title. (For example, you can use this report to make sure that you do not order duplicate copies of a title.)
Purchase Alerts report. This report lets you find out how many borrowers have requested that your library purchase a certain item. You typically run this report to identify the titles with a large number of requests. Then you can quickly and easily determine which titles are in demand and allocate budget resources accordingly.

Your system administrator can automatically install separate processes for each report on the navigation bar during initial Horizon installation. He or she can do this using the Horizon Install Shield, or your system administrator can create the processes later.

This section explains these topics:

You must install a third-party reporting tool, such as Borland’s ReportSmith or English Wizard’s Easy Ask to display these reports before you can run them. (For more information, see Third-Party Products.)

If you are using English Wizard’s EasyAsk, you must have a dictionary open and an active query to run the custom reports. (For more information about your dictionary, see the English Wizard for Horizon Administrator’s Installation and Deployment Guide.)

 


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