Two Report Types
Alma reports from searches
Uses the Advanced search tool in Alma to find similar items.
![[a search menu highlighting the advanced search button at the end]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/alma-reports-advanced1.png)
Add your criteria, including selecting what to search and where.
![[advanced search with location and process type selected as search parameters]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/alma-reports-advanced2.png)
Search and look at your results.
You can save the query (as a set) or you can export the data in Excel.
![[two save or export options highlighted in results list]](http://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/alma-exportsave.PNG)
You can make your own advanced queries!
- Using the Advanced search link
- Save a query/create a set
- Export data to Excel
Analytics reports from data sets
![[an image showing the selection of the analytics button and the design analytics link]](https://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/alma-reports-analytics1.PNG)
Use Analytics to build a complex query into the database.
![[image of analytic fields in column format]](http://libapps.s3.amazonaws.com/accounts/207308/images/alma-reports-analytics2.PNG)
Such analytics are available to only a few people, ask me about creating one.