A new index allowing for a staff user to search entities via an "X days ago" relative date index has already been added (Nov. 2025) to the various 'Titles" searches. This relative date index will also be added during 2026 to additional entities including, but not only, the Purchase Order Lines.
During this session we will see various ways in which this relative date index can be used.
We will also look at a specific use case which has been desired by the Alma community for several years: the ability to use this index to create a "New Resources List" in Primo (this is sometimes called a "New Books List"). We will see that this can be done by making a "logical titles collection" based on a set which uses the new relative date index. We will look at this process step by step by creating such a "new resources list" live during the webinar.
The development of the Relative Date Index originated from the Ex Libris Ideas Exchange via the following Idea: Create Alma search queries and sets with relative dates
A new index allowing for a staff user to search entities via an "X days ago" relative date index has already been added (Nov. 2025) to the various 'Titles" searches. This relative date index will also be added during 2026 to additional entities including, but not only, the Purchase Order Lines.
During this session we will see various ways in which this relative date index can be used.
We will also look at a specific use case which has been desired by the Alma community for several years: the ability to use this index to create a "New Resources List" in Primo (this is sometimes called a "New Books List"). We will see that this can be done by making a "logical titles collection" based on a set which uses the new relative date index. We will look at this process step by step by creating such a "new resources list" live during the webinar.
The development of the Relative Date Index originated from the Ex Libris Ideas Exchange via the following Idea: Create Alma search queries and sets with relative dates
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