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Generally, administrator roles are not assigned widely to staff. However, the Analytics Administrator role provides some functionality that is needed by staff outside of system administration, namely being able to schedule reports to send to others, and share reports to be run ad-hoc as “Analytics objects” with other Alma users.
Analytics users who need to create reports must have a Designs Analytics role of some type; just granting Analytics Administrator will not let them create reports.
Staff who have a Designs Analytics granular role or the full Designs Analytics role will be able to see and use reports and dashboards from within Analytics > Access Analytics, and be able to use Analytics Objects that they have access to via Analytics > My Analytics. They will be able to export report results and share those exports with others.
Guidance for granting Analytics Administrator permissions
In May 2024, the Library Services Platform Steering Group gave the following guidance of use of Analytics Administrator:
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