Scripting with Python Selenium to Enhance Alma Administration Tasks
Monday, May 8, 2023 at 3:05 PM–3:25 PM PDT
Avalon
Presentation Topic Description
Alma provides the opportunity to report on and systematically manage many aspects of system administration, through Alma itself and the reporting in Analytics.
But one area its lacking in this regard is loan rule management. There's no way to view all the loan rules, their attached conditions, and the policies of the associated Term of Use in one screen.
With no better way to see this data, I used Python Selenium as user proxy to drill out this data, and pandas to collect it in a single data sheet. In this presentation I'll be talking about the script I wrote and shared on GitHub to get this data, how to use it, and how to use Selenium for this type of problem and others, with examples