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Primo VE: Facet «Publication format» displays entries with capital letters and suppresses apostrophes
We noticed that the facet "Publication format" displays the entries with capital letters at the beginning of each word, and sometimes suppress the apostrophe too (see enclosures). This is a problem, because we never do display words in this manner in French or German. It really looks weird and we would like to avoid that for our users.
Thanks !
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Allow manual control of thumbnails in Primo records
Primo uses Syndetics to supply thumbnails of book covers for records within Primo. However, when Syndetics provides an incorrect image based on their data, it requires a ticket and often several weeks to correct it. In contrast, some records have no thumbnail at all and use a default gray book icon. Libraries should have the option to use this default icon when Syndetics is providing an incorrect image, or to upload and use local images in cases of records that have no images in Syndetics (for example, with archival and special collection books that are old enough that they have…
4 votes -
Show only Uniform title when FRBR key contains field 130 information
When records are grouped together in Primo VE because they have the same uniform title in MARC field 130, the display of the title and creators in the Brief results display for this group is not ideal.
The group shows the title and creators of one of the records in the group, which can be confusing to the user.
What would be more ideal in these cases is that when the Uniform Title is used to generate the FRBR key, to only display the Uniform title from field 130 in the Brief results display for the grouped records, and no…
4 votes -
Make is possible to display Available From Date and Available To Date to users in Primo
The "Control the Availability of Portfolios Automatically at a Pre-defined Date" feature, introduced in the February 2023 release (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2023/Alma_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202302BASE), allows libraries to enter an Available From Date and Available To Date in portfolios, and the portfolio will be automatically deactivated after the Available To Date. This feature is designed to be useful in cases where libraries lease a piece of content (typically, a streaming film) for a limited period of time.
In this Idea, we suggest that we should be able to display the Available From Date and Available To Date to end users in Primo. This is…
26 votes -
Sort Book Chapters in correct order when using PrimoVE in 'Everything' search
When using the ‘Everything’ search in PrimoVE you can't consistently sort book chapters into the correct order. Even when using the facets to filter and sort results, it still returns chapters in a variety of orders.
For example, searching for the following book and filtering by ‘Book Chapters’, refining the year to ‘2015’ and sorting by ‘Title’ still returned the chapters in the wrong order (see attached screenshot).
“Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare” Kreps, Gary L.; Neuhauser, Linda (2015)
It may not be possible, due to the variety of way book chapters can be structured. However, if it…
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My Library Card: Digital LOANS
It would really be helpful to have a tab or include borrowed digital books under patron loans so that its easy for them to renew or see what digital books they borrowed and need to return. Currently there is no ability for a patron to see what digital books they may have borrowed and need to return.
3 votes -
Primo VE webhook search blending
In terms of usability, it would be good if Primo VE webhook search results could be blended to the combined search results (local resources and articles). Blended results feature should be able to select on a search-by-search basis e.g. if you apply search for AI-based article search portals or whether to apply search for printed resources from the repository libraries.
32 votes -
Enable user personalization for their default "Expand my results" and "Search in full text" options
Currently, institutions set a default for "Expand my results" and "Search in full text." Users can toggle these settings, but unlike other filters, these toggles are not "sticky" and it does not seem possible to "lock" them. When the session is reset or the user selects "New Search", the institutional default is re-applied. The user who prefers other settings must therefore constantly re-toggle their desired options.
We find vastly different needs between our faculty, graduate students, professional practitioners, and undergraduates in their search behaviors and preferences. Currently, we have default settings designed for the least sophisticated searchers (undergraduates), but many…1 vote -
Option to bulk export normalization rules Primo VE
We would like to make a bulk export for backup of the normalization rules that we have set up in Primo VE.
At the moment this functionality does not exist but would be very helpful for us. At the moment if we make changes to the normalization rules it is easy to accidentally delete the entire set of rules for one field. It is also not possible to easily roll back a change that we made.
Therefore it would be useful to have the export option, to have an extra copy of all the normalization rules as a backup.
2 votes -
Consistent UX or labelling for Collection Discovery search box
Ideal solution: The Collection Discovery search box should be persistent and always search at the item level within all collections (as it does in the lobby) in order to provide a logical, consistent user experience.
Secondary solution: the label text should be editable for each search box separately to make it clear what is being searched on the page.
Problem:
- The lobby search box is for everything
- The top-level collection search box is for the title of sub-collections in that area only
- The sub-collection search box is for items in that sub-collection only.
Yet, all three options say "search" and…
4 votes -
Allow suppression of GES based on Primo View
Currently a GES (General Electronic Service) link can be suppressed or shown based on certain characteristics of the record or though Alma Display Logic Rule, through characteristics of the logged in user or presence / absence of other GES links. We would like the ability to control the display of GES links based on the current Primo view. This would allow us to show or suppress links in certain Primo views before asking the user to login.
6 votes -
Display the item "process type" label in Get It
In get-It, we would like to display some of the "Process type" labels from our local item processes.
For example, we think that the information "In the process of scanning" would be interresting for the users, instead of the general label "In process".
This would highlight projects in progress that are eagerly awaited by users.3 votes -
Do not display private fields in “display source record” or full record in Primo VE.
Marc 21 coding is used to identify some marc record fields/subfields as private. As an example, the indicators in the 541 tag are used to indicate that data in the field is ‘private’ to the organisation. Primo VE should automatically hide these fields from the source record and full details display in Primo VE. If an organisation wishes for the field to be made public they can adjust the record coding as appropriate. Alternatively organisations should be able to select to suppress private fields (as identified in marc 21) from public display.
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Banner - start and end date
We're using the banner to promote different library related events/workshops etc that run throughout the year. Currently we would have to manually enable and disable banners.
If there was something that allows us to determine how long the banner would display then it would make it easier, and not having to make sure a member of staff is available on certain days of the year just to switch on/off a banner.
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Ability to place restrictions on Display Source Record link
When enabling the ‘display source record’ link in Primo VE it would be useful to be able to specify which types of records the link displays or doesn’t display for. In our case we would prefer to restrict the option to our records for published resources so the private notes more typically associated with unpublished material such as manuscripts would not be publicly viewable.
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Allow end users to toggle "Resource Type" sorting - alpha or size
Hello
We have had a query about whether it is possible to add a second Resource Type section to Primo VE in order to allow for an alphabetical searching option (our default sort is size of search results). I was sure this wasn't possible, but offered to create an idea here requesting to allow end users to choose how they sort the list of Resource Types.
This would enable them to toggle between the two sort types, e.g. to see Newspaper Articles near Newspapers, but then to change back to 'size' sorting to see the largest number of results, etc.
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4 votes -
Enable logo image used in Primo to be resized without perfoming CSS customizations.
Enable logo image used in Primo to be resized without perfoming CSS customizations.
4 votes -
Expandable facets beyond the number we set
Recently it has become possible in VE to display up to 50 facets. 50 tries the patience of the average user but may be what it takes to help those with more specific needs. In some cases CDI limits the number anyway. It would be better if more facets are available this could be noted at the bottom by a "more" link which would then display more than the default number. This would be more consistent with other ways Primo displays complexity.
35 votes -
Change handling of MARC fields 100 and 700 in citation styles in Primo VE
Handling of MARC fields in citation styles should be changed as follows:
1. If there are relator codes in $4, only $4 aut and cmp should be considered as author, relator codes $4 edt, ill, ivr, trl and drt should be treated as contributors. Entries with other $4 codes should be ignored for citation.
2. If there are no relator codes $4 in the record, field 100 should be considered as author, field 700 as contributor.
Benefits: Citiation styles get independent from cataloguing language as they are now by using $e. Also citation styles work independent from the fact, if…7 votes -
Make collection and subcollection names discoverable in the Collections lobby.
Make collection and subcollection names discoverable in the Collections lobby. Currently, collection names and subcollection names are discoverable in Primo VE, but not discoverable in the Collections lobby.
Example:
We have a collection called: "Daher Folk Tales". It is discoverable in Primo VE:
but not in the Collections lobby:
We would like all collections and subcollections to be discoverable by name in the Collections lobby, because we will soon have a long list of collections on the lobby page, and many, many levels of subcollections. This enchancement would nake it easier for users to find the right subcollection,…
4 votes
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