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Improve phrase searching "Highlight"
When using phrase search, please do not highlight partial words or letters.
Please highlight only the exact phrase which use for the search terms.
For example, if a patron searches for "traffic accident", please highlight just "traffic accident" and do not highlight "traffic" or "accident".
Please check the phrase search results your Primo VE.
You can find that word-level highlighting makes the search results confusing.25 votes -
Library Card page
I think it would more user-focused if the "Library Card" dashboard listed all of the requests and loans in one spot, regardless of the lending library. Many users are unaware of which library they've requested an item through - it would be nice if there was only one dashboard for patrons to check on the status of everything in one spot.
756 votesHi all,
We would like to update that this is planned to be developed in the Primo Next Discovery Experience User Interface.
More details on the new interface plans can be found here -
Therefore we are changing the status of this idea to "Planned".
Best regards,
Yael.
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Adding unique user data to Primo Analytics
Idea: To be able to use Primo Analytics to create a report of unique users who have used Primo (logged into Primo) in a specific time period, for example in a month.
Reason: Currently in Primo Analytics, the 'session' and 'sign in' parameters count the overall numbers and not unique user numbers. This means that there is no option to check the unique users per Primo identifier for a specific period.
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Ability to customise resource sharing status messages displayed in MyAccount Requests tab
We would like the ability to customize patron-facing status messages during the interlibrary loan process.
• Client feedback clearly indicates that status messages that are meaningful for library staff can be misleading to the Primo end user. Note: The Borrowing RS Request Statuses Alma configuration page (Alma configuration / Fulfillment / Resource Sharing) does not include external description / customisation options like other mapping/code tables, e.g. Physical Locations or Discovery Interface Display Logic Labels.
• The “Pick up” message gives the impression that the item is ready for pickup. UNSW patrons sometimes go to the library to pick up the…
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Ability to view historic requests including Alma Resource Sharing requests
Provide the ability to view historic requests including Alma Resource Sharing requests: • It is important for patrons to be able to see what they have already requested. If certain items are requested more than once copyright might be infringed. • Cancelled requests (by both the requester and the library) should be included • It should be possible to filter the list by request status and request type • Alma Resource Sharing requests should be included. Our patrons previously used the Relais ILL system which permitted them to peruse historic requests. • The option could be made accessible as for…
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Select languages for Primo VE UI that would be different than choices for Alma UI.
Currently all languages used in Alma (for staff) are automatically presented as the UI languages in Primo VE.
I would like to be able to manage the choices separately, so that we can choose to remove, or to add languages for Primo VE UI. Also, we should be able to sort the language choices in the order we prefer, based on the language in which the UI is open.
Thank you for your support.1 vote -
Add the DeepL API
We would like to add the DeepL API (https://www.deepl.com/docs-api/translating-text/) to integrate a translation service into PRIMO home page
We think it it would be of interest to many other libraries3 votes -
Make the Availability indicator for consortia match what was in Primo BO
We have has several users report in a week that they are confused by the lack of accuracy in the availability indicator in Primo VE. For example Milwaukee noticed that this item shows that it is available in another institution- https://wisconsin-uwm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_ML/cc3uhc/alma9912304483902121
If I check that institution the item is checked out and if I look it Alma it has been out for over a year. https://wisconsin-uwosh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_OSH/hvjabb/alma991004692621402126
…Now compare it to Primo BO you will note that in the institutional holdings area, it says Out of the Library. - https://uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/104qq38/UWI71401656290002121 We would want VE to be accurate so users do not40 votes -
Include call number for physical items in Excel / CSV Export
Thank you for adding the option to export results in Primo to Excel and CSV.
Please could the call number for physical items be added as an extra column in the export. When clients export results from Primo, their intention is also to look for those items that are physical on the shelves and without the call number, they again have to access each record's link to obtain the call number.
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Increase security for option to delete a view in Primo VE
Right now it is all too easy to delete a Primo VE view. If the option to delete a view is accidentally clicked on the drop down menu, a confirmation message appears with the "confirm" option highlighted. A confused user might click enter to get rid of the message without reading the message. This happened to us recently. A user who selects the delete option should have to type in the view code to confirm deletion. This extra step would help to prevent accidental deletion.
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Data accompanying article
How will you keep datasets or articles being lost because they share the time title? It is becoming more and more common for articles to have accompanying data and from your description of match and merge, it seems that this may result in either the dataset or the article being excluded from search results. Thanks for considering!
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Export to Excel
We would like the "Export to Excel" functionality to be configurable. For exemple, we would like to remove the permalink column from the file.
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move the favicon to the top level (outside /img) to fix Firefox bookmarks
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The favicon for our view is stored in the /img folder within the customization package.
For Firefox to display it correctly when I have the URL in my bookmark bar, the favicon needs to be outside the /img folder.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1230644
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226447"the saved bookmark favicon image was located in other than the website server file path root directory which was the original W3C standard for favicon placement for web browsers to loom for it"
As long as the favicons are stored within /img, they display ok in the tabs of Firefox, but get lost when I drag the URL…
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CDI indexing non-published "articles"
We are having an issue of posts to the journal/magazine's website being added to our discovery instance as a result of CDI. The linking for these items inevitably fails as the item is not actually part of the journal/magazine and was never published as part of it.
We would like to ask for such items to be excluded from CDI indexing.
An example of an article with this problem: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/was-your-face-mask-made-using-forced-labor-in-china/
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Allow additional links to be added to my library account
In classic Primo we were able to add our ILL link to the library account area, so users could go over and see the rest of their loans. We would like the ability to do this again and have it show up on the loans tab in the My Library Account.
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Filter collections (in Primo) to show 'online' or 'physical' items
Currently, when you click into a collection on Primo, there are a few sorting options (relevance, date, title, author), but it would be useful to let users see only 'online' items or only 'physical' items (libraries with more than one site may want to let users see physical items at particular sites).
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1 vote
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Permit creation of a stable URL that would lead to a simple search with all records limited by any facets, e.g., location.
We'd like to create stable links to entire collections for use on our website, guides and course shells. For example, a link that leads to all records with a given location.
This is currently possible for Advanced Search with a pre-filter. But users are distracted by Advanced Search's space and complexity, which pushes the results down the page. And if there are multiple languages or material types, the pre-filters would be overly restrictive.
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Show both in-text and reference citation formats for APA 7
With version 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA 7) citation format, there are two formats: one for in-text and one for reference citations.
The first (in-text) is to be used within the body of the text; the second (reference) is to be used in a bibliography.
There are differences between the two styles. For more information on the differences, please see https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations and https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references.
It looks like when Primo uses the Citation Style Language (CSL) Repository (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles) to add styles, it only picks up the In-text format citation from the APA 7 definition on the CSL…
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The BibTex export from Primo does not include the DOI. Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in Bib
Include the DOI in the BibTex export from Primo
Would it be possible to add the doi field? I know doi isn't a standard field in BibTex, however it would be very useful and is requested by our users.
20 votes
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