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Field for MeSH-terms in CDI bib records to make it possible to search in advanced search
MeSH-terms, primarily from PubMed, in CDI bib records are mixed with other subjects. Create a subject field for MeSH-terms and make them posisble to search via advanced search.
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Users should be able to change pickup location after request has been made
In Primo VE, it should be possible for users to change pickup locations for requested items after the request has been made.
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Default Sortting option for the historic loans
When opening the historic loans tab , the "Sort by" dropdown default value is empty and the results are not sorted.
So historic loans details are shown at random.
Only when the user selects the desired "Sort by" value as "Returned date - newest", the results will sort.Please make the default option "Returned date - newest" for the historic loans.
Then users can immediately check the book with the latest return date.Thanks in advanced.
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Index local in Advanced search
We have a local index with a closed list of values and we would like to present only this list of values to users doing an advanced search.
An example with the local index "Original language" based on the 905 field. This field contains three possible values: Yes, No, Bilingual.
We would like for an advanced search, when the user chooses the Original Language index, to present the closed list that shows three possible values: Yes No Bilingual
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Show unnormalized facet Academic Department in PRIMO VE
We want the PRIMO VE shows the Facet as an unnormalized text as we see in ALMA.
It only displays the initial letter of each word in uppercase and removes hyphens and other punctuation marks.
For example in ALMA we see a Academic department "FCS- Nutrició" and in the Primo VE now we see as "Fcs Nutrició"
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Allow A-Z facet to have both title and alternative title
Use case: Users will look for databases and journals by the name they know, which often doesn't match the official title in the 245 field. We would like the ability to add more than one entry to the atoz facet so that users can find items by both the title and alternative title.
Example:
245 Education Database - under E
246 Proquest Education Database - under PThis would improve the user experience and findability for our subscription resources.
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Suppress ellipsis in journals holdings summary
When journals holdings are displayed in Primo VE, if the holding record has the field 866 (configured in Discovery> Holdings Display Configuration), is shown three points (ellipsis) that lead the user to think that we are still receiving issues but really the journal is not open. this.
Example: https://polibuscador.upv.es/permalink/34UPV_INST/m0gkge/alma996886043803706 https://www.screencast.com/t/sIu1QtKv0However, when the holdings record does not have this 866 field, it does not display the three dots.
Example https://polibuscador.upv.es/permalink/34UPV_INST/m0gkge/alma996886281903706 https://www.screencast.com/t/NUcSikfAKWe believe that these three points should disappear since with the link "See more" the user can see the additional information corresponding to field 866) and not show ...…
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View full record in results view
The current behaviour to move from search results to exploring a record is to open a pop up to view the full record.
This takes the user away from the results set they are working with.
There is feedback that some users dislike pop ups.
We have also observed that many users open full records in a new tab in order to have records of interest open in tabs to go explore in detail later whilst continuing to work with the search results.
To match user behaviour in exploring search results I'd like to suggest an option to open the…5 votes -
Ability to search non-english (especially Scandinavian) characters in local data and CDI data in a consistent way
A growing number of Central Discovery Index (CDI) sources contain the original non-english characters for specific languages, e.g. Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) letters such as æ,ä, ø, ö and å. Searching the original Scandinavian letters works for both local and CDI data. However, searching non-English letters are cumbersome for foreign users. There are different ways to anglicize these characters. The traditional Scandinavian way is to use a "folded variant": "ä" -> "ae", "ö" -> "oe", etc. However, this only works for local data (institution zone). CDI use the method of simply removing the dots: "ä" -> "a", "ö" -> "o",…
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Request in PRIMO VE - Terms of Use (TOU) selection appears unnecessarily
When there is only one TOU in the Request, the option to choose TOU should not be displayed.
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Search Limiters for Accessibility Features
As a cataloger, I would like to propose a new option to filter search results for items with accessibility features (captions, audio descriptions, large print, etc). We are in the process of adding 041 subfields (mostly p and q), and 341 and 532 fields to our records in order to help users more easily identify items intended for those with hearing or visual disabilities. Ideally, this feature would utilize that input based on the presence of indicators in the 341 or 532 fields (i.e., 0 and 1) or controlled vocabulary terms to create search facets or indications (similar to the…
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Transformation routine to convert number range to list
Have a transformation routine that will convert a range of numbers to a list. For example
input: 3-8
output: 3,4,5,6,7,8This would be very helpful in the search section, as users often search for a series and volume number, but if the series number is in a range they won't find it. E.g., this search will fail
Series entry:
The big series, v.24-35user search:
big series 31With the new transformation, the search section of the pnx would have
The big series, v.24,25,26,27,28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35
and the search would work.13 votes -
Poder configurar la ordenación de los items/holdings en Primo VE
Primo no permite configurar la ordenación de los holdings o de los items asociados a un holding en la Vista completa del registro (sección Get It).
En nuestro caso, tenemos holdings diferentes asociados a una misma ubicación y biblioteca. Primo VE no permite ordenar estos holdings por signatura (ver en la imagen adjunta el ejemplo número 1).
Por otra parte, hay casos en los que muchos items dependen de un mismo holding. En este caso nos gustaría que se pudieran ordenar por disponibilidad, es decir, que se mostraran en primer lugar los items disponibles. En el ejemplo 2 del documento…22 votes -
Add permalinks to Resource Sharing Form
When a user submits a RS request for an item in Primo, it would be helpful to have a permalink as part of that form. There is a "Source" field, but that isn't helpful in tracking down the original record the user was on. If the metadata in the request doesn't parse into the form correctly (which it sometimes doesn't for less common material types) and the user failed to add more detail, it would be helpful to have the permalink.
3 votes -
Customize response page for error 404 resource not found
To be able to customize response page for error 404 resource not found: either to be able to set up a customized web page with some informative text, or to be able to redirect to starting page of Primo
1 vote -
Chinese records should be ordered by pinyin
For the mainland China customers, it would be great that the Chinese records are ordered by pinyin when choose sort by "Title" or "Author" for result list.
1 vote -
"resource recommender"
Provide the option to hide individual entries in the resource recommender from public view
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Add 'Not contains' to Primo VE Advance Search
Please add the 'Not contains' search logic to Primo VE advanced search.
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Journal search>Browse by categories : allow indexing of Unimarc journals (PrimoVE)
Currently, only journals described in Marc21 are indexed by subject in Journal Search.
The Unimarc community is now large in Alma/PrimoVE, and the Browse by Categories function would be useful if it took into account all formats.
The idea would be to allow indexing of journals described in Unimarc, which have Rameau/LC subject fields in 60X and LCC field in 680.36 votesHi,
We would like to update that this idea is still not planned, but still being examined for a future release.
Best regards,
Yael.
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Ability to merge deduped records in Primo VE
In Primo VE, you can currently choose to display a preferred dedup record (in the full and brief display), either from Alma-P, Alma-E or Alma-D (or none, and the first record to show up in the result list will display).
We would like to add the option to merge all local records. This is the default behaviour in Primo classic.
27 votes
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