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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 -
Hide collections
Right now public Primo collections need to be deleted in order to hide them from public view; correspondingly, if a collection is suppressed from Discovery when it is created, it cannot be unsuppressed. It would be useful to be able to simply hide and unhide collections easily, for things like making changes, or themed collections whose time have passed.
6 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,…
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Enhance possibility to show information out of linked authority records
Introduce new Authority Info Card based on Linked Data URI. Utilize Linked Data URIs to present new Information Card in various displays (search results list, brief & full display). Enrich the display with more information on linked entities and related resources made available thanks to the URI. This functionality should be provided for all authority sources available in the Community Zone that offer linked data URIs such as GND, Rameau, etc.
6 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 -
add a link to the location section
We would like to be able to create an embedded link to the location section in PRIMO VE (please see image attached)
This embedded link would then be added to a libguide to provide real time information on the location of the item
1 vote -
Advanced Search option in Collection Discovery for Alma-D
Primo's public Collection Discovery pages currently lack the ability to run advanced searches. As a result, only keyword searches are possible at either the collection or sub-collection level, which prevents users from being able to limit or refine searches by necessary fields like Date, Creator, etc. This means that users have to browse collections, sub-collections, and items more broadly than is often helpful when an advanced search would be more likely to bring them immediately relevant results. Primo's Advanced Search for regular discovery is a valuable tool that should also appear in Alma-D's Collection Discovery.
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Make the Resource Recommender Banner fit the length of the resource description
The banner description text is truncated in the first line, making the display of the description dependent on its length and even shorter when viewed on mobile devices. It would be great if the height of the banner would auto-adjust to show all the text.
I attach images showing this (banner.png) and how we would like it to be displayed (banner_modified.png).
Thanks
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Additional Function:Excludes unnecessary resource types in Specialized Search Scopes for CDI
■Idea
When configuring "Specialized Search Scopes for CDI" https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/040Search_Configurations/010Configuring_Search_Profiles_for_Primo_VE
in Primo VE, currently only 5 CDI resource types can be selected, so we want to change the system that unnecessary resource types can be excluded.■Context
Regarding "Exclude eBooks from CDI Results - Phase 2 (NERS #6702)", In Phase 1, all books were excluded from search, but after Phase 2, some books remain in the search results.To exclude books for this reasons,we would like to set the "Specialized Search Scopes for CDI" with limited number of CDI resource types.
But the maximum number of resource types that can be…16 votes -
Add ability to control local record access information in Primo
Primo managed via Back Office has powerful functionality to control access information in Primo for all our local records.
This includes the aligned features of availability statements and Get It / View It by Delivery & Scoping rules, Links rules for all harvested data sources, and the option to build custom mapping tables for references in various rules, all of which can be married with top level facets by Facet rules.These features provide necessary information in Primo as expected for a core discovery layer functionality of advising users how they can access and request our resources, and avoids wasting…
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Usage of the pre-filter options within Primo VE
At the OU, we are interested in seeing the usage of the pre-filter options within Primo VE. While the 'basic search with pre-filter' option is counted, the individual pre-filter options are not. We need this data to better understand our user behaviour in order to make improvements to our service. We also want to see the usage of pre-filters to help us decide whether to go live with the new pre-filter options.
3 votes -
Bulk search results export
In a recent user survey, students provided feedback they would like the ability to export all or a large number of their search results. Currently they are limited to a maximum of 50 results at a time. Users reported they had worked to create a search strategy and were disappointed they could not obtain a full list of their search results, and were forced to move to searching individual databases instead.
17 votes -
Add editing functionality to labels/tags created in My Favorites
Currently, there is no way to edit a label created in My Favorites to organize items you have saved/Pinned to My Favorites. It would be helpful to be able to edit typos or make adjustments to the label as needed, without have to reassign items.
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Ability to boost newer editions as 5 publication dates does not do this job well.
Currently we have older editions showing above newer editions in Primo VE. It would be helpful to be able to boost editions by the number of the edition. Currently the date boost has only 5 possible options in Primo VE. This means you can only add 5 separate years to regulate newer editions showing above old ones. Uses date ranges doesn't work as the edition between the range get same boost. Either you need to increase the number of date boost entries or create an ability to boost by edition.
11 votes -
Create search alerts for results obtained from selecting a "view sources citing this" link from an original article
Our users would like to be able to track when new citations are added to a list of sources derived from the "view sources citing this" feature.
They suggest this could be done by creating a search alert to advise them of the changes.
1 vote -
Feedback Tool for Primo VE - ability to disable categories
For the Primo VE Feedback Tool, we would like to have the ability to disable the email form so that we can link instead to our existing form and chat service from the report.generalText bubble. Basically, we would have zero categories/issue types configured so that the email options would not be presented to the user. The user would only see the report.generalText bubble (see edited screenshot attached).
3 votes -
Make the Blank Request Form Customizable Based on User Group
Make the Blank Request Form customizable based on which user group is logging in to use it.
We are switching to using the Blank Request Form for resource sharing, however as a library that serves a university, college and community we would like to be able to customize which fields patrons see based on their user group.
Our university students have the option of picking up items at any of our consortium partner schools. The college and community members do not have this option. However there is no way to prevent them from seeing the pick up anywhere option on…
3 votes -
Link generic checkbox in purchase request form to hold item function
We are using the purchase request form in PrimoVE. Is there a way to link the generic checkbox to the hold item function in the associated po line? So the hold item checkbox in the associated PO line is activated when the user checks the generic checkbox in the purchase request form? This would make it easier for us to manage purchase requests.
3 votes -
Discovery Import Profile - Scheduled [Reload and Delete]
Not all external repositories have deleted records in their metadata, and the only way for us to remove deleted records from Primo would be to manually run the 'Reload and Delete' process on the Import Profile.
An option to have this scheduled would be helpful
5 votes -
Push record to Zotero
Add the Zotero reference manager as an additional action link in the "Send to" section, just like Mendeley or EndNote.
105 votes
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