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The Resource Sharing Request Form and Hold Request Form should allow letters in the start page, end page, and Pages to Photocopy fields.
There are a number of academic journals that use alphabet characters when numbering their publications- especially in supplement volumes. These characters should be allowed when patrons submit requests for materials.
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Display requester note for purchase requests in "Requests" tab of "My Library Card"
Users who submit purchase requests in Primo VE put information in the requester note explaining why they are interested in an item. It would be useful for them to be able to review that note later (especially if it takes a while for a purchase request to be processed and they need to be reminded why they submitted the request), but users without access to the purchase request module in Alma have no easy way to review that information in Primo VE after they submit their requests. It would therefore be helpful for the "Requests" tab of "My Library Card"…
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Research Assistant: please allow to link external website for help pages
The current RA help page is built from the contents of code tables, but this doesn't give much flexibility in lay-out, to include images etc. Our question is that institutions also have the possibility to link to their own web pages for documentation and help.
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please add pick up library in purchase request form for patron to choose if checking "reserve"
Hi, sir,
There is purchase request library in primo VE purchase request form.
But usually the request library is not same as user pick up library, if patron check "reserve", that mean once the purchase is accepted and book send to library ,alma will generate a reserve for this request.
but now has no patron's pick up library for reference.
so please add a pick up library filed in purchase request form if checking "reserve".
Thanks ~20 votes -
Show the date/time a question is asked in the AI research assistant, and in the copied result.
The date/time a question was asked is only visible when hovering over the question in the research history sidebar. This is a problem especially when working with history items that have multiple questions.
Scenario: User asks a question on something contemporary. They want to ask the same question in 3 months and then again in 6 months as more sources become available.From the history they open their previous question and use the "Try again" function. In another few weeks they do this again.
The question responses do not indicate when each iteration of the question was asked.
If they…11 votes -
Make alternative text for book covers and icons in results more meaningful
To improve accessibility for users of screen readers, please enhance the alternative text for images in Primo search results. In the brief results list, each image in the results has "Image 1", "Image 2", etc. as alt text. The cover in the full display has "Image" as the alt text. I saw in the Primo Accessibility Roadmap https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Materials/Primo_Accessibility/Primo_Accessibility_Roadmap
that Alternative Text is a checkpoint on the road map (1.1.1.a), but Ex Libris Tech Support said that checkpoint does not include these images.3 votes -
pq access numbers for collection id 613170000000000058
Please add ProQuest access numbers for collection id 613170000000000058. When patrons find these records in Primo and create Resource Sharing requests, our RS team needs to spend too much time searching for the access numbers so that they can purchase copies of dissertations.
Thank you!
1 vote
AdminTamar Ganor
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Hello,
After consulting with the content support team, we have decided to re-open this idea and move it to the Primo forum. This change is necessary because presenting this field requires development work, and we currently do not have an appropriate place to display it.
Kind regards,
Tamar
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Primo default language
When opening discovery, the language showed is the default one set in the Alma configuration. Many website today are capable to adapt the default language depending on the language set in the browser or the ip adress or other technologies.
The current idea propose to investigate and eventually apply the technologies that allows an automatic adjustment of the primo default language.1 vote -
Make "Subject is(exact)" a precision search that returns results based on exact subjects
Currently in legacy Primo, a Subject is(exact) search returns items that do not have the specified terms in the visible records, but returns matches from the CDI metadata that is not presented in the record. For clarity of functionality, returning only results that include the specified terms would be preferable. (Similar to NERS 8871 which was focused on the Title fields.)
(An alternative would be to increase transparency of results so that the CDI metadata that constitutes a match is visible to end users.)
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Display only the last entered Date Range facet
When a person refines a date a second time in Primo, Primo simply displays an additional date facet in the Active Filters area. For example, a person initially filters a search to Years: 1919-2025 and then decides to filter again by Years: 2024-2025. Instead of removing the first date facet and replacing it with the second, Primo simply adds the second facet underneath the first facet. This does not make sense and presents a usability problem for the end user. In all other cases, when two facets are used within the same category, they are to be regarded as having…
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Resource Type Filter Bar buttons: users expect them to unclick if they change the search scope dropdown
Users raised that they would like the Resource Type Filter Bar buttons to reset themselves to "All" when they repeat their search in a different dropdown scope.
This is especially relevant when the new combination of search scope and resource type doesn't give any hits, e.g. searching the print catalogue scope with the button clicked to see only electronic articles.
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Being able to choose "emailing and printing exporting actions" fields
The print and export options are currently limited.
It would be a lot of help if we could choose the fields that are being exported to excel (or at least add the location field there), and which are being printed. Currently, in the print version there a lot of fields (all of the get it fields) and it takes a lot of space in a printed list for a patron. 4-5 pages for 15 results. The minimum is that there will be a long version and a short one to print, but better of if we could choose which fields…11 votes -
Modernize purchase request from customisation
The Rialto purchase request form has a much improved user experience for requesters, a modern style and simpler, more flexible configuration. Its downfall is that it has NO authentication. The product team have reviewed this idea (https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/940011-rialto/suggestions/46699696-enable-authentication-on-purchase-request-web-form) and advised that adding authentication does not fit with the Rialto roadmap.
There are some disappointed Rialto customers at this news. Libraries have indicated that they cannot use the Rialto form because it has no authentication.
However, providing an improved UX for the purchase request form used in Primo would benefit many more libraries and their thousands of customers - and…52 votes -
Ask for confirmation when deleting saved searches
In “Saved searches” and “Search history” sections, when clicking on remove icon, the query is deleted immediately.
A popup asking for confirmation could help preventing unwanted deletions
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Enable person entity functionality at the view level
The new feature (May 2024) for person entities is either on or off for all views.
For some special-purpose views it may be inappropriate to display person entity cards. At present the library would have to deploy a customisation package to allow it to show on some views, but hide it on others. It would be simpler to enable via check boxes in a view's general tab.
Libraries should be able to configure whether or not the results returned in the carousels on a person entity page are controlled by the view's search scopes. e.g. titles that are excluded from…
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Open Access articles to display in full text results
Currently, if only displaying CDI results with full text, articles tagged as open access aren't included. These are only displayed if the user toggles to show results with no full text.
Ideally, articles tagged Open Access would also be included when displaying results with full text. The tag would need to bypass the link resolver process so those results are also included.
This would reduce the number of users putting in ILL requests when they didn't realised the article was available OA.
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FRBR generic: make display of the generic record customizable
We use FRBR generic (in Primo VE) because we deem FRBR preferred to be too confusing for our patrons.
We can't fix the duplicate display of contributors' names.
Example:
https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Homer%27s%20Iliad%20translated%20by%20Richmond%20Lattimore&tab=UBS&search_scope=UBS&vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&lang=en&offset=0, see also screenshot.Lattimore is displayed three times, Martin twice.
As this is supposed to be a generic display, no contributors should be displayed here.
We got the following response from Ex Libris in our case:
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With the 'Generic record' option enabled, when conducting a search in Primo, in the list of results for a FRBR group, you will see a very generic record which is hardcoded and…34 votes -
Create/add in the ability to show and filter ALL content by place of publication and other data point relevant for decolonising collections
With linked data being such a big part of what has being talked about so far in relation to NDE and AI being used in some new projects such as Primo:Research Assistant, we feel that it's the best time to think about using this data and the data in the CDI records to try and develop tools to identifying, show, filter place of publication or nationality of authors.
We have developed our own facet using local fields, regular expressions and information in the MARC 008 to display the place of publication for items in our collection and filter by facet…
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Inform patrons about Pick from Shelf
This is something we are really missing since we switched to Primo VE.
I find a book I want to borrow, my library has it, but it's open stacks, which means I can't request it online to be picked up in the owning library.
In our older catalog we had a pop up message to inform the patrons that they can fetch the item from the shelf themselves.
DTU (https://findit.dtu.dk) solves it like this, which is exactly what we need - see screenshot dtu1.png
Under B, we'd show the possible pickup locations, as we do now.
A is…
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HTML Language Tag customizable for Screen Readers
In order to improve the accessibility of Primo, it would be helpful if one would be able to choose country-specific language settings for screen readers by the HTML language tag. We would be interested in the language setting “de-AT” to be available to recognize the Austrian variety of the German language. This could also be interesting for a lot of other languages.
64 votes
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