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Automatically open to full display when there is only one result for the search.
When a Primo search finds an exact match (only one record displays in the search results list), it would be useful (and reduce clicks) if the record automatically opened to the full display. If a user knows exactly what they're looking for, the interim (brief) display is unnecessary. A direct link to the full display is currently only possible from a permalink. The permalink contains the publishing id which is not available from Alma APIs, analytics or source record. Search urls using the source record id should automatically open to the full display.
7 votes -
Add 'Show more' - 'Show less' options
Where Primo displays significant amounts of metadata from a single record in search results and the 'Details' section (such as very long lists of authors / subjects or very detailed summaries, contents notes, etc.), it would be useful if the text being displayed was truncated and options to Show more/less were provided for the user.
23 votes -
Ability to set the primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/ url to redirect to default view.
Currently the / url either errors out or redirects to alma. Since many users just go to the root url it would be great to have this redirect to the default view
1 vote -
Make the New Primo UI more CSS friendly
While the new Primo interface gave us more power to extend functionality via JavaScript it does not do the same for modifications via CSS due to the lack of properly marked up content.
In some parts of the New UI the content is well described, often with custom HTML elements, but there are also many places, often in the higher levels in the DOM tree, where better described selectors (preferably through classes) are needed.
For example, there is currently no selector that show the current system that is being displayed. The <prm-explore>-element could have the current system being shown as…
94 votes -
Ability to delete lines from advanced search
At the moment in advanced search in the new UI you can add up to 7 new lines but not delete any of them if you change your mind about a search query and want to delete a line you have added. Clearing just takes you back to the beginning again
10 votes -
Resource Sharing form direct linking to support SAML2 login
Currently direct linking to the Alma Resource Sharing form is only possible with PDS authentication.
We would like to suggest support for SAML Authentication.
The following page on the knowledge centre discusses direct linking to the almarsform
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/060Alma-Primo_Integration/040Configuring_the_Primo_Front_End_for_an_Alma_Data_Source/100Direct_Linking_to_the_Resource_Sharing_Request_Form17 votes -
Display twitter and messages in the third column
Summon allows us to display messages and Twitter in the third column. Please can Primo be made to do this?
8 votes -
marcit loads of e-journals should have a peer-reviewed/open-access subfield
Since there is no sfx ideas exchange, I will post this idea here since there is no trigger/flag for open access or peer-reviewed as part of the MARCIt profile. This would be helpful for journal loads. Seems to me that if you're sitting on the article data, you might be able to flag the journal record within the marcit profile, no?
Thanks,
Allen1 vote -
MOBILE
The Inter-library Loan option is visible, but greyed out, if the user is not signed in to the Primo new UI, however, on mobile devices, it is not visible at all, i.e. not greyed out.
We think the interface should be identical no matter what device is used.3 votes -
add autocomplete function to search scope dropdown
we have a large number of search scopes which appear in a dropdown in the new ui search box. it's currently possible to type a single letter and jump to the relevant point in the list but it would be a better experience if an autocomplete function could be implemented instead - this would mean that the number of scopes in the dropdown would reduce the more characters are typed. we implemented a customised menu in the classic ui which worked in this way and it was very popular with users...
7 votes -
Allow customization of the item status field in Primo
The item status field is misleading for material that is on order. Primo displays a message saying “Item not yet received, expected on DD/MM/YYYY”. This date can be several weeks in the future. It is calculated by adding a set number of days specific to a vendor to the date that the order was sent to the vendor. The number of days is set according to when it is judged to be appropriate to claim items which have not been received. We therefore tend to set it as eight or so weeks in the future for many vendors. In reality…
10 votes -
my account
We would like users to be able to see historic fine payments in My Account, to reduce confusion over what payments had already been made.
3 votes -
Filter out the default search result titles with the status "Citation Available" which don't have full text available under PCI
We expect the default search results of PCI contain full text titles only. But we found there are result titles which don't have full text with the status "citation available" (e.g. in the collection RAMBI, http://www.lib.ouhk.edu.hk/primo-explore/fulldisplay?docid=TN_rambi000465453&context=PC&vid=ouhk&lang=en_US&search_scope=pc_gs_ebook_ebsco_scope&adaptor=primo_central_multiple_fe&tab=pga_tab&query=any,contains,RAMBI&sortby=rank&facet=domain,include,RAMBI%20-%20%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%91%27%27%D7%99&offset=0). We hope the no-full-text titles be filtered out.
William Wai-yan NG
Assistant Librarian II
The Open University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2768 67551 vote -
Filter out the titles with the status "Citation Available" which don't have fulltext available under PCI
Filter out the titles with the status "Citation Available" which don't have fulltext available under PCI
William Wai-yan NG
Assistant Librarian II
The Open University of Hong Kong
Tel: (852) 2768 67552 votes -
Show loans/fines as a pop-up when signing in to Primo (New UI)
We think it would be useful to show users their current loans (especially overdues) and any fines in a small pop up window whenever they sign in to Primo, rather than waiting for them to go to My Account specifically.
30 votes -
Numerical order for Search by list
We would like the list search in Primo to show the results in numerical and not just alphabetical order.
For example, for call numbers the number 101 should appear before the number 1000.
Thank you and good day.
Alberto (Italy)43 votes -
Show "multiple sources" in PCI records, instead of hiding the field
When more sources provide PCI with the description for the same bibliographic entity, in Primo Details tab no source is specified.
If the library doesn't have access to all the involved sources, the field is missing and no "View all versions" link is available.
A compromise could be to always show Source: multiple sources or something like that, instead of totally suppressing the field.1 vote -
Make the result list look ok when printed by adding a print stylesheet
Yes, sometimes you actually want to make a print copy of the result list :) But if you try that (with the new UI), the result is a complete mess. I just tried printing a result with 5 results, expecting them to fit into one page. Instead I got three pages, and two of the results disappeared altogether.
To make the result list look ok when printed, we need a print stylesheet. Of course every Primo customer can spend hours trying to make their own, but it would be much better if Primo could ship with a default stylesheet that…
14 votes -
Add more citation styles to Primo VE
I propose to add JEL (Journal of Economic Literature) citation style to support researchers in Finance and Economics.
1 vote -
An option to move the send-to section in Primo VE
We would like to be able to control the location of the send-to section in the Primo VE full record display.
99 votes
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