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Include Local collections in Collection Facet
Primo with PCI and CDI do not show Local Collection names in the Collection Facet. This is a disservice to our locally loaded collections. The way this facet is currently configured, it only relates with metadata fields on CDI records and will not show local collections.
19 votes -
Display and edit all user addresses in my account By now, only the preferred address defined in Alma is displayed in Primo my account. All
Display and edit all user addresses in my account
By now, only the preferred address defined in Alma is displayed in Primo my account. All Alma user addresses should be displayed and be editable by patrons in my account of Primo. This is important for better transparency and to avoid invalid and deprecated addresses. It should also be possible to chooses the Address types in my Primo account to preferred, secondary, work and office.
44 votes -
"Title starts with" advanced search should search alternate titles, too
The "Title starts with" advanced search in Primo and Primo VE only searches the 245 field, not the 246. This is problematic in cases where a title contains special characters, numbers, etc. For instance, if a user is doing a "Title starts with" search for a book called "Understanding & Dismantling Racism," they would need to use the ampersand rather than spelling out "and" in order to find the book. This is in spite of the fact that the bibliographic record for that book contains a 246 field with the "and" spelled out. One of the points of the 246…
44 votes -
To have possible filtering FRBR groups to display only records that match with the search definition
it is important to have possible filtering FRBR groups to display only records that match with the search definition. It happens in recommended bibliography. They are reprints of the same book with the same ISBN, but students need only the last reprint. So, it would be useful to filter FRBR groups and display the last reprint not all of them.
3 votes -
Primo alerts - user defined frequency and digest options
Based on user suggestions, it would be helpful if, when users set themselves an alert for a saved search, they could choose the frequency with which these came through.
Some users might want them more/less than weekly.
Also, perhaps users could also choose to receive the alerts in a digest form: with the update for every search bundled into one email.
2 votes -
Sort by library in the Location facet when library name is configured to display
When the option to display the library name in the Location facet is configured, we would like the Location facet to be sorted alphabetically by library.
Currently, the facet list is sorted by location, which means that results for the same library are scattered among the list. For a user it would make more sense to have all the locations from the same library listed together.
16 votes -
Please provide an option to search items from sub-collections together
Please provide an option to search items from sub-collections together. Now users only can search the items in the current collection but usually the items in sub-collections are also relevant result for the search query. Some may think they can just go back to the basic search page and search again but the others would think it's uncomfortable because they are already familiar with Windows File search function.
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Adding Facets to Database Search page.
By adding a 'Facets' pane to the Database Search results page, consistency between the different search type's results will be improved and users will be able to post-filter Find Databases searches.
For example: a user would be able to filter by both subject AND resource type as used to be possible when the Metalib interface was used for the Databases A-Z list.42 votes -
Sub-collections: allowing a different description at the top level from a click further down
With sub-collections, we would like to be able to have a different description at the top level, than at a click further down.
For instance, on the collections page, a sub-collection description might simply read:
"Relating to agriculture and rural development"
, whereas, once the user has clicked into that sub-collection, they would see a different, and potentially more ample, description, such as:
"Material relating to all aspects of agriculture and rural development including material dealing with soil, irrigation, crops, farming material and village life."
6 votes -
Browse tab results display: don't follow creator immediately by publication date
In the results display on Browse tab for LC call number searches, the creator (1XX) is (almost) immediately followed by the publication date. (There's a space between the two fields). In cases where the 1XX field ends with an open-ended date, it looks like the publication year is a death date.
The attached file has an example which shows:
Financing consumer sales ... [title]
Geva, Benjamin, 1946- 1984 [authority (1xx) date of publication]The work was published in 1984, I was in a meeting with Geva last month so he's clearly still alive. The current display is misleading and could…
7 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.
759 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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DDA portfolios should be presented as Online Preview Available or something else
DDA portfolios (e.g. ProQuest E-book Preview) should be presented as Online Preview Available or something distinguishable that the institution can customize. Patrons are often confused.
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Primo Saved Search email - link color setting
Improve color customization of Saved Search Email Alerts
The February 2020 Primo feature does not allow us to customize the link text in the header (used for the terms of the saved search), which leads to contrast issues.
Similar to the "Unsubscribe" customization, there should be a similar component to set the color of link text in the header.
4 votes -
Keep chosen UI language after login
At the moment, following login, the Primo UI changes to either
a) preferred UI user language as indicated in the user preferences, or
b) default language
This leads to odd situations, for example,
User changes UI (from German) to English -> everything is now in English
Does a search etc etc -> still in English
Logs in - Login etc window in English
After successful login, the user is returned to Primo... but in German!
This is inexplicable for the user, and unless they know about preferences, and where to set them, it happens every time.
Note to change preferences…
21 votes -
Could the blank resource sharing request form check the Alma link resolver before a user submits the request
We have configured the blank resource sharing request form into our Primo menu. Before submitting a request on this form it would be useful if the request was check against our institutional collection using the Alma link resolver (similar to what happens with the Citation linker).
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Make Primo retain search filters by default
It is currently possible to retain search filters in Primo by selecting individual ones and clicking "Make this filter persistent through this session". I believe the interface would be more user-friendly if all selected filters were retained by default, and would only be cleared if the user selected individual ones to remove or clicked the "Reset all" button.
3 votes -
Able to display electronic holding (coverage) statements in chronology sequence – from oldest to newest, instead of random order
We find that the autoload holding statements supplied by vendor ScienceDirect is in chronology sequence (from oldest to newest). But the display of multiple holding statements in Primo GetIT is random or not in sequence after the autoload of holding statements.
e.g. International journal of radiation oncology, biology, physics.
https://julac.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/1m2sapd/HKPU_IZ51203553420003411
Holding statements should be display in chronology order so that user can easily identify which year we have accessing right, instead of browsing through all the holding statements. Can it be fixed?
9 votes -
Enable synonymisation in phrase searches
It is still the case in Primo that one version of a synonymised term proves searchable as a phrase search, but not both, despite both having been added to the local and/or hosted versions (delete where applicable) of the Primo synonym list.
E.g. “Versus” and “vs” have been added to the synonym list, but whilst a search for “Semantics versus pragmatics” returns results, a search for “Semantics vs pragmatics” returns none.
It needs to be appreciated that there will always be instances where performing a search without speechmarks for a search term that includes a synonym isn't practicable, in particular…
1 vote -
Display item(s) cost in patron loan letters or My Account to show savings.
We'd like to be able to let patrons know how much money they saved by using the library as opposed to paying for books themselves. To do this, we'd like to be able to display item cost information (such as from the POL in Alma) for items loaned either in the Loan Letter or in the patron's account.
3 votes -
Add the PNX creator field to records in the Collection Discovery interface
The brief display of the items records in the Collection Discovery interface contains only the document type and the document title, We propose to add at least the creator PNX field to give the user more information about the document without having to open the full display. Ideally, we would like to be able to customize whjch fields appear in the brief display as we already do for the brief display in the result list.
68 votes
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