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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.
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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 -
Return to search results from favorites space
there should be a "return to search results" in the prm-favorites-toolbar in the same way there is the a return to search results for "my account"
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Display only a certain amount of characters in the "Title" area for search results.
Several entries in the PCI, especially Book Reviews, have "incorrect" metadata provided by the vendor, which leads to extremely long titles being displayed in the results page. Having the ability to cap the display of these titles at a customizable number of maximum characters could help in such cases to clean up display (as many times correcting the metadata for these results is beyond ExLibris' capability/authority).
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Preferred Primo Central record should be “Full text available”
“Full text available” records should be ranked higher when determining the preferred record in Primo Central FRBR groups. This is the preferable behavior since this facilitates access to full text of articles for users. Thanks!
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Change wording of "partial results found" error message
Currently when users enter too many boolean operatoCurrently when users enter too many boolean operators or trucation symbols in their search they will get the error message "Partial results found. Please note additional results may be available by refining your search. May we suggest: try reducing the numbers of ? and/or * in your search."
This error message is confusing. What it should really say is something like this:
"Your truncated search terms match too many words. The search cannot retrieve all of them so some records you might expect might be missing from the search results. If you can…3 votes -
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.
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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.
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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.
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Configure collection discovery to display in shelflist order
We are using Collection Discovery to create new books browsing for our top subject areas but it would be great if they could display in shelflist order so like books group together.
What we really want is a low maintenance bookshelf browse feature which auto populates with new resources and removes the old. Anyway, display in LCC or some shelflist order would be good, even if the call number is hidden (because many are ebooks and it might confuse patrons).3 votes -
Brief Record Display in Primo VE
We have just been updating the order of the icons thinks like Citation, Permalink, RefWorks, etc. When you set this up in Alma the order of the itmes is the wrong way round: The first item you want displayed has to be bottom of the icon list, not the top, which is completely counter intuitive. Please can the icons list sort top is first instead?
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Capitals in Tags
Tags work currently only in lower case and this is OK for concepts. But when users need to tag regions and countries, the lower case creates a disturbance. Could it be possible to have tags respect Capitals?
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Automatically reopen all the closed tabs after Primo timeout when sign in again
Some of our patrons like to use Primo with many open tabs, each tab can contain one item they are interested in and want to read/check out. The problem is that if they spend longer time than the timeout limit (one hour for our instance), Primo will automatically log out and close all the tabs. And the patron cannot re-claim/re-open closed tabs after sign in again. It has been a recurring complaint and we think extending the timeout limit is not a good solution. Our expectation for Primo is that when patrons sign in again, the lost/closed tabs from the…
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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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If your default language for Primo is not English you can not customize some Primo labels in Alma
If your default language for Primo is not English you can not customize some Primo labels in Alma.
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Ability to expand all sections in the get it section by default
User Story: Many of our librarians use Primo to search for our records. They would prefer to be able to see the barcode information on all items in the get it section. As soon as they open the record. Rather than having to click each one, show the extra information.
Solution: we are requesting the ability to have all items to be expanded by default in a specific view. So that library staff can see the item information, once they open the record.3 votes -
Audiobooks - display labels need changing
Please enable audiobooks to display as 'Audiobooks' or at a push 'Audio' in Primo. Currently they display as 'Audio CD' which is misleading and confusing to students.
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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…
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Create Primo UI design competition.
Hi All,
most of the ***** sites look quite dull, mostly OOTB look with few enhancements. How about running a competition "The best Primo UI design"?
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Context sensitive help
have a default context sensitive help file(s) in the new UI that can be adapted locally, with local edits being highlighted for change, but not over written when Primo is upgraded and the help text amended centrally.
2 votes
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