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Differenciate display of GetItOther depending on search scope slot
We're in a consortium, with the search scope slots
- IZ
- NZ + CDIIn both search scope slots we want to display the call numbers of all consortium libraries in the full title display.
It is possible to collapse the call numbers from outside our IZ:
https://www.carli.illinois.edu/products-services/i-share/discovery-interface/custom_package_collapsegetitotherBut we'd like to differenciate:
- collapsed in search scope slot IZ
- open in search scope slot NZ + CDI1 vote -
Direct linking for digital objects to become customizable
At Leiden University we would like the direct linking to be customizable. If a record is related to both an electronic and a digital service, the electronic service is now preferred. We would like to be able to choose the digital service to be chosen.
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Display all editions of FRBR items even when using scroll wheel or right button
In brief display in Primo, we can choose what will be displayed when a user clics on an FRBR title :
- a single item / a single edition in full display chosen by an algorithm ;
- or the list of all editions in brief display. This is what we have chosen to display, so our users can't miss the fact that we have several editions of the same book.But it actually only works if the user uses the left button of a mouse.
When using scroll wheel or right button, you always have an item chosen by…
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Retain search field keywords when switching to Browse Search
The following is a request from one of our teaching faculty. "When a subject heading search is performed in [the search scope for my institution's holdings] and the patron then wants to browse other variants of the subject heading and clicks on BROWSE in the top bar, the search box is blank. Then the patron has to retype (or if they are experienced and have copied the subject heading) paste it in and perform the search again. It seems like a simple fix to make the search term sticky so it would automatically populate the browse box."
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"resource recommender"
Provide the option to hide individual entries in the resource recommender from public view
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Chinese records should be ordered by pinyin
For the mainland China customers, it would be great that the Chinese records are ordered by pinyin when choose sort by "Title" or "Author" for result list.
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Customize response page for error 404 resource not found
To be able to customize response page for error 404 resource not found: either to be able to set up a customized web page with some informative text, or to be able to redirect to starting page of Primo
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Show both in-text and reference citation formats for APA 7
With version 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA 7) citation format, there are two formats: one for in-text and one for reference citations.
The first (in-text) is to be used within the body of the text; the second (reference) is to be used in a bibliography.
There are differences between the two styles. For more information on the differences, please see https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations and https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references.
It looks like when Primo uses the Citation Style Language (CSL) Repository (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles) to add styles, it only picks up the In-text format citation from the APA 7 definition on the CSL…
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Add support for the following HTML tags : <ul>, <li>, <sub>, <sub>.
So that they can be embedded into records to improve the frontend display.
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holdings information search "starts with"
When searching for Holdings Information in advanced search then changing the operator option to "Starts with", changes the search to Title rather than holding information.
The "starts with" operator should only be an option when the user is using the Title Search operator.1 vote -
Show item availablity on the top level for 'Group Locations by Library in Get It'
In April 2022 we got the "Group Locations by Library in Get It" feature: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/2022/010Primo_VE_2022_Release_Notes#Group_Locations_by_Library_in_Get_It-98574
To save users' time when it comes to finding out whether an item is available or not, would it be possible to show the item availability already on the top level, for each library? Color coding wouldn't hurt either, indicating instantly whether a location has the item available or not.
A rough example in the attached files.
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Multi-select and Typeahead search fields (e.g. language)
Currently Primo VE only allows a user to select one language at a time via dropdown. This is a poor user experience that doesn't allow users to multiple languages at once, and makes the dropdown more difficult to use as more options are added to it.
Having an interface where the user can select multiple items at once as well as type to suggest a language will allow more flexibility for users researching items in specific languages
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Facet "Availability" : display order
I would like to be able to choose the order in which items are displayed in the "Availability" facet, and thus put the most important ones first.
In the backoffice, a "display order" column exists. I created a case to know why the display did not correspond to my choice. The person who answered, told me that it was not used in the user interface, and that it was considered as an improvement request.
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Make both the label and the code from the controlled vocabulary registry searchable
When adding a controlled vocabulary to the registry and afterwards connecting it to a certain MARC field in Primo VE, patrons now can only search using the code and not the label.
As an example imagine a controlled vocabulary with the entry ECON (code) and Economy and Finance (label). If ECON (the code) is stored in the record and the patron searches for Economy and Finance in that field (in advanced filter), he or she will get no results. If you search for ECON however all relevant records will be returned.
Of course the patrons are not supposed to know…1 vote -
Resource type filter bar: after a search, terms with no hits should be inactive or a counter should be visible
The resource type filter bar under the search field will remind patrons of Google. Which is good, because they know how that works.
But: there is no indication in Primo VE that the filters are also visible and clickable if there are no hits behind them.
Please either add a counter (which would be consistent with the facets in the side column), or deactivate the terms that don't have hits, so that they are not clickable.
Clicking on something and landing on an empty page is frustrating.
-> Book chapters and Music scores have no hits, but the…
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Add document delivery transactions to Requests tab in 'My Account'
Current digitization (document delivery/digitization) requests are shown when requests are in process. I would like docdel and digitization requests to be available in the Requests tab until they are expired.
Ideally, a download button would be available while the document is available ( before the doc expires or max views has been exceeded) and the number of remaining views is displayed (see image).
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Remove Pickup location entry from digitization entry in my requests
When digitization requests are in process, a pickup location is displayed. This doesn't make sense for something that is a digitization or document delivery request, since there is nothing to "pickup". I realize this is a holdover from the photocopy days, but perhaps it might make more sense if patrons had the option to request physical delivery for a digitization request ("request physical copy") and ask them to designate a pickup location rather than having users assign a pickup location for all digital requests.
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Allow the view code field to be editable
To enable seamless updates to the Primo interface it would be useful for the Code for the view to be editable.
This would allow you to continue to use the same public address for your Primo instance, but switch the view to a new one by changing the code in the Back Office. For example, it would allow you to switch from a the current live view to a new one.
Currently the field cannot be edited (see screenshot).
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"Show Source Record" to users with Alma Staff Role only
Although we can now display the MARC record in the UI using the "Show source records" we feel this feature is only really useful for Library staff and not for the vast majority of users who will not find it useful and will just add clutter to the full record for the majority. Ideally we would like the "Show source records" to be linked to the Alma library staff role so it will only display when our library staff are logged into Primo.
Currently the only option to display this link in the UI is to have it appear for…
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