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Add scite.ai badges to Primo
Add scite.ai (https://scite.ai/badge) badges to publications surfaced on Primo to show how publications have been supported or disputed.
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Primo May 2022 Release: Display Multiple Links in View It
This feature offers the possibility to show more fulltext links in three sections:
(1) CDI "Subscription" links
(2) Alma iframe with Alma portfolio links
(3) CDI "Open Access" linksHowever, currently it is not possible to configure the display of these sections.
Please think about the following improvements:
Possibility to display all link sections automatically instead of only showing the first link section and a "Show more" option for the other sections (see attachement).
Possibility to decide to display both new link sections (additional CDI "Subscription" links, additional CDI "Open Access" links) or only one of them.
If you have…6 votes -
Allow removal of main title enlargement upon hover in Resource Recommender banner
The default (and expected) behavior of the Resource Recommender banner results in an enlargement of the text entered for the main title field. We are unable to modify this behavior via CSS, find the transition jarring, and would like to have the option of no hover effect or, at minimum, a less extreme one.
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Hide collections
Right now public Primo collections need to be deleted in order to hide them from public view; correspondingly, if a collection is suppressed from Discovery when it is created, it cannot be unsuppressed. It would be useful to be able to simply hide and unhide collections easily, for things like making changes, or themed collections whose time have passed.
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Title in "digital collection" section
In Primo VE, within the "Digital Collections" section, digital records currently display the entire content of field 245 as the title. This results in excessively lengthy titles for certain entries. Ideally, we would prefer that only subfield 245$$a be shown as the title within the "Digital Collections" section.
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Display Primo Viewit links for Alma-D resources above the general electronic services menu
In the viewit segment of the full record display in Primo, links to electronic resources (Alma-E or online resources) display above links to general electronic services. Links to digital resources from Alma-D display below any general electronic service options. Since accessing the resource (either digital or electronic) will generally be the higher priority for users, we would like links to digital resources to always display above any general electronic services.
5 votesCan you please provide more information? seems like in the comment you mentioned a way to prioritize the links.
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Track the date of when a record is deleted
If primo is given a record to be deleted, it is removed from the source record table. This means that there is no indication that Primo ever had the record. Continuing to track the record id would allow the search PNX tool to tell the user when the record was deleted. This would be useful in tracking down problems of missing records that are expected to be in Primo.
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Book covers images for generic FRBR result
In the result list a generic FRBR document does not show a cover image but only the generic FRBR icon. The result list would look much more attractive if also FRBR results had real cover images. Ideally, the real covers images of the top 3 FRBR results were used to form a fan of covers. So, the FRBR icon would only be used if there are no real covers images.
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Why is ExL using a large X as a navigation tool in the new UI?
When I first came across this X, I thought it was a coding fault. It does not seem (to me) intuitive that you should click on it to return to the previous screen. A small x on the top RH corner of the open window would make more sense.
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display call number and/or barcode in list of fines
If a book is on overdue patrons tend to call the library and staff asks for barcode or call number. Unfortunately the user does not see this in its list of loans (New UI). Also, some users loan books with very similar titles, e.g. different editions and asks themselves which edition has lead to overdue and needs to be returned.
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Launch Primo Studio from back office and auto-generate your own view
There is the option from the UI customization Package Manager page in the Primo back office to launch Primo Studio, but at the moment you have to manually adjust the URL and view code in order to see your own version of Primo. On top of this, you also have to manually upload your own view package in order to see your own customisations. I'd like this to be improved so that the launch button from the Primo BO automatically launches Primo Studio with your own UI and all of its customisations so that changes can be applied immediately
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Make search expansions for author names visible to end users
When performing an advanced author search, Primo returns results for associated pseudonyms. For example, an exact author search for J.K. Rowling returns results for the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. However, unlike with keyword search expansions, the user is given no indication that Primo is including results for related terms. This enhancement would make expanded author searches behave like other search expansions by providing proper notification and giving the use the option to exclude the expanded search results.
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Enhanced logo and help link for social authentication page
We are in the process of migrating to Alma/Primo VE. They both share the same social authentication page, and this idea is to enhance the options for this page.
1.) The Primo VE help links which are configurable in Alma config > Discovery > Authentication > User Authentication only appear in the Alma authentication option. If a new patron clicks Sign in, and then clicks Social Sign In, they will never see our help links. I would like to have the option to put a help link on the first Sign in modal page, or on the Social Authentication page…
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Multiple CDI records for one article by the languages of its metadata
Please do not use language filter when CDI merges records. It creates multiple records for one article, which confuses our patrons. (Case 00881023, 00824833) If CDI cannot merge them well, please provide a kind of "See Also" link to other records which have the same DOI. (CDI e-book records already display "Chapters of this book" link under the availability status.)
Many of non-English articles have English version metadata too because many journals oblige it. Western aggregators index English metadata whereas local aggregators index local language metadata. The problem is most of times they don't care about the language of the…
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[My Account] Display Requested media field in Requests View
It would be useful if Requested media field could be configured as a field to display in Requests View(My Account). Currently, the My Account page in Primo only displays limited information for ILL requests so that a user cannot see the full bibliographical details of ILL requests. The My Account page should provide more information to users. Lynne Porat also shared a similar idea in 2017. I appreciate your help in advance.
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Static URL for Pay Fines link
The Pay Fines link in the User Account/Library Card interface should allow for a static URL link instead of including the JWT information at the end of the URL.
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Allow custom error pages if View Code does not exist
Currently any unkown View Code in the URL (e.G: vid=PRIMA) leads to empty page and rotating diamonds.
In the background Angular is unable to fetch the configuration URL /primo_library/libweb/webservices/rest/v1/configuration/PRIMA which is answered by an HTTP 406 error from the server.
To the enduser its completely unclear where the problem is located, did she/he make a mistake or is there a problem on the server.
I would suggest to provide at least generic error page (View Code not found) and respond by HTTP 404 or 406 to the client. This is also important for search engine crawlers if there are any…
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View full record in results view
The current behaviour to move from search results to exploring a record is to open a pop up to view the full record.
This takes the user away from the results set they are working with.
There is feedback that some users dislike pop ups.
We have also observed that many users open full records in a new tab in order to have records of interest open in tabs to go explore in detail later whilst continuing to work with the search results.
To match user behaviour in exploring search results I'd like to suggest an option to open the…5 votes -
Default Sortting option for the historic loans
When opening the historic loans tab , the "Sort by" dropdown default value is empty and the results are not sorted.
So historic loans details are shown at random.
Only when the user selects the desired "Sort by" value as "Returned date - newest", the results will sort.Please make the default option "Returned date - newest" for the historic loans.
Then users can immediately check the book with the latest return date.Thanks in advanced.
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move the favicon to the top level (outside /img) to fix Firefox bookmarks
Hi
The favicon for our view is stored in the /img folder within the customization package.
For Firefox to display it correctly when I have the URL in my bookmark bar, the favicon needs to be outside the /img folder.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1230644
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226447"the saved bookmark favicon image was located in other than the website server file path root directory which was the original W3C standard for favicon placement for web browsers to loom for it"
As long as the favicons are stored within /img, they display ok in the tabs of Firefox, but get lost when I drag the URL…
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