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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).
3 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 -
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 wording to Advanced Search Box
Currently, unlike the Basic Search box, one cannot add wording in the Advanced Search box in the new Primo UI, like "Enter search terms", which is confusing as users don't know that they need to click in the first Advanced Search box to start searching. Even moving the cursor to the first Advanced Search box would help.
Thanks,
Ryan
Ryan Edwards
Digital Access and Systems Librarian
Getty Digital – Collection Management Systems
Getty Research Institute
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, CA 90049-1688
reedwards@getty.edu
310.440.73981 vote -
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 -
an "I Want It" button
The Penn State library has an “I want it” feature in its catalog, in the search results. It struck me as very direct and to the point. When you click it, it prompts you to sign into their system but I assume it would take you to a request form. I don’t know why they hide it under that three dot icon. I would like to see in Primo, if possible, an “I want it” button, not buried in a menu but right next to every book title in the Primo search result. The idea being that clicking “I want…
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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"
3 votes -
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 -
Display Interface Display Label
Have the ability to configure the Display Interface Display Logic label to display if an item is loanable, library use only, etc based on the patron who logins in or a guest viewer.
Currently by default the labels will show 'loanable' in the Display Interface Display Logic configuration. It's only possible to configure the label for all guests.
31 votes -
List of Loans - Indicate if item is Requested
It should be possible to indicate in the patron's List of Loans in the Library Account whether an item is requested, otherwise, it is not clear if the due date is sooner than on other loans because it is a Reserved item or because it was Requested by another reader.
54 votes -
Adding reset button to the volume filter in the GetIt tab
The filter in the GetIt tab allows users to filter the display of the volumes by year, volume or description.
It would be helpful to add a reset button that will reset the values chosen and display all values available.
Currently, in order to reset the values in the fields chosen the patron must click on the arrow for the drop-down menu of each field (year, volume, description) and choose the value ALL23 votes -
Add Show Actions icons to My Favorites
Option to add all the Show Actions icons to display on My Favorites, or at least some icons such as the print and e-mail icons, instead of just the ...
Please see screen capture attached.
94 votes -
Sort favorites by call number
We'd like to be able to configure the sort-by options for favorites. We'd specifically like to be able to sort favorites by call number.
16 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 -
Embed Advanced Search on Browse/Journal search pages
We have had requests to include the Advanced Search on the Browse and A-Z pages. If one wants to run an Advanced Search one has to return to a new (basic search) search and then click Advanced Search. I had submitted a SF case but the response was that this is not a functionality available in Primo. We believe this would improve usability.
11 votes -
A-Z eBook functionality (similar to eJournals A-Z + databases A-Z)
We're in the process of implementing Alma/Primo (at present we're Summon clients). Per Inna Ilinskaya, there is no equivalent ejournals/databases A-Z functionality for ebooks in Primo. This is something that our users have become accustomed to in using Summon. Inna recommended that we post this as an enhancement.
16 votes -
Table of Contents Display
It would be nice to have the table of contents field (505) formatted in a more user friendly manner within PrimoVE. In Voyager there was a rule that converted the ' -- ' to <LF><CR> (which is 'Enter').
I have attached examples of how it displays in our Voyager OPAC vs PrimoVE.
14 votes -
Print and email options in Primo do not contain important holding data from Alma iframe
See this example:
https://www.screencast.com/t/1aQ3ev3zphxIn the example above the important holding information of 2016 latest edition only is not present in the info emailed or printed if the user selections either of those options in Primo
16 votes
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