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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.
0 votes -
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 -
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).
15 votes -
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 -
Display multi-lingual values in facets in a consistent order
Currently, same values in different languages in multi-lingual facets (topic, author) appear randomly.
We suggest to create a consistent language order independent of the sort by_size configuration option, so that the values in these facets will be displayed by the determined order. For example, if the order will be: Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic - the values will always be displayed by this same language order.
See example image provided for the following search:
https://haifa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,gibran%20kahlil&tab=default_tab&search_scope=books_and_more&vid=HAU&lang=en_USWe are suggesting that for the facets set by size in the View, the same value in all languages will be grouped together and displayed one…
44 votes -
Detailed Results in-view counter
Primo system allows for viewing detailed results of a given search, one at a time. Navigation through the results is being done using the Arrow icons of the side of the display (picture attached).
Currently there is no option to know your current position on a line of numerous results.
It would be useful to be able to view a counter next to the arrow icons which will indicate my current position on the results line, for example "Result 5 out of 17". Attached is an example of that feature in the ALEPH interface.
Thank you.
1 vote -
Create a "Resources I can access" item under the Show Only left hand side menu.
Create a "Resources I can access" filter item under the Show Only left hand side menu. This would use the clients logged in group to apply a filter to search results to only show those that they can actually access with their login group. I am sure you can think of a better label for the filter. The principle is the same as "Full Text Online" - most of the time clients want to be able to get to the items they can access straight away as efficiently as possible - this is not an issue most of the time…
6 votes -
The number of default thumbnails of each tile on Primo Collection Lobby
If I do not define any image files, the system displays the first four images found in the collection's sub-collections and items. It looks much too complicated so it would be great if the institution can fix the number of default thumbnails in a tile(e.g. 4 -> 1), without defining an image file on Discovery tab or General tab.
1 vote -
The list of languages to be shown in their original characters (Advanced search option))
Currently the display language of the list of target records' languages is subject to change. There is no option to customize it on Primo BO, but it would be great if we can show them in their original characters.
7 votes -
Display all blocks and patron limits in Primo My Account
The My Account page in Primo only displays blocks of the blocks tab in the Alma user details page so that a patron who logs in Primo and unsuccessfully attemps to renew an item from the library isn’t notified about blocks that are applied based on patron limits/ library-definied rules such as maximum cash limit. The My Account page should display all blocks.
118 votes -
Overdue notices from Alma in Primo
In the mouse-over appearing in My loans above ‘not renewable’ a user sees all overdue notices that he/she has received for that specific item.
For instance when the user gets the fourth overdue notice he/she also sees the third and the second one in the small mouse-over text.For a better readability we’d like only the most recent notice to appear in the mouse-over.
2 votes
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