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Add Search within "Journals by Category" results
Journals by Category is less useful since each category could have hundreds of results. For example, searching by the category "Psychology" produces 623 journals. EDS' journal search allows you to search within that category--so in this case, you'd be able to search a specific topic among only the 623 psychology journals identified. We have professors who require students to find ten articles in Economics/Accounting journals that are published in the USA. A search within the category Economics journals for a topic, and perhaps even the location facet, would help these students out!
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Privacy in patron letters
Currently, patrons receive detailed item information in patron letters. We would like to make it possible for patrons to turn off letters (such as when they do not want this detailed information living in their email accounts).
In testing, we found that the current 'Personal Details' configuration in Alma (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/060Library_Card_Configuration/Configuring_Personal_Details_Settings_for_Primo_VE) does not allow us to limit patron changes to ONLY the notification preferences.
25 votes -
Add Reserves "Reading List" to facets navigation panel.
This would allow a clean up project for a multiple location library system. It would bring reserves more closely aligned with standard cataloging by basically using the Course as a high level catalog record (think bib level), Reading List as middle tier (holdings level shelving location). By combining the Course to one entry with the reading lists showing shelving, it would take our records from five courses and five reading lists per class offering to one course with five reading list. This would help clean up database space and form more consistency across locations.
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PrimoVE should allow disabling of Aggregator Content Data
Improving OpenAIRE Links in PrimoVE: A Customization Proposal
Many of the OpenAIRE links in our system are currently unreliable. To address this issue, we propose the following enhancements:
1) Aggregator Content Data Class: We recommend introducing an aggregator class specifically
for Aggregator Content Data in the code. This class would allow us to apply custom styling
and control the display of OpenAIRE links.2) CSS Customization: If we had a dedicated <span class="OpenAIRE">, we could easily add CSS
rules to hide OpenAIRE links. Currently, we lack this flexibility, and our users are
inundated with potentially unreliable links. Other Contenre Data…4 votes
AdminTamar Ganor
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Hello,
We have made some adjustments for the OpenAIRE records on the content side, you can read more in this Knowledge Article:
The other options you have mentioned may be addressed in the Primo Product side - I have moved this idea to the Primo Idea Exchange for the Product team to review.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Landolt-Börnstein collection
Can you please add the Landolt-Börnstein collection since it isn't available in SFX? Our library has the entire collection through Springer Materials. Thank you
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Add the creation date to the titles in the Saved Search Letter
Users can set an alert on the Saved Searches page and will then receive the Saved Search letter by email whenever there are new results for their saved search. However, a new result is not necessarily a new publication. The Saved Search letter could also contain older publications which are new to the inventory of the discovery system. For the users, it would be helpful to already see in the Saved Search letter the creation date of the titles, so that they know which results are real new publications. In Primo VE, however, it is currently not possible to add…
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Streamline favourites by adding the ability to create labels from the item.
It would be great if once you clicked the add to favourites button for an item you were either presented with a "Would you like to add a label" option, or the ability to add labels/tags from the ellipses menu, rather than having to go to the favourites menu.
22 votes -
Advanced Search option in Collection Discovery for Alma-D
Primo's public Collection Discovery pages currently lack the ability to run advanced searches. As a result, only keyword searches are possible at either the collection or sub-collection level, which prevents users from being able to limit or refine searches by necessary fields like Date, Creator, etc. This means that users have to browse collections, sub-collections, and items more broadly than is often helpful when an advanced search would be more likely to bring them immediately relevant results. Primo's Advanced Search for regular discovery is a valuable tool that should also appear in Alma-D's Collection Discovery.
6 votes -
Request physical book when e-book is also available at home or other libraries
No request or resource sharing option is available when the home library has an e-book. There are many scenarios where a patron may need a physical book and they should have the ability to request one from Primo.
14 votes -
My Library Card: add sort by date option to requests list
it is currently only possible to sort the requests list within My Library Card by status or title - our users would very much appreciate the option to sort by request date as well - thanks for considering!
16 votes -
Bulk search results export
In a recent user survey, students provided feedback they would like the ability to export all or a large number of their search results. Currently they are limited to a maximum of 50 results at a time. Users reported they had worked to create a search strategy and were disappointed they could not obtain a full list of their search results, and were forced to move to searching individual databases instead.
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SFX: Allow users to create local targets with parent-child hierarchy
In SFX, parent-child hierarchy is quite common in global-type targets as shown in Fig.1 attached below. The advantage of this feature is that it can well display the natural logical relationships between parent-targets and child-targets. However, when creating local targets, parent-child hierarchy is not accessible and all the locally created targets are at the same level, whether they have logical relationships or not. So it's highly suggested that parent-child hierarchy should be an option when users create local targets.
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Primo Name/Title Browse Searches
Primo Name/Title Browse Searches
As frequent Primo users searching for known music items, the Alma Music Users Group would like to propose that Ex Libris create a left-anchored browse search for name/title entries found in bibliographic records. An alphabetical left-anchored browse search is particularly helpful for known-item searches that are often used for music materials and prolific literary authors.
Currently, Primo provides browse search options for names (name portion only ($a,$q,$d)) and name/title headings used as subjects. For prolific authors, it is not unusual to find thousands of name/title headings lumped under the composers or authors name, with “20+ records”…
325 votes -
Make the path shorter to change PIN code for self check
One of the most frequent problems our borrowers have is that they have forgotten the pin code they use when borrowing books at the self check machine. We prefer that they change it themselves by logging into their account, but doing that is rather cumbersome. The function is hidden under My library account/Settings/Address/language settings/Update login credentails. It could instead be placed in the menu or lifted so that it appears before the adress and language settings.
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Allow patrons to order a specific item in a fulfillment network
Hi
We are in a consortium with a fulfillment network.
Which in many cases means that the patrons can not pick which copy of a book they want to order.
While this may make sense as the default (1), it is frustrating for many patrons, myself included.
- When more than one copy is available, I want to be able to decide which one to get
- When a book is on loan I may prefer to wait for the copy of my favorite library to come back instead of getting the book from somewhere else
This is especially relevant when I'm…
157 votes - When more than one copy is available, I want to be able to decide which one to get
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Pre-filter for Primo database search
Please add pre-filters to the Primo database search to allow users to filter their results prior to performing a search (as it is possible for a general Primo search).
This would be very helpful for e.g. database types (bibliographies, dictonaries, subject gateways, reference works, etc.) or other database indicators like "Open Access", "Full Text database", "Database supports OpenURL", etc.
It should be possible to use these pre-filters in combination with all database search options:
- search for a keyword
- A to Z index search
- Category search
and choosen pre-filters should remain for the session (like the "sticky" facets),…29 votes -
My Favorites load automatially as user scrolls down
In a recent student survey we had feedback that users would like their complete list of Favorites to be more accessible and visible. In particular, users requested that instead of choosing 'Load more results' after every ten My Favorites, that their My Favorites list auto-loaded as they scrolled down the page.
10 votes -
Enable search and browse also for item call numbers, not only holdings
Hi
We switched to Primo VE some months ago and are really missing a call number index that shows all our call numbers, in items as well as in holdings.
https://slidetodoc.com/three-types-of-call-numbers-in-alma-yoel
"Item Call Number – is it in Primo VE search indexes?
• The item call number cannot be added as a Primo VE search index.
• Of the three call numbers only the “Holding Call Number” can be added as a Primo VE search index."Our call number index is set to "callnumber.4 – Shelving control number call number", our item call numbers are type 4, but they are…
579 votes -
Enable retrieval with/without/compound hyphens in Hebrew
It is very important to enable the search in Primo with and without hyphen to retrieve all relevant records (with hyphen, without hyphen and as compound words).
Some examples of current discrepancies in retrieval are:צפון-קרוליינה retrieved 2 results
צפון קרוליינה retrieved 486 resultsעת-מול retrieved zero results
עת מול retrieved 83 results, including the title עת-מול : עתון לתולדות ארץ ישראל ועם ישראל. searching using the pre-filter Title and limiting to 2010-2021 for
ארצות הברית retrieves 71 results
ארצות-הברית105 votes -
"Feedback Tool" for the New Primo UI: insert the e-mail of the logged in user automatically
Currently the field "e-mail" in the Feedback form is defined as optional.
As well as with the current e-mail functionality of bibliographic citations, we would expect the e-mail to be automatically pre-filled when a user is logged in. But unfortunately this does not happen.
Please insert the e-mail of the logged in user automatically or at least give us the possibility to set this option in the Primo backend.
Thank you in advance!
P.S.: Please see also this Idea:
Feedback Tool for Primo VE - allow user's email as addressFrom in Report a Problem Letter
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/45350419-feedback-tool-for-primo-ve-allow-user-s-email-as19 votes
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