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  1. “Show more items”

    Trying to restart this effort-

    Add “Show All Items”

    Give patrons an option to “Show All Items in a record”. The option “show more items” is not user friendly when searching through long runs
    of serials.

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  2. Improving Pick Up Location Logic in Primo NDE

    Purpose:

    To reduce incorrect deliveries, avoid patron frustration, and create a smoother, more intuitive request workflow by improving how pick up locations are ordered and saved in Primo NDE.


    1. Organisation-Level Improvement: Custom Default Sorting of Pick Up Locations

    Current Issue

    In the current setup, the pick up location list is presented alphabetically/historical by default. This can place small or rarely used locations at the top of the list, even when they are not relevant for most patrons.
    This increases the risk of accidental selection and leads to unnecessary delivery errors.

    Proposal:

    Within Primo NDE, the institution should be able to:

    60 votes
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  3. Allow customisation of BibTex data export

    Currently, the BibTex data export from the full record review is non-customisable, no changes can be made to how the fields display in the exported data. This differs, for example, from other formats such as RIS and EndNote, which do have a mapping table in the configuration.

    The issues we’ve encountered with this are:

    1) Some fields have a custom display that we’d like to show on Primo but not in the exported data – e.g. we include author details in the Title display, but it is incorrect for this to show in the BibTex title field

    2) Where we…

    20 votes
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  4. Add autocomplete to embedded searchbox

    Please add autocomplete to the embedded searchbox API for a consistent user experience.

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  5. Display tag for Open Educational Resources for CZ and IZ records in Primo

    Open Educational Resources tags in CDI records are clearly displayed in Primo VE (e.g. Pressbooks titles). I would like to see this tag extended to include CZ and IZ records for open educational resources in a similar way to how we make the Open Access icon display in Primo.

    24 votes
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  6. Configure page metadata (browser tab title) across key pages independently from the main menu labels

    In Primo NDE, the browser tab title (the HTML <title> element) for many pages uses the same label as the top menu, e.g., ILL request forms, Citation Linker, Collection Discovery, Purchase request form.

    Screenshot with label codes toggled on to demonstrate the same label used for different functions

    This means that the title in the tab cannot be independently customised to act consistently with other areas of Primo (search and my library account where separate labels can be managed). This creates issues:

    Usability:

    • Users with many collection discovery tabs open cannot distinguish which collection is in each tab. Users sharing…
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  7. Continue as Guest link on the authentication page

    To encourage more users to sign in to Primo, we would like to provide more links on our public website, in emails, and through signage that direct users to specific pages in Primo, such as the AI Research Assistant or My Library Account. These require authentication first. While this works for our current staff and students, such links may also be clicked by people who do not have an account.

    In this scenario, they are stuck on the authentication page with no option to opt out and get to the landing page. There is no top menu for them to…

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  8. Display Number of Renewals on Patron Library Card in Primo VE

    Currently, Primo VE does not display the number of renewals for a patron’s loans on the patron’s library card. We propose an enhancement to allow the number of renewals (used and/or remaining) to be displayed in Primo VE for patron loans. This should appear on the patron’s library card.
    Providing this information directly in Primo VE would improve transparency for patrons.

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  9. Granular Control for Alma Viewer and Digital Versions Tab in Primo NDE

    Description:

    In Primo NDE, the rule “Hide service: Representation Delivery Service” affects both alma-viewer-content and the Digital Versions tab (nde.brief.results.tabs.digitalVersions). In contrast, Primo VE allows institutions to independently control visibility of the Alma Viewer and the Digital Versions tab.

    This enhancement request seeks to restore this level of granular control in Primo NDE. Specifically, institutions should be able to:

    Hide the Alma Viewer for certain representations (e.g., auxiliary or restricted content)

    Still display the Digital Versions tab for those same representations

    This would provide the flexibility needed for managing multiple representations of a record while ensuring users can discover digital…

    3 votes
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  10. Improve Browse with 505 $$t subfield

    Ex Libris technicians report that currently only the first occurrence of 505 $t is included in the Title index. As a result, if you Browse by a title listed further within the 505, the results don't supply a matching record. All $$t subfields in the 505 (and any other fields recording titles) should be included in the Title index to avoid this issue.

    7 votes
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  11. Display campus in Primo VE for unsuppressed e-Collections and databases

    In the consortial environment, we would like to take advantage of the new functionality of central NZ-activation (network zone) of e-collections working with IMGrs (inventory management groups). We have some institutions (not all IZs) which would like to work with IMGrs, some not, those who do, some do use campuses others do not.

    We would like to see in Primo VE the distinction per campus also for databases and for non-suppressed e-collections (if used), as it works for portfolios so to better guide the end-user which collection would be the one to use.

    If an IZ uses IMGr in Alma…

    32 votes
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  12. Primo NDE - Option to Display Cover Thumbnail Alongside Embedded Digital Viewer

    Problem Summary

    Currently, when an embedded digital viewer is present on a record, the system intentionally hides the cover thumbnail. Network calls confirm that the thumbnail is no longer requested once the viewer loads. While this is expected behavior, it can create a less optimal user experience in situations where the viewer does not display the actual cover or full document—for example, when it opens on a table of contents or another non-cover view. In these cases, users lose quick visual context provided by the cover image.

    Description:
    Requesting the addition of a configurable option that allows the cover thumbnail…

    9 votes
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  13. My Library Card: date of the last renewal

    We suggest that the "Date of the last Renewal" field should only update when a successful renewal happens, rather than when the courtesy letter is sent.

    It happens in local loan and in Rapido, and it is confusing for patrons. We would like this workflow was adjusted.

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  14. Allowing to opt out of loading OAI Repository records into Discovery Network

    Allowing to opt out of loading OAI Repository records into Discovery Network

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  15. Use all occurrences of a bibliographic field within GES Bib Field Enrichment

    Institutions can define which fields are extracted from the bibliographic record metadata to be used in General Electronic Services by adding fields to the GES Bib Fields Enrichment mapping table. However, if the bibliographic field occurs multiple times in the record, only the first occurrence of the field is used. This means that the GES is not calculated for any subsequent occurrences of the field. For example, if I want a GES to be displayed based on a particular value in a 590 local note, the GES will only display if that value occurs in the first of what may…

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  16. Add Due Date to Real Time Availability Status in Brief Records

    We would like to be able to see the status messages to include Due Dates, where applicable.
    Example: add date to Not available - Loan message, something along the lines of Not available - Checked out until {date}.

    8 votes
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  17. Put search/feedback links in logical order on mobile menu - NDE

    In NDE on small screens, the Advanced Search, Feedback (Report a problem) and Ask Anything (natural language search) links appear in the menu in that order - see screenshot attached.

    At minimum, the two search options should be adjacent, and in the order they appear on full screen. The feedback/report a problem should not be in the middle of them, as it is a completely different type of function.

    Some institutions may even wish to relocate the feedback option to the bottom of the top menu links.

    The original case response was to log here on the idea exchange, as…

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  18. Copy text from digital viewer

    When reading documents in the digital viewer, it would be nice to have the ability to copy text directly from the page. You can do this if you download the document. I was attempting to do this with a larger file that mentioned other reports I wanted copy the name of a report to view/search for in the catalogue; however, the digital viewer does not allow users to select text from the document.

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  19. Resource Recommender by user group or campus

    Resource Recommender in Primo VE can only show suggestions based on search tags or “Display Always.”
    There’s no way to show recommendations based on who the user is — for example, their user group, campus, or department.
    This means libraries can’t personalize results - such as:
    Business students see business databases

    This would make the discovery experience more relevant and user-friendly.

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  20. Ability to boost Ranking of Search Results in Primo VE based on accessibility

    Some of our consortium libraries would like the ability to boost the ranking of books that readers can request from libraries.
    Currently, the Ranking Configuration page enables you to configure various aspects of the ranking algorithm based on Field Boosting, Date Boosting, Resource type Boosting, Institution Boosting, but not on accessibility.

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