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  1. Add editing functionality to labels/tags created in My Favorites

    Currently, there is no way to edit a label created in My Favorites to organize items you have saved/Pinned to My Favorites. It would be helpful to be able to edit typos or make adjustments to the label as needed, without have to reassign items.

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  2. Consistent UX or labelling for Collection Discovery search box

    Ideal solution: The Collection Discovery search box should be persistent and always search at the item level within all collections (as it does in the lobby) in order to provide a logical, consistent user experience.

    Secondary solution: the label text should be editable for each search box separately to make it clear what is being searched on the page.

    Problem:

    • The lobby search box is for everything
    • The top-level collection search box is for the title of sub-collections in that area only
    • The sub-collection search box is for items in that sub-collection only.

    Yet, all three options say "search" and…

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  3. Quicklink display options on full record

    In Primo VE, any quicklinks associated with records show both at the top of the full record display and in the Links section of the record. CSS can be used to hide quicklinks from the Links section, but often results in a blank Links section on the record.

    It would be helpful to have options to show quicklink at the top of the full record display, but hide them from the Links section. This would help improve the usefulness of the Links section of the record.

    15 votes
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  4. Enhance DC XML normalization routines for external sources (PrimoVE)

    In Primo Back Office, there is 86 inbuilt transformational routines for MARC21 and Dublin Core data normalization (e.g. “Take first words”, “Get highest number and normalize last digit”, and “Remove HTML tags”). Most have been translated for MARC21 in PrimoVE by various people but, because of limited regex and Xpath functionality, few have been translated into Dublin Core XML normalization routines for PimoVE.

    We would like to see the implementation of full regex and/or XPath / XQuery functionality (or similar) to allow all Back Office normalization routines to be created for PrimoVE.

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  5. Change handling of MARC fields 100 and 700 in citation styles in Primo VE

    Handling of MARC fields in citation styles should be changed as follows:
    1. If there are relator codes in $4, only $4 aut and cmp should be considered as author, relator codes $4 edt, ill, ivr, trl and drt should be treated as contributors. Entries with other $4 codes should be ignored for citation.
    2. If there are no relator codes $4 in the record, field 100 should be considered as author, field 700 as contributor.
    Benefits: Citiation styles get independent from cataloguing language as they are now by using $e. Also citation styles work independent from the fact, if…

    7 votes
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  6. Automate SSL/TLS certificate management

    For hosted Primo sites that have custom domain names, the current process for deploying SSL certificates involves time-consuming manual steps and hand-offs, many of which must be repeated each time a certificate is renewed. [1]

    Several institutions will soon require SSL certificates to be renewed every 90 days, at which point the current manual process will become utterly unmanageable for both Ex Libris and its customers. [2]

    I propose that Ex Libris adopt an ACME-like service (such as Let's Encrypt) to fully automate SSL certificate management. The customer's responsibility would be to set up a DNS record (as they do…

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  7. Give customers the option to have a custom multilingual file for synonyms and compound words.

    We are a multilingual network, catering to four languages. It is very important to us to ensure that customers find the same resources regardless of the UI language they use. As one of our UI languages does not have a synonyms file, it is currently not possible for us to incorporate synonyms beyond those included by default in our Primo, as this would lead to differing search results for this language. We would like this to be solved by allowing customers to use a dedicated multilingual file for synonyms, compound words etc. that they can customize to their needs.

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  8. Integrated with ChatGPT technology

    Good to integrate ChatGPT technology in Primo VE.

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  9. Link search results for full text to the digital representation instead of the title

    One of the selling points of Primo VE is that full text from digital representations (Alma-D) is indexed automatically. When a user performs a search wherein full text is found, they can click on the brief result to go to the full display, then click on the digital representation to open the file in the viewer.

    This works well for titles with only one digital representation and file. If you search our catalog for the keywords feeder is also designed as a feeder, you will see an ESL Pamphlet about the Black River Canal as the first result. When you…

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  10. Change / improve the Booking process for staff and patrons

    Hi all,

    We wish to submit a proposal to change the current booking process for staff creating a booking request in Alma AND for patrons creating their own bookings in PRIMO VE.

    Now, Alma’s option to submit ‘’ Booking ‘’ requests require us to search an item, select it and then enter booking times for each piece of equipment desired, which is very time consuming.

    When patrons book equipment, they often need up to 10 or more pieces of equipment for the same booking period. This is quite inconvenient and increases the risk of mistakes in the process.

    In our…

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  11. Ability to place restrictions on Display Source Record link

    When enabling the ‘display source record’ link in Primo VE it would be useful to be able to specify which types of records the link displays or doesn’t display for. In our case we would prefer to restrict the option to our records for published resources so the private notes more typically associated with unpublished material such as manuscripts would not be publicly viewable.

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  12. allow for change of text RESOURCE SHARING on Primo Discovery when items not stocked.

    Allow individual institutions to change this text to InterLIbrary Loan or Order it. there is confusion on what exactly resource sharing is, and the phrase is not commonly used.

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  13. Display Multiple Links in View It for Newspaper Articles in Newspapers Search

    The April/May 2022 releases introduced the ability to display multiple links (both Link in Record and Link Resolver) in CDI records in Primo VE and Primo. However, this functionality is not in place for newspaper article records in Newspapers Search results. Newspaper articles in the npsearch interface still display only a single link. We request that the same multiple link display functionality in Search be extended to Newspapers Search. It is very helpful to offer users the option of Link in Record or Link Resolver link, especially for newspaper article content where link reliability and metadata matching may vary greatly.

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  14. Allow end users to toggle "Resource Type" sorting - alpha or size

    Hello

    We have had a query about whether it is possible to add a second Resource Type section to Primo VE in order to allow for an alphabetical searching option (our default sort is size of search results). I was sure this wasn't possible, but offered to create an idea here requesting to allow end users to choose how they sort the list of Resource Types.

    This would enable them to toggle between the two sort types, e.g. to see Newspaper Articles near Newspapers, but then to change back to 'size' sorting to see the largest number of results, etc.

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  15. Enhance possibility to show information out of linked authority records

    Introduce new Authority Info Card based on Linked Data URI. Utilize Linked Data URIs to present new Information Card in various displays (search results list, brief & full display). Enrich the display with more information on linked entities and related resources made available thanks to the URI. This functionality should be provided for all authority sources available in the Community Zone that offer linked data URIs such as GND, Rameau, etc.

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  16. Make ILL requests a Send To action in Primo records

    Add ILL Request to the cluster of Send to actions in the Primo record full display. This would send the citation to the institution's ILL form so a user could place a request for an item. This feature would give institutions the option of providing ILL services as a constant in records instead of being facilitated through services tweaked through a series of display logic rules which don't always produce desired results. For example, sometimes CDI records match to print serial holdings that don't actually contain the article. Sometimes the online source is missing the item or malfunctioning. With the…

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  17. Allow Users to Add Custom Export Options to Primo VE Interface

    Currently, it's not possible to add your own custom export options to the Primo VE interface (i.e, export options being email, printing, permalinks, etc.).

    Ideally, users could add their own icons and export options directly to the table in Alma so that they easily surface via the Primo interface without having to be adept in coding to make this change happen.

    For example, we would like to add an "accessibility" icon to the is list so that users could click it if they needed an item in a more accessible format. The icon would simply point to a form on…

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  18. Allow customisation of search profile for collections

    When using collections the search scope cannot be changed or customised, for our Primo the search scope name is "MyInstitution".

    This doesn't make it clear that the contents may be Alma Digital content only.

    We were told via case 06725207 that in order for the collections lobby to display content we must use this search profile which at the time didn't include Alma Digital, we've changed the profile to now only be Alma Digital after testing with all content, lobby is now displaying content.

    We'd like the ability to have a more appropriate code for the search profile that more…

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  19. Improve Related Titles hypertext linking and advanced search

    As a user, I want advanced searches that are generated by clicking a related title hyperlink to use existing metadata as search parameters in order to accurately narrow the results to relevant records.

    As currently implemented, the hyperlinks for related titles either takes the user to a locally held version of the record or generates an advanced search based on the title alone.

    When a user clicks a link for a related title named "Berg, Jeremy M. (Jeremy Mark), 1958- Biochemistry. 5th ed. New York : W.H. Freeman, ©2002" they are taken to an Advanced Search for Biochemistry.

    This search…

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  20. Quotation marks: align the behavior of Alma and CDI records

    When using quotation marks in a search, Alma and CDI records behave differently:

    CDI records:
    « » → not considered for the search
    „ “ → considered for the search only for some languages
    “ ” → considered for the search only for some languages
    " " → considered for the search

    For local records:
    « » → not considered for the search
    „ “ → not considered for the search
    “ ” → not considered for the search
    " " → considered for the search

    With this idea exchange we propose to align the behavior of Alma and CDI…

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