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  1. Select languages for Primo VE UI that would be different than choices for Alma UI.

    Currently all languages used in Alma (for staff) are automatically presented as the UI languages in Primo VE.

    I would like to be able to manage the choices separately, so that we can choose to remove, or to add languages for Primo VE UI. Also, we should be able to sort the language choices in the order we prefer, based on the language in which the UI is open.
    Thank you for your support.

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  2. Add the DeepL API

    We would like to add the DeepL API (https://www.deepl.com/docs-api/translating-text/) to integrate a translation service into PRIMO home page
    We think it it would be of interest to many other libraries

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  3. Make the Availability indicator for consortia match what was in Primo BO

    We have has several users report in a week that they are confused by the lack of accuracy in the availability indicator in Primo VE. For example Milwaukee noticed that this item shows that it is available in another institution- https://wisconsin-uwm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_ML/cc3uhc/alma9912304483902121
    If I check that institution the item is checked out and if I look it Alma it has been out for over a year. https://wisconsin-uwosh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_OSH/hvjabb/alma991004692621402126 

      Now compare it to Primo BO you will note that in the institutional holdings area, it says Out of the Library.  - https://uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/104qq38/UWI71401656290002121 

  We would want VE to be accurate so users do not
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  4. Increase security for option to delete a view in Primo VE

    Right now it is all too easy to delete a Primo VE view. If the option to delete a view is accidentally clicked on the drop down menu, a confirmation message appears with the "confirm" option highlighted. A confused user might click enter to get rid of the message without reading the message. This happened to us recently. A user who selects the delete option should have to type in the view code to confirm deletion. This extra step would help to prevent accidental deletion.

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  5. Export to Excel

    We would like the "Export to Excel" functionality to be configurable. For exemple, we would like to remove the permalink column from the file.

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  6. Allow additional links to be added to my library account

    In classic Primo we were able to add our ILL link to the library account area, so users could go over and see the rest of their loans. We would like the ability to do this again and have it show up on the loans tab in the My Library Account.

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  7. Filter collections (in Primo) to show 'online' or 'physical' items

    Currently, when you click into a collection on Primo, there are a few sorting options (relevance, date, title, author), but it would be useful to let users see only 'online' items or only 'physical' items (libraries with more than one site may want to let users see physical items at particular sites).

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  8. It would be helpful if Ex Libris can automate fetching our metadata for new ADFS signing certificate to update our Primo VE SAML profile, th

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  9. Permit creation of a stable URL that would lead to a simple search with all records limited by any facets, e.g., location.

    We'd like to create stable links to entire collections for use on our website, guides and course shells. For example, a link that leads to all records with a given location.

    This is currently possible for Advanced Search with a pre-filter. But users are distracted by Advanced Search's space and complexity, which pushes the results down the page. And if there are multiple languages or material types, the pre-filters would be overly restrictive.

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  10. Several items in a single request

    In the current context of global health crisis and containment, many of our libraries can only offer Click&Collect service for physical documentation access. Then, it seems critical to make the request service evolve in Primo (and Alma for the tracking).
    Indeed, a reader who wants to request several documents must do so one by one from the bibliographic record by selecting the "pickup location", possibly a "start date", an "end date" and a "comment".
    Couldn't you consider the possibility of creating a basket and then being able to request the entire basket at once?
    Thanks

    This new demand could also…

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  11. Ability to search non-english (especially Scandinavian) characters in local data and CDI data in a consistent way

    A growing number of Central Discovery Index (CDI) sources contain the original non-english characters for specific languages, e.g. Scandinavian (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish) letters such as æ,ä, ø, ö and å. Searching the original Scandinavian letters works for both local and CDI data. However, searching non-English letters are cumbersome for foreign users. There are different ways to anglicize these characters. The traditional Scandinavian way is to use a "folded variant": "ä" -> "ae", "ö" -> "oe", etc. However, this only works for local data (institution zone). CDI use the method of simply removing the dots: "ä" -> "a", "ö" -> "o",…

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  12. Add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.

    Add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.

    In Primo, readers often can not distinguish the difference of the book and the attachment of the book(ex: CD-ROM). So readers often request the barcode number of the attachment of the book first wrongly, and then find that they really want to request the book instead of the attachment of book(CD-ROM). I suggest the system can show an attachment icon picture(Ex: paper clip) besides the item of the attachment. It can help readers distinguish the types of the items(book or CD-ROM attachment) quickly and request the types of the…

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  13. Label distribution per row

    In consortial environment there is the option to distibute labels from the Network to the Institutions. At the moment the distribution is only possible per table. In case a table is updated by functionality, the distribution deletes the displayed labels.
    We would like to have the option to distribute labels per row: this would give the possibility to the Institutions to receive the updates from the Network avoiding overwriting issues and increase the possibility to distribute a label in case a table has been customized locally.

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  14. Collection Discovery - Search results enhancements

    We would also like to see some enhacements

    1. Sort options on the search results
    2. Option to filter by collection in the results
    3. Indication of which collection the results belong too
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  15. display logic should allow us to block Resource Sharing Request if the item is an ebook

    As more and more ebooks are offered and indexed in CDI, we need a way to block the UW Request from showing for these. At this time Resource sharing is not equipped to handle the loaning of entire ebooks. So we need users to use different options and unfortunately we do not have a way to block the RS request when an item is an ebook

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  16. citation linker - highlight required fields

    I'm suggesting an out of the box configuration option to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I have adjusted the text, to let our users know that an identifier is required but the text can easily be missed. We recently migrated to Alma/Primo VE and when we had 360/Summon, we were able to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I am investigating CSS customization options.

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  17. citation linker - highlight required fields

    I'm suggesting an out of the box configuration option to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I have adjusted the text, to let our users know that an identifier is required but the text can easily be missed. We recently migrated to Alma/Primo VE and when we had 360/Summon, we were able to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I am investigating CSS customization options.

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  18. Enable/disable the article quote in Brief results

    Brief results often show a quote/snippet for an article (see screenshot). In Primo VE it is currently not possible to enable/disable this. We would like to see this configuration option. All the other fields are customizable, why not this one?

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  19. Ability to merge local data with cdi records

    We currently export Imperial Open Access Spiral material to CDI and Primo VE. This means in Primo VE we show duplicate records for all our Open Access Spiral Records. One from the local source and one from CDI. This is not the best user experience. It is also confusing for library staff working on Spiral Records in Primo VE.

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  20. New records facet according to Inventary record

    Primo VE facet for New records (last month, last week) retrieves records according to the bibliographic record creation date.
    The problem in some institutions is it takes an average of one month from when the record is created until it is available to the user, therefore, the new records that are available in the last week for the user appear under the last month facet or even, sometimes, in the last three months.

    We ask for theese facets take into account the Inventory Date instead of the Bibliographic Record Creation Date

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