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Enable authority Record Enrichment in Primo VE on local subject fields
In addition to the indexing of bibliographic metadata, Primo VE indexes preferred and non-preferred terms from 1XX and 4XX fields in related Alma authority records. However, this works only in the generic advanced search Subject field.
We need Primo VE to enable authority record enrichment on local fields as well.
Indeed, we have configured local subject fields that are more specific than the default Subject field. These enable searching only on specific subject vocabularies. But configuring such fields does not include the enrichment capability.
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Index Item Level Information
We have entered journal contents into item records. Currently, journal contents is only searchable if the title is available electronically. We would like users to be able to retrieve contents from our physical journal holdings when searching in Primo. This information is contained in the public note field of the item record - having the option to make this searchable would be of great benefit to our users.
Public level notes can be seen in the Primo record, but they cannot be searched so users have to know what they're looking for before they look for it.60 votes -
Translation of months in date format
It would be useful to be able to translate month names in Primo VE for languages other than English.
Our library sends letters in French and English and would like to be able to configure French translations for our preferred date format. We use the form, e.g., "7 May 2021". The French version of this would be "7 mai 2021". The English month names are currently used in the Primo VE display when the user selects the French display language. It would be nice if this could be done automatically (in the case of Primo VE display language) or by…
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Exclude certain records or collections from search results
We have a link to browse on our catalogue homepage to show new items added to the collection within the last 7 days. We would like this search to ONLY show the titles we have ordered or received by donation; NOT the titles from open access collections. Often open access collection titles are in other languages or on topics we don't need at our library so they are not helpful to our users to have in the new items search results list.
We would like to be able to specify which records/collections are displayed in certain circumstances.
eg: general searching…3 votes -
Add Campus IP-address recognition for OpenURL display in Primo VE
When you set up Available For Groups on electronic collections in Alma, you can assign a Campus a certain IP-range and have Primo VE display the correct full text links without requiring the user to sign in first.
This is all good within the scope of Primo VE but when you come to Primo via an OpenURL this functionality does not kick in. Should not all links be created equal, you may ask? Apparently not.
This is a link from a search in Primo VE: https://snipboard.io/L5pvj6.jpg
And the exact same article via an OpenURL: https://snipboard.io/VadX1N.jpg
Please make OpenURL links behave…
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Display on the Location list: textual descriptions of the physical arrangement of a holding unit
Since the updates in January 2021, the Location list has become capable of displaying the Field 866, 852, etc.
There are cases in which the issues of a single journal title are located separately according to publication years. Here we present a case example to explain the situation:
Group 1: The issues published in the last several years; they are shelved in the “New Arrival.”
Group 2: The issues published several years before the Group 1; they are shelved in the “Back Numbers.”
Group 3: The issues published more than 20 years ago; they are shelved in the “Remote Storage.”…
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Add barcode as variable in Location Map Link Template
Add the item barcode to the Location Map Link Template. Item localization systems do not necessarily work with callnumber and location.
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TOU should be hidden when users Not logged in.
In Primo VE, when a user is logged in, the TOU according to the user's category is displayed. However, when the user is not logged in, the TOU could be displayed as "Loanable" even if the book is loanable only to faculty members. When the user is not logged in, the TOU should be hidden.
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300a (total number of pages) should put in PNX for exporting RIS/Mendeley.
Currently, Primo VE does not export total number of pages of books, which is nessesary for some styles, to RIS and Mendeley. We opened a case and asked Support to fix this, and got the answer following.
”The Product Management team has discussed this further and consider this is an enhancement request. A possible solution is to set a new rule to take, for books only, the pages information from 300a and include it in the PNX addata/pages field."
We thought the total number of pages should be included in PNX. Please support this idea.
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Make it possible to add other resource types than journal in journal search
Make it possible to add any other resource types than journal in journal search. Today only journals from rtype in pnx is included: <rtype>journals</rtype> We want to be able to add our selfcreated resource type for monographic series to the list of journals.
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Classification Authority Record Enrichment in Primo VE
In addition to the indexing of bibliographic metadata, Primo VE indexes preferred and non-preferred terms from 1XX and 4XX fields in related Alma authority records.
This is not the case for classification authority records. In the old Primo, it was possible to enrich bibliographic records with additional terms available in 7xx fields of the classification record. For instance:
153 ##$aE860$hUnited States$hLater twentieth century, 1961-$hNixon's administration, 1969-August 9, 1974$jWatergate Affair, 1972-
750 00$aWatergate Affair, 1972-1974.Could you enable enrichment with 7xx fields of classification authority records in the same way fields 1xx and 4xx of authority records enrich bibliographic records in…
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Show unnormalized facet Academic Department in PRIMO VE
We want the PRIMO VE shows the Facet as an unnormalized text as we see in ALMA.
It only displays the initial letter of each word in uppercase and removes hyphens and other punctuation marks.
For example in ALMA we see a Academic department "FCS- Nutrició" and in the Primo VE now we see as "Fcs Nutrició"
19 votes -
Request forms for Booking request and hold request in Primo VE each need their own template
In Primo VE the booking request form uses the same template as the (hold) physical request. The info message (form description) is the same… However, we would need to have a different form description, as we have right now in Primo Classic. In our institution, instructions for booking requests are very different! Because of this different functionality, we hope a solution can be found to give a different user guidance for both types of requests.
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Please add to the PRIMO VE mapping table documentation the last update date and mark the new changes in red.
Hello,
We recently discovered that the Primo VE mapping table was updated with new information.
It would be very helpful if you could add last update date and mark in red the new information, the same way that LC mark in red the new information in Marc 21.
If you would apply this suggestion also to other documentation pages it would be great.
Thanks,
Dafna33 votes -
Ability to merge deduped records in Primo VE
In Primo VE, you can currently choose to display a preferred dedup record (in the full and brief display), either from Alma-P, Alma-E or Alma-D (or none, and the first record to show up in the result list will display).
We would like to add the option to merge all local records. This is the default behaviour in Primo classic.
24 votes -
Enable ability to increase number of autocomplete rows that appear in the dropdown in Primo VE
In Primo VE the dropdown that appears when entering search terms in simple search is limited to 8 rows. The top rows are taken up with suggestions for each of the search scopes that have been defined and the remainder are used for autocomplete suggestions. If there are a higher number of search scopes defined then there are less spots available for autocomplete suggestions.
For example Otago has 6 search scopes defined which only leaves space for two autocomplete suggestions to appear in the dropdown. https://www.screencast.com/t/9mrmza2gMUaG
We would like the ability to increase the number of rows that appear in…
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Journal search>Browse by categories : allow indexing of Unimarc journals (PrimoVE)
Currently, only journals described in Marc21 are indexed by subject in Journal Search.
The Unimarc community is now large in Alma/PrimoVE, and the Browse by Categories function would be useful if it took into account all formats.
The idea would be to allow indexing of journals described in Unimarc, which have Rameau/LC subject fields in 60X and LCC field in 680.36 votesHi,
We would like to update that this idea is still not planned, but still being examined for a future release.
Best regards,
Yael.
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Improved Support of multilingual elements for external data sources in Primo VE
For Dublin Core and Generic XML records that contain multilingual content, Primo VE should display the values of the associated fields according to the user's language when the language code is available as an attribute in the Dublin Core elements.
For instance:
<dc:subject xml:lang="fre">Phonotèque/dc:subject <dc:subject xml:lang="ita">Fonoteca/dc:subject8 votes -
Make the DOI field on the Full Record page a link including EZproxy
Currently on the Primo Full Record page, the DOI field is not a link to the resource. Please make this a link with the option to prepend your EZproxy URL to the DOI links. (Summon added this feature in 2021.)
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Calculated availability for non-full text records in digital imports from repositories
In Primo VE, institution repositories are limited to one label. For example, a link to the full online resource or a link to the physical resource are both labelled as ‘Full Text Available’.
This is a problem, as not all repositories are the full text, some repositories may just be an abstract.
Primo's label options are better, it is clearer to the user by the various different labels, for example ‘Full text available’ or ‘No full text’.
We would like Primo VE to have the various different labels, like Primo.
Please vote for our NERS request.
NERS Request ID: 7842
7 votes
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