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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.
56 votes -
Enable Pre-filter below the search term input field in NDE UI
Background:
In the previous Primo VE UI, users were able to apply Pre-filters directly below the search term input field. This functionality allowed for more precise and efficient searching without requiring access to Advanced Search.Proposal:
We recommend implementing the same feature in the NDE UI, enabling users to select Pre-filters directly beneath the search term input field.Benefits:
Users frequently use the "contains exact phrase" option or use the “begin with” option. (Especially for non-English speaking users like us.)
Providing Pre-filter functionality in the brief search interface will allow users to execute advanced searches quickly and intuitively, without navigating…38 votes -
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.90 votes -
Primo NDE - Display Availability and Access Rights Indicators on Brief Result Cards in Collection Discovery
User Story:
As a library user browsing digital collections,
I would like to see availability statuses and access rights indicators (e.g., "Open Access", or a restricted access icon) directly on the brief result cards (thumbnail and list views) in the Collection Discovery lobby,
so that I know immediately if a digital file is accessible to me without having to click through to the Full Record Display.Current Problem:
Currently, brief result cards for Alma-D records in Collection Discovery lack any visual indicators regarding an item's availability. Users frequently click on items only to discover they do not have the rights…28 votes -
Fix Export and Print Problems with My Library Card in Primo VE and NDE
Background:
When a user goes to their My Library Card in Primo VE they can see all the items that they have checked out. However, if the user tries to print or export this list, it excludes any suppressed bib records. Interlibrary loan records are usually suppressed because we don't want our search results to return titles we don't own. As a result, the user can see the interlibrary loan titles they have checked out, but they cannot print or export them.We reported this problem to Ex Libris, after a graduate student noticed the discrepancy and reported it to…
76 votes -
Allow users to customize PNX addata subfields
Currently, the normalization rules for creating addata subfields are not available to users. As a result, redundant information is included in subfields intended for authors, creators or titles and as result the citations are inaccurate.
82 votes -
Improve advanced searching in non-Roman languages so a "Title" + "Starts with" search parameter queries the MARC 880 field
When combined, the “Title” + “Starts with” advanced search parameters do not query the linked MARC 880 field. This prevents users from successfully using this index for non-Roman language search queries.
When the ExLibiris Development Team reviewed this issue previously, they found that Primo VE's design excludes the 880 field from Title Starts With indexing due to index size limitations.
We’ve been advised that “Title Contains” and “Title is Exact” do index the 880 field, and can serve as a workaround. However, users expect consistent search behavior across all indexes, regardless of language used in the search query.
A few…
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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…
38 votes -
Primo VE provide a job forcing a reindex recalculating also FRBR / View all versions grouping for a set of records or the whole catalogue
Sometimes wrong FRBR grouping are created and stay in the system until the scheduled six months indexing is performed.
There is a tool for fixing single records ( Dedup and FRBR Test Utility ) but a) it works for one record at time b) one needs to know exactly and in advance what records are wrong (and usually this is not the case).
We need therefore a job forcing a reindex and recalculating Dedup + FRBR / View all versions grouping for a set of records or the whole catalogue.
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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…
37 votes -
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.
27 votes -
Ability to sort/filter according to item status
Ability to sort/filter according to item status
The display order of item records in Primo is the same order in which they appear on the Alma record. Although we can sort them within Alma according to Library/Location, from a user perspective it would be helpful if they had the ability to apply a filter/sort to see first only the itens that are available to borrow
11 votes -
Limit Research Assistant results to resources patrons can access
It would be nice at a configuration level to be able to limit the Research Assistant results to those within an institution's collection and OA as the default setting, rather than the entire CDI as it is currently.
Users could then select to expand their search to the CDI, like they currently do when searching Primo.59 votes -
Include DOIs in references in APA 7th ed. format for records coded with Dublin Core.
Exlibris has just updated the APA 7th ed. citation format settings to include the DOI for MARC21-encoded records (idea exchange: Improve APA citation format to include the DOI for an article), but we also want Exlibris performs the same process for Dublin Core-encoded records.
Users are increasingly turning to PRIMO to obtain the citation reference of a record they are interested in and in many cases their metadata is in DublinCore format, as more and more catalogs integrate repositories that encode information following this format.
101 votes -
Purchase requests just in top menu (not in Get it section)
We would like to suggest an option to offer the blank Purchase Request form in the Top Menu, while preventing the "Purchase Request" link from appearing in the "Get It" section of the record view.
We want to avoid patrons requesting materials that we already hold or that can be obtained through resource sharing (Rapido).
Currently, there is no configuration to separate these two access points. We tried using GES (General Electronic Services) logic, but it does not work for this specific purpose in Primo VE. The only workaround we found is hiding the link in the record view using…
22 votes -
“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.23 votes -
Publish the algorithm to create permalinks
Currently the permalinks in Primo contain a secret key which customers can't generate programatically. Using a secret key at all in a URL that is a permalink is questionable.
Permalinks that are dependent on internal secrets and operational details are not in the spirit of nature of long-term commitment.
Permalinks that can't be programatically created based on public available data are also very hard to debug and integrate with external services.
Permalinks should not be dependent on any operational details (for which no long-term commitment can be guaranteed).
Publish the algorithm how this secret key can be calculated or make…
17 votes -
Add the funtionality of Add Row to all Labels
As of now it possible to create copies of Labels to be used in specific views, so that the Label better correlate with the intended user group for that view, by the funtion Add Row.
However, this isn't an option an all different kind of labels. We suggest that this functionality should be available on all labels, so that the library better can customize their different views.
4 votes -
Ability to Configure Multiple Journal Searches
Currently, Primo VE supports only one Journal Search configuration for an institution. While this works well for many institutions, some institutions oversee multiple libraries or campuses with distinct journal holdings (e.g., different licensing agreements, consortia memberships, or campus-specific subscriptions).
We would like to request the ability to configure and offer multiple, separate Journal Searches within Primo VE.
Each Journal Search should:
Be scoped independently (e.g., by IZ, NZ, or a specific library/campus)
Have customizable display labels and help text to clearly indicate which journal collection the search covers
Support direct linking to each Journal Search from library platforms
Use Case: …
37 votes -
Allow an institution (IZ) (Alma/Primo VE) to exclude in retrieval 7XX fields with $5 from another institution within the same Network Zone
In our Network Zone, we work with unique bibliographic records shared by several institutions. The MARC21 7XX subfield $5
is used to indicate local information specific to each IZ.Currently, in Alma and Primo VE searches, 7XX fields containing a $5 from other IZs are included in retrieval and affect
the Dedup and FRBR grouping processes within an IZ. We can only hide these fields from user display by configuring Primo VE rules.
As a result, records retrieved in a Primo VE view of one IZ may include data that are strictly local to another institution and may
even influence…15 votes
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