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Lateral linking for uniform titles
Please let us add lateral links for uniform titles.
This seems to have been possible in Primo BO: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/Highlights/026Primo_November_2017_Highlights#Enhanced_Hypertext_Linking
"Hypertext linking has been extended to the following PNX display fields: [...] unititle [...]."I attach our display rules to show which fields to include.
For search: hypertext links
11 votes -
In Primo Research Assistant, please add the ability to pre-select filters. Specifically, we need to pre-select the available online filter.
In Primo Research Assistant, please add the ability to pre-select filters. Specifically, we need to pre-select the available online filter. Our students are often frustrated when the results include resources that must be requested.
11 votes -
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…
47 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…44 votes -
Apply Display Logic Rules to CDI direct linking records
Currently, records that provide full text solely via a CDI link-in-record URL are not subject to Display Logic Rules (see documentation note below). This leads to inconsistent behavior and display compared to other CDI records.
For example, our article ILL General Electronic Service is configured not to display when there is full-text available on a record. This works as expected for records that have full-text provided via the link resolver, but for CDI direct linking records, the ILL GES displays alongside the full-text link. This confuses our patrons, who think that the presence of the ILL link means the full-text…
115 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…34 votes -
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 -
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 -
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 -
NDE landing page labels
With the new Landing Page configuration, it is now possible to customize the NDE starting page.
Under Discovery Configuration > View Configuration > Landing Page > Links, it is possible to configure the labels for the Links section. However, other Landing Page labels are managed at IZ level under Discovery Configuration > Labels > Landing Page Labels.
For consortia or institutions with multiple views, this creates a limitation: labels that are not part of the Links section cannot be customized per local view in the configuration menu, but only by creating view level labels in the code table. As a…
8 votes -
Certificate of No Outstanding Debts/ Certidão Negativa de Débitos
Create a "Certificate of No Debts" function within Primo, which will allow users to issue a document stating that they have no outstanding debts with the Library (loans, unpaid fines, unreturned books, item replacements in progress, and others). If there are any outstanding issues, the document will specify what those issues are, and the user will be instructed to contact the library.
This is a very useful feature. With translate to POrtuguese, please.46 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 -
PRIMO Advanced Search: Reduced Usability After Latest Update
Hello,
In the latest PRIMO update, the Advanced Search has become less efficient and less intuitive for daily use.
Previously, it was possible to quickly edit search fields directly within the interface. Now, even small changes (such as editing a title) require reopening the edit screen, which adds extra steps and slows down the workflow.
For librarians who rely on Advanced Search, this reduces usability and productivity. I would appreciate it if you could consider restoring the previous, more intuitive and streamlined editing experience.
Thank you.
11 votes -
Support searching by index in Collection Discovery
In Collection Discovery, users can sort items by Relevance, Date-newest, Date-oldest, Title, and Author, but they are unable to search by these indexes. This affects the user's ability to retrieve specific and known-items in a precise way. The existing "search" option functions based purely on keyword across all data fields (including full text).
Users need access to specific index searching for full use of Collection Discovery, especially the Title index.
5 votes -
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…
42 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…
61 votes -
NDE - Configuration option for whether a search is invoked on changing scope
Currently, if there is text in the search input field and you make a selection in the scope drop-down, a search is invoked automatically (without the user selecting the search button).
This even occurs on the Library Search home page (when no search has yet been performed).
There is no indication to users that a search will be triggered after changing their selection in that drop-down.
Compare this behaviour to the 'Browse' search, which has a drop-down for the search field - users can change that value as needed yet a new search will only be performed when they select…
7 votes -
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 - Advanced search on multiple languages
Add Language to the list of indexes available for use in the Search Field dropdown list for advanced search. This would allow multiple languages to be searched for, for example, English AND Samoan
6 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.
9 votes
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