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Field Pickup in Resource sharing form with default to leave blank
Now in the Pickup field, the first library in alphabetical order always appears by default. Many users click ENTER without having correctly filled in the Pickup field.
The best thing is that this field, even though it is mandatory, by default remains blank in opción, to force the user to choose.61 votes -
Include item copy id in OpenURL
We use OpenURL to pass request information from Primo VE to Aeon. Currently OpenURL cannot include item copy id (see case 06436874).
Item copy id is "used to identify individual copies of the same title when multiple copies exist at the same location".
This is important for our special collections libraries, because they often have multiple unique copies. For example, copy 2 may have annotations by the author and thus have specific importance to researchers, compared with copy 1 which is not annotated.
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Primo May 2022 Release: Display Multiple Links in View It
This feature offers the possibility to show more fulltext links in three sections:
(1) CDI "Subscription" links
(2) Alma iframe with Alma portfolio links
(3) CDI "Open Access" linksHowever, currently it is not possible to configure the display of these sections.
Please think about the following improvements:
Possibility to display all link sections automatically instead of only showing the first link section and a "Show more" option for the other sections (see attachement).
Possibility to decide to display both new link sections (additional CDI "Subscription" links, additional CDI "Open Access" links) or only one of them.
If you have…6 votes -
More thumbnail source options or additional parameters needed for Primo VE
Would like the ability to either pull from CDI source fields for thumbnails for example the way the CDI for Naxos can use {{control/sourcerecordid}} to build the link for online access. We need to be able to use this same field to pull in the thumbnail automatically. Alternately or in addition another option would be to allow additional logic from another Marc field to determine whether a field should be used. e.g. Use 035a for $$LinkingParameter1 IF 040a = Naxos.
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Filter for which record types, local or community zone, you want to generate the hypertext.
When working with Community Zone records, we see that linking tags, such as 776, appear in Primo in the Related Titles option, and the resource it links to does not return any results. If we deactivate the hypertext link for related titles, the links that were from our records and that are correct would also be affected. We suggest that you can somehow filter for which record types, local or community zone, you want to generate the hypertext.
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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.83 votes -
Default sorting order in Loan Display
We would like to have an option to select the default sorting order from "Due Date - newest", "Due date - oldest", "Title" in "My Library Card > Loans > Active Loans" and "My Library Card > Overview > Loans" display.
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One index in Primo VE for browing call number
Currently, call numbers with different call number types must be browsed separately, using different call number indexes.
It will be beneficial for both library staff and clients to be able to Browse only one call number index (combining different call number types in the one index) in Primo VE without having to think about which index their call number belongs to.
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Results for e-resources when narrowing down to IZ
The users expect that with the facets, you would be able to filter electronic resources by library and/or IZ that licensed them. This is currently not the case. When filtering by location, e-resources (incl. external data sources) are not delivered as results.
Electronic resources should be recognized by Primo as owned by libraries and institutions like physical resources. We would highly appreciate if Ex Libris could make this possible.
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Add to Primo Backend BE tools for counting and migrating (= export and reimport) user comments
As Primo administrator we have no tool
1) allowing us to know how many user comments are in the system (to have an idea on how this feature is used and therefore useful
2) allowing us to migrate user comments in case there is a change authentication system and metadata. For example, we switched from a case sensitive to a case unsensitive authentication platform and, since user comments in Primo are linked to user via the ID used for authentication, we could not export them, manipulate and fix the users, and reimport them.
Therefore a way to export / reimport…3 votes -
Reverse the order of Available in Library / Available Online on full record display
We are new to Primo so pardon if this idea already exists. My public services colleagues would like to see "Available Online" appear before Physical Availability in the brief record information on the top of the full record display. We can move the View it service section higher in the page but we can't flip these two links.
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Ensure that CZ & CDI Metadata is Linked Data Ready
I was advised by the Linked Data Group to post this idea here because I submitted the following for the LOD Working Group webinar in December:
Broader strategic and commercial alliances required to ensure that data is ready to be linked?
To engender confidence in CZ and make it linked-data ready, why don’t the Company do business with e.g. Backstage Library Works for authority control clean-up and maintenance?
Metadata is a global commodity so all stakeholders have responsibility for creating, sharing, enriching and maintaining it, and of course there are costs for all of these elements which we could share.
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Add ReadCube in Record Actions
We are using Digital Science's ReadCube Papers as our reference manager. In View Configuration>Brief Record Display>Record Actions, there isn't an option for ReadCube Papers. Please add ReadCube as an option.
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Ranking of search results by Resource Sharing Library
Concerning search results in Primo : could it be made possible to rank different holdings of the same title by Resource Sharing Library of the patron? This way the patron would see on top of the list the item that is the easiest accessible to him. At present patrons often request items from another library because they did not notice the title is also available at their own library.
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Allow Primo users to report inaccurate metadata on a record directly to Ex Libris
We've had several cases where metadata was incorrect in a Primo record. The user (in several occasions the author of the article) reported the issue to their library, who reported it to us (BIBSYS consortium), and we reported this to Ex Libris.
Once the issue was fixed, after quite some time, the feedback followed the same road, back to the user.
It would be more efficient if metadata issues could be reported directly to the instance actually able to correct them, which is Ex Libris.
The issue would be reported directly by the user in Primo/a salesforce case would be…
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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 -
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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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…
3 votes -
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.
3 votes -
"Report To Ex Libris" for CDI issues
Currently it is only possible to report Collection and Portfolios issues via the "Report to Ex Libris" functionality of Alma.
Colleagues from our e-resources department (who also manage most of the CDI settings) would be glad to use this reporting tool also for CDI issues: wrong URLs, incorrect "Full Text Rights in CDI", etc.Please, provide a CRM Cateogry "CDI" in the form and include some CDI data (like now Collection ID, Portfolio ID).
This would make it much easier for us to report CDI problems, and support team would also benefit from standardized requests.124 votes
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