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Make search selections "sticky" when navigating from page to page
When a patron is creating a resource list to email or save, they may wish to include items from more than one page of search results. Currently, if they select items on page 1 and the navigate to page 2 they lose any selections from page 1. The only way to retain selections is to pin them page by page. This is time consuming and can limit the flow of finding resources. Can selections of search results be "sticky" so they stay when the patron navigates from one page of results to the next?
26 votes -
"Search inside" option in PrimoVE for Journal titles - prevent this option for print only titles
Currently in PrimoVE, when a journal title search is undertaken for a title that is held in print format only, the "search inside" option is present. This is extremely misleading for users. If they undertake a search using this function, where the title is held in print format only, the user is shown articles from other titles.
Our idea therefore seeks that the leader, 007, 008 marc fields are used to identify when the title is a print only title and therefore prevent the "search inside" option from appearing against such titles in PrimoVE.12 votes -
Ability to sort or group online services by availability date
We would like the ability to sort or at least group the online services via the availability date. At the moment, I have to manually add and sort hundreds of ecollections to put the focus on these rather than our big packages (Proquest, Ebscohost, etc.)
We found that users generally click on the first few links despite what the availability dates are listed. Grouping by interface is available (https://developers.exlibrisgroup.com/blog/how-to-use-the-online-services-order-to-to-control-the-order-of-the-services-on-the-services-page-in-primo-after-clicking-available-online/?unapproved=1024&moderation-hash=5a646f643de45dfa00b8dbf001d0157f#comment-1024) so it would be nice to group titles in a similar fashion where we can group all ecollection with ongoing access at the top.3 votes -
purchase request form - expand where option of auto-populated form can appear
Currently with Purchase Request forms, if there is already a physical copy in stock, depending on the display logic rules set up - the purchase request form link will appear (useful for librarians wanting more copies) this will auto populate the form. However this will only appear when there is a physical copy as it appears in the get it section of the full record view.
For items available only electronically, I can add a GES to allow librarians to go to the blank purchase request form, but it won't auto populate.
This doesn't give parity or a similar experience…
1 vote -
PrimoVE should allow disabling of Aggregator Content Data
Improving OpenAIRE Links in PrimoVE: A Customization Proposal
Many of the OpenAIRE links in our system are currently unreliable. To address this issue, we propose the following enhancements:
1) Aggregator Content Data Class: We recommend introducing an aggregator class specifically
for Aggregator Content Data in the code. This class would allow us to apply custom styling
and control the display of OpenAIRE links.2) CSS Customization: If we had a dedicated <span class="OpenAIRE">, we could easily add CSS
rules to hide OpenAIRE links. Currently, we lack this flexibility, and our users are
inundated with potentially unreliable links. Other Contenre Data…4 votes
AdminTamar Ganor
(Admin, Ex Libris)
responded
Hello,
We have made some adjustments for the OpenAIRE records on the content side, you can read more in this Knowledge Article:
The other options you have mentioned may be addressed in the Primo Product side - I have moved this idea to the Primo Idea Exchange for the Product team to review.
Kind regards,
Tamar Ganor
Content Product Manager
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Please add an option to sort the items under My Favorites page of publication.
sort items under My Favorites by date
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Portfolio Order
Logic Rules often become complex in showing exactly which holdings to display. We would like to have the ability to rank(or order) portfolios based upon institutional needs and have an easier way to exclude portfolios that we do not want displayed, without creating an endless amount of display logic rules that can inevitably cause issues.
3 votes -
ability to reintegrate Newspaper indexes into main search
deactivating "Newspaper search" results in a loss of content. Activating Newspaper search defeats the purpose of a discovery layer for some institutions. Also the the results in Newspaper Search still fails many times for known item searches and does not function the same as the main search.
9 votes -
Add Search within "Journals by Category" results
Journals by Category is less useful since each category could have hundreds of results. For example, searching by the category "Psychology" produces 623 journals. EDS' journal search allows you to search within that category--so in this case, you'd be able to search a specific topic among only the 623 psychology journals identified. We have professors who require students to find ten articles in Economics/Accounting journals that are published in the USA. A search within the category Economics journals for a topic, and perhaps even the location facet, would help these students out!
3 votes -
Remove Oclc only limitation in 035 indexing in Primo VE - i.e. index all 035 values
Right now values in tag 035 are indexed in Primo VE only if they are Oclc values (see reply to idea: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/31282558-find-records-by-record-numbers ).
In all other cases they are not indexed, and Ex Libris says that one can add a local field for 035 tag to index all of them. That's what we did at our Library. Still, it's hard to understand why one should implement a local field for a feature that should work out of the box.All 035 values should be indexed by default.
12 votes -
Ability to reduce limit for number of links in "View It"
Ability to reduce the limit for full text links in "View It"
At present, the limit for links in "View It" is set to 25, see: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/View_It_is_limited_for_25_resources
However, it is not possible to reduce the number and lower the limit (as it was possible in the SFX environment).We would like the ability reduce the limit for links in the "View It" section of a Primo record.
23 votes -
Primo VE - make frbr work with Esploro / research data data as well
Surprisingly, in Primo VE FRBR feature does not apply to Esploro research data records blended with Alma records.
It should instead work also with Esploro / Research Data.12 votes -
Link search results for full text to the digital representation instead of the title
One of the selling points of Primo VE is that full text from digital representations (Alma-D) is indexed automatically. When a user performs a search wherein full text is found, they can click on the brief result to go to the full display, then click on the digital representation to open the file in the viewer.
This works well for titles with only one digital representation and file. If you search our catalog for the keywords feeder is also designed as a feeder, you will see an ESL Pamphlet about the Black River Canal as the first result. When you…
29 votes -
Language field in Brief Record Display ought to use the Language codes Labels (VE)
For institutions with multi-lingual collections, the out-of-the-box Language field can be a useful addition to the record display. When Language is added to the Full Record display, the "Language codes Labels" code table is used to convert the abbreviated codes used in metadata records into generally understood language names–e.g. the code 'gle' displays as 'Irish'.
When the Language field is added to the Brief Record display, however, the labels are NOT used and the code is displayed as-is. Ex Libris recognizes this as a defect (case #06659538) but a solution is not part of the current development work plan. We…
14 votes -
Display View It sort order by portfolio with highest number of access first
There doesn't seem to be a way to make the display of portfolios in the View It sort by portfolio with the most number of access first.
We have some titles that have multiple portfolios - some have 3 user access, unlimited, and single access. It would be easier for end-users to view/click on the portfolio with the most number of access first - this would reduce user frustrations with being turned away.
4 votes -
CDI article title in English but article is in a different language
CDI article title has English title, but when article is accessed, it is in a different language. CDI title should be in language of article.
0 votes -
Allow suppression of GES based on Primo View
Currently a GES (General Electronic Service) link can be suppressed or shown based on certain characteristics of the record or though Alma Display Logic Rule, through characteristics of the logged in user or presence / absence of other GES links. We would like the ability to control the display of GES links based on the current Primo view. This would allow us to show or suppress links in certain Primo views before asking the user to login.
16 votes -
Include authentication in QR Code link for favourites
On Primo VE you can generate a QR Code for the page you are viewing.
If the page is a search the QR Code link works, once scanned the search is replicated.
If the page is from your account, LibraryCare, My Loans, My Requests, when the code is scanned it invokes authentication.However, for Favourites, when the code is scanned it shows a "blank" screen if the user isn't already authenticated on the scanning device.
I would like to propose that the link generated for Favourites invokes authentication in the same way as pages for Loans, Requests etc,
1 vote -
Primo VE - "related titles sorted alphabetically by title"
The Articles such as "der, die das" should be ignored for the sort." - Currently it is not possible to configure the sort of the related titles.
Example:
SHOW ALL
Contains : "Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit" Contains : 8 1/2 = (otto e mezzo) Contains : Abschied von Sansibar : Roman Contains : Abwässer : ein Gutachten
[...]
Contains : Balzac : Leben und Werk : Zeugnisse und Aufsätze von Victor Hugo bis Georges Simenon
[...]
Contains : Carl Gustav Jung : Leben, Werk, Wirkung
[..]
Contains : Damals und heute : ein Machiavelli-Roman
Contains : Das Bankhaus Nucingen :…
3 votes -
Allow fields available in the CTO to be used in General Electronic Services (GES)
Fields found in the CTO should be available to use in url templates and service availability rules within General Electronic Services (GES).
We use some GES's to link out to our resource sharing system that uses OpenUrl parameters in the url template. We've discovered that many books only have editors and don't include that information in the general author attributes within the CTO. Instead, the editor gets added to rft.sau in the CTO and it is the only field in the record that contains editor information. If you add this field to the url template in the GES and you…
3 votes
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