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seperate 'my favorites' from search history
Please separate 'my favorites' from the search history. users dont think to look under my favorites for search history and the title hierarchy does not make sense. My favorites should go to pinned items and a separate tab should exist for search history.
2 votes -
Primo VE: Return to classic Primo method of allowing you to jump through attached holdings
In the old Primo interface, there are buttons for jumping through the holdings attached to a record (see the attached image from UCONN's catalog). In Primo VE, all you can do is click on "show more items" to expand the list to include about 15 more items (see the image from the UC Hastings catalog). If you want to see the latest item received and there are a number of records, you have to click on "show more items" many, many times to get to the end of the list. It would be great if Primo VE could go back…
29 votes -
Pre-load images
Patrons have reported latency for loading search results in Primo. And our observation shows that:
- Images are always loaded at the last and it normally take a few seconds to be loaded completely
- The thumbnails are likely meaningful only for books (book covers) while other types are loaded with default icons
Our suggestion: Pre-load image for non-book items (e.g., article, video and etc) in hope to improve user experience with search.1 vote -
Offer phone view to low-end devices
On mid-tier devices, such as a low-end laptop or a Surface Pro, Primo is very slow to respond, and quickly pegs the CPU doing trivial tasks such as simply scrolling the page. After doing some benchmarking on an Android phone, we discovered that some of the performance issues can be mitigated by rendering the phone view. I request that the more efficient phone view be available to lower-end devices.
19 votes -
Resource Sharing
When a patron is trying to request an ILL and has located and signed in, make the "Resource Sharing" link under How to Get It, show as a link in blue and display more prominently.
1 vote -
fergusons
Please add Fergusons Career Guidance Center to Primo Central Index and Alma Activation
1 vote -
Allow Search Box Placeholder Text to Be Customizable by VIEW
The search box placeholder text is customizable in the Code Table (nui.search.placeholder) but the change is global. It would be much more useful if the default could be set in the Code Table and then further customized in each view if desired. Or, if that isn't possible, to remove it from the Code Table and just make it a customizable field in each view. Or, if that isn't possible, at least a check box in the view settings that would allow us to remove/hide the placeholder text that was set in the Code Table.
It's great that we can make…
5 votes -
Option to request multiple volumes
Currently, users who wish to request multiple volumes of a set or journal must submit individual requests for each volume. In practice, though, users frequently want multiple volumes. Our institution has the bulk of our collection in remote storage, so we get a lot of requests of this nature. I would love to see a checkbox option in Primo where users could check off all of the items they want, rather than submitting a separate request for each. Obviously this would need to send the appropriate request to Alma or whatever other system people might be using; I understand that…
10 votes -
Fix the Zotero translator problem (September 2018)
Primo and the Zotero translator have stopped playing nicely together ( September 2018 - see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/316205/#Comment_316205 ).
I cannot download metadata from my institution (University of York) or British Library (an important source!).
This would be very frustrating at any time but at the start of the academic year it makes it very difficult for new students.
I am aware that there is an existing 'idea' in this list "Make zotero work with Primo" but that originates from September 2017 and is closed.
Many thanks
17 votes -
Multiple versions of Books not showing as format BOOKS
In both Primo VE and Primo when there are multiple versions of a book , it is not clear that the format is BOOKS. When the multiple version is an ARTICLE this is indicated. Can this be fixed please.
1 vote -
Notes in My Favourites
Classic interface Primo offered a Note bubble in eShelf, that allowed users to annotate their references. Something our students have found useful.
The new interface however, neither contains migrated eShelf Note bubble data, or alternative functionality to capture annotations.
Labels can be used as a workaround, but this isn't really the functionality our students seek.
I invite others to comment and support this idea.
Thanks
Wayne
4 votes -
Switching the scope, within a tab, should invoke automatic search
When switching a scope, within a tab, automatic search is not invoked (if the Primo View is configured for automatic search when switching tabs).
This is counter-intuitive because the two dropdowns for tabs and scopes are next to each other but do not behave in the same way. Users are confused when nothing happens after they change the scope.
Here is an example of a Primo View with tabs and scopes. You'll see that changing CSUSM Collection to Media Library does not update the search results automatically. However, changing Books and More to CSU+ invokes the automatic search.
18 votes -
Searchable field codes
I would like to suggest that Primo develops to support searchable field codes. In several databases it's possible to specify which field you want to search by writing abbreviations of field codes before the search terms in the search box. For example, AU =jonson, TI = digital photography, JN = journal of advanced nursing and so on.
I know that Advanced search can target specific fields, but it would be useful to be able to search with field codes in the primo default search box.
7 votes -
Add 245 subfield c to Primo display
Please add the 245 subfield c to the display in Primo. It does display in Alma. In the example below, you are not able to determine the author/creator's responsibility for the work - Author vs. forward vs. photographer.
We would love to have more granularity in general for what fields/subfields display in Primo for our specific institution.
Thank you!
82 votes -
Allow libraries to review PCI metadata in collections
We would like the ability to not only see more information about the collections (which is already another idea on here) but also the ability to see the metadata for each collection. For example, for Kanopy, we have loaded the MARC records into Alma, but would like to review what the metadata for the PCI collection looks like so we can make a decision about whether or not to enable it. We have no way to know what the PCI collection will add or do until we turn it on in production Primo.
50 votes -
"Personalize your results" - enable to add disciplines, not only delete.
"Personalize your results" is a Primo Central feature. The lists of degrees and disciplines are defined by Primo Central, and can be translated locally via code tables in the Back Office.
It is possible to DELETE degrees and disciplines via the Mapping Table, but currently it is NOT possible to add new ones. We would like tohave the possibility to add disciplines.
thank you.18 votes -
Tags Management in consortium level environment
The Tags Management page is only available to institution level in a non-sharing environment and this is not available in a consortium level environment.
So staff users can't delete tags, which is a problem.
Please make it available for all environment.
13 votes -
Launch Primo Studio from back office and auto-generate your own view
There is the option from the UI customization Package Manager page in the Primo back office to launch Primo Studio, but at the moment you have to manually adjust the URL and view code in order to see your own version of Primo. On top of this, you also have to manually upload your own view package in order to see your own customisations. I'd like this to be improved so that the launch button from the Primo BO automatically launches Primo Studio with your own UI and all of its customisations so that changes can be applied immediately
5 votes -
Add SMS/text for Primo VE 'Send To' options
Users would like to text themselves call numbers/ catalog records. Please consider adding this option to the Primo VE 'Send to' options
26 votes -
sort order for result list
Dear all,
in the new UI in Primo exist only the sort order year (ascending). Please add the sort order descending (oldest on top).
Best Regards
Michael Voss
3 votes
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