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Adding unique user data to Primo Analytics
Idea: To be able to use Primo Analytics to create a report of unique users who have used Primo (logged into Primo) in a specific time period, for example in a month.
Reason: Currently in Primo Analytics, the 'session' and 'sign in' parameters count the overall numbers and not unique user numbers. This means that there is no option to check the unique users per Primo identifier for a specific period.
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Primo VE's paganation feature choises also to the top of results
Primo VE's new pagination feature's options to change to another page should be added also to the top of results. Or maybe the choise could be floating at the bottom of the page, visible all the time.
Now if you have chosen 50 results per page the choises are pretty long way down.3 votes -
It should be possible for partners to log in to Primo and see a list over their lending transactions with the library
It should be possible for partners to log in to Primo and see a list over their lending transactions with the library.
The Royal Danish Library handles more than 500.000 lending transactions with external partners per year.
At the moment it is not possible for partners to log in in to Primo and see their transactions.
This cause a lot of manuel labor for The Royal Danish Library to answer request of status form our partners.
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Enable/disable the article quote in Brief results
Brief results often show a quote/snippet for an article (see screenshot). In Primo VE it is currently not possible to enable/disable this. We would like to see this configuration option. All the other fields are customizable, why not this one?
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license
We would like Primo VE to show a license upon the license being approved in Alma.
Right now, any license that is linked to an item or a collection shows up in Primo VE, even if it is still a draft and in review status.
So I have had to remove the license from the collection in the meantime under we have the license terms verified.
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Improve phrase searching "Highlight"
When using phrase search, please do not highlight partial words or letters.
Please highlight only the exact phrase which use for the search terms.
For example, if a patron searches for "traffic accident", please highlight just "traffic accident" and do not highlight "traffic" or "accident".
Please check the phrase search results your Primo VE.
You can find that word-level highlighting makes the search results confusing.25 votes -
Not needed after UI improvements
With the Alma 2021 March-release there was introduced more logic to the handling of the Not needed after field coming from the requests from Primo.
This new functionality has made the Not needed after more useful than before and we have activated this in the request forms.
We do however have two suggestions for improvements:
1) In the request form there is a calendar icon that indicates that it is a date-field. The user expectation is to click on the icon, but it is not clickable. If the user cliks in the field they get a date-picker. Could the calendar-icon…
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Capitals in Tags
Tags work currently only in lower case and this is OK for concepts. But when users need to tag regions and countries, the lower case creates a disturbance. Could it be possible to have tags respect Capitals?
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Make handling of multilingual labels easier
Hi
Our Primo VE has 4 interface languages.
1)
Changing a term means I have to change it in each language separately, save it (which throws me out of the table to the list of tables), click 'edit' again, then change the next language etc. Otherwise the changes are not taken.Surely there's a way to make that easier?
For example display all languages at once, which would also make it much easier to compare the languages.
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After I changed a label, when I search for it, I still get results, although it does not exist any longer in…10 votes -
Provide system performance metrics
The Ex Libris Systems Status page only provides simple up/down and planned maintenance information. While this is important, it does not help with other issues, such as slow response time.
We would like to have access to system performance metrics, including volume of API calls and response time. This could be set up as more detailed information linked from the system status page, or perhaps as reports in the analytics system.Although I'm entering this as a primo improvement, it applies to all hosted products.
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Ability to merge local data with cdi records
We currently export Imperial Open Access Spiral material to CDI and Primo VE. This means in Primo VE we show duplicate records for all our Open Access Spiral Records. One from the local source and one from CDI. This is not the best user experience. It is also confusing for library staff working on Spiral Records in Primo VE.
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Deliver more accurate faceting of search results by improved use of PNX metadata
Can Ex Libris please look into a system whereby one content type can be privileged over another, supporting more accurate faceting of search results.
BACKGROUND
We recently discovered a number of CDI records incorrectly displayed the generic TEXT RESOURCE label for journal articles. It seems these records have been supplied by third party suppliers whose policies dictate that their metadata will not be updated, even upon request (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Summon/Content_Corner/Knowledge_Articles/Summon%3A_Fixes_to_Aggregator_Content_Data).In many cases the PNX metadata provided indications as to what these really were, even though the allocated resource type was TEXT RESOURCE.
View search results:
https://tewaharoa.victoria.ac.nz/discovery/search?query=any,contains,asthma&tab=all&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=64VUW_INST:VUWNUI&facet=rtype,include,text_resources&offset=0View PNX examples:…
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Archival materials misleadingly accessible via ILL
When searching my institution's PrimoVE instance with the "Add results beyond your library's collection" box checked (it is checked by default), users are getting search results that include archival and special collections materials from other institutions. Users who log in can request these items via EZBorrow or ILL, but this is misleading because archival and special collections materials do not circulate and cannot be checked out or delivered to another library. These requests will always be denied and cause some confusion for users and library staff. We're concerned that users will be at best confused by having this option seemingly…
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EBooks from "Initiative E-Books.NRW" to CDI
As part of "Initiative E-Books.NRW" from the Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft NRW we now have access to about 100.000 E-Books from several providers. The Ministerium published a press release of this issue in January (https://www.mkw.nrw/presse/e-books-nrw).
We don't want to put the metadata into our local system, because the access to the content is limited to 3 years. After the 3 years we may have access to content that was frequently asked. For now it is not clear, which content that may be.
We would appreciate to have this metadata in the CDI to make it easier for…
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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 vernacular title to exported records in Primo VE
hi,
in primo back office it's possible to use a mapping table to add the display/vertitle field to exports to RefWorks and RIS but the export mappings in Primo VE seem to be fixed and the equivalent of the vertitle field is not included. this should be a straightforward addition and provide much better exported references for users - thanks for considering!
3 votes -
display logic should allow us to block Resource Sharing Request if the item is an ebook
As more and more ebooks are offered and indexed in CDI, we need a way to block the UW Request from showing for these. At this time Resource sharing is not equipped to handle the loaning of entire ebooks. So we need users to use different options and unfortunately we do not have a way to block the RS request when an item is an ebook
17 votes -
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.
126 votes -
Move the Sort by options to top of results
We would like the Sort by option to be at the top of screen, for consistency with other databases. Users are used to seeing Sorting options at the top of the page. These options are hard to locate within the other filtering options in the panel to the left/right of the Primo results.
13 votesHi,
We would like to update that this is planned to be developed in the Primo Next Discovery Experience User Interface.
More details on the new interface plans can be found here -
Best regards,
Yael.
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Make the Availability indicator for consortia match what was in Primo BO
We have has several users report in a week that they are confused by the lack of accuracy in the availability indicator in Primo VE. For example Milwaukee noticed that this item shows that it is available in another institution- https://wisconsin-uwm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_ML/cc3uhc/alma9912304483902121
If I check that institution the item is checked out and if I look it Alma it has been out for over a year. https://wisconsin-uwosh.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01UWI_OSH/hvjabb/alma991004692621402126
…Now compare it to Primo BO you will note that in the institutional holdings area, it says Out of the Library. - https://uwi-primoalma-prod.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/f/104qq38/UWI71401656290002121 We would want VE to be accurate so users do not40 votes
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