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Find alternate ISBNs in the available record to force an available syndetic cover image.
I've learned that the book cover images from Syndetics in Primo comes from the first Addata: ISBN PNX field which comes from the first subfield a in the MARC 020 field.
Often, we have the electronic version of a book that uses a different ISBN in the first MARC 020 |a
Small presses/publishers may have only sent Syndetics a print ISBN image and that image is available from Syndetics. Since often the print ISBN is in the MARC 020 field already - but not necessarily in subfield a or in the first position - it means that the default book…
72 votes -
Searchable Training Videos
Enable the content of all training videos to be retrievable when searching the Ex Libris Knowledge Center. This would improve training by making the video content more accessible. By indexing audio transcripts of training videos, customers can more easily retrieve information relevant to their query and help ourselves.
3 votes -
Multiple CDI records for one article by the languages of its metadata
Please do not use language filter when CDI merges records. It creates multiple records for one article, which confuses our patrons. (Case 00881023, 00824833) If CDI cannot merge them well, please provide a kind of "See Also" link to other records which have the same DOI. (CDI e-book records already display "Chapters of this book" link under the availability status.)
Many of non-English articles have English version metadata too because many journals oblige it. Western aggregators index English metadata whereas local aggregators index local language metadata. The problem is most of times they don't care about the language of the…
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Pin Title-Level bibliographic record at top of Newspaper Search results
Many users at our institution simply want to browse the most recent issue of a newspaper we have a subscription to. They are not searching for specific articles.
It would benefit our users if the newspaper search results provided easy access directly to the record (and view-online link) for a specific newspaper title. Perhaps this could be similar to the "Highlight Reference Entry On Top" where the appropriate record is pinned to the top of the results.
So, a Newspaper Search for "New York Times" ought to pin the title-level bibliographic record (that our institution has full access to) to…
3 votes -
Make location choice mandatory on the resource sharing form
If a user has the option of choosing between multiple pickup locations in their resource sharing form, make this field mandatory and the location drop down menu read:
Choose one: (<--- default choice is no choice)
Location 1
Location 2
Location 3
Etc.Right now, the default is based on a setting that could be, for example, the patron's home library. What I'm specifically requesting is that the default is "Choose one" and that the choosing be mandatory.
4 votes -
Separate Reviews from Book Chapters in Related Records Display
If you turn on the Related Records functionality in Primo VE, you get Chapters and Reviews. There's no way to select only that only chapters or only reviews display. It's both or nothing.
See the top section of this record for an example record with both book chapters and reviews: https://wrlc-gwalaw.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GWALAW/1mru39c/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC4980447
2 votes -
Our library would like you to add a second email address option in the dialogue box coming from My basket in order to streamline c & c
Our library would like you to add a second email address option to those provided in the email dialogue box accessed from My basket so that clients can send a list of items for click and collect to both the Library email and their own email as cc if desired. (Some clients may not wish to use this option, so it should be optional and not essential.)
Also please add another slot to the dialogue box specifically for the name of the patron to be inserted before the slot for the notes, i.e., Name of patron: John Smith
This slot…1 vote -
Our library would like you to add a second email address option in the dialogue box coming from My basket in order to streamline c & c
Our library would like you to add a second email address option to those provided in the email dialogue box accessed from My basket so that clients can send a list of items for click and collect to both the Library email and their own email as cc if desired. (Some clients may not wish to use this option, so it should be optional and not essential.)
Also please add another slot to the dialogue box specifically for the name of the patron to be inserted before the slot for the notes, i.e., Name of patron: John Smith
This slot…1 vote -
Different URL:s in Resource Recommender depending on language
When adding resources to Resource Recommender you can only use one URL. We would like to have the option to enter different URL:s depending on which language you are using in Primo. All our web pages are translated to English but now we can only point to our pages in Swedish. This would be a great enhancement to all multi-lingual universities.
90 votes -
Auto Populate Email in Primo
Auto-Populate Email in Primo from user record while sending the search results to the user's email instead of reentering the email manually.
3 votes -
Disable cancel request button in Primo
Stop our patrons from being able to 'cancel' a specific type of request within their account profile in Primo. We need to disable the cancel request button for Digitization request
7 votes -
Add prm-spinner after patron submits a Request Form
When patrons submit a request form (Physical Item/Article/Resource Sharing) in Primo VE, there can be a time lag of up to 45 seconds before they get a confirmation message. Before Ex Libris disabled the Send button, patrons were resubmitting the requests during this time lag. Now it appears they are reloading the page and resubmitting request.
I suggest you simply add an in progress status with a spinner so patrons get a visual cue that the form submission is in progress and they just need to be a little patient.
28 votes -
auto announcement for maintenance or outage
We would like to see built into Primo (all flavors NUI/VE etc) an auto announcement banner when there is scheduled maintenance or major outage.
We would also like the message that it displays to be customizable via a table in the back office.
This would help to alleviate an extremely manual process that we currently do with pulling the cloud notification emails and entering in text and dates manually to be displayed in Primo. It makes more sense to have this be an automatic process much like the emails sent out by cloud services.
4 votes -
Ability to see full bib info in Collection Discovery Resource Editor
Greetings,
We are using Collection Discovery to highlight new and significant items in the collection for medical specialties and topics, but the Collection Resource Editor doesn't show the pub date, making it hard to main maintain meaningful and up-to-date title lists. I'm talking about this (see attached). It would be helpful to see the publisher and pub date.
4 votes -
No-contact pickup option for hold form.
Add a field to the hold form so patrons can indicate that they want no-contact / curbside pickup of their requested item instead of coming inside the location they selected. Allow it to default as checked.
18 votes -
Include call number for physical items in Excel / CSV Export
Thank you for adding the option to export results in Primo to Excel and CSV.
Please could the call number for physical items be added as an extra column in the export. When clients export results from Primo, their intention is also to look for those items that are physical on the shelves and without the call number, they again have to access each record's link to obtain the call number.
228 votes -
add abstracts scanning in scrolling view
When Primo (now Promo VE) switched from a book catalog interface to a journal (Central Index) database interface, one new functionality was desired/required by researchers.
The ability to toggle on/off viewing Abstracts in the results is an important option for real-time exploration. Many scholars perform a preliminary scan of titles to remove obvious non-matches, but they then prefer to view the abstracts from
possibly important materials before downloading items into their personal databases. What is missing is the ability to select scrolling through records with the abstracts in view. This could either be added as an option on the initial…1 vote -
Configure collection discovery to display in shelflist order
We are using Collection Discovery to create new books browsing for our top subject areas but it would be great if they could display in shelflist order so like books group together.
What we really want is a low maintenance bookshelf browse feature which auto populates with new resources and removes the old. Anyway, display in LCC or some shelflist order would be good, even if the call number is hidden (because many are ebooks and it might confuse patrons).3 votes -
Browse by subject: visualize the 360 and 680 fields from the authorities records
It´s important for the users in order to navigate from one subject to other
4 votes -
Provide Toggle Checkbox When Including Results with No Full-Text
Please provide a toggle checkbox when the setting is configured to include results with no full-text. We would like to present all results by default and then let a person remove unwanted results (i.e., results with no full text).
The current setup is the reverse and is contrary to the idea of filtering. People use filters to narrow their search results, not expand them.
Also, I know there is a Full-Text Online facet, but this only appears after you select a resource type facet. Therefore, this method is not convenient to achieve the same thing.
Thanks,
Blake63 votes
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