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Adding Facets to Database Search page.
By adding a 'Facets' pane to the Database Search results page, consistency between the different search type's results will be improved and users will be able to post-filter Find Databases searches.
For example: a user would be able to filter by both subject AND resource type as used to be possible when the Metalib interface was used for the Databases A-Z list.42 votes -
Sub-collections: allowing a different description at the top level from a click further down
With sub-collections, we would like to be able to have a different description at the top level, than at a click further down.
For instance, on the collections page, a sub-collection description might simply read:
"Relating to agriculture and rural development"
, whereas, once the user has clicked into that sub-collection, they would see a different, and potentially more ample, description, such as:
"Material relating to all aspects of agriculture and rural development including material dealing with soil, irrigation, crops, farming material and village life."
6 votes -
Please add $b to the mapping of tags 100 & 700 to Primo VE facets
The mapping of Alma tags 100 and 700 to Primo VE facets includes only $a. $b contains for both tags the dynastic number of kings, popes and high nobility. Without the addition of $b it is impossible to distinguish for example the English kings $a Charles $b I and $a Charles $b II or popes $a John $b XXII and $a John $b XXIII
Therefor, we ask to add 100 $b and 700$b to facet values
39 votes -
Please add a parameter for IED on Primo Analytics
Please add a parameter for IED on Primo Analytics. We want to check the number of action usages for a specific records, but there is no such parameter.
22 votes -
Adding fields to purchase form
Currently the purchase form in Primo has a limited number of fields. We want to see the class/course name and professor and campus name as fields so we can better plan collection development.
8 votes -
DEDUP/FRBR data in Primo VE analytics
DEDUP/FRBR data in Primo VE analytics isn't available. It is available in standard Primo.
This would be useful for identifying issues around records that aren't matching.
Apparently Primo PNX records and pipes subject area are not available for Primo VE customers as yet.
80 votes -
Browse tab results display: don't follow creator immediately by publication date
In the results display on Browse tab for LC call number searches, the creator (1XX) is (almost) immediately followed by the publication date. (There's a space between the two fields). In cases where the 1XX field ends with an open-ended date, it looks like the publication year is a death date.
The attached file has an example which shows:
Financing consumer sales ... [title]
Geva, Benjamin, 1946- 1984 [authority (1xx) date of publication]The work was published in 1984, I was in a meeting with Geva last month so he's clearly still alive. The current display is misleading and could…
7 votes -
Add display field Contributor to Fields boosting in Primo VE
Fields boosting in Primo VE has not an option for Fields boosting of display field Contributor. The default rule for Contributor is including 700, 710, 711. As an example, that means if you boost the creator field for a book with three authors the second and third author in field 700 will not get boosted, just the first author in 100.
5 votes -
Enable renewal of interlibrary loans via My Library Account
It is confusing to users that they can renew some items on loan to them via My Library Account, but not inter-library loans. We would like a configurable Renew option available for inter-library loans in My Library Account. If a user clicked this option, the request for renewal from the user would populate a tasklist in Alma for resource sharing staff to action. If staff proceed to request a renewal from the lending partner, the workflow should connect so that the response and the updated due date flows back through to My Library Account. Currently all renewal requests for interlibrary…
5 votes -
Enable users to send an enquiry about an existing resource sharing request from My Library Account to a tasklist in Alma
Currently if users have an enquiry about their resource sharing request they have to contact us separately via email or phone. Since they can see their current requests in My Library Account, it would be great if they could click on an option e.g. 'Send an enquiry about this request' in My Library Account, enter in their query, and Submit. This would then populate a tasklist in Alma (similar to Notes functionality in Leganto/Alma) that resource sharing staff could action and reply to. This would bring this communication workflow into Alma.
9 votes -
Embed copyright notice in the resource sharing form to reduce clicks
Can acceptance of the copyright notice be included on the first page of the resource sharing form? Users should be able to enter request information and accept copyright conditions all in one step.
8 votes -
Restrict "Send Record via Email" to logged in users only in Primo VE
Currently anyone can send record information via the "Send Record via Email" option in the brief or full record display. This is a spam risk. Sending e-mail should be restricted to logged-in users only.
1 vote -
Different identification system depending on the view
In our university we have a pending important problem to solve:
- In order to solve some Primo cases in which the user has to be identified, Exlibris technicians ask us for credentials to be able to analyze and solve the cases but logically, for security reasons, we should not give our personal credentials to anyone.
- Our user authentication is through SAML so all of our users are external in Alma.The Systems Department of our university requires that in order to create a user in the system (external to Alma), the responsibility for that account must rest with…
9 votes -
In Primo VE and in consortial Alma setup, display print and electronic inventory even if dedupe/frbr is enabled
In a consortial Alma setup with a Network Zone and with Primo VE, our consortia has noticed that if an Institution Zone (IZ) has enabled dedupe/frbr in a Primo View and there is print and electronic inventory for a title, the print inventory of other IZ’s is completely hidden and only the electronic displays.
See “enabled dedupe frbr1.png” https://wrlc-gwu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,doing%20bayesian%20data%20analysis%20a%20tutorial%20with%20r%20jags%20and%20stan&tab=WRLC_P_MyInst_All&search_scope=WRLC_P_MyInst_All&vid=01WRLC_GWA:test&offset=0
As you can see in “enabled dedupe frbr2.png” only the electronic inventory displays.
https://wrlc-gwu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01WRLC_GWA/1b1hkge/alma9912376416404101Compare with an IZ in the same consortia which has disabled dedupe/frbr to prove that physical inventory exists.
See “disabled dedupe frbr1.png”
https://wrlc-amu.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?query=any,contains,doing%20bayesian%20data%20analysis:%20a%20tutorial%20with%20R,%20JAGS,%20and%20STAN&tab=WRLC_P_AU&search_scope=WRLC_P_AU&vid=01WRLC_AMU:prod&facet=rtype,include,books&lang=en&offset=0See “disabled dedupe frbr2a.png”…
259 votes -
Allow requestors to see new requested item due date from My Requests
In the My Requests area of my Library Card, the requestor does not see the new due date of the requested item, only that the request is “Not started. Place in queue is _”. It would helpful for the requestor to be able to see the due date, even if it isn't guaranteed that the item will be returned by the patron who has it on that date. Wording could be: "Currently on loan with a due date of [ ]. Your request is no. [ ] in queue.".
3 votes -
DDA portfolios should be presented as Online Preview Available or something else
DDA portfolios (e.g. ProQuest E-book Preview) should be presented as Online Preview Available or something distinguishable that the institution can customize. Patrons are often confused.
1 vote -
Primo Saved Search email - link color setting
Improve color customization of Saved Search Email Alerts
The February 2020 Primo feature does not allow us to customize the link text in the header (used for the terms of the saved search), which leads to contrast issues.
Similar to the "Unsubscribe" customization, there should be a similar component to set the color of link text in the header.
4 votes -
Add ability to select multiple options on Advanced Search drop down menus in Primo VE
It is not currently possible to select multiple options on an Advanced Search drop down menu is Primo VE (ex: Material Type, Language); this functionality would be very helpful for users who wish to do more precise searching -- especially since Primo VE lacks the functionality of combining search results. This functionality is the HTML select multiple attribute (https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_select_multiple.asp)
62 votes -
showPnx page as XML
In the classic UI, if you added the parameter showPnx=true, in the address bar, to the URL of a record's full display, you were able to get an XML file with the PNX version of the record. In the NUI, on the contrary, the same parameter takes you to a web page containing the PNX record in a textarea.
The XML view of the PNX record was very much easier to manage: colouring of tags, open/close section as well as you need them, etc.
Why did you change this behaviour for worse?
Could we get back the XML version of…4 votes -
Request: Please make it possible to find a match only by a title in Alma linkresolver
What I want is to make Alma link resolver find matches by a title. Now, Alma linker resolver is returning results only when ISSN/ISBN is given. And, a lot of CJK titles don't have ISSN/ISBN so that there are many occasions when a subscribed CJK portfolio without an identifier is not found in Primo service page. Unlike Alma link resolver, 360 link resolver supports title searching. This is the example of 360 link. The URL below doesn't contain ISSN information either but, it finds the correct match.
360 Link resolver:
http://kg6wg8ak8z.scholar.serialssolutions.com/?sid=google&aulast=이영호&atitle=한국학 연구의 동향과'동아시아 한국학'&title=한국학연구&volume=15&date=2006&spage=9but, Alma link resolver doesn't find…
2 votes
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