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Overdue notices from Alma in Primo
In the mouse-over appearing in My loans above ‘not renewable’ a user sees all overdue notices that he/she has received for that specific item.
For instance when the user gets the fourth overdue notice he/she also sees the third and the second one in the small mouse-over text.For a better readability we’d like only the most recent notice to appear in the mouse-over.
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Harmonise the default resource type icons with Leganto's icons
Since we have both Primo and Leganto, our customers should have a consistent experience with resource type icons between the two interfaces. We have no choice but to use the OOTB icons in Leganto, a set of default Primo icons that harmonises with them would be appreciated. It may be that the size/canvas transparency may vary between them, but in essentials they should look the same where types are equivalent. With CDI we understand there will be additional resource types - this is a good opportunity to bring the two interfaces into a closer alignment for user experience.
PS: Alma…
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My Library Card: Indicate number of loans at each library
Listed in the left margin of the My Library Card page in our multi-campus / multi-library environment are the names of each library from which a user has requested or borrowed an item. To save the user time in finding relevant, timely information, we'd like the number of items currently "in play" (on loan, requested, with associated fines, etc.) displayed next to each library in that list.
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Change wording of "partial results found" error message
Currently when users enter too many boolean operatoCurrently when users enter too many boolean operators or trucation symbols in their search they will get the error message "Partial results found. Please note additional results may be available by refining your search. May we suggest: try reducing the numbers of ? and/or * in your search."
This error message is confusing. What it should really say is something like this:
"Your truncated search terms match too many words. The search cannot retrieve all of them so some records you might expect might be missing from the search results. If you can…3 votes -
Improve and standardize the Dates folder in all the Primo Subject Areas
The following are available in the Dates folder for Primo Action Usage, Primo Device Usage, Primo Facet Usage, Primo Sessions, Primo Zero Search Results and Primo Pipes:
Year (date)
Year
Year (desc)
** all three are the same format: YYYY
** why are there three?Month (date)
Month (short desc)
** these two are the same format: Mon YYYY
** why are there two?
** shouldn't "Month (date)" really be Month (as in January, February, March, etc)?Month (long desc)
** uses the Month YYYY format.
** why?Month (number)
** displays as expectedWeek (date)
** uses Mon DD…
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short loan
Display due times for short loans in Primo, using the time format specified in Alma, rather than defaulting to showing due times in military (24h) time.
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Create a connection file for EndNote that allows batch downloading of full-text files
Create a connection file for EndNote that allows batch downloading of full-text files
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Separate the resource type/facet "dissertations" for PCI (and CDI...) into "dissertations" and "theses"
Some institutional repositories available through PCI contain a lot of student theses. The resource type/facet "dissertations" contains both dissertations and theses. Users searching for doctoral dissertations and using the facet dissertations end up with a search result consisting of both dissertations and theses. It is not possible to see the difference in Primo. The user have to follow the full-text link to find out what kind of resource it is. This is time-consuming and sometimes misleading.
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Incorporate DOI in the DEDUP parameters
Incorporate DOI in the DEDUP parameters could be a good option to improve the duplicated detection.
7 votes -
Reserve a Study Place
We would like to give to the patrons the possibilty to reserve a study place, As a user could reserve a seat for the cinema we would like to give to the patron the possibility to reserve a seat in our library
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Reserve a Study Place
We would like to give to the patrons the possibilty to reserve a study place, As a user could reserve a seat for the cinema we would like to give to the patron the possibility to reserve a seat in our library
3 votes -
Better Primo VE Menu Link Options
Custom menu links in Primo open in a new tabbed window. This is bad behavior. If I go back to the original screen and press the button again, it opens up another window in another tab, and so on.
Desired Behavior:
Menu link goes to address -- does not open a new window or tab. At the very least, it should have be an option for developers. Currently it is hard-coded in the html and not changeable. Using it leads to cluttered browsers.56 votes -
Support Microsoft Edge for Primo
According to documentation (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/New_Primo_User_Interface/010Frequently_Asked_Questions#Browser_Certification), Ex Libris does not support Microsoft Edge for Alma.
The use of Edge is growing and should be considered a major browser, and therefore supported.1 vote -
Dark mode for Primo
Users ask for a possibility to view the catalogue interface in dark mode. Could this be realized for Primo?
Thank you!4 votes -
Custom fonts
We would like custom TTF and OTF fonts to be natively supported in the Primo customization package. This would allow applications to render barcodes as well as other corporate branding elements.
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Add Course Reserve Public Notes to Primo VE record details display
A proscribed set of Course Information can be displayed in the Primo VE record details, but there is no way to add other notes or information related to course reserve in Primo VE, as there is in Leganto. There is a Public Notes field in Alma's Reading List > Citation > Citation Parameters settings, but this note can only be displayed in Leganto. If the Public Note could be made available for display in the Primo VE record as well it could be used in conjunction with the Course Information display to provide important information to end users -- for…
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ORCID to be searchable in Primo VE
I'd like to add ORCID to our catalog records, at least for our ETDs (thesis authors and their advisors), and to have the IDs being searchable in Primo VE.
22 votes -
Search Loans within user Account
We have users who would like to be able to search within their list of currently checked out items. At present, the only options are (1) export the list of loans to BibTeX or RIS and search them in another program, or (2) sort by checkout date or title. When faculty have 400 items checked out, neither of these options is feasible. They would like a search box option within their account to search across all the items they have checked out.
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1 vote
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Add spacing between multiple entries of same marc field
Often, and especially in archival description, we use the same marc fields several times in the same record. So, more than 1 520 (description/scope&content) or more than 1 545 (bio/hist note) and many others.
The current display in primo ve kinda "smooshes" them all together. Would be great for readability if there was at least a space between multiple entries of the same field in any given record. Attachment has example in primo ve and one in - believe it or not - digitool, where there are extra spaces between each of the repeated fields. Much easier to read.
2 votes
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