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Items with item policy "noncirculating" should not display as "loanable" in Primo VE
We have many titles that do not circulate, but because they are available on the shelf, Primo VE displays them as "loanable." This may confuse patrons into thinking that these items can be loaned, when they are not allowed to leave the library.
27 votes -
Show more than 10 records in My Favorites
Actually, in My Favorites 10 records are listed by default. Patrons should be able to define the number of records presented once up to 50 records. That would facilitate orientation and navigation within My Favorites.
27 votes -
Make Primo content discoverable via Microsoft Bing search engine
With an increasing emphasis on measuring and maximising the impact of research outputs, an incentive for researchers depositing content in an institutional repository is that this can boost readership, citation counts and potential impact of the research - but this is dependent on the discoverability of this content.
Studies have shown that an increasing proportion of academic search and discovery activity occurs outside the discovery services provided by the library, with researchers using discipline-specific indexes such as Scopus, academic search engines such as Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic, and general web search engines like Google and Bing.
It is therefore…27 votes -
Feedback Tool for Primo VE - allow user's email as addressFrom in Report a Problem Letter
The Feedback Tool for Primo VE (May 2022) would be even better if the user's email address could be put in the addressFrom field in the Report a Problem letter in Alma. Just as the category is put in the emailSubject field:
New feedback received from a Primo user - {category _ name}
allow the addressFrom field to contain:
{user _ email}
This would then work better with CRMs and ticketing systems, or just mean that you can hit Reply to the email.27 votes -
Link search results for full text to the digital representation instead of the title
One of the selling points of Primo VE is that full text from digital representations (Alma-D) is indexed automatically. When a user performs a search wherein full text is found, they can click on the brief result to go to the full display, then click on the digital representation to open the file in the viewer.
This works well for titles with only one digital representation and file. If you search our catalog for the keywords feeder is also designed as a feeder, you will see an ESL Pamphlet about the Black River Canal as the first result. When you…
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Getit2 of PrimoCentral records lists irrelevant local resources (missing date check)
Records from Primo Central have a getIt2-Tab which lists print resources from local catalog for an article. The problem is that the publication date of the article and the listed resources do not match and therefore cause confusion. Think of an current article from a Journal and you get old volumes suggested from the library. Only print resources containing the article should be listed.
In other words: The function would be usable if the getit2 lists print resources with the same publication date.Suppressing the get-it tab according to the documentation (http://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Knowledge_Articles/Remove_GetIT!_Tab_When_No_Print_Version%2C_Only_Electronic_Records_from_Alma) has no effect.
The issues were…
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Primo Analytics: ability to report on Primo API usage
Idea: Ability to report on Primo API usage (e.g. number of searches, search terms and source of API calls).
Include usage of Primo Front End and API as part of Primo Analytics so that both can be aggregated and analysed.
Developer Network API Analytics is not sufficient and does not provide the essential information we are looking for, e.g. search terms.
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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 -
Improve the Alma linkresolver design to reduce the appearance multiple online links by a single provider in Primo/Primo VE search results
As a Primo user I would like to see a single link per provider for the content I discover, with the option to view additional links if I wish.
Background
Primo search results deliver multiple links per provider for each search result. Our clients find this overwhelming.We now use a custom linkresolver to bundle the multiple search result links to a single link from each provider. The option to view all links remains under a drop-down menu.
When we migrate to Primo VE the custom linkresolver will no longer work. We will return to the multiple links per provider…
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Make is possible to display Available From Date and Available To Date to users in Primo
The "Control the Availability of Portfolios Automatically at a Pre-defined Date" feature, introduced in the February 2023 release (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Release_Notes/2023/Alma_2023_Release_Notes?mon=202302BASE), allows libraries to enter an Available From Date and Available To Date in portfolios, and the portfolio will be automatically deactivated after the Available To Date. This feature is designed to be useful in cases where libraries lease a piece of content (typically, a streaming film) for a limited period of time.
In this Idea, we suggest that we should be able to display the Available From Date and Available To Date to end users in Primo. This is…
26 votes -
Make search selections "sticky" when navigating from page to page
When a patron is creating a resource list to email or save, they may wish to include items from more than one page of search results. Currently, if they select items on page 1 and the navigate to page 2 they lose any selections from page 1. The only way to retain selections is to pin them page by page. This is time consuming and can limit the flow of finding resources. Can selections of search results be "sticky" so they stay when the patron navigates from one page of results to the next?
26 votes -
Add link "Back to results list" on the e-Shelf
This is the use-case I want to improve:
A user is constructing complex queries and collecting some records.
From time to time she wants to check the e-Shelf and then continue skimming trough the results list.¡There is no simple navigation path from the e-Shelf back to the results list!
There are 2 less-than-ideal solutions:
1/ repeating the query from tab "This session's queries" (flaws: it is cumbersome to find the corresponding query and too much clicks are necessary)
2/ the back button of the browser (flaws: the yellow e-Shelf star icons are not up to date and too much…25 votes -
Send email when pipe finishes with errors.
When a pipe finishes normally, but some records did not load due to errors, right now the only way to find out whether that happened or not is to go into the back office, Monitor Primo Status, Pipe Monitoring, and click on "Errors" next to the pipe (and a futher step to get to "History" if the pipe is not the last one run).
We run four Alma pipes a day, and around a half dozen other pipes once a day. WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO THIS and I bet a lot of other customers don't either.
But we…
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Allow patrons to request extension of hold shelf period in 'my Library account' list of requests in Primo
Alma-Primo integration as requires My account functionality to Requests from Alma.
For Patron physical item requests which have placed on the hold shelf it would be very useful to add the ability for Patrons to Request an extension of the hold shelf expiry. This should only appear if there is no outstanding queue of requests against the item.
This functionality would save many queries from students who ask the Library helpdesk for an extension. We are often able to extend the hold shelf period where there are no further requests but ti would be nice to automate the requesting/task handling…25 votes -
OAI Pipe date options to facilitate CONTENTdm automated harvesting
We would like our pipe that harvests the OAI feed from CONTENTdm to run automatically either weekly or monthly.
However it is a known bug with CONTENTdm that if the collection is large, and if a small date range is used with the OAI data feed, then the process is likely to hang.The current workaround with Ex Libris is to manually set the start date to 100 years ago, and then run the pipe.
The enhancement I would like is enhancing the pipe configuration to either add
a.) A checkbox which adds the option of not automatically updating the start…
25 votes -
sortedy by call number
The current "Sorted by" options are Relevance, Date-oldest, Title, Author, and Date-newest. It would be helpful to also have the option of "Call Number."
25 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
25 votes -
Customize the Discipline Hierarchy for "Personalize Your Results"
We would like to customize the "Personalize Your Results" service in Primo UI in order to change the display and hierarchy of the existing disciplines. Currently, discipline labels can be customized, but not rearranged. However, depending on the country, history and traditions, institutions may have a very different approach towards disciplines and their hierarchy.
We have patrons who do not understand why ‘Physics’ does not belong to ‘Sciences’, why ‘Public Health’ is not under ‘Medicine’, etc. This request aims to give the customers the possibility to create their own hierarchy, not to create or merge disciplines nor to have any…25 votes -
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 -
collection discovery
Currently grid items in Collection Discovery can show title, resource type and thumbnail. We would like to add creator/author and or creation/publication date if possible. My suggestion is to add configuration for changing what is displayed in the item grid elements in Collection Discovery.
25 votes
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