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Add the creation date to the titles in the Saved Search Letter
Users can set an alert on the Saved Searches page and will then receive the Saved Search letter by email whenever there are new results for their saved search. However, a new result is not necessarily a new publication. The Saved Search letter could also contain older publications which are new to the inventory of the discovery system. For the users, it would be helpful to already see in the Saved Search letter the creation date of the titles, so that they know which results are real new publications. In Primo VE, however, it is currently not possible to add…
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Enable Quicklinks on a Provider-by-Provider Basis
We would like to be able to enable QuickLinks links on a per-provider basis.
We would like more control over which providers QuickLinks operates again, both for testing and link accuracy reasons.
When we find a provider for which QuickLinks do not work well, we have no workaround other than disabling QuickLinks completely. This negatively affects our users, because QuickLinks may be working well for resources from other Providers.
We would also like be to be able to test QuickLinks with new providers, prior to having QuickLinks attempt to link to the new provider's resources.
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Sort Favorites by Call Number
Allow sorting of "My Favorites" by Call Number. Currently, you can only sort "My Favorites" by Date Added, Author, and Title.
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Resource Recommender by user group or campus
Resource Recommender in Primo VE can only show suggestions based on search tags or “Display Always.”
There’s no way to show recommendations based on who the user is — for example, their user group, campus, or department.
This means libraries can’t personalize results - such as:
Business students see business databasesThis would make the discovery experience more relevant and user-friendly.
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Send an automated confirmation email after a booking request has been successfully placed
Currently Primo has a nice feature that allows patrons to book items after they log in to their library account. It is called booking request in Alma and Request Item in Primo. We use it to let our patrons book equipment. However, it doesn't send out an automated confirmation email after a booking request has been successfully placed. We request to have this feature (i.e. the system sends out an automated confirmation email to the patron after a booking request has been successfully placed).
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Filter for which record types, local or community zone, you want to generate the hypertext.
When working with Community Zone records, we see that linking tags, such as 776, appear in Primo in the Related Titles option, and the resource it links to does not return any results. If we deactivate the hypertext link for related titles, the links that were from our records and that are correct would also be affected. We suggest that you can somehow filter for which record types, local or community zone, you want to generate the hypertext.
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Primo May 2022 Release: Display Multiple Links in View It
This feature offers the possibility to show more fulltext links in three sections:
(1) CDI "Subscription" links
(2) Alma iframe with Alma portfolio links
(3) CDI "Open Access" linksHowever, currently it is not possible to configure the display of these sections.
Please think about the following improvements:
Possibility to display all link sections automatically instead of only showing the first link section and a "Show more" option for the other sections (see attachement).
Possibility to decide to display both new link sections (additional CDI "Subscription" links, additional CDI "Open Access" links) or only one of them.
If you have…6 votes -
Improvement of the Calculate queue button on request forms
In July 2020 a new button for calculating the patron’s place in queue when requesting a physical title was introduced. The function was a welcome attempt to make it clearer to the patron how long he/she might have to wait to get the book, but with the current design we find it more confusing than helpful. The function does not take into account if any items are available in the library or if all items are on loan to other patrons.
When a user places a request on a title that is available in the library the current message is…
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Signed in user should be able to set their preferred search profile
We have decided to place the Library catalog search profile first in the search box as this is what most of our users need. However, some of our users find this irritating and request for the All or International articles option to be put first. This is obviously a choice that's always going to make somebody unhappy!
To get around this issue, we suggest that a signed-in user should be able to set their own preferences as to which search profile comes first in the search box.
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Advanced Search option in Collection Discovery for Alma-D
Primo's public Collection Discovery pages currently lack the ability to run advanced searches. As a result, only keyword searches are possible at either the collection or sub-collection level, which prevents users from being able to limit or refine searches by necessary fields like Date, Creator, etc. This means that users have to browse collections, sub-collections, and items more broadly than is often helpful when an advanced search would be more likely to bring them immediately relevant results. Primo's Advanced Search for regular discovery is a valuable tool that should also appear in Alma-D's Collection Discovery.
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Improve Related Titles hypertext linking and advanced search
As a user, I want advanced searches that are generated by clicking a related title hyperlink to use existing metadata as search parameters in order to accurately narrow the results to relevant records.
As currently implemented, the hyperlinks for related titles either takes the user to a locally held version of the record or generates an advanced search based on the title alone.
When a user clicks a link for a related title named "Berg, Jeremy M. (Jeremy Mark), 1958- Biochemistry. 5th ed. New York : W.H. Freeman, ©2002" they are taken to an Advanced Search for Biochemistry.
This search…
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Make ILL requests a Send To action in Primo records
Add ILL Request to the cluster of Send to actions in the Primo record full display. This would send the citation to the institution's ILL form so a user could place a request for an item. This feature would give institutions the option of providing ILL services as a constant in records instead of being facilitated through services tweaked through a series of display logic rules which don't always produce desired results. For example, sometimes CDI records match to print serial holdings that don't actually contain the article. Sometimes the online source is missing the item or malfunctioning. With the…
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Enhance possibility to show information out of linked authority records
Introduce new Authority Info Card based on Linked Data URI. Utilize Linked Data URIs to present new Information Card in various displays (search results list, brief & full display). Enrich the display with more information on linked entities and related resources made available thanks to the URI. This functionality should be provided for all authority sources available in the Community Zone that offer linked data URIs such as GND, Rameau, etc.
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Title in "digital collection" section
In Primo VE, within the "Digital Collections" section, digital records currently display the entire content of field 245 as the title. This results in excessively lengthy titles for certain entries. Ideally, we would prefer that only subfield 245$$a be shown as the title within the "Digital Collections" section.
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Display only one of each resource recommender type
Currenlty the default is two of the first listed Type listed in Resource Recommender displays in PrimoVE. Would like to change it so that just one of each type of Resource Recommender displays to diversify results patron sees on page.
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Browse results based on Primo VE view
We have several different Primo VE views for different libraries & library collections. However, the Browse functionality includes all records/titles from across the institution. It's confusing to users to see results from different views when they are expecting results to be in the context of the view they are using.
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Add IZ scope for e-resources activated for the IZ in the Network Zone.
SLSP activates a large amount of OA e-resources from the NZ. The use case is to save time and resources for the IZs.
The OA e-resources activated from NZ are searchable in the IZ-wide Search scopes when using the out-of-the-box scope MyInstitution and MyInstandCI. However, they are not searchable in IZ library / campus search profiles. There is no scope that would add NZ e-resources available for the IZ / library / campus to the Search Profile created for a specific library / campus within an IZ.
Library scope in an IZ with Inventory Management Groups (IMG)
If…6 votes -
Display portfolio public notes in brief record display
We add important public notes to portfolios, with access instructions for users. Currently these only display on the full record screen.
Users often miss these instructions. It would improve the user experience to also include these notes in the brief record display, where they have a greater chance of being noticed.6 votes -
User name in the personal details tab
I'm wondering is it possibility to add a user name in the “personal details” tab, in one of the marked places in the screenshot (PVEMyLibraryCardAdditionalConfigOptions.png)? I tried to do it with a JavaScript Dynamic Directive, however I can't find the variable with the user name.
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Make advanced search form expandable/collapsable with discovery setting
The advanced search form now collapses after a search is performed. While this was an implemented enhancement request, there are times when expanding the form is more useful to patrons. For example, displaying collection records and allowing users to search within those results.
It would be helpful to either have a configurable discovery setting that allows the form to stay expanded or collapsed by default, or have a URL parameter to force the form to expand or collapse as needed.
6 votes
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