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  1. opensearch description support in Primo VE

    Primo supports opensearch description allowing a better integration with modern browser but this functionality is no longer support in Primo VE. It would be very useful for users to be able to continue to integrate the search engine with browser.

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/Interoperability_Guide/090OpenSearch

    3 votes
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  2. Make alternative text for book covers and icons in results more meaningful

    To improve accessibility for users of screen readers, please enhance the alternative text for images in Primo search results. In the brief results list, each image in the results has "Image 1", "Image 2", etc. as alt text. The cover in the full display has "Image" as the alt text. I saw in the Primo Accessibility Roadmap https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Materials/Primo_Accessibility/Primo_Accessibility_Roadmap
    that Alternative Text is a checkpoint on the road map (1.1.1.a), but Ex Libris Tech Support said that checkpoint does not include these images.

    3 votes
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  3. Include eBooks in Browse by Call Number Search

    I would love to see eBooks (that have call numbers, of course) included in Browse by Call Number search results – or have a way to toggle their inclusion/exclusion in results. We spend a fortune on eBooks but they're excluded from this search. It seems many of our eBooks have a call number as they appear in the shelf carousel on item records.

    A keyword search is enough to bring up resources for typical undergraduate assignments, but many faculty want their students to know about the information landscape of their area/field that call numbers provide. This is unquestionably important for…

    3 votes
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  4. Option to specify different price categories in the Request Sharing form

    Depending on where the library can obtain a document ordered by interlibrary loan, our patrons have to pay different fees (price categories in our case: 1. from Swiss libraries, 2. from Europe, 3. from overseas). Our patrons should be able to specify in the ILL form up to which category they are willing to pay the costs. Unfortunately, in Primo VE it is only possible to display the field “Maximum fee”, in which patrons can enter any amount they wish. In our experience, customers do not understand the meaning of this field and do not know what to enter there,…

    3 votes
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  5. Cross-Institution favorites

    In a consortial environment, we would like to see favorites shared across institutions.

    Currently, favorites from institution A are only visible when logged into institution A but not when logged into institution B and vice versa.

    Our desired behaviour would be that all favorites from all institutions are shown, regardless of which institution a user is logged in to.

    3 votes
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  6. Allow Primo users to report inaccurate metadata on a record directly to Ex Libris

    We've had several cases where metadata was incorrect in a Primo record. The user (in several occasions the author of the article) reported the issue to their library, who reported it to us (BIBSYS consortium), and we reported this to Ex Libris.

    Once the issue was fixed, after quite some time, the feedback followed the same road, back to the user.

    It would be more efficient if metadata issues could be reported directly to the instance actually able to correct them, which is Ex Libris.

    The issue would be reported directly by the user in Primo/a salesforce case would be…

    2 votes
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  7. Custom location order in brief results list

    Where there are multiple records for the same holding within our institution, we would like to configure the order of locations in the brief results. Patrons could then see the circulating items first, rather than non-circulating items, reducing confusion and wasted time.

    This is similar to #32961133, "Ability to select which location appears first." The resulting Location Ordering Profile allows us to set a custom order within a single record, which is very helpful. But it does not solve the problem where there are multiple records.

    2 votes
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  8. Show last edit date in Manage Customization Package tab for Primo VE View

    Currently, the manage customization tab shows no information about when the package was last updated. I suggest adding information in the display area that shows "Package last updated: YYYY-MM-DD," preferably with the user's id.

    2 votes
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  9. Integrated with ChatGPT technology

    Good to integrate ChatGPT technology in Primo VE.

    2 votes
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  10. Add ability to control local record access information in Primo

    Primo managed via Back Office has powerful functionality to control access information in Primo for all our local records.
    This includes the aligned features of availability statements and Get It / View It by Delivery & Scoping rules, Links rules for all harvested data sources, and the option to build custom mapping tables for references in various rules, all of which can be married with top level facets by Facet rules.

    These features provide necessary information in Primo as expected for a core discovery layer functionality of advising users how they can access and request our resources, and avoids wasting…

    2 votes
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  11. Option to bulk export normalization rules Primo VE

    We would like to make a bulk export for backup of the normalization rules that we have set up in Primo VE.

    At the moment this functionality does not exist but would be very helpful for us. At the moment if we make changes to the normalization rules it is easy to accidentally delete the entire set of rules for one field. It is also not possible to easily roll back a change that we made.

    Therefore it would be useful to have the export option, to have an extra copy of all the normalization rules as a backup.

    2 votes
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  12. Add option to control the visibility of collections in Primo and Collections Lobby

    Give customers the option to control the visibility of individual collections in Primo and on the Collections Lobby page.

    Use case: Our institution would like to have a limited number of centrally curated and managed collections that can be viewed in the Collections Lobby. But we would also like to give librarians the option to create their own collections for special projects, exhibits, or courses, which would not be displayed in the Lobby but could still be made accessible via direct link. Ideally, this could be achieved by adding checkboxes to the Collection Editor page - one controlling the collection's…

    2 votes
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  13. Pre-populate the address fields when personal delivery options are selected in an item request from Primo VE

    In the November 2023 release it is now possible for patrons to update their registered home or office address (or other personal delivery address) while requesting personal delivery in Primo VE. When the patron selects one of the addresses for pickup in the request form all the address information is blank in Primo VE even when that field type is populated in Alma. This means the patron will think they have to fill out the pickup location information for every request. It would be more efficient to populate the request form with the patron’s pickup location address information if it…

    2 votes
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  14. Resource type filter bar: after a search, terms with no hits should be inactive or a counter should be visible

    The resource type filter bar under the search field will remind patrons of Google. Which is good, because they know how that works.

    But: there is no indication in Primo VE that the filters are also visible and clickable if there are no hits behind them.

    Please either add a counter (which would be consistent with the facets in the side column), or deactivate the terms that don't have hits, so that they are not clickable.

    Clicking on something and landing on an empty page is frustrating.

    Example:
    https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/search?query=any,contains,filters&tab=UBS&search_scope=UBS&vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&lang=en&offset=0

    -> Book chapters and Music scores have no hits, but the…

    2 votes
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  15. Configuration Option to view all links available in Primo VE (both direct and link resolver)

    Please give us an option to display all links (both direct and link resolver) for all possible links in Primo VE. I have checked the "Display All Links in Full Display for CDI" which gives the direct link first, then students have to click "Show More" dropdown for subscribed content links. It would be preferable to have all available links display without students having to click the dropdown. And also, the subscribed links usually have coverage dates included so quicker for students as well.

    2 votes
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  16. Improve the date/year filter selection

    The existing "arrow" option for date/year filter selection in Primo VE is problematic for users, resulting in "rage clicks" as they try to select the required date range.

    Can alternative configuration options be provided so we can control how the date/year filtering displays?

    For example options to display a calendar or date range slider or manual data entry to adjust the years.

    2 votes
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  17. Add document delivery transactions to Requests tab in 'My Account'

    Current digitization (document delivery/digitization) requests are shown when requests are in process. I would like docdel and digitization requests to be available in the Requests tab until they are expired.

    Ideally, a download button would be available while the document is available ( before the doc expires or max views has been exceeded) and the number of remaining views is displayed (see image).

    2 votes
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  18. Ability to copy and paste the results from a browse search

    As a librarian, I would like to be able to copy and paste the results from a browse search into Wordpad or Word so that I could then use those results to create a list of hyperlinked subject headings for a library guide. It appears as though this inability to copy and paste applies to all of the “Browse” options (see attached).

    2 votes
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  19. Highlight OCR text within image in Viewer, not just in full text field

    Digital representations seen in the Alma-D Viewer, accessed through Primo, are often PDFs with OCRed text. These items have a "Full Text" field with this text displayed with the item's metadata in the side pane, and using a browser's "CTR+F" function will highlight results for a searched word, but this functionality would be helpful if it also extended to highlighting the word in the image as well. In dense newspapers, for example, the user may find the needed word in the block of full text, but he would then need to examine the image carefully to track down the instance…

    2 votes
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  20. purchase request form - expand where option of auto-populated form can appear

    Currently with Purchase Request forms, if there is already a physical copy in stock, depending on the display logic rules set up - the purchase request form link will appear (useful for librarians wanting more copies) this will auto populate the form. However this will only appear when there is a physical copy as it appears in the get it section of the full record view.

    For items available only electronically, I can add a GES to allow librarians to go to the blank purchase request form, but it won't auto populate.

    This doesn't give parity or a similar experience…

    2 votes
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