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  1. Improve logic for Consortial/AFN and ILL requests

    If all holdings across the Network Zone (NZ) are unavailable, we want to be able to suppress the option to place a Consortial loan request (ie. a resource sharing request in an automated fulfillment network), thus directing the user to ILL.

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    Completed  ·  AdminMoshe Shechter (Alma Senior Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    As of the August 2022 release, it is possible to configure the Primo request form not only to indicate whether there are known partners that can fulfill the request, but also to prevent submitting the form if indeed no known partners have been found.


    More information can be found at https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/080Configuring_Delivery_Services_for_Primo_VE/Configuring_Request_Forms_for_Primo_VE#Configuring_Resource_Sharing_Request_Forms

  2. New books Carousel

    Hello, we all saw EDS New books Carousel and liked it.
    We want Ex Libris to develop new books carousel for Primo customers. please look at AUR Library - The American University of Rome page [https://www.aur.edu/], from the university main page choose the library and you'll get to EDS.
    I'm attaching a screen capture of the library home page with the new books carousel.
    Thank you!

    153 votes
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  3. My Library Card - Display Renew icon for all loans (New UI)

    There is no Renew icon for the loans that can't be renewed in Primo now.It made library patrons puzzled when they can't renew some loans, Because they can't find the Renew Icon.It would be very useful to display the Renew icon for all loans.When the loans can't be renewed,the icon can be another one and the patrons would be prompted for the reason.

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  4. Lateral linking as standard option for more fields

    At this moment, lateral links are available OTB for authors and subjects; and can be implemented for local fields.
    We ‘d like lateral linking to be a standard option for more fields like : ispartof, relation and unititle.
    Use case is a series link in tab Details.

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  5. Session timeout 'Keep me alive' customization

    Right now, Primo is only set to have a 30 minute window before the 'Keep Me Alive' timeout feature appears.

    As someone who uses this button frequently, it would be nice if we could customize the amount of time Primo allows before this 'Keep me Alive' button appears (ie 60 min. 6 hours, 12 hours, etc.) in the BO somehow.

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  6. Find Databases in Primo without Metalib

    Primo shall provide an Out-Of-The-Box A-Z databases list that references data from the ILS as an alternative to the current Primo find Databases function that relies on MetaLib,

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  7. Add starts with functionality to Call Number field in the advanced search

    "starts with" functionality should be added to the Call Number field in the advanced search in Primo.

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  8. Primo VE: add peer-reviwed and open access facet values to local records

    In Primo VE you can add an OpenAccess indicator to the records, but it should also be possible to add a value (bases on normalization routines) that includes these records into the OA facet value in the top-level facets, so they are included when using this filter. This option should apply to both Alma records and external data records.

    The same normalization option should be available for the Peer-reviewed indicator and facet value

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  9. ShareDigitalResources parameter to allow individual settings

    When the customer parameter shareDigitalResources is enabled, which is useful to allow freely available digital representations (for digital objects stored in Alma or in a remote digital repository) to be available to all institutions, records loaded from external data sources via discovery import profiles are also impacted by this. According to Ex Libris, this is by design as these records from external sources are considered as digital objects. This leads to the following problem in Primo:

    As soon an IZ enables this parameter, its records from external data sources are included in the search results of local search scopes made…

    132 votes
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  10. Available Online link should be configurable to link directly to full text from full item record page, not just brief results list

    We would like it so the green Available Online link on the item record could be made to link directly to the full text, since we have the green available online link to go directly to full text on the results list (direct linking turned on).

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  11. Improve APA citation format to include the DOI for an article

    APA citation format should include the DOI information for journal articles. As recommended by APA.

    http://blog.apastyle.org/apastyle/digital-object-identifier-doi/

    However citations from Primo do not include a DOI.

    We note that Summon is able to do this and hope that the defect be resolved.

    eg from Primo
    Hooper, L. (2012). ExLibris's Primo and Musical Research. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 15(2), 119-124.
    and from Summon
    Hooper, L. (2012). ExLibris's primo and musical research. Music Reference Services Quarterly, 15(2), 119. doi:10.1080/10588167.2012.672088

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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for this idea, with the enhancement of supporting Citation Style Language (CSL) in Primo, the mapping of data was improved. The DOI is included for APA style taken from CSL official repository

  12. exclude/include reviews from resultlist

    There should be an option "expand my results to include book reviews", similarly to the option "expand my results beyond library collection" in the facets. While having reviews in the list is helpful for some tasks (e.g. acquisitions) they appear misleading to our students and we wish to exclude them by default.

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  13. Add Australian language codes to Primo Back Office

    We would like Austlang (Australian language) codes added to the out of the box language code and mapping tables in Primo and for this coding to map to language facets and language display without any additional intervention by institutions. These language codes, used by many Australian libraries, are recorded in the 041$a field(s) of the bibliographic record. These codes do not conform to the three alpha character coding found in ISO639-2 or 639-3. Australian libraries would expect to use these codes in addition to the standard language coding currently available.
    The full list of Austlang codes can be downloaded from…

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  14. warning message when unpinning a record from the favorites page

    It would be very useful if upon clicking on the unpin icon in the favorites screen, Primo will display a warning message stating that the user is about to delete the marked record/s.
    Currently, clicking willingly or inadvertently on the unpin icon will immediately and irreversibly delete the record/s.

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  15. Primo Central FRBR process specific to each customer's activations

    Currently, Primo Central performs the FRBR process on its entire index without considering the collections activated at the customer's level. Having FRBR at the level of the whole PC leads to often have in the catalogue a 'View all versions', even if in the PC of the Institution there is just 1 version of a record. Another consequence is also that Primo Central facets display unrelated results. In some cases, other records (from the FRBR group) may not appear, which does apply to the facet limitation, because they haven't been activated in the PC registration system. This situation often leads…

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    Completed  ·  Yuval Kiselstein responded

    Thanks for your contribution, we are happy to inform you that this idea is available in Primo Central starting from June 2017

  16. Improve Primo Alerts format

    Customers should have the abilty to modify and change the format of the alerts sent to the users, both the text and the visibililty of the email.

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    Completed  ·  AdminNili Natan (Product Manager, Ex Libris) responded

    Thank you for this idea, In the recent release Primo and Primo VE offers improved format out for the box for the Saved Searches Alert email with option to customize it (in Primo using mapping table , in Primo VE using the Alma Letters Configuration )

  17. Add Resource type `Questionnaires` to CDI

    One of the central CDI collections in Israel is the Szold Research Tools collection.

    This collection specializes in questionnaires used in dissertations and theses. However, the resource type is shown as Other, as there is no Questionnaires resource type currently in CDI.

    This resource type is important to the academic community in several fields of study, and is searched widely by our patrons in Primo.

    Libraries are also continuously cataloging questionnaires, created and translated by researchers within the institutions.

    Since there is no common ground between CDI and local questionnaires, using advanced search or filtering the facet for questionnaires…

    105 votes
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  18. Utilize LDR and MARC fixed fields (006,007,008) in Primo VE resource type configuration

    Currently it's not possible to utilize LDR and MARC fixed fields (006,007,008) in Primo VE resource type configuration. It would be helpful, if regular expressions could be used to utilize these fields. That way facets could be created for DVDs, Blu-Ray discs and streaming video etc. without workarounds, using standard cataloging.

    There is a similar idea already posted for Advanced Search, but we were advised by Ex Libris to list this separately.

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    Completed  ·  chaniy responded

    This functionality is now available in Primo VE April 2019 release.

  19. Add sort order in e-shelf

    User shall be able to sort his eShelf lists based of the folowing field: title, upadted date, author

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  20. Enable creation of Carousel widgets for collections

    We would love to be able to create scrolling carousels to highlight collections, and embed them in other platforms (LibGuides, webpages, etc.) We see examples of this kind of carousel within Primo VE records, for materials that are in Collection Discovery (aka Digital Collections); at the bottom of the record there is a feature labeled "More from the same collection" with a link to the full collection in Collection Discovery as well as a scrolling carousel of images with the book jacket images and links to the other titles. We would like to be able to embed this kind of…

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