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  1. Enhanced logo and help link for social authentication page

    We are in the process of migrating to Alma/Primo VE. They both share the same social authentication page, and this idea is to enhance the options for this page.

    1.) The Primo VE help links which are configurable in Alma config > Discovery > Authentication > User Authentication only appear in the Alma authentication option. If a new patron clicks Sign in, and then clicks Social Sign In, they will never see our help links. I would like to have the option to put a help link on the first Sign in modal page, or on the Social Authentication page…

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  2. 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 expected

    Week (date)
    ** uses Mon DD

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  3. Author/Subjects that include dates

    Some authors have the same names so we want to include the date field ($d) in the search when users click on their links within full records. However, we have learned that Ex Libris has hard-coded a facet search into the $$Q, thereby killing this option because you get 0 results (since the facet search includes the date). This is currently not configurable, but is a huge problem for us. Here is an example:
    https://catalog.library.vanderbilt.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991043557451103276&context=L&vid=01VAN_INST:vanui&lang=en&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Everything&query=any,contains,Harry%20Potter&offset=0

    Click on the creator "Potter, Harry, 1954- author."

    Gives 0 results, with a facet of "Potter, Harry, 1954-"

    Remove the facet and it automatically conducts…

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  4. Saved search for search term not found in index

    Occasionally there is a search term which is new and has not been indexed yet (such as a new species name like Rhenopyrgus viviani). At present we just see just see a 'no records found' message - it would be useful to create a saved search to pick up when this term appears in the literature.

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  5. Enable renewal of interlibrary loans via My Library Account

    It is confusing to users that they can renew some items on loan to them via My Library Account, but not inter-library loans. We would like a configurable Renew option available for inter-library loans in My Library Account. If a user clicked this option, the request for renewal from the user would populate a tasklist in Alma for resource sharing staff to action. If staff proceed to request a renewal from the lending partner, the workflow should connect so that the response and the updated due date flows back through to My Library Account. Currently all renewal requests for interlibrary…

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  6. Add display field Contributor to Fields boosting in Primo VE

    Fields boosting in Primo VE has not an option for Fields boosting of display field Contributor. The default rule for Contributor is including 700, 710, 711. As an example, that means if you boost the creator field for a book with three authors the second and third author in field 700 will not get boosted, just the first author in 100.

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  7. Multiple CDI records for one article by the languages of its metadata

    Please do not use language filter when CDI merges records. It creates multiple records for one article, which confuses our patrons. (Case 00881023, 00824833) If CDI cannot merge them well, please provide a kind of "See Also" link to other records which have the same DOI. (CDI e-book records already display "Chapters of this book" link under the availability status.)

    Many of non-English articles have English version metadata too because many journals oblige it. Western aggregators index English metadata whereas local aggregators index local language metadata. The problem is most of times they don't care about the language of the…

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  8. Allow request forms to be submitted without first needing to remove focus from fields

    If a user fills in the comment field on a physical request form in Primo and then clicks on the Request button the form refreshes but does not submit. Either a second click on the Request button is required to submit it or the user needs to click away from the comment field to remove the focus from it before clicking on the Request button.

    We think users should be able to fill out the comment field and click on the Request button to submit the form. There should be no need to click the Request button twice or remove…

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  9. [My Account] Display Requested media field in Requests View

    It would be useful if Requested media field could be configured as a field to display in Requests View(My Account). Currently, the My Account page in Primo only displays limited information for ILL requests so that a user cannot see the full bibliographical details of ILL requests. The My Account page should provide more information to users. Lynne Porat also shared a similar idea in 2017. I appreciate your help in advance.

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  10. Primo VE: Approve/Reject user created tags before adding to display

    We want to enable user created tags in Primo VE, however, we need the ability to screen tags BEFORE they get displayed. Currently, tags are on display as soon as they are added.

    Ideally, users would "Suggest a Tag" which is initially in a 'hidden' status. At the Manage Tags screen, there would be a checkbox or toggle switch to Approve or Reject each tag.

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  11. Static URL for Pay Fines link

    The Pay Fines link in the User Account/Library Card interface should allow for a static URL link instead of including the JWT information at the end of the URL.

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  12. Allow custom error pages if View Code does not exist

    Currently any unkown View Code in the URL (e.G: vid=PRIMA) leads to empty page and rotating diamonds.

    In the background Angular is unable to fetch the configuration URL /primo_library/libweb/webservices/rest/v1/configuration/PRIMA which is answered by an HTTP 406 error from the server.

    To the enduser its completely unclear where the problem is located, did she/he make a mistake or is there a problem on the server.

    I would suggest to provide at least generic error page (View Code not found) and respond by HTTP 404 or 406 to the client. This is also important for search engine crawlers if there are any…

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  13. View full record in results view

    The current behaviour to move from search results to exploring a record is to open a pop up to view the full record.
    This takes the user away from the results set they are working with.
    There is feedback that some users dislike pop ups.
    We have also observed that many users open full records in a new tab in order to have records of interest open in tabs to go explore in detail later whilst continuing to work with the search results.
    To match user behaviour in exploring search results I'd like to suggest an option to open the…

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  14. Default Sortting option for the historic loans

    When opening the historic loans tab , the "Sort by" dropdown default value is empty and the results are not sorted.
    So historic loans details are shown at random.
    Only when the user selects the desired "Sort by" value as "Returned date - newest", the results will sort.

    Please make the default option "Returned date - newest" for the historic loans.
    Then users can immediately check the book with the latest return date.

    Thanks in advanced.

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  15. move the favicon to the top level (outside /img) to fix Firefox bookmarks

    Hi

    The favicon for our view is stored in the /img folder within the customization package.

    For Firefox to display it correctly when I have the URL in my bookmark bar, the favicon needs to be outside the /img folder.

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1230644
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226447

    "the saved bookmark favicon image was located in other than the website server file path root directory which was the original W3C standard for favicon placement for web browsers to loom for it"

    As long as the favicons are stored within /img, they display ok in the tabs of Firefox, but get lost when I drag the URL…

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  16. search box on all pages

    Search box should be on all pages (including the records pages) in Primo - so you don’t have to go back to the main search screen

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  17. Option to highlight the edition statement in brief results

    Hi, in a recent student survey we received feedback that the edition of a work should be more prominently labelled. It would be good if this text was more obvious in the brief results, perhaps with a different colour, positioning or size?

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  18. 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.

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  19. Flexible Permanent URL for Retrieving New Books in Primo

    I'm interested in having a permanent URL that retrieves new books added to the library in the last two months through Primo. I would appreciate it if you could create a way to build a URL that allows to retrieve new books added to the library with a flexible date range (such as last 2 months, last 5 months, etc.). Thank you

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  20. 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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