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Add option to filter out Global title index results without any offer
When creating a scope that include CDI records non filtered per availability (Rapido-CDI expanded index), Global title index without any offer (no Get it section, no view online section and no item available in the Rapido tile) are retrieved (example). These records are owned by libraries participating in any POD (outside of ours) of Rapido.
We would like to have an option to exclude the Global title index results without an offer.
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Primo NDE: Make the display of user initials independent of the sort order for user names in Alma
In Primo NDE, when a user is logged in, the initials are displayed according to the sort order for user names defined in Alma (Configuration > User Management > User Details > User Name Display). If the sort order is set to "lastName, firstName" ("Smith, John") in Alma the initials will display as "SJ" in Primo.
We think it should be possible to configure these two appearences indenpendently. It should be possible to sort user names as "lastName, firstName" in Alma, but display the initials in Primo as "firstName lastName".
109 votes -
Different URL:s in Resource Recommender depending on language
When adding resources to Resource Recommender you can only use one URL. We would like to have the option to enter different URL:s depending on which language you are using in Primo. All our web pages are translated to English but now we can only point to our pages in Swedish. This would be a great enhancement to all multi-lingual universities.
107 votes -
Primo VE mobile device enhancement
When using Primo VE on a mobile device, such as a mobile phone, if you change from portrait to landscape and then back to portrait, half of the page will become blank, which is not conducive to readers' viewing.
107 votes -
More DEDUP keys
The implementation of the FRBR keys is affected by the DEDUP keys, so it would be desirable to add a new key in the DEDUP keys that includes the label 250.
106 votes -
"Remember all filters" should be selected by default
We want "Remember all filters" to be selected by default. It confuses our users who expect that their filters will remain while they change their search, only to find that they had to click "Remember all filters" first. We'd rather them have to de-select "Remember all filters" if there's a reason they don't want to retain them in their searching.
Relates to https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/34854556-make-facets-sticky-by-default-for-the-session, where the "default" part was never instituted.
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Enable retrieval with/without/compound hyphens in Hebrew
It is very important to enable the search in Primo with and without hyphen to retrieve all relevant records (with hyphen, without hyphen and as compound words).
Some examples of current discrepancies in retrieval are:צפון-קרוליינה retrieved 2 results
צפון קרוליינה retrieved 486 resultsעת-מול retrieved zero results
עת מול retrieved 83 results, including the title עת-מול : עתון לתולדות ארץ ישראל ועם ישראל. searching using the pre-filter Title and limiting to 2010-2021 for
ארצות הברית retrieves 71 results
ארצות-הברית105 votes -
Item policy translations
In Alma the Institutions have no possibility to add the translations for the policies. In multilingual consortia environments the only possibilities are to display in Discovery the policy description in English or to add all description translations in the same field. Neither these solutions are user friendly.
The translations should be distributed from the Network.104 votes -
Translate coverage and licence labels for NZ full text services in IZ views
PrimoVEs in our network use 4 languages for the user interface - English, German, French and Italian.
Consortial and Open Access e-resources are activated in the Network Zone for all the IZs.
When viewing Full-text services from NZ in the detailed view in IZs, the coverage and license labels are not translated to the language of the user UI.
The absence of translation creates discrepancy for our users. The IZ FT services' labels are translated but the NZ services are always in English.104 votes -
Increase the number of local fields for search and facets
If the library has many specialized and local fields it should be possible to improve the user search without the build-in restriction of 10 locally defined fields. There should not be a limit to use of local fields.
103 votes -
Collection Discovery : Add a button "View this collection as search results"
Beside the buttons to display a collection as a Grid or a Gallery, we would like to have a button to get the collection items in the result list, with the brief display and the facets. This could be a deeplink on the Collection ID with a "query=cdparentid" in the URL.
Please note that there exist two very close ideas:
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/36709789-add-facets-into-the-collection-discovery-ui
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/37607257-collection-discovery-display-items-in-a-list-view
But this idea groups both features.Thank you.
103 votes -
Discovery collections handling
When creating or updating an Alma collection (adding/removing titles), the change is not automatically reflected in the Discovery Collections and it is necessary to trigger the reindexing for a correct display.
This workflow is problematic when titles are removed: records are taken out from a collection but are still present in Primo VE because a reindexing is needed. They can no longer be found by searching for the collection in Alma. Depending on the collection, it might also not be possible to find them all via a single search and it might be necessary to manually add the records to…101 votes -
Include DOIs in references in APA 7th ed. format for records coded with Dublin Core.
Exlibris has just updated the APA 7th ed. citation format settings to include the DOI for MARC21-encoded records (idea exchange: Improve APA citation format to include the DOI for an article), but we also want Exlibris performs the same process for Dublin Core-encoded records.
Users are increasingly turning to PRIMO to obtain the citation reference of a record they are interested in and in many cases their metadata is in DublinCore format, as more and more catalogs integrate repositories that encode information following this format.
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Primo Central Index ( PCI ) - more granularity in excluding content from activated resources - e.g. exclude from index by resource type
Right now in Primo Central Index the customer can either activate or not a resource. But sometimes more granularity would be appreciated. Namely adding a filter by resource type allowing inclusion or exclusion in the index would be very useful. Please note: it's not a matter of adding a resource type in PCI. It's a matter of excluding records with a specific resource type from activated resources.
For example, some resources/data sources contains not only articles, but also journals and other resource types we actually catalogue. Since right now dedup does not work between local records and PCI, this ends…
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API for customization package deployment
Please add an API to deploy customization packages in Primo VE so that customers with many views can automate the cumbersome deployment process.
100 votes -
replace "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma" with a pair of show local / show CDI checkboxes
To avoid duplicates when we have both local portfolios and CDI records, we can rely on the "Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma".
Enabling this feature will show in Primo local IZ portfolios, and is very good when local records are rich and CZ records are limited/poor.
Sometimes however CDI records are richer and provide indexing at chapter level. In such a case we would like to hide IZ local portfolios and show CDI records instead.
It would be therefore useful and clearer to replace the "Do not show as Full Text…100 votes -
Search should be more forgiving of spelling errors/incorrect searches
We would like the search in Primo VE to be more forgiving in terms of spelling mistakes and incorrect searches, akin to other search engines, as this is what our users are mostly familiar with. For example, searching “Das Leid des jungen Werter” instead of “Die Leiden des jungen Werther” will find the searched for title on Google, Amazon as well as a local bookshops online platform, while on Primo VE, the book itself, of which we have several versions in our catalogue, is not found at all and only some related literature is shown. Another example would be “The…
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Facet "language" not working
The facet "language" in Primo is not working correctly. When I choose another language than german or english, e.g. italian, I got german or english titles whose authors have an italian background. This is not making any sense. Especially our chinese students expect titles in chinese when they use this facet. And as it is a global problem I think ExLibris has to find a solution. I checked with several Primo catalogues from other libraries:
e.g.
http://www.getty.edu/research/library/
https://fu-berlin.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=FUB
https://library.wlu.ca/
http://primo.abdn.ac.uk:1701/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do (they obviously deactivated the language facet already while it is not working)
http://primo.tug-libraries.on.ca/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=WATERLOO&reset_config=true
http://primo.bib.uni-mannheim.de/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=MAN_UB
http://onesearch.slq.qld.gov.au/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=SLQ&fromLogin=true
http://primo.ub.uni-due.de/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do
http://catalogue.solent.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=SSUVU01
http://whel-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=44WHELF_ABW_VU1&reset_config=true
http://bvb-new-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=49BVB_UBG01_VU1
https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=HVD…99 votes -
An option to move the send-to section in Primo VE
We would like to be able to control the location of the send-to section in the Primo VE full record display.
99 votes -
Alerts in a consortium with NZ: send alerts for records added to the inventory of the institution of the user
The alert functionality is not really functional in a library network with a Network Zone. Users get an alert when a new bibliographic record is created in the Network Zone, but most users don't care about new acquisitions in other institutions. What they want is to be alerted on new acquisitions in their own institution. This means: to get an alert when a new bibrecord is added to the inventory of of their IZ (not only by creating a new record but also by adding a holding or portfolio to an existing record in the NZ).
Our request is to…98 votes
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