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  1. Prevent OTB icons from loading before custom icons

    Although Primo customers have the option of using custom resource type icons, the out-of-the-box icons still load momentarily before being replaced by the custom icons. This enhancement would prevent the OTB icons from loading for customers who opt to use their own icons.

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  2. Allow custom "Username" and "Password" labels when using multiple modes of authentication

    For institutions using multiple modes of authentication (such as LDAP for externally-managed users and Alma for internally-managed users), it is not currently possible to customize the "Username" and "Password" labels to have custom labels display for each authentication method. The "User Login" code table only provides one field for customizing the username or password, which displays for all methods of authentication. It would be more helpful to all users (and particularly internally-managed users) if we could specify on the login page which information users should enter as their "username" and "password."

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  3. Add records from Citation-only databases and/or "Citation Availability" statements

    We need to give our users access to the wide range of content to which we subscribe, including the records in citation-only databases. If we subscribe to a resource and activate it in Alma, we would like these resources to be included in our "Filter by availability" searches in Primo VE -- even if the content is citation rather than full article text. When we "expand my results", too much additional content (such as non-licensed ebooks from selected packages) are included. We want to be able to include citation records but exclude inaccessible content. There isn't a way to do…

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  4. add date/time stamps to indexing & hotswapping sections of Job Details Report

    In the job details reports, where indexing and hotswapping are reported, there is no date/time stamp to indicate how long these portions of the job took to run. It's useful for guesstimating the length of a process before we start it and other sections like FRBR and DeDup include this information

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  5. Please provide an option to search items from sub-collections together

    Please provide an option to search items from sub-collections together. Now users only can search the items in the current collection but usually the items in sub-collections are also relevant result for the search query. Some may think they can just go back to the basic search page and search again but the others would think it's uncomfortable because they are already familiar with Windows File search function.

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  6. Display order of portfolio at Catalogue (can we prioritize the links to be displayed?)

    For title with multiple portfolios, come from different platforms, I wonder if there is any way to prioritize the links according to our needs, e.g.

    Criteria 1: portfolio with access to the current issues will be displayed first, instead of the portfolio with closed holdings.

    Criteria 2: purchase portfolio will be displayed before the free access portfolios

    Criteria 3: platform with less broken link reports received will be displayed before the one with more broken link reports

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  7. Collection Discovery – enable alphabetical sort for each language

    Hi

    We are planning to use collection discovery by subject area and would like to sort the collection overview page alphabetically by title of collection.

    Our Primo VE interface is multilingual. We'd like to translate the collection names, with correct alphabetical sort in all interface languages.

    At the moment this is not possible: alphabetical sort is by the English titles.

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  8. Enable/disable the article quote in Brief results

    Brief results often show a quote/snippet for an article (see screenshot). In Primo VE it is currently not possible to enable/disable this. We would like to see this configuration option. All the other fields are customizable, why not this one?

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  9. Ability to collapse all sections in the get it section by default

    User Story: Many of our librarians use Primo to search for our records. They would prefer to be able to see the barcode information on all items in the get it section. As soon as they open the record. Rather than having to click each one, show the extra information.
    Solution: we are requesting the ability to have all items collapsed by default in a specific view. So that library staff can see the item information, once they open the record.

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  10. Suppress ellipsis in journals holdings summary

    When journals holdings are displayed in Primo VE, if the holding record has the field 866 (configured in Discovery> Holdings Display Configuration), is shown three points (ellipsis) that lead the user to think that we are still receiving issues but really the journal is not open. this.
    Example: https://polibuscador.upv.es/permalink/34UPV_INST/m0gkge/alma996886043803706 https://www.screencast.com/t/sIu1QtKv0

    However, when the holdings record does not have this 866 field, it does not display the three dots.
    Example https://polibuscador.upv.es/permalink/34UPV_INST/m0gkge/alma996886281903706 https://www.screencast.com/t/NUcSikfAK

    We believe that these three points should disappear since with the link "See more" the user can see the additional information corresponding to field 866) and not show ...…

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  11. Switching number of titles per page should not jump to top of page

    Hi

    At the moment, the switch for to more titles per page is only possible at the bottom of a page
    https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/43465527-display-pagination-navigation-on-top-of-resultpage

    But when I do this, I get moved back to the top of the page. This is bad UX. My position on the page should not change.

    Related https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/43396266-ability-to-set-the-default-value-for-results-per-p

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  12. Physical items sort routine by date - enable I J K descending, but A B C descending

    Hi
    We're running into a problem with the Physical items sort routine - Sort according to date.

    For journals, we want to sort the latest item on top, this works correctly with
    Sort according to chronology I/U/K (year/month/day) - Descending

    Example
    https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&search_scope=UBS&tab=UBS&docid=alma9910177740105504&lang=en&context=L

    BUT
    The same sort routine is also used for multi volume monographs.
    We found out that if we only fill out conditions for Chronology I J K, but those fields are empty, the barcode gets used for sorting.
    Which leads to wrong sorts.

    So we had to add
    Enumeration A, B, C as a condition.

    This leads to…

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  13. Availability status for webhooks

    The availability status for Primo Search Webhook records (such as for Newsbank) is always "Check for available services." Our users are accustomed to seeing this status when materials are not available full text online, and we would like the availability status to better indicate that full text is available. It would be great if the default display could be changed to "Available online" for these materials or if we had the ability to modify the display only for webhooks.

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  14. Permit creation of a stable URL that would lead to a simple search with all records limited by any facets, e.g., location.

    We'd like to create stable links to entire collections for use on our website, guides and course shells. For example, a link that leads to all records with a given location.

    This is currently possible for Advanced Search with a pre-filter. But users are distracted by Advanced Search's space and complexity, which pushes the results down the page. And if there are multiple languages or material types, the pre-filters would be overly restrictive.

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  15. Ability to collapse elements in full title display per view and per search scope slot

    Please add the ability to collapse elements in full title display
    - per view
    - per search scope slot

    We are in a consortium, and some information in the full title display is confusing for our patrons and we have no way to hide it.

    We would like a setting to collapse each element of the full title display separately. This setting needs to be configurable per view and within the view per search scope slot.

    Example:

    We have the search scope slots
    - our IZ
    - NZ & CDI

    Section 'Other loan and request options' should be collapsed in…

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  16. CDI indexing non-published "articles"

    We are having an issue of posts to the journal/magazine's website being added to our discovery instance as a result of CDI. The linking for these items inevitably fails as the item is not actually part of the journal/magazine and was never published as part of it.

    We would like to ask for such items to be excluded from CDI indexing.

    An example of an article with this problem: https://thediplomat.com/2020/08/was-your-face-mask-made-using-forced-labor-in-china/

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  17. customization package API

    Please add an API to deploy customization packages in Primo VE so that customers with many views can automate the cumbersome deployment process.

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  18. Primo - "related titles sorted alphabetically by title" also for Primo direct / classic not VE

    In Primo VE one can have related titles sorted alphabetically by title
    This is particularly useful for multipart, journals, and in general complex record structure. Unfortunately, this is possible only in Primo VE, but not in classic Primo.
    It would be useful if the 2 versions of Primo were aligned also regarding this very useful feature.

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  19. Give customers the option to have a custom multilingual file for synonyms and compound words.

    We are a multilingual network, catering to four languages. It is very important to us to ensure that customers find the same resources regardless of the UI language they use. As one of our UI languages does not have a synonyms file, it is currently not possible for us to incorporate synonyms beyond those included by default in our Primo, as this would lead to differing search results for this language. We would like this to be solved by allowing customers to use a dedicated multilingual file for synonyms, compound words etc. that they can customize to their needs.

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  20. Add a job that can set the CDI option collectively

    We would like you to add a job to set "Activate for search in CDI" collectively for the electronic collection set of CZ.
    Also, please add a job to batch update the following CDI options for the electronic collection set of IZ.
    - CDI Search activation status
    - We subscribe to only some titles in this collection
    - CDI-only full text activation
    - Do not show as Full Text available in CDI even if active in Alma

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