Secondary sorting of records in the results list
Primo is designed to sort the results list by one parameter only (relevancy, title etc.).
Currently, it is not possible to define a secondary sort. Thus records with the same ranking will appear in no particular order.
It would be beneficial to be able to configure a secondary and third sort options. For example, first sorting by Relevancy, secondary by Publishing Year and third by Title.
Thank you for this idea. We have reviewed the options to support secondary sorting and solution is technically very complex especially supporting it on both local and CDI indexes. In addition this can impact performance. So we have decided to close it and release your points.
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Manu Schwendener commented
Under review since May 2018 – any news?
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Joe Montibello commented
I like this idea a lot. A researcher might reasonably want to sort a big list of results by most recent publication first, then sort by relevancy within that, in order to get the best recent matches.
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Manu Schwendener commented
> I am not clear if sort by relevancy as the first sorting criterium is the correct starting point.
Related: allow another sort than relevancy to be the default sort
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/13488453-add-ability-to-change-default-sort-for-results -
Manu Schwendener commented
Hi, this has been under review since May 2018 – any updates?
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Iain Burke commented
We were discussing this problem internally yesterday; I've come up with this search as an example of the problem:
Now a lot of of the problems are caused by our bib data, which, for historical reasons is rather fragmented, but even if we were able to correct this, so that there was only one bib record for each bibliographic entity, we still couldn't get the results to display so that the most recent edition was at the top of the list.
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Shelly commented
Hi Nili and all,
following are 2 use cases we experience at Haifa University Primo:searching for items on the subject of 'molecular biology'
will supposedly display the results list according to relevancy (the default sort option). However all results contain this subject heading (e.g. 'molecular biology') thus all are of same relevance to this search strategy. Limiting the results list with the year facet still does not sort them according to year thus allowing for secondary sort options would help.
Searching for items authored by 'Agnon Shmuel Yosef' (the Nobel Prize laureate in literature)
will supposedly display the results list according to relevancy. However all results contain this author, thus all are of same relevance according to this search strategy. Allowing secondary sort options such as by title would help.
Best Regards,
Shelly, University of Haifa Library -
Bettina Kaldenberg commented
After some thought and discussion I am not clear if sort by relevancy as the first sorting criterium is the correct starting point. Since relevancy is built on a range of internal decisions, it is not likely that many records will have the exact same relevancy rating. Sorting them then according to a secondary sort criterium is not going to be much help.
On the other hand I can see the use case where for example a student wants to get an overview about the text book collection and sorts the list by publication year. Then 2018, 2017 etc. is going to be sorted internally by relevancy, where in this case a sort by author or title would make more sense.
Now, does this reasoning make sense to others? Or can you provide a use case (maybe even pointing to your library's Primo) where first sorting relevancy / second sorting anything else can be demonstrated more clearly? -
Stacey van Groll commented
Hi Lily,
I'm interested in your use case and wonder if you have the Publication Date and Date Range configured in your Advanced Search? We have both, including configuration of 'Last 5 years'. I'm not usually a fan of pointing users to Advanced Search if Basic Search can do the job, so definitely think that a secondary sort would be an improvement to Primo functionality, but it's something to consider. For example, in our Primo, the use case can be met by: 1st click on Advanced Search, 2nd click to open the Content Type pre-filter, 3rd click to choose Articles, 4th click to open the Publication Date Range, 5th click to choose 5 years, type search term and hit enter, 6th click on Sort to open the options, 7th click on Date-Newest. Way too many clicks for my liking, but perhaps a workaround to consider in the interim if you don't already have this in your Primo? I'd love to see any more use cases you might have for the secondary sort idea as well, to see if it would offer more of a streamlined workflow for users over Advanced Search.
Cheers, Stacey van Groll, University of Queensland -
Lily K. commented
Example:
A student needs to find relevant articles within the last 5 years only. Currently, if Primo sorts by Relevancy, results can be from any year and any resource type. To get what student wants, student needs to: 1) browse for the year themselves or do an extra step to change the date range in the facets after the search has been done; 2) use the resource type facet to limit to articles.Why not have these options/parameters available at the onset of the search instead of after? Having more parameters to choose from in the Advanced Search will help students focus and narrow their results so that they don't get so overwhelmed.
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Anna commented
This would be helpful.
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Jan K. commented
This would be very helpful to users.
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yona commented
Primo helps us with our searches. it's very relevant and gives us answers to our searches
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Anat Hirsch commented
This kind of advanced search is very important. Thank you.