NERS 8273, open for voting now.

> And I don't think a tooltip would contribute much to a better user experience.

I agree.
Tooltips are not visible on mobile.

Also, the tooltip seems to have been rolled out by now, but only in English, and I don't remember having seen any information about it?

Agreed! The current behaviour is very strange and not user friendly. And I don't think a tooltip would contribute much to a better user experience. Functions should only be displayed where they can be used, and it's confusing that Primo VE just changes the field selector when you choose the search type "starts with".

By autumn 2023 also 'Starts with – Holding call number' should become possible (NERS 7986).

> the default search is usually done on the "Any" field

I don't agree: patrons who only need the "Any" field have no reason to switch to advanced search.

Patrons who take the step to advanced search are looking for something they couldn't find with a search in the "Any" field.

> We are considering adding a tooltip to the "Starts with" search operator,
> rather than displaying it only for the "Title" field.
> The tooltip will explain that this search option is available only for the "Title"
> field.

This seems like a strange way of "solving" this to me, not least because tooltips are not visible on mobile.

We already use the workaround of rephrasing the label to inform our patrons about this.

'Starts with' should only be visible when it actually can be used.

I agree; this is more of a bug and is baffling why this hasn't been corrected since 2017. The search interface should not give you options for ineligble categories.

I can't believe this has been a thing since 2017 and it still hasn't been fixed. This is not a good user experience at all.

this should be a basic function and not an enhancement idea. We are having a lot of problems with searching subject headings because of the lack of this function. We are getting a lot of noise with results of sub subjects that are being retrieved. very important feature. Please vote!

excellent idea otherwise all the other "start with" very confusing

Liverpool Hope University renamed 'starts with' to 'starts with (titles only)' as a temporary workaround
https://hope.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=44HOP_INST:VU1&lang=en&mode=advanced

For the pre-filters under the search field in simple search:
Configuration –> Discovery –> Labels –> Basic Search Pre-Filters Labels

For advanced search:
Configuration –> Discovery –> Labels –> Search Tile Labels

For multilingual Primo VEs: switch the language above the table, save each change before you go to the next language.

I agree. I want to see this change. It is very confusing the way it is now.

> immediately switches to a title search

Also mentioned here
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/16747642-add-starts-with-functionality-to-call-number-field

https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/33797446-optimize-call-number-advanced-search

https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/45293770-holdings-information-search-starts-with

Highly agree with this idea. We have only been live a couple of months and our users found this problem right away.

They hadn't realized what was happening at first since it is rather subtle when it changes to title!

If you didn't notice also - once the user chooses "starts with" then the other drop down menu no longer allows toggling between the choices, but still shows the arrow and it's unclear that you cannot change it.

Only when you switch the secondary dropdown to something else, besides "starts with" are you allow to switch the primary dropdown to author, subject, call number.

It's just very unclear and unusual behavior for related drop downs.

-Amy