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I have submitted this great idea to the 2021 Primo enhancements process round, as follows:
Title: Add option to generate multiple Citations at once and export to txt file
No. #7192
Description: The Citation feature is consistently very popular for our users, averaging 2400-2600 actions per day. Currently, it is only possible to generate Citations via the Send To Action options one record at a time, which is very manual and time-consuming. We would like to streamline this feature for our users, with the option to generate multiple citations at once and export to txt file.
Outcome: The bulk selection feature also includes Citation, with all the styles available as configured by the site (CSL and EasyBib). The user may choose the style they'd like of the available configured styles, and generate a txt file of all of the selected records at once in that style. This Citation option is available in all places where Send To Actions export options are available, including Brief Results, with the current limit of 50 selections, in My Favorites for pinned Saved Records with no export limit, and in My Account Loans area.
If there are performance issues and delays for the user associated with this described outcome, the file should be queued for sending by email rather than limiting the number of Citations able to be generated at once or making the user wait for an extended period.
See Idea Exchange submission currently at 94 votes on 22.1.2021: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/36628765-generate-citation-on-multiple-pinned-items
Please keep a watch out for it when voting starts and lend it some votes, so that we can try for Roadmap commitment!

I think emailing the citations sounds like a good solution for the Primo community. It wouldn't work for us specifically because we run some javascript on the citation to correct it after it has been generated. I accept that ExLibris shouldn't have to take into account this kind of customization, though, and I wouldn't want to stop the proposed solution going ahead.

This seems like a good solution in concept, but I would not like to remove the option to have the data currently available by OTB email, which includes inventory specific information such as call number, to be replaced only by bibliographic level citation data.
Although the Email action is much lower use in comparison to other actions for us, I don't think any new feature should completely replace an old one if any functionality will be lost that users are currently enjoying.

Yes, it can be added to the email action for when a group of records is sent. Would the citation be per item or lumped at the bottom of the email with all citations together like a bibliography?

That might work. Ideally we could get a plain txt file of the citations. The current email functionality is quite verbose.

It probably has not been done because there is an extra layer beneath 'Citation' where you have to select the citation style you want, i.e. APA, MLA, Harvard, etc. All the other actions you can perform on all the pinned items are straightforward. Citation would be a little more complicated because of the choice of citation styles. However, it is worth having the feature even if ExLibris has to do a bit of work to add the extra layer for the choice. It has my 3 votes.