Enable user personalization for their default "Expand my results" and "Search in full text" options
Currently, institutions set a default for "Expand my results" and "Search in full text." Users can toggle these settings, but unlike other filters, these toggles are not "sticky" and it does not seem possible to "lock" them. When the session is reset or the user selects "New Search", the institutional default is re-applied. The user who prefers other settings must therefore constantly re-toggle their desired options.
We find vastly different needs between our faculty, graduate students, professional practitioners, and undergraduates in their search behaviors and preferences. Currently, we have default settings designed for the least sophisticated searchers (undergraduates), but many of our more advanced users are expressing frustration with these settings. They would be much happier if they could use other settings by default. It would be a great help to them if "Expand My Results" and "Search in Full Text" could be added to Primo VE's personalization options for signed in users, like Results Per Page. The ability to set a preference in Personal Details and Settings, "lock" the toggles like the filters/facets, and/or have the system remember and retain the user's last selection could all be big improvements to the user experience and satisfaction.
Nancy Babb
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Stacey van Groll
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I agree that there should be personalisation options in this area to allow patrons to set their own defaults, and for consistency this should be in the Personal Details and Settings area.
This should be for all Primo customers, not just those using Primo VE.I also wanted to note that there are technically 'locks' available but they are not clear to a patron as only shown by the URL and not as a UI feature.
These URL based locks ensure that features such as Saved Searches correctly record the search state saved by the patron to their Favourites and for any records sent by weekly email for Saved Search Alerts.Expand toggle
• Initial search – no indication in the URL
• Once expand toggle is enabled, the following is added to the URL: &pcAvailability=true
• If the expand toggle is then disabled, the following is change in the URL: &pcAvailability=falseFulltext toggle
• Initial search – no indication in the URL
• Once fulltext toggle is enabled, the following is added to the URL: &searchInFulltext=true
• If the fulltext toggle is then disabled, the following is change in the URL: &searchInFulltext=falseIt is definitely clunkier than simply allowing users to set defaults, but technically you could suggest that a patron bookmark a URL directly into Primo after using the toggles as above to set the URL element, or to use their Saved Searches for this to navigate from there, and you can provide saved URLs also with this.
Not ideal, but at least it is some answer to give to upset patrons to workaround this UI issue.