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Discovery collections handling

When creating or updating an Alma collection (adding/removing titles), the change is not automatically reflected in the Discovery Collections and it is necessary to trigger the reindexing for a correct display.
This workflow is problematic when titles are removed: records are taken out from a collection but are still present in Primo VE because a reindexing is needed. They can no longer be found by searching for the collection in Alma. Depending on the collection, it might also not be possible to find them all via a single search and it might be necessary to manually add the records to a set by comparing the collections in Alma and Primo. In these cases, it is extremely cumbersome to properly remove records from a collection.

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  • Manu_Schwendener commented  · 

    > "Suppress from Discovery" checkbox in Alma was always displayed in the
    > collection resource editor and you didn't have to take the detour via the MD editor
    > to (de)activate it as you do now.

    Yes! That is really missing - took me forever to figure out.

  • Manu_Schwendener commented  · 

    > This seems like a defect rather than an enhancement

    I completely agree.

  • Annette Guignard commented  · 

    In addition to the delayed synchronization (especially with larger collections, it often takes quite a long time until all content is displayed in Primo), it would be helpful if the "Suppress from Discovery" checkbox in Alma was always displayed in the collection resource editor and you didn't have to take the detour via the MD editor to (de)activate it as you do now.

  • Martin Gränicher commented  · 

    Indexing of Collection items seems error prone in general; we have several cases where the same record shows up twice or three times in the same collection in Collection lobby.

  • Stacey van Groll commented  · 

    This seems like a defect rather than an enhancement, as Primo VE is marketed as indexing for changes within 15 minutes.

  • Irene commented  · 

    Please make it easier to change the Collection names as well (names needs to be readapted in the “Collection Resource Editor” and in the connected record linked to this collection.

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