It became possible in November 2024 to display instances of a local field from all records in a Dedup record in Primo VE (Configuration > Discovery > Other > Local fields to display from all dedup members).
The feature displays up to 10 instances of a field from records in the dedup group.
This is a useful and welcome development to ensure patrons have access to all the metadata of the work.
However, there is an issue that the data displays regardless if it is exactly the same in multiple records, despite that there is no usefulness for a patron to display the exact same data more than once, and it looks like an error to do so.
Unfortunately Ex Libris has advised this is “expected” from the perspective that they have not developed this feature to do a comparison check to prevent multiple instances of display when the data in a field is exactly the same in multiple records dedup’d.
Note: This is not an issue in Primo BO, where only one field displays when the content is not unique.
This submission is for Primo VE to perform a uniqueness comparison check and only display one instance of the local field in a dedup record if the metadata is exactly the same.