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  1. Make consistent the use of CDI record data in Primo UI

    Current CDI design in Primo UI is to expose metadata from all participant records for both returning results from a search query, and in the values presented for selection in facet for filtering results, but the display of metadata within records is only by site-specific activations.
    This means that a user can search for a term in Primo, have results returned on the basis of that term, select the value for the term in a facet, but then not see the term in the record display.

    The negative impact of this design decision includes:
    * a user is confused by…

    314 votes
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  2. Allow removal of main title enlargement upon hover in Resource Recommender banner

    The default (and expected) behavior of the Resource Recommender banner results in an enlargement of the text entered for the main title field. We are unable to modify this behavior via CSS, find the transition jarring, and would like to have the option of no hover effect or, at minimum, a less extreme one.

    6 votes
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  3. Facet "Availability" : display order

    I would like to be able to choose the order in which items are displayed in the "Availability" facet, and thus put the most important ones first.

    In the backoffice, a "display order" column exists. I created a case to know why the display did not correspond to my choice. The person who answered, told me that it was not used in the user interface, and that it was considered as an improvement request.

    1 vote
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  4. Option to highlight the edition statement in brief results

    Hi, in a recent student survey we received feedback that the edition of a work should be more prominently labelled. It would be good if this text was more obvious in the brief results, perhaps with a different colour, positioning or size?

    5 votes
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  5. Define preferred pickup location in personal details of my account

    As a user of a large library network, I usually pick up the books I loan at library Z. When making a request I have to scroll down or use the search function in order to find library Z at the bottom of the very long list of pickup locations.

    I would like a new feature, so that I can define my preferred pickup location as library Z in the personal details of my account. So, my preferred pickup location would always be displayed at the very top of the list of pickup locations. Plus, I could see at one…

    40 votes
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  6. New tool 'Give us feedback' - allow files to be uploaded

    It would be helpful if the new 'Give us feedback' widget allowed users to upload files when reporting issues. Our current in-house widget allows this and we have found it a useful feature.

    16 votes
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  7. Collection Discovery: allow searching subcollections' contents at the collection level

    Currently, when a user searches in a collection, Primo only returns objects that are directly located under this collection, ignoring any contents located in subcollections. This means that the user needs to open each subcollection and do the search again to discover all objects included in the collection. This is cumbersome and counter-intuitive. We would like that the search results also include objects and subcollections located at lower levels in the hierarchy.

    7 votes
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  8. Custom location order in brief results list

    Where there are multiple records for the same holding within our institution, we would like to configure the order of locations in the brief results. Patrons could then see the circulating items first, rather than non-circulating items, reducing confusion and wasted time.

    This is similar to #32961133, "Ability to select which location appears first." The resulting Location Ordering Profile allows us to set a custom order within a single record, which is very helpful. But it does not solve the problem where there are multiple records.

    2 votes
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  9. Indicate the other fields in use for an advanced search in collapsed mode

    When a user undertakes an advanced search and chooses dates, language or resource types, those limits are not shown to the user who may forget what they had searched for as they review the results.
    The user then makes changes in the collapsed view and not realise that they need to expand it first to change those other fields.

    At minimum there should be an indication that those fields are in use so they know to expand it again. Ideally those field selections should be shown in the collapsed view.
    Screenshots for inspiration only. Design experts or community feedback welcome…

    9 votes
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  10. Multi-select and Typeahead search fields (e.g. language)

    Currently Primo VE only allows a user to select one language at a time via dropdown. This is a poor user experience that doesn't allow users to multiple languages at once, and makes the dropdown more difficult to use as more options are added to it.

    Having an interface where the user can select multiple items at once as well as type to suggest a language will allow more flexibility for users researching items in specific languages

    1 vote
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  11. Search Limiters for Accessibility Features

    As a cataloger, I would like to propose a new option to filter search results for items with accessibility features (captions, audio descriptions, large print, etc). We are in the process of adding 041 subfields (mostly p and q), and 341 and 532 fields to our records in order to help users more easily identify items intended for those with hearing or visual disabilities. Ideally, this feature would utilize that input based on the presence of indicators in the 341 or 532 fields (i.e., 0 and 1) or controlled vocabulary terms to create search facets or indications (similar to the…

    85 votes
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  12. Support html in GES public notes in How to Get it section

    We are considering moving a couple of our general electronic services from the "Links" section to the "How to Get it" section. However HTML tags in the public note are not recognised when we change it from Links to How to Get It.

    See cases: 00987379 & 00987406

    I would have expected that public notes should always support HTML tags as they are exposed publicly via Primo.

    https://www.screencast.com/t/v3OGDhcrDG5j - illustration showing that <b> tags in the Links area make text bold, but encoding is displayed int eh How to Get it section.

    38 votes
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  13. Primo May 2022 Release: Display Multiple Links in View It

    This feature offers the possibility to show more fulltext links in three sections:
    (1) CDI "Subscription" links
    (2) Alma iframe with Alma portfolio links
    (3) CDI "Open Access" links

    However, currently it is not possible to configure the display of these sections.

    Please think about the following improvements:

    Possibility to display all link sections automatically instead of only showing the first link section and a "Show more" option for the other sections (see attachement).

    Possibility to decide to display both new link sections (additional CDI "Subscription" links, additional CDI "Open Access" links) or only one of them.
    If you have…

    6 votes
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  14. Main menu on desktop - let us decide how many links to show

    Hi

    On desktop, the main menu shows 6 links and then "..." to show the rest.

    On desktop, there would be ample space to just show all the links instead of hiding some of them.

    https://utk.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01UTN_KNOXVILLE:01UTK&lang=en

    https://union.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01UCNY_INST:01UCNY_INST&lang=en

    https://nait.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01NOALTECH_INST:01NOALTECH&lang=en&sortby=rank

    https://primo.hope.edu/discovery/search?sortby=rank&vid=01COL_HOPE:HOPE

    https://col-westernsem.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/search?vid=01COL_WTS:WTS&lang=en


    On the other hand, maybe a library wants to hide some links behind the "...", but wants to show fewer than 6 links before the dots.

    Please make this more flexible.

    Thank you
    Manuela

    Our own main menu is at 6 links at the moment, but we plan to add more links https://basel.swisscovery.org/discovery/search?search_scope=UBS&vid=41SLSP_UBS:live&lang=en

    47 votes
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  15. Audiobooks - display labels need changing

    Please enable audiobooks to display as 'Audiobooks' or at a push 'Audio' in Primo. Currently they display as 'Audio CD' which is misleading and confusing to students.

    3 votes
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  16. Reverse the order of Available in Library / Available Online on full record display

    We are new to Primo so pardon if this idea already exists. My public services colleagues would like to see "Available Online" appear before Physical Availability in the brief record information on the top of the full record display. We can move the View it service section higher in the page but we can't flip these two links.

    4 votes
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  17. Ranking of search results by Resource Sharing Library

    Concerning search results in Primo : could it be made possible to rank different holdings of the same title by Resource Sharing Library of the patron? This way the patron would see on top of the list the item that is the easiest accessible to him. At present patrons often request items from another library because they did not notice the title is also available at their own library.

    126 votes
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  18. search box on all pages

    Search box should be on all pages (including the records pages) in Primo - so you don’t have to go back to the main search screen

    5 votes
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  19. Allow Primo users to report inaccurate metadata on a record directly to Ex Libris

    We've had several cases where metadata was incorrect in a Primo record. The user (in several occasions the author of the article) reported the issue to their library, who reported it to us (BIBSYS consortium), and we reported this to Ex Libris.

    Once the issue was fixed, after quite some time, the feedback followed the same road, back to the user.

    It would be more efficient if metadata issues could be reported directly to the instance actually able to correct them, which is Ex Libris.

    The issue would be reported directly by the user in Primo/a salesforce case would be…

    2 votes
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  20. holdings information search "starts with"

    When searching for Holdings Information in advanced search then changing the operator option to "Starts with", changes the search to Title rather than holding information.
    The "starts with" operator should only be an option when the user is using the Title Search operator.

    1 vote
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