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Separate the Primo My Account Update Login Credentials form into two different forms for PIN code and Password
As a user, I would like to have two different forms for Pincode update and Password update (Update Login Credentials in My Account > Personal Settings) so I am sure that I can also change only one of the two. With the current design (=one form for PIN and password update), it is suggested to me that I always have to update both.
10 votes -
Make the PIN code field in Primo My Account a secure text field with eye icon to show/hide the PIN
As a user, I would like to have the possibility to hide the values I have entered in the Pincode field (Update Login Credentials in My Account > Personal Settings) so that the data isn't visible to others. In order to check for typos, I would like to have the possibility to display the data (e.g. by clicking on an eye symbol)
94 votes -
Support "Exact year" date search in Advanced Search
If a user knows the exact year they want to limit to, they have to type it in twice, whether they are using the facet option or the Advanced Search dropdown for Date Range. It would be helpful if the Advanced Search had a "Exact year" option with a single field to fill in.
3 votes -
Hide collections
Right now public Primo collections need to be deleted in order to hide them from public view; correspondingly, if a collection is suppressed from Discovery when it is created, it cannot be unsuppressed. It would be useful to be able to simply hide and unhide collections easily, for things like making changes, or themed collections whose time have passed.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Primo - "related titles sorted alphabetically by title" also for Primo direct / classic not VE
In Primo VE one can have related titles sorted alphabetically by title
This is particularly useful for multipart, journals, and in general complex record structure. Unfortunately, this is possible only in Primo VE, but not in classic Primo.
It would be useful if the 2 versions of Primo were aligned also regarding this very useful feature.0 votes -
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?
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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 -
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
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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" linksHowever, 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 -
Fill the gap of Open Access CDI records not marked with the Open Access icon and facet
The Open Access icon and facet were added to Primo in May 2018, per previous submission: https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/19130257-open-access-flag-for-open-access-content
This is applied at metadata level by provider feed first for PCI and now CDI.
This current decision is the root cause for a significant gap in the number of OA records incorrectly not marked as OA.
For example, tens of thousands of PloS One articles not marked as OA.In September 2022 a change is made in terms of the link proxy being removed when it is determined at the link level that the access is OA.
But unfortunately this change is…19 votes -
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 -
Inform users when wildcard limit has been reached for local records (when still displaying CDI results)
Based on Salesforce case 06390632.
When using wildcards in a Primo search, there is a limit to how many you can use before the search triggers an error that excludes all local records.
This limit is only for local records. The CDI search does not follow the same limitations and will still gather results even if this limit is reached.
If a users crosses the wildcard threshold when searcing in a scope containing only local records, there will be an error message displayed that explains why no results were found. However, if the same search is done in a…
42 votes -
Show item availablity on the top level for 'Group Locations by Library in Get It'
In April 2022 we got the "Group Locations by Library in Get It" feature: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/2022/010Primo_VE_2022_Release_Notes#Group_Locations_by_Library_in_Get_It-98574
To save users' time when it comes to finding out whether an item is available or not, would it be possible to show the item availability already on the top level, for each library? Color coding wouldn't hurt either, indicating instantly whether a location has the item available or not.
A rough example in the attached files.
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Collection Discovery: "new" pagination method instead of endless scrolling
Already some time ago (May 2021 Release) Ex Libris has rolled out the "new" pagination method: users can now specify whether to display 10, 25, or 50 results per page.
This works also in the "Database Search" and the "Journal Search" but not in the "Collection Discovery" section of Primo.
"Collection Discovery" still provides the old endless scrolling method (Button "Load More Results") where you quickly run into brower performance problems if a collection contains my items.Please make the "new" pagination method also availalbe in the "Collection Discovery" area.
Thank you in advance!37 votes -
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 -
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 -
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://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
ManuelaOur 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
82 votes
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