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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.
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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…
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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…328 votes -
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.
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Ability to customise resource sharing status messages displayed in MyAccount Requests tab
We would like the ability to customize patron-facing status messages during the interlibrary loan process.
• Client feedback clearly indicates that status messages that are meaningful for library staff can be misleading to the Primo end user. Note: The Borrowing RS Request Statuses Alma configuration page (Alma configuration / Fulfillment / Resource Sharing) does not include external description / customisation options like other mapping/code tables, e.g. Physical Locations or Discovery Interface Display Logic Labels.
• The “Pick up” message gives the impression that the item is ready for pickup. UNSW patrons sometimes go to the library to pick up the…
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Increase the number of local fields for search and facets
If the library has many specialized and local fields it should be possible to improve the user search without the build-in restriction of 10 locally defined fields. There should not be a limit to use of local fields.
103 votes -
More options for Collection Discovery images
Hi
In Collection Discovery, please allow more options for the images per collection:
– Allow a separte image for the header banner of the single collection page.
For the overview page, the picture has to have the dimensions 3:1. The same picture is used for the header of the collection.
This leads to the pictures looking bad and often the description of the collection is hard to read.
Please make these 2 separate pictures to be uploaded and make the default header banner a monochrome colour taken from the css.
– Allow the pictures to be activated / deactivated for testing. At…
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Provide Toggle Checkbox When Including Results with No Full-Text
Please provide a toggle checkbox when the setting is configured to include results with no full-text. We would like to present all results by default and then let a person remove unwanted results (i.e., results with no full text).
The current setup is the reverse and is contrary to the idea of filtering. People use filters to narrow their search results, not expand them.
Also, I know there is a Full-Text Online facet, but this only appears after you select a resource type facet. Therefore, this method is not convenient to achieve the same thing.
Thanks,
Blake64 votes -
Display and edit all user addresses in my account By now, only the preferred address defined in Alma is displayed in Primo my account. All
Display and edit all user addresses in my account
By now, only the preferred address defined in Alma is displayed in Primo my account. All Alma user addresses should be displayed and be editable by patrons in my account of Primo. This is important for better transparency and to avoid invalid and deprecated addresses. It should also be possible to chooses the Address types in my Primo account to preferred, secondary, work and office.
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"Title starts with" advanced search should search alternate titles, too
The "Title starts with" advanced search in Primo and Primo VE only searches the 245 field, not the 246. This is problematic in cases where a title contains special characters, numbers, etc. For instance, if a user is doing a "Title starts with" search for a book called "Understanding & Dismantling Racism," they would need to use the ampersand rather than spelling out "and" in order to find the book. This is in spite of the fact that the bibliographic record for that book contains a 246 field with the "and" spelled out. One of the points of the 246…
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Adding Facets to Database Search page.
By adding a 'Facets' pane to the Database Search results page, consistency between the different search type's results will be improved and users will be able to post-filter Find Databases searches.
For example: a user would be able to filter by both subject AND resource type as used to be possible when the Metalib interface was used for the Databases A-Z list.42 votes -
Display multi-lingual values in facets in a consistent order
Currently, same values in different languages in multi-lingual facets (topic, author) appear randomly.
We suggest to create a consistent language order independent of the sort by_size configuration option, so that the values in these facets will be displayed by the determined order. For example, if the order will be: Latin, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic - the values will always be displayed by this same language order.
See example image provided for the following search:
https://haifa-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo-explore/search?query=any,contains,gibran%20kahlil&tab=default_tab&search_scope=books_and_more&vid=HAU&lang=en_USWe are suggesting that for the facets set by size in the View, the same value in all languages will be grouped together and displayed one…
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Display all blocks and patron limits in Primo My Account
The My Account page in Primo only displays blocks of the blocks tab in the Alma user details page so that a patron who logs in Primo and unsuccessfully attemps to renew an item from the library isn’t notified about blocks that are applied based on patron limits/ library-definied rules such as maximum cash limit. The My Account page should display all blocks.
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Differenciating the code for PCI records from the code for Alma records
The PCI records that we don't subscribe and the Alma records without holding show the same labels on Get It section because they share the codes, such as:
c.uresolver.getit2.holdinglist.empty.top
c.uresolver.getit2.holdinglist.empty.signedinuser
c.uresolver.getit2.holdinglist.empty.signedinuser.noservices
c.uresolver.getit2.holdinglist.empty.guestuser
c.uresolver.getit2.holding_list.empty.bottom
(Samples are on SF #00731305)We want those two groups of records to be distinguished from each other so that we can apply different labels giving more customized information to our patrons.
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Penalization date visible in users' loan page
Hello! It would be great once we had read the bar code of the user, and we have the general information to do a loan or a return it will be great if there we can see the date until they can't borrow books. If not it is a problem because they ask you until when they are ban and we have to go until their profile to penalty section to see it.
Thank you!
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Primo Back Office: In a consortial environment, Ability to localize Alma collections to a specific instance of Primo
Hello.
Our university system is in a consortial configuration of Alma and Primo Back Office.
Currently, we cannot use Alma collections because one university's (local and institution-specific) collections display in all other Primo instances in our consortia. This is problematic and confusing because a collection at University A displays in University B's Primo as if it were University B's collection. But the collection is local and specific to University A only.
The "collections" I'm talking about are described in the following Exlibris documentation: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Product_Documentation/010Alma_Online_Help_(English)/040Resource_Management/050Inventory/050Managing_Collections
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/060Back_Office_Guide/060Configuring_Primo%E2%80%99s_Front_End/050Collection_DiscoveryWe opened Salesforce cases 00636941 and 00708998 and were told by the Exlibris analysts that…
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We would like patrons to be able to view their library barcode in Primo.
Under My Library Account > Personal Details, we think patrons should be able to view their library barcode number. We use ours in additional systems, and we think it would be helpful to point someone to their library account details.
120 votes -
Making the peer reviewed icon more accurate
Articles and journals are marked with the peer reviewed icon in Primo based on information extracted from Ulrichsweb (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Ulrich%27s/Product_Documentation/Searching/Ulrichsweb%3A_Peer-Reviewed_Refereed_Journals_and_Academic_Scholarly_Journals).
The Peer Review indicator can only be set at the journal level at the moment. If a journal is identified as peer reviewed, or refereed in Ulrichsweb, all articles from this journal will be shown with the peer reviewed icon in Primo.
However, not all articles in such journals are peer reviewed, meaning the icon sends the wrong information to user, and that this label is not reliable. It can further cause users to lose confidence in the system.…802 votesThanks for the examples - we will review them and discuss our options.
Best,
Tamar
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Free text input should be blocked in Resource Sharing Form
When users request items with multiple volumes in the resource sharing form (NERS Enhancement - Request ID #4856), they can select a specific volume from the pull down list, also freely input any information in the text box. Errors of manual input may lead to inefficiency or failure of handling the requests, for example, user input “1” in the text box instead of selecting “v.1” from the list, the request can be created successfully, but information of requested volume cannot be shown in Alma, neither “Borrowing Requests” of Borrowing Library nor “Pick from shelf” of Lending Library, the libraries need…
69 votes -
Hierarchical labels for sub-collections in Collections hierarchy
When browsing the Collections hierarchy there is a separate label for top level collections and for sub-collections (at whatever level). We would like to be able to have separate labels according to values contained in the bib records. This would allow the different levels of a complex sub-collection hiearchy to be expressed appropriately: e.g. it would allow us to reflect transparently the structure of our archival collections: Collection - Series - File - Item. it could also allow the hierarchy of different types of collections to be expressed differentially.
48 votes
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