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  1. 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
    4 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  2. 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
    5 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  3. Ability to expand all sections in the get it section by default

    User Story: Many of our librarians use Primo to search for our records. They would prefer to be able to see the barcode information on all items in the get it section. As soon as they open the record. Rather than having to click each one, show the extra information.
    Solution: we are requesting the ability to have all items to be expanded by default in a specific view. So that library staff can see the item information, once they open the record.

    3 votes
    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  4. 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
    5 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →

  5. If your default language for Primo is not English you can not customize some Primo labels in Alma

    If your default language for Primo is not English you can not customize some Primo labels in Alma.

    3 votes
    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  6. The possibility to change the order of values in the top-level facet

    Several institutions of the eLABa consortium (https://www.elaba.lt/elaba-portal/en) would like to change the order of values in the top-level facet "Availability" (facet_tlevel) as they please. For example:
    1. Available in the Library
    2. Full Text Online
    3. Peer-reviewed Journals
    4. Open Access
    5. Cited Articles
    This idea is related to Case 06220252.

    9 votes
    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  7. Ability to collapse elements in full title display per view and per search scope slot

    Please add the ability to collapse elements in full title display
    - per view
    - per search scope slot

    We are in a consortium, and some information in the full title display is confusing for our patrons and we have no way to hide it.

    We would like a setting to collapse each element of the full title display separately. This setting needs to be configurable per view and within the view per search scope slot.

    Example:

    We have the search scope slots
    - our IZ
    - NZ & CDI

    Section 'Other loan and request options' should be collapsed in…

    0 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  8. Add support for the following HTML tags : <ul>, <li>, <sub>, <sub>.

    So that they can be embedded into records to improve the frontend display.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  9. Add scite.ai badges to Primo

    Add scite.ai (https://scite.ai/badge) badges to publications surfaced on Primo to show how publications have been supported or disputed.

    6 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  10. Show both in-text and reference citation formats for APA 7

    With version 7 of the American Psychological Association (APA 7) citation format, there are two formats: one for in-text and one for reference citations.

    The first (in-text) is to be used within the body of the text; the second (reference) is to be used in a bibliography.

    There are differences between the two styles. For more information on the differences, please see https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/citations and https://apastyle.apa.org/style-grammar-guidelines/references.

    It looks like when Primo uses the Citation Style Language (CSL) Repository (https://github.com/citation-style-language/styles) to add styles, it only picks up the In-text format citation from the APA 7 definition on the CSL…

    1 vote
    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  11. move the favicon to the top level (outside /img) to fix Firefox bookmarks

    Hi

    The favicon for our view is stored in the /img folder within the customization package.

    For Firefox to display it correctly when I have the URL in my bookmark bar, the favicon needs to be outside the /img folder.

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1230644
    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1226447

    "the saved bookmark favicon image was located in other than the website server file path root directory which was the original W3C standard for favicon placement for web browsers to loom for it"

    As long as the favicons are stored within /img, they display ok in the tabs of Firefox, but get lost when I drag the URL…

    5 votes
    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  12. 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

    49 votes
    2 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  13. Show exact number of results when browsing instead of 20+

    When browsing subjects in Primo, if a result has more than 20 results attached to a single subject entry, that subject displays "20+ records" instead of a specific number, which is what Primo shows for any total less than 20. This happens because Primo uses the Alma browse functionality, but this is not as informative to users as it should be. Instead, users have to click the heading before they can see the exact count of associated records.

    11 votes
    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  14. Switching number of titles per page should not jump to top of page

    Hi

    At the moment, the switch for to more titles per page is only possible at the bottom of a page
    https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/43465527-display-pagination-navigation-on-top-of-resultpage

    But when I do this, I get moved back to the top of the page. This is bad UX. My position on the page should not change.

    Related https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/43396266-ability-to-set-the-default-value-for-results-per-p

    0 votes
    1 comment  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  15. Default Sortting option for the historic loans

    When opening the historic loans tab , the "Sort by" dropdown default value is empty and the results are not sorted.
    So historic loans details are shown at random.
    Only when the user selects the desired "Sort by" value as "Returned date - newest", the results will sort.

    Please make the default option "Returned date - newest" for the historic loans.
    Then users can immediately check the book with the latest return date.

    Thanks in advanced.

    5 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  16. Index local in Advanced search

    We have a local index with a closed list of values and we would like to present only this list of values to users doing an advanced search.

    An example with the local index "Original language" based on the 905 field. This field contains three possible values: Yes, No, Bilingual.

    We would like for an advanced search, when the user chooses the Original Language index, to present the closed list that shows three possible values: Yes No Bilingual

    12 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  17. Allow A-Z facet to have both title and alternative title

    Use case: Users will look for databases and journals by the name they know, which often doesn't match the official title in the 245 field. We would like the ability to add more than one entry to the atoz facet so that users can find items by both the title and alternative title.

    Example:
    245 Education Database - under E
    246 Proquest Education Database - under P

    This would improve the user experience and findability for our subscription resources.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  18. View full record in results view

    The current behaviour to move from search results to exploring a record is to open a pop up to view the full record.
    This takes the user away from the results set they are working with.
    There is feedback that some users dislike pop ups.
    We have also observed that many users open full records in a new tab in order to have records of interest open in tabs to go explore in detail later whilst continuing to work with the search results.
    To match user behaviour in exploring search results I'd like to suggest an option to open the…

    5 votes
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  19. Customize response page for error 404 resource not found

    To be able to customize response page for error 404 resource not found: either to be able to set up a customized web page with some informative text, or to be able to redirect to starting page of Primo

    1 vote
    4 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

  20. Chinese records should be ordered by pinyin

    For the mainland China customers, it would be great that the Chinese records are ordered by pinyin when choose sort by "Title" or "Author" for result list.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  User Interface  ·  Admin →
    Closed  ·  AdminYael (yael.shahar@clarivate.com, Ex Libris) responded

    Hello All,

    This idea has been closed as part of a cleanup process for ideas older than two years with fewer than 30 votes.

    This cleanup process is necessary to streamline our idea management process and ensure that the most relevant and impactful ideas receive the attention they deserve. If you still feel strongly about this idea, you may submit it via the NERS process.

    We value your feedback and encourage you to continue submitting and voting for ideas that you believe will enhance Primo.


    Best regards,

    Primo Product Team

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