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  1. Allow "Exclude cdi ebooks" to apply only to the filtered search

    The Exclude CDI eBooks option on the Define a Custom Search Profile page allows you to remove CDI ebooks from both the filtered and expanded searches in Primo VE. This is useful for removing duplicate ebook results while keeping book chapter results. However, because it also removes those results from the expanded results, it diminishes the value of the expanded search for discovery and for initiating ILL requests. A more useful function would allow us to apply the "Exclude cdi ebooks" option just to the filtered search and not to the expanded search.

    84 votes
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  2. Customise resource recommender results by selected facets

    It would be great if we could specify that particular recommended resources should be displayed on searches when a patron has selected particular facets.
    For instance, if the patron has selected the Resource Type facet to show Theses, or Videos, then we could recommend resources/databases that provide us with access to that type, or if a patron has selected a language, we could recommend resources that work with that language.

    3 votes
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  3. Enable logo image used in Primo to be resized without perfoming CSS customizations.

    Enable logo image used in Primo to be resized without perfoming CSS customizations.

    3 votes
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  4. Make search selections "sticky" when navigating from page to page

    When a patron is creating a resource list to email or save, they may wish to include items from more than one page of search results. Currently, if they select items on page 1 and the navigate to page 2 they lose any selections from page 1. The only way to retain selections is to pin them page by page. This is time consuming and can limit the flow of finding resources. Can selections of search results be "sticky" so they stay when the patron navigates from one page of results to the next?

    26 votes
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  5. Add ability to control local record access information in Primo

    Primo managed via Back Office has powerful functionality to control access information in Primo for all our local records.
    This includes the aligned features of availability statements and Get It / View It by Delivery & Scoping rules, Links rules for all harvested data sources, and the option to build custom mapping tables for references in various rules, all of which can be married with top level facets by Facet rules.

    These features provide necessary information in Primo as expected for a core discovery layer functionality of advising users how they can access and request our resources, and avoids wasting…

    2 votes
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  6. Sort Book Chapters in correct order when using PrimoVE in 'Everything' search

    When using the ‘Everything’ search in PrimoVE you can't consistently sort book chapters into the correct order. Even when using the facets to filter and sort results, it still returns chapters in a variety of orders.

    For example, searching for the following book and filtering by ‘Book Chapters’, refining the year to ‘2015’ and sorting by ‘Title’ still returned the chapters in the wrong order (see attached screenshot).

    “Meeting Health Information Needs Outside of Healthcare” Kreps, Gary L.; Neuhauser, Linda (2015)

    It may not be possible, due to the variety of way book chapters can be structured. However, if it…

    4 votes
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  7. Preference of links from link resolver over link in record in brief results for merged records

    When one or more of the records in a merged group is coming from a collection using the link resolver, and other records are coming from collections using the link in the record, the link in record type of link is always displayed in the brief result list. It should be possible to choose to always display a link resolver type of link instead.

    1 vote
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  8. Show amount of records of a Discover Import Profile

    In Alma it's not possible to use the adv search bar/jobs/analytics to list records from external data sources. We can see the records loaded in the History option of each profile execution. But to have a total, we would need to open one by one.

    Could it be possible to have the amount of records and MMS IDs of each discovery import profile available to see?

    For example, in the same menu list where we see the History, Reload and Delete, etc, add an option called: Total and when we click on it Alma searches for all records of the…

    1 vote
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  9. Add editing functionality to labels/tags created in My Favorites

    Currently, there is no way to edit a label created in My Favorites to organize items you have saved/Pinned to My Favorites. It would be helpful to be able to edit typos or make adjustments to the label as needed, without have to reassign items.

    1 vote
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  10. Consistent UX or labelling for Collection Discovery search box

    Ideal solution: The Collection Discovery search box should be persistent and always search at the item level within all collections (as it does in the lobby) in order to provide a logical, consistent user experience.

    Secondary solution: the label text should be editable for each search box separately to make it clear what is being searched on the page.

    Problem:

    • The lobby search box is for everything
    • The top-level collection search box is for the title of sub-collections in that area only
    • The sub-collection search box is for items in that sub-collection only.

    Yet, all three options say "search" and…

    4 votes
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  11. Quicklink display options on full record

    In Primo VE, any quicklinks associated with records show both at the top of the full record display and in the Links section of the record. CSS can be used to hide quicklinks from the Links section, but often results in a blank Links section on the record.

    It would be helpful to have options to show quicklink at the top of the full record display, but hide them from the Links section. This would help improve the usefulness of the Links section of the record.

    15 votes
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  12. Enhance DC XML normalization routines for external sources (PrimoVE)

    In Primo Back Office, there is 86 inbuilt transformational routines for MARC21 and Dublin Core data normalization (e.g. “Take first words”, “Get highest number and normalize last digit”, and “Remove HTML tags”). Most have been translated for MARC21 in PrimoVE by various people but, because of limited regex and Xpath functionality, few have been translated into Dublin Core XML normalization routines for PimoVE.

    We would like to see the implementation of full regex and/or XPath / XQuery functionality (or similar) to allow all Back Office normalization routines to be created for PrimoVE.

    57 votes
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  13. Change handling of MARC fields 100 and 700 in citation styles in Primo VE

    Handling of MARC fields in citation styles should be changed as follows:
    1. If there are relator codes in $4, only $4 aut and cmp should be considered as author, relator codes $4 edt, ill, ivr, trl and drt should be treated as contributors. Entries with other $4 codes should be ignored for citation.
    2. If there are no relator codes $4 in the record, field 100 should be considered as author, field 700 as contributor.
    Benefits: Citiation styles get independent from cataloguing language as they are now by using $e. Also citation styles work independent from the fact, if…

    8 votes
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  14. Automate SSL/TLS certificate management

    For hosted Primo sites that have custom domain names, the current process for deploying SSL certificates involves time-consuming manual steps and hand-offs, many of which must be repeated each time a certificate is renewed. [1]

    Several institutions will soon require SSL certificates to be renewed every 90 days, at which point the current manual process will become utterly unmanageable for both Ex Libris and its customers. [2]

    I propose that Ex Libris adopt an ACME-like service (such as Let's Encrypt) to fully automate SSL certificate management. The customer's responsibility would be to set up a DNS record (as they do…

    303 votes
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  15. Give customers the option to have a custom multilingual file for synonyms and compound words.

    We are a multilingual network, catering to four languages. It is very important to us to ensure that customers find the same resources regardless of the UI language they use. As one of our UI languages does not have a synonyms file, it is currently not possible for us to incorporate synonyms beyond those included by default in our Primo, as this would lead to differing search results for this language. We would like this to be solved by allowing customers to use a dedicated multilingual file for synonyms, compound words etc. that they can customize to their needs.

    0 votes
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  16. Integrated with ChatGPT technology

    Good to integrate ChatGPT technology in Primo VE.

    2 votes
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  17. Link search results for full text to the digital representation instead of the title

    One of the selling points of Primo VE is that full text from digital representations (Alma-D) is indexed automatically. When a user performs a search wherein full text is found, they can click on the brief result to go to the full display, then click on the digital representation to open the file in the viewer.

    This works well for titles with only one digital representation and file. If you search our catalog for the keywords feeder is also designed as a feeder, you will see an ESL Pamphlet about the Black River Canal as the first result. When you…

    29 votes
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  18. Change / improve the Booking process for staff and patrons

    Hi all,

    We wish to submit a proposal to change the current booking process for staff creating a booking request in Alma AND for patrons creating their own bookings in PRIMO VE.

    Now, Alma’s option to submit ‘’ Booking ‘’ requests require us to search an item, select it and then enter booking times for each piece of equipment desired, which is very time consuming.

    When patrons book equipment, they often need up to 10 or more pieces of equipment for the same booking period. This is quite inconvenient and increases the risk of mistakes in the process.

    In our…

    3 votes
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  19. Ability to place restrictions on Display Source Record link

    When enabling the ‘display source record’ link in Primo VE it would be useful to be able to specify which types of records the link displays or doesn’t display for. In our case we would prefer to restrict the option to our records for published resources so the private notes more typically associated with unpublished material such as manuscripts would not be publicly viewable.

    5 votes
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  20. allow for change of text RESOURCE SHARING on Primo Discovery when items not stocked.

    Allow individual institutions to change this text to InterLIbrary Loan or Order it. there is confusion on what exactly resource sharing is, and the phrase is not commonly used.

    3 votes
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