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Improve Resource Recommender Description field behaviour in NDE
The Resource Recommender in Primo NDE has a 200 character limit (with spaces) for the Description field. When the Resource Recommender displays and has more than 200 characters, it cuts off with an ellipsis. However, the ellipsis cannot be clicked to expand the text, like in other areas of Primo. Instead, the only way to see the full text is to hover over and read the tooltip. In order to improve the experience for users we suggest these improvements to NDE's handling of the Resource Recommender:
-The ellipsis is clickable, and expands the text of the Description
-The white space…21 votesThanks for submitting this idea.
We are planning to enhance the resource recommender area to allow displaying up to 500 characters and allow showing more text in a click.
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Optimise vertical banner space (NDE)
Out of the box, the NDE Vertical banner wastes the bottom 1/2 to 1/3 of the screen space it is allocated. At the same time, the description text is truncated, requiring the user to hover (or hold on a small screen) to know the details.
The lower part of the banner accommodates an image, which most institutions will likely use decorative images for, as it is not easy to determine which part of the image might be cropped/selected to display.
It would be helpful for users to just be able to read a longer description, and this could be accommodated…
16 votesHi,
Thanks for submitting this idea.
We will adjust the vertical banner size so it will also fit long text.
This is planned to be supported during 2026.
Best regards,
Yael.
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Purchase Request date
Add the user's purchase request date on their Primo library card in their account.
We would like that the user can see the date when he create a purchase request date on his Primo library card in his account.
We think that's will be an improvement for the users.
23 votesThanks for submitting this idea.
We will add the request date to the user's requests area in the NDE UI.
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Allow Online Services Order to sort by current access
We need the ability to move to top of View It a service with current access (this means the coverage statement is open-ended, ie Available from 1998 - current).
Users get overwhelmed with the long list of services often displayed, and ordering the list according to interface or electronic collection name doesn't address the most important aspect, whether there is current access or not. As an example, on Proquest interface Z, journal title X may provide current access, but journal title Y on the same Proquest interface Z may only have archive access. We only want to put journal title…
233 votesthis is planned to be developed during 2026 as part of CERV 36385
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My Library Card: Option to hide Personal Details
It should be possible to hide Personal Details section under My Account in Primo VE.
We are able to disable the labels in the following, but seems no option to hide the Personal Details section. Even if we disabled the labels for this tab, it is not completely disable from appearing or being clickable.
- Configuration > Discovery > Display Configuration > Labels > All code Tables > Library card Labels
- Configuration > Discovery > Library Card Configuration > Personal Details Configuration
Also, Primo Technical Support Analysts already confirmed the personal details section cannot be hidden using CSS. So we post…
9 votesThis is planned to be included in the new Primo Discovery experience.
Best regards,
Yael.
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Ability to edit the OTB (Out-of-the-Box) search and facet rules in Primo VE
We would like to be able to edit the OTB search and facet rules. This is necessary for parity with PBO. There are several things that we were able to do in PBO that we cannot reproduce in VE because of the lack of this functionality. In the PBO OTB author search and facet, we were able to include dates and qualifiers from names in the LCNAF, which improved precision. In the OTB language facet, we were able to include intertitle, caption and audio description languages, which are not currently included in the VE OTB index. On the other hand,…
432 votesOpen Out-of-the-Box Normalizations for Facets and Search is currently undergoing a Proof of Concept after which we will examine which fields will be gradually opened for edit in 2026.
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Improve indexing of in press articles in CDI
The Central Discovery Index (CDI) includes many in press articles (i.e., articles that have been accepted for publication in a future issue). However, because these records do lack a pub date, volume, or issue number, the Alma link resolver cannot reliably determine whether an institution has access to these articles. We ask that Ex Libris improve they way in press articles are indexed in CDI so that the link resolver does not return false positives for content the library does not actually own.
452 votesFor full transparency, the commitment we made for this idea is to do the analysis for this feature in 2024. Based on that analysis, we will craft a solution that we can deliver in early 2025. We will keep you updated via this idea.
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Ability to store test records for Primo VE
When you test normalization rules for external data sources in Primo VE, you need to upload your test record from your computer every time you make a change in the NR. It should be possible to store sample records for easier testing
32 votesThis is planned to be developed during 2026 as part of CERV 28330
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