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  1. Showing Cookies Banner on Primo VE

    Legally, websites need to offer users the ability to opt out of cookies by default. Primo VE doesn't offer this or a banner to say that cookies are in use when accessing it.

    This should be implemented as it is a legal requirement for us as libraries.

    39 votes
    6 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  Admin →

  2. Local Resource Type on IZ-Level with local extensions

    I would welcome a possibility to create local resource types on Institutional Zone level using local extensions, for example: MARC 980 $a. In other words: change the resource type to a certain value when a string in 980 $a is available.

    By now it is only possible to create local resource types when all necessary data is available in the network zone - local extensions are not available there as they represent extra data for local needs only.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Add due dates to Email Record Template

    Under the Loans section in Library Card, users can export the list of their loans via email. The email contains names of loans, but not their due dates.

    Could due dates be added to the Records Email Template, so the users can see their loans due date in the email export?

    Petra

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Add 12-Hour Due Times Display in Library Card

    Currently, per a setting in Alma, due times in Alma and Primo VE can be set to display in the 12-Hour format (ex. 02/25/2023 5:45 PM PST). However, when a patron views their account in Library Card via Primo VE, due times display there in only 24-Hour format (ex. 02/25/2023, 17:45). Please have due times displayed within Library Card use the same format that is set in Alma.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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

  5. Advanced search: auto suggest synonyms when using "OR" in the search string

    We would like to have the feature of auto suggesting popular synonyms when adding "OR" in the search string. It is a feature in EDS and we loved it!

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Searching in the collection discovery: exact search terms

    In connection with Collection Discovery, a question has come up regarding usability:
    Why is a search of exact search terms set and can we change this?
    Example: Searching for the search term "kalender" in our sub-collection "Abschlussarbeiten Buch- und Medienwirtschaft und Publishing Management" of the top level collection "Abschlussarbeiten" does not return any hits. If you search for "kalender*", no hits are found either. However, there are a total of 2 titles with "kalender" in the title.
    Can this behaviour be changed/improved? It makes it difficult for our users to access available media and they think we don't have anything…

    3 votes
    7 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Allow the use of library location to hide hold or resource sharing requests in display logic rules

    A use case scenario: we allow students to put a hold request (local request) on our equipment when it is all checked out so when the first one comes back they are notified. We also use the hold (local request) for users to request items we have in the library to be pulled and put on the hold shelf for pick up. However, we are part of a consortium so currently when one of our books/videos are checked out the hold and resource sharing links show up so an item could be held, which will take much longer than resource…

    4 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Applying Group by Library function to specific resource type

    The April 2022 new function to be able to group locations by library is great, though we would like to apply this only to journals.
    For example, when three libraries each hold a certain book, turning on this feature will force patrons to extra click to see the items. Also, it is very inconvenient because availability is not displayed on the library (first appearing) list. We would like to apply it only to journals, as this would be effective for journals that have many volumes and separate locations.

    16 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Ignore 022z when linking to physical holdings

    A journal has been accidentally misprinted another journal’s ISSN once and the wrong ISSN is included its bib record in 022z (I believe this description is correct according to MARC21 rules). CDI records of articles with the ISSN in question shows the wrong journal holdings with the ISSN in 022z, because CDI makes a Get It link by not only 022a but also 022z. Because of that, patrons cannot see the correct journal holdings. We think it is necessary to ignore 022z and see only 022a when linking physical holdings.

    20 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Select languages for Primo VE UI that would be different than choices for Alma UI.

    Currently all languages used in Alma (for staff) are automatically presented as the UI languages in Primo VE.

    I would like to be able to manage the choices separately, so that we can choose to remove, or to add languages for Primo VE UI. Also, we should be able to sort the language choices in the order we prefer, based on the language in which the UI is open.
    Thank you for your support.

    1 vote
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Add the DeepL API

    We would like to add the DeepL API (https://www.deepl.com/docs-api/translating-text/) to integrate a translation service into PRIMO home page
    We think it it would be of interest to many other libraries

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Translation of months in date format

    It would be useful to be able to translate month names in Primo VE for languages other than English.

    Our library sends letters in French and English and would like to be able to configure French translations for our preferred date format. We use the form, e.g., "7 May 2021". The French version of this would be "7 mai 2021". The English month names are currently used in the Primo VE display when the user selects the French display language. It would be nice if this could be done automatically (in the case of Primo VE display language) or by…

    12 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Uploading images for New Tool-Give Us Feedback

    An image means more imformation, it will help us to understand the questions of reader better. Of course, it would be nice if there was an instant chat window.

    17 votes
    5 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Request forms for Booking request and hold request in Primo VE each need their own template

    In Primo VE the booking request form uses the same template as the (hold) physical request. The info message (form description) is the same… However, we would need to have a different form description, as we have right now in Primo Classic. In our institution, instructions for booking requests are very different! Because of this different functionality, we hope a solution can be found to give a different user guidance for both types of requests.

    10 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.

    Add an attachment icon picture besides the item of the attachment.

    In Primo, readers often can not distinguish the difference of the book and the attachment of the book(ex: CD-ROM). So readers often request the barcode number of the attachment of the book first wrongly, and then find that they really want to request the book instead of the attachment of book(CD-ROM). I suggest the system can show an attachment icon picture(Ex: paper clip) besides the item of the attachment. It can help readers distinguish the types of the items(book or CD-ROM attachment) quickly and request the types of the…

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Make it possible to add other resource types than journal in journal search

    Make it possible to add any other resource types than journal in journal search. Today only journals from rtype in pnx is included: <rtype>journals</rtype> We want to be able to add our selfcreated resource type for monographic series to the list of journals.

    11 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Preferred record for dedup and frbr to also apply to list of versions

    Following the implementation of an earlier idea exchange item that Primo VE should allow to set the preferred record for dedup and frbr records, we would also like this setting to be used for records that you get when viewing the list of versions.
    What we are seeing is that only the top level in the brief results applies these settings, but when you go into list of versions to find a specific edition, you then might be presented with either record as the preferred record if you hold both e and print for this edition.
    This is what ExLIbris…

    18 votes
    2 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Restrict display of digital collections by campus in views

    In the same way that you can allow/disallow the display of electronic resources like ebooks in a specific view in Primo VE based on the campus of the view.

    You should be able to restrict the display of specific digital items and collections.

    For example if I want to make a digitial collection of database entries for my users, but I want to mark some databases as being only available/visible to a specific campus, then they shouldn't show in other views.

    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Collection Discovery - Search results enhancements

    We would also like to see some enhacements

    1. Sort options on the search results
    2. Option to filter by collection in the results
    3. Indication of which collection the results belong too
    3 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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. Improved Support of multilingual elements for external data sources in Primo VE

    For Dublin Core and Generic XML records that contain multilingual content, Primo VE should display the values of the associated fields according to the user's language when the language code is available as an attribute in the Dublin Core elements.

    For instance:
    <dc:subject xml:lang="fre">Phonotèque/dc:subject <dc:subject xml:lang="ita">Fonoteca/dc:subject

    8 votes
    0 comments  ·  Primo VE  ·  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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