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  1. 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.

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  2. Show item availablity on the top level for 'Group Locations by Library in Get It'

    In April 2022 we got the "Group Locations by Library in Get It" feature: https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Release_Notes/002Primo_VE/2022/010Primo_VE_2022_Release_Notes#Group_Locations_by_Library_in_Get_It-98574

    To save users' time when it comes to finding out whether an item is available or not, would it be possible to show the item availability already on the top level, for each library? Color coding wouldn't hurt either, indicating instantly whether a location has the item available or not.

    A rough example in the attached files.

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  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
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  4. Ability to move search by voice or add more space between the three buttons

    It would be useful to be able to move the "search by voice" function or expand the space between it and other buttons. As currently it is too close to the submit search button and cancel search button. Meaning that students and staff sometimes click on this accidently. It would be useful to be able to move this or make the spaces between these three items a bit larger. So these accidently clicks didn't keep happening.

    3 votes
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  5. Classification Authority Record Enrichment in Primo VE

    In addition to the indexing of bibliographic metadata, Primo VE indexes preferred and non-preferred terms from 1XX and 4XX fields in related Alma authority records.
    This is not the case for classification authority records. In the old Primo, it was possible to enrich bibliographic records with additional terms available in 7xx fields of the classification record. For instance:
    153 ##$aE860$hUnited States$hLater twentieth century, 1961-$hNixon's administration, 1969-August 9, 1974$jWatergate Affair, 1972-
    750 00$aWatergate Affair, 1972-1974.

    Could you enable enrichment with 7xx fields of classification authority records in the same way fields 1xx and 4xx of authority records enrich bibliographic records in…

    92 votes
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  6. Show unnormalized facet Academic Department in PRIMO VE

    We want the PRIMO VE shows the Facet as an unnormalized text as we see in ALMA.

    It only displays the initial letter of each word in uppercase and removes hyphens and other punctuation marks.

    For example in ALMA we see a Academic department "FCS- Nutrició" and in the Primo VE now we see as "Fcs Nutrició"

    19 votes
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  7. 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.

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  8. customization package API

    Please add an API to deploy customization packages in Primo VE so that customers with many views can automate the cumbersome deployment process.

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  9. Please add to the PRIMO VE mapping table documentation the last update date and mark the new changes in red.

    Hello,

    We recently discovered that the Primo VE mapping table was updated with new information.

    https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/020Primo_VE/Primo_VE_(English)/120Other_Configurations/Mapping_to_the_Display%2C_Facets%2C_and_Search_Sections_in_the_Primo_VE_Record

    It would be very helpful if you could add last update date and mark in red the new information, the same way that LC mark in red the new information in Marc 21.

    If you would apply this suggestion also to other documentation pages it would be great.

    Thanks,
    Dafna

    33 votes
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  10. Ability to merge deduped records in Primo VE

    In Primo VE, you can currently choose to display a preferred dedup record (in the full and brief display), either from Alma-P, Alma-E or Alma-D (or none, and the first record to show up in the result list will display).

    We would like to add the option to merge all local records. This is the default behaviour in Primo classic.

    24 votes
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  11. Enable ability to increase number of autocomplete rows that appear in the dropdown in Primo VE

    In Primo VE the dropdown that appears when entering search terms in simple search is limited to 8 rows. The top rows are taken up with suggestions for each of the search scopes that have been defined and the remainder are used for autocomplete suggestions. If there are a higher number of search scopes defined then there are less spots available for autocomplete suggestions.

    For example Otago has 6 search scopes defined which only leaves space for two autocomplete suggestions to appear in the dropdown. https://www.screencast.com/t/9mrmza2gMUaG

    We would like the ability to increase the number of rows that appear in…

    3 votes
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  12. 3 votes
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  13. 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
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  14. Journal search>Browse by categories : allow indexing of Unimarc journals (PrimoVE)

    Currently, only journals described in Marc21 are indexed by subject in Journal Search.
    The Unimarc community is now large in Alma/PrimoVE, and the Browse by Categories function would be useful if it took into account all formats.
    The idea would be to allow indexing of journals described in Unimarc, which have Rameau/LC subject fields in 60X and LCC field in 680.

    36 votes
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  15. 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
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  16. Allow patrons to disable FRBR + disable FRBR in advanced search

    Hi

    Our patrons run into a lot of problems caused by FRBR.

    Please
    – Add a checkmark to allow the patrons to disable FRBR per search, no matter if logged in or not.
    (like "Include articles without fulltext")

    – Make it a parameter in the patron settings

    – Disable FRBR as default in advanced search


    This could also be used as a feeble workaround for the missing exact search https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308176-primo/suggestions/18579556-add-a-true-exact-search-to-advanced-search-type

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  17. Make the DOI field on the Full Record page a link including EZproxy

    Currently on the Primo Full Record page, the DOI field is not a link to the resource. Please make this a link with the option to prepend your EZproxy URL to the DOI links. (Summon added this feature in 2021.)

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  18. Calculated availability for non-full text records in digital imports from repositories

    In Primo VE, institution repositories are limited to one label. For example, a link to the full online resource or a link to the physical resource are both labelled as ‘Full Text Available’.

    This is a problem, as not all repositories are the full text, some repositories may just be an abstract.

    Primo's label options are better, it is clearer to the user by the various different labels, for example ‘Full text available’ or ‘No full text’.

    We would like Primo VE to have the various different labels, like Primo.

    Please vote for our NERS request.

    NERS Request ID: 7842

    7 votes
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  19. 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…

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  20. Allow hosted Back Office sites to use their own XSL transformation routines in data sources

    Primo documentation describes using XSL transformation routines to apply changes to records ingested to Primo from external sources (https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Product_Documentation/Primo/Back_Office_Guide/050Pipe_Configuration_Wizard/040Configuring_Data_Sources) but hosted sites are not able to see details of existing routine files or add their own.

    We would like to be able to add our own transformation file to handle a specific issue with harvested OAI metadata. Please make this possible or at least document the existing transformation routines so that we can see what they do.

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