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Make handling of multilingual labels easier
Hi
Our Primo VE has 4 interface languages.
1)
Changing a term means I have to change it in each language separately, save it (which throws me out of the table to the list of tables), click 'edit' again, then change the next language etc. Otherwise the changes are not taken.Surely there's a way to make that easier?
For example display all languages at once, which would also make it much easier to compare the languages.
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After I changed a label, when I search for it, I still get results, although it does not exist any longer in…10 votes -
Fix Defect: Advanced Search date filter
The date filter only works for year (not day or month) in the advanced search for Primo Central records.
This is a known issue with searches for Primo Central records. Primo Central searches on the creationdate field, which doesn't have a month/day, only year. Therefore, if you use the Advanced Search Start Date/End Date fields, the results will include Primo Central items outside of the month/day range.
Please fix this defect to allow searching on day, month, and year.
36 votes -
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 -
General Electronic Service - Additional Display location
In Primo VE you can set up a General Electronic Service (GES) to display in Primo VE under
Getit & How to Getit
Viewit and How to Getit
Getit, Viewit & How to Getit
How to Getit only
NoneFor when you only want a GES to display on an ebook or electronic resource, the display option doesn't give this option, but you can for physical items.
Idea is for there to be more options under display locations to make a far easier and straightwards option to select specific displays, specifically Viewit ONLY
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Availability status for webhooks
The availability status for Primo Search Webhook records (such as for Newsbank) is always "Check for available services." Our users are accustomed to seeing this status when materials are not available full text online, and we would like the availability status to better indicate that full text is available. It would be great if the default display could be changed to "Available online" for these materials or if we had the ability to modify the display only for webhooks.
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Request in PRIMO VE - Terms of Use (TOU) selection appears unnecessarily
When there is only one TOU in the Request, the option to choose TOU should not be displayed.
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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-resultpageBut 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.
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citation linker - highlight required fields
I'm suggesting an out of the box configuration option to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I have adjusted the text, to let our users know that an identifier is required but the text can easily be missed. We recently migrated to Alma/Primo VE and when we had 360/Summon, we were able to highlight the required fields in the citation linker. I am investigating CSS customization options.
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Allow Local Fields as filters for NZ Search Scopes
When setting up a custom scope we found the "Local fields" option was not available in the dropdown list if we choose scope population "Entire Network".
The "Local fields" option is available in the dropdown list if we choose scope population"My Institution".We think the "Local fields" option should be available for scope population "Entire Network" as well because we can set up up to 10 local search fields in the NZ and they would be used in the scope definition.
This would allow consortia to exclude specific resources from the NZ scopes based on values in the NZ local…
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Ability to collapse 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 collapsed by default in a specific view. So that library staff can see the item information, once they open the record.0 votes -
More options for Collection Discovery images
Hi
In Collection Discovery, please allow more options for the images per collection:
– Allow a separte image for the header banner of the single collection page.
For the overview page, the picture has to have the dimensions 3:1. The same picture is used for the header of the collection.
This leads to the pictures looking bad and often the description of the collection is hard to read.
Please make these 2 separate pictures to be uploaded and make the default header banner a monochrome colour taken from the css.
– Allow the pictures to be activated / deactivated for testing. At…
33 votes -
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
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Add Palgrave Dictionary of Economics to Topic Search in Primo VE
It would be great for Business School Libraries if you could add Palgrave Dictionary of Economics to Topic Overview in Primo VE.
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Possibillity to add print journal holdings to Primo holdings-file
In Primo only the electronic holdings for e-books and e-journals are taken into consideration when determining the availability for a record/article from the central index (PCI/CDI).
The libraries also have print/physical holdings of journals that can fulfill the needs of the end-user and that can fill gaps in the electronic coverage. If the user search for an article that the library only has as part of the physical journal holdings the availability of the article are set to "Not available" and dependig on the configuration the article might not even show up in the result-list.
This has been adressed in…
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Different URL:s in Resource Recommender depending on language
When adding resources to Resource Recommender you can only use one URL. We would like to have the option to enter different URL:s depending on which language you are using in Primo. All our web pages are translated to English but now we can only point to our pages in Swedish. This would be a great enhancement to all multi-lingual universities.
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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.
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Show more than 10 records in My Favorites
Actually, in My Favorites 10 records are listed by default. Patrons should be able to define the number of records presented once up to 50 records. That would facilitate orientation and navigation within My Favorites.
27 votes -
Find alternate ISBNs in the available record to force an available syndetic cover image.
I've learned that the book cover images from Syndetics in Primo comes from the first Addata: ISBN PNX field which comes from the first subfield a in the MARC 020 field.
Often, we have the electronic version of a book that uses a different ISBN in the first MARC 020 |a
Small presses/publishers may have only sent Syndetics a print ISBN image and that image is available from Syndetics. Since often the print ISBN is in the MARC 020 field already - but not necessarily in subfield a or in the first position - it means that the default book…
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Make separate resource types for Manuscripts and Archival materials in CDI
In Primo VE, the separate resource types "Manuscripts" and "Archival material" exist, which is right because the content is very different.
In CDI however, these two types are taken together as one resource type: "Archival Material / Manuscripts".This gives an undesirable and confusing effect on the facet values in the blended scope (CDI with local records): three facets display for this material: "Manuscripts" and "Archival Material" for the local records and "Archival Material / Manuscripts" for the CDI records. See screenshot in attachment.
In order to avoid this, we would need to make a local Resource type "Archival Material…
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Add expand search (outside Imperial) into search scope
When users and staff are searching Primo. Many of them want to run an expand search straight away. Rather than searching everything and then clicking on expand search.
Solution: it would be better if expand search (outside imperial) could be a search scope. Although users the chance to search expand search straight away.4 votes
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