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Different identification system depending on the view
In our university we have a pending important problem to solve:
- In order to solve some Primo cases in which the user has to be identified, Exlibris technicians ask us for credentials to be able to analyze and solve the cases but logically, for security reasons, we should not give our personal credentials to anyone.
- Our user authentication is through SAML so all of our users are external in Alma.The Systems Department of our university requires that in order to create a user in the system (external to Alma), the responsibility for that account must rest with…
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Enable users to send an enquiry about an existing resource sharing request from My Library Account to a tasklist in Alma
Currently if users have an enquiry about their resource sharing request they have to contact us separately via email or phone. Since they can see their current requests in My Library Account, it would be great if they could click on an option e.g. 'Send an enquiry about this request' in My Library Account, enter in their query, and Submit. This would then populate a tasklist in Alma (similar to Notes functionality in Leganto/Alma) that resource sharing staff could action and reply to. This would bring this communication workflow into Alma.
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LOGO
Please make an option to change the logo according to the language display in PrimoVE
now only one logo is possible9 votes -
Export ISSN, EISSN, DOI and PMID Separately
Using Export to Excel or CSV, we are able to export Identifier, but ISSN, EISSN, DOI and PMID are grouped together in one field.
It will be more user-friendly if each Identifier is splitted into separate fields as shown in the attachment.Also I'd like to ask you one more favor.
It would be great if "https://doi.org/" is added to DOI to access easily like https://doi.org/10.1109/5.771073.9 votes -
Not needed after UI improvements
With the Alma 2021 March-release there was introduced more logic to the handling of the Not needed after field coming from the requests from Primo.
This new functionality has made the Not needed after more useful than before and we have activated this in the request forms.
We do however have two suggestions for improvements:
1) In the request form there is a calendar icon that indicates that it is a date-field. The user expectation is to click on the icon, but it is not clickable. If the user cliks in the field they get a date-picker. Could the calendar-icon…
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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 -
Indicate the other fields in use for an advanced search in collapsed mode
When a user undertakes an advanced search and chooses dates, language or resource types, those limits are not shown to the user who may forget what they had searched for as they review the results.
The user then makes changes in the collapsed view and not realise that they need to expand it first to change those other fields.At minimum there should be an indication that those fields are in use so they know to expand it again. Ideally those field selections should be shown in the collapsed view.
Screenshots for inspiration only. Design experts or community feedback welcome…9 votes -
Add Generic Record Actions
In View Configuration > Brief Record Display > Record Actions, implement the function of adding generic icons to the Full Display.
It should be possible to add:
- An icon file
- A label
- A URL template(if possible using variables)This would decrease the amount of programming necessary to add new features and expand on the amount of information that can be added(Eventhough you can already add a lot of features)
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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…
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Allow creating "NonFullText" electronic collections (as the "getCitedJournal" in SFX).
We would like Primo VE to allow creating "NonFullText" electronic collections, following the SFX model where the "getCitedJournal" service type exists.
This would allow managing lists of notes and/or service access urls, complementary to the other FullText collections.
Currently it is not possible to do these loads without confusing users in the results view, since when treating it as full text objects it shows them as "Available online".
This option would be complementary and more flexible than the "General electronic services", which are very limited since it does not allow adding particular notes and the URL must be homogeneous.
See…
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My Library Card: add sort by date option to requests list
it is currently only possible to sort the requests list within My Library Card by status or title - our users would very much appreciate the option to sort by request date as well - thanks for considering!
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SFX: Allow users to create local targets with parent-child hierarchy
In SFX, parent-child hierarchy is quite common in global-type targets as shown in Fig.1 attached below. The advantage of this feature is that it can well display the natural logical relationships between parent-targets and child-targets. However, when creating local targets, parent-child hierarchy is not accessible and all the locally created targets are at the same level, whether they have logical relationships or not. So it's highly suggested that parent-child hierarchy should be an option when users create local targets.
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ability to reintegrate Newspaper indexes into main search
deactivating "Newspaper search" results in a loss of content. Activating Newspaper search defeats the purpose of a discovery layer for some institutions. Also the the results in Newspaper Search still fails many times for known item searches and does not function the same as the main search.
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Enhance Primo Subject to Track the usage statistics by MMS ID and country
Enhance Primo subject to track the usage statistics (specifically downloads and views) by MMS ID and country of download.
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Send e-mail to Primo administrator staff after a scheduled pipe was executed
For many customers, especially SaaS ones that does not have direct access to the server, it is very important to know if a scheduled pipe is executed or not. The idea here is that the BO server send by email a summary of each pipe execution, indicating start and finish date and time, execution status and how many records were imported / deduplicated etc.
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Include "Browse Search" link on advanced search pages.
Right now the "browse search" link is offered on the basic simple search page, but not on the advanced search page. For libraries that primarily link to the advanced search page, that link is buried.
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Expand FRBR group of records within the search results
I suggest the ability to expand a FRBR group of records within the search results, rather than the "view multiple versions" link showing a new page of records, from which you have to go back to the original results, isn't a good user experience. This would work nicely with infinite scrolling in the new Primo UI.
It should be possible to set a threshold for the number of records in a FRBR group this should happen for, e.g. six because most of our FRBR groups are for up to six editions of a title, whereas others are for tens of…
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Option to extend Held Shelf Expiry Date
We would like the option, within My Account for the user to be able extend the Held Shelf expiry date of their requests. They would click on a button and, if no-one had already requested their item the system would automatically extend the Held shelf expiry date (it could do this by an agreed period - for example 2 days and if, required an email could be sent to Library Requests staff to alert them)
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See Attachments from Alma in Primo
Users should be able to see, in a clear format, their attachments that are sent out in Alma. This would be helpful because we could attach policy specific things to their accounts and they'd have a record of what notices were sent out to them.
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Make Relevancy Ranking values available
To assist with the fine-tuning of Field Boosting, provide a way of showing the values of the rankings of search results.
I.e. When a search is performed, for each hit make its total ranking value viewable either
- to users,
- in a comment in the page's source HTML, or
- by amending that items URL (similar to &showPnx=true).8 votes
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