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Cutting and Pasting Search Strategies following a PRIMO search
As a reference librarian, I regularly include a copy of a my strategy with a hypertext link to the search in an email or Google Doc. There is a nice summary of the strategy above the search in PRIMO, but I can't copy it well; it needs a lot of editing if pasted.
In my search history, it is a hyper-link and when I highlight it to copy, it tends to re-run the link.
The alternatives are too share a link (the links too searches are too long -- a short link may work) or to do a screen capture…
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Date format for Loans option for DD/MM/YYYY (New UI/Primo VE)
We have Primo VE and the New UI and the date format for loans (in the user's account) defaults to the US MM/DD/YYYY format. We want to be able to chnage this to DD/MM/YYYY but there currently isn't an option to do so.
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Reinstate timeout url in Primo New UI
We would like Primo to timeout to our Library home page instead of the Primo homepage. This was possible in the Classic UI but is not available in the new UI. Please make the Timeout URL option work in the new UI
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Ability to restrict number of characters displayed in Description field
In the Detailed Results, it would be good to have the ability to configure the Description field so that it displays only a certain number of characters by default, while also allowing users to expand the field to get the full description (similar to the way the Summary field in Syndetics Unbound works).
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Sorting in My Bookshelf
Currently My Bookshelf doesn't offer any functionality to allow you to order items.
It would be useful to be able to order items e.g. by Title, Author, Added, Type etc.
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Subject words also in brief display
We would like to have the option to show subject words in the brief display mode. This would help users determine if hits are relevant faster.
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Create facets for more MaRC fields (Location and Format)
Right now in our Aleph-Primo system, we cannot search for books in Primo with the specificity we need and are used to in the Aleph OPAC. Location or loan period and format (within books) would help our patrons.
We regularly have patrons ask for "books they can take home," i.e. physical, non-reserve books. Filters could allow us to produce these results. We also can't easily pull up just physical books or just books from our special K-12 collection (which have a unique location and loan period).
Whether you add the ability to include any MaRC fields or just these particular…
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Allow requests or display request link without sign in
Some items (for us, things in our storage system) should be request-able for all patrons regardless of status. It would be nice if there was a way to specify, in Alma or in Primo, that some locations should always display a request link, even if a user is not logged in. Ideally, users would be able to request from these locations without requiring a login.
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Add Back Office code/mapping table codes to UI as IDs or comments
When trying to configure the Primo UI, it would be really nice to be able to inspect an element and see if there are corresponding back office code/mapping table values that control it. These could be added as comments or as IDs or in some other way. This would help Primo admins track down the correct settings quickly and accurately.
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Add option for user to have his/hers account deleted
With the upcoming EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the right to be forgotten will be imperative. We suggest that an "Delete my account" button is added to the My account space in Primo.
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my account
We would like users to be able to see historic fine payments in My Account, to reduce confusion over what payments had already been made.
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Calculate item level availability
For most Primo Central Index collections, availability status in Primo is based on your activated portfolio holdings in Alma. These holdings calculate availability at the publication-level based on the coverage entered.
Currently it is not possible to calculate availability in a way that recognizes item-level exceptions, such as when aggregator sources do not receive certain article types ('secondary' articles, brief articles, reviews, etc.) from the original publisher.
The proposed idea is to calculate availability at the item-level.
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MOBILE
The Inter-library Loan option is visible, but greyed out, if the user is not signed in to the Primo new UI, however, on mobile devices, it is not visible at all, i.e. not greyed out.
We think the interface should be identical no matter what device is used.3 votes -
Export from SFX thru MARCIt and pipe up to Primo without the need to load SFX content into Catalog by Creating Normalization Rules
Instead of having to: load MARCIt-enhanced SFX e-records into our Library catalog every month, and then export them from our catalog up to Primo...
It would be more streamlined to have them: export from SFX > thru MARCIt (for extra indexing) > and then straight up to Primo where they'd be normalized and searchable.
This would reduce support time, and our catalog record load, while still having all our content indexed and searchable in Primo.
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Return to search results from favorites space
there should be a "return to search results" in the prm-favorites-toolbar in the same way there is the a return to search results for "my account"
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Display only a certain amount of characters in the "Title" area for search results.
Several entries in the PCI, especially Book Reviews, have "incorrect" metadata provided by the vendor, which leads to extremely long titles being displayed in the results page. Having the ability to cap the display of these titles at a customizable number of maximum characters could help in such cases to clean up display (as many times correcting the metadata for these results is beyond ExLibris' capability/authority).
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Preferred Primo Central record should be “Full text available”
“Full text available” records should be ranked higher when determining the preferred record in Primo Central FRBR groups. This is the preferable behavior since this facilitates access to full text of articles for users. Thanks!
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sort order for result list
Dear all,
in the new UI in Primo exist only the sort order year (ascending). Please add the sort order descending (oldest on top).
Best Regards
Michael Voss
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Improve the formatting of Primo VE forms so that they can expand and accommodate longer titles.
In Primo VE the Resource Sharing and Purchase Request forms are designed to be very narrow - the entry fields are 50 characters wide. They look like they have been designed to be optimised for a mobile interface and do not resize if more room is available.
This means that if I requested Title is longer than 50 characters you cannot see it all at once.We have attempted to use changes in the css to widen the form but this causes issues with the display of Advanced Search fields.
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Resource Recommender / searchable tags / language code table
If you want to use the Resource Recommender feature in more languages than just English, you have to put all tags into the "Searchable Tags" box of the English interface. If you change to another language, the box is greyed out and can't be edited.
I would like to suggest an overhaul of this part of the RR to make the "Searchable Tags" just as avaible for other languages as title and description are.
3 votes
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