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Newspaper index activations should be on the ejournal/newspaper title level rather than on the collection level
The Newspaper Index should be activated on the ejournal/newspaper title level rather than on the collection level.
For example if you activate in PCI a target like Gale Onefile, that has newspaper articles from a range of different titles, the result is radically different in the main Primo index and the Newspaper Index.
The main index will have this activation on ejournal/newspaper title level, so will only display newspaper articles and other content that Alma or SFX says are subscribed.
In the Newspaper Index however the activation is on the Collection level, so that all Gale OneFile newspaper articles are…4 votesHello All,
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Adding Faculty Affiliation and Patron Degree Level to Resource Sharing Form
We would like to add two drop-down fields to the Primo RS form:
1. Faculty affiliation of requester e.g. Humanities, Social Sciences, etc...
2. Degree level of student e.g. BA, MA, PhD etc...These fields would obviously need to appear on the Alma form and be retrievable via Analytics
18 votesHello All,
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Ability to set Primo into read-only mode (e.g. for closing times)
It would be nice to have a comfortable ability to set Primo into read-only mode (= customers can not make an order) like a button or checkbox in the backend.
Reason: many institutions have closing times in summer (for revision, etc.) and the customers should not be able to make an order. Another reasons are major system changes (e.g. switch from Aleph to Alma) where read-only mode is mandatory.Until now (classic and new UI) we avoid orders by modifying the CSS file (by using 'display:none;' in several places).
1 voteHello All,
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Aleph patron setting - "force change password at the first login" in Primo (Privacy and security of personal data)
Aleph doesn't have a Parameter or a flag on the patron record to "force the Password change at the first Login". This is a security Problem, related GDPR and privacy of personal data. Users must be force to change their Password at the first Login. Please consider implementing this Feature in Aleph.
14 votesHello All,
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Show availability of ER thanks to IP analysis
Primo could analyse the IP address of the PC accessing Primo in order to determine whether or not a electronic resource is available or not.
This would take into account the actual IP address and not the hypothetical one via campus management.
No idea if this is technically feasable.
It would diminish the frustration of patrons who click on electronic resources shown as available but the destination page wants 35 dollars to access the resource (because the patron is in the wrong IP range).1 voteHello All,
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[PRIMO] Allow normalization of Primo Central Index PC records
It would be great to have the ability to normalize the Primo Central records using NR set as we do for local records.
This would be very beneficial. For example:- Customers could choose their own facet values and harmonize them with local records.
- Values only in PC records could be removed of modified (e.g. toplevel facet values for Open access and Peer Reviewed )
- FRBR and Dedup could be performed also against local records, thus greatly improving results in blended search. etc.
13 votesHello All,
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Launch Primo Studio from back office and auto-generate your own view
There is the option from the UI customization Package Manager page in the Primo back office to launch Primo Studio, but at the moment you have to manually adjust the URL and view code in order to see your own version of Primo. On top of this, you also have to manually upload your own view package in order to see your own customisations. I'd like this to be improved so that the launch button from the Primo BO automatically launches Primo Studio with your own UI and all of its customisations so that changes can be applied immediately
5 votesHello All,
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Make Journal titles hyperlinks
Hi there, users would be helped if search results didn't just bring back links to articles but also had the journal title hyperlinked to take them to the journal's home page or contents page. To help further there could be text box that instructs the user to search for the article they're looking for in the journal's site. Deep links to articles are the most common to fail so this improvement would help students find the articles within journal/publishers sites. Saving time and making them give up less easily.
Thanks for your consideration.
Cheers, James12 votesHello All,
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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!
3 votesHello All,
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Option to request multiple volumes
Currently, users who wish to request multiple volumes of a set or journal must submit individual requests for each volume. In practice, though, users frequently want multiple volumes. Our institution has the bulk of our collection in remote storage, so we get a lot of requests of this nature. I would love to see a checkbox option in Primo where users could check off all of the items they want, rather than submitting a separate request for each. Obviously this would need to send the appropriate request to Alma or whatever other system people might be using; I understand that…
10 votesHello All,
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Searchable field codes
I would like to suggest that Primo develops to support searchable field codes. In several databases it's possible to specify which field you want to search by writing abbreviations of field codes before the search terms in the search box. For example, AU =jonson, TI = digital photography, JN = journal of advanced nursing and so on.
I know that Advanced search can target specific fields, but it would be useful to be able to search with field codes in the primo default search box.
7 votesHello All,
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Fix the Zotero translator problem (September 2018)
Primo and the Zotero translator have stopped playing nicely together ( September 2018 - see https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/316205/#Comment_316205 ).
I cannot download metadata from my institution (University of York) or British Library (an important source!).
This would be very frustrating at any time but at the start of the academic year it makes it very difficult for new students.
I am aware that there is an existing 'idea' in this list "Make zotero work with Primo" but that originates from September 2017 and is closed.
Many thanks
17 votesHello All,
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Tags Management in consortium level environment
The Tags Management page is only available to institution level in a non-sharing environment and this is not available in a consortium level environment.
So staff users can't delete tags, which is a problem.
Please make it available for all environment.
13 votesHello All,
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Offer phone view to low-end devices
On mid-tier devices, such as a low-end laptop or a Surface Pro, Primo is very slow to respond, and quickly pegs the CPU doing trivial tasks such as simply scrolling the page. After doing some benchmarking on an Android phone, we discovered that some of the performance issues can be mitigated by rendering the phone view. I request that the more efficient phone view be available to lower-end devices.
19 votesHello All,
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[Primo] - add tag delivery/fulltext to local PNX , thus improving blended search and full text availability information
The feature "Expand My Results / Results with no full-text" allows to include in the search results PCI records with no full text. It relies on a pnx value in tag "fulltext" delivery section:
<delivery>
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<fulltext>no_fulltext</fulltext>
</delivery>The problem is that <fulltext> tag / field is not available in the Normalization Rule for local records.
The consequence is for example that when we harvest data from our dpace institutional repository we may have fulltext, but sometimes we may have just metadata records. But without the delivery/fulltext field in the PNX we can't manage records with just metadata so that…
24 votesHello All,
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Allow the list of items in Favorites to be "printed" as a PDF file
Primo lacks a lot of functionality for printing - most modern data systems allow output of PDF files. This would enhance output on both traditional computers and portable devices.
6 votesHello All,
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Citation Linker does not ignore initial articles
The Journal search in the Citation Linker doesn't always ignore the initial article. I'm referring to "articles" in the grammar sense (the, a, an, etc). So for example, you get different "view it" results for Washington Post vs. The Washington Post. This isn't a huge issue, but it is confusing.
17 votesHello All,
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User management - Admin User can make a default "Patron has institutional record" as "Yes" or "No"
There is no possibility for an Admin User to set up the external or internal user account to be a default value (in "Patron has institutional record" as "Yes" or "No"). As we mostly create user accounts for our organization, we would like to have "Yes" as a default value. The settings update is currently considered as enhancement.
1 voteHello All,
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Don’t reload the app when clicking ‘new search’!
Instead of reloading the entire primo-explore app, we would like to wipe the search query and search results without reloading the app. This would improve mobile experience and also speed responsiveness for the desktop version.
Allen
6 votesHello All,
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Newspaper search featured collections autosearch should be optional
As currently implemented, clicking a Featured Newspaper collection link will "display all matching results for the selected category, From these results, users can then search within the selected category to narrow the search."
However, this can result in an enormous results set. As an example, we have a featured set that contains just two newspaper titles: the historic Los Angeles Times archive and the historic New York Times archive. Clicking the featured collection returns over 48 million results. There is nothing useful a patron can do with 48 million results.
Suggested alternative behavior: Upon clicking a Featured link, the search…
1 voteHello All,
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