Primo VE July 2020 Release Notes

Expose Webhook for Searching External Indexes

July 2020 URM-116084
Search Webhook enables you to enhance the standard Primo VE search engine with your own search engine functionality, using the standard Primo VE services and view. This functionality allows sites to create multiple search webhooks, where each one is designed to work with a different external search engine (such as a regional search index). For more details on this functionality, see Search Webhook in the Ex Libris Developer Network and Primo Search Webhook.

Reload No Harvest Option for External Data Sources

July 2020 URM-122364
This enhancement adds the Reload option to the Import Profiles page for external data sources (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Loading External Data Sources > Discovery Import Profiles) so that you can reload all records from an external data source without having to harvest files from the external data source. This is useful if you need to apply indexing changes to existing records.

Display Related Digital MARC Representations

July 2020 URM-114551
This enhancement allows a title's related digital representations to be displayed under the View It/View Online section on the record's Full Display page. When this functionality is enabled, all related digital representations will appear in the new Services for Related Titles subsection under the View Online > Digital Version(s) Availability section.

Display Place in Queue on Request Forms

July 2020 URM-102642
If the new Calculate Queue button is enabled, it will been added to the hold, booking, and digitization request forms so that users can determine their place in the queue before sending a request for the item.

Configure Languages for Voice Search Assistant

July 2020 URM-121663
For the new UI only, this enhancement allows you to configure the list of supported languages and the default language that appear after selecting the Microphone icon in the Primo Search box.

Support the Configuration of the Search Box's Focus

July 2020 URM-125796
For desktop applications only, this enhancement allows you to place the focus in the search box by default when various pages (such as Library Search and Journal Search) are opened in Primo VE. This allows users to type their queries directly into the search box without having to select the search box first. This is already the case for the classic UI.

Collection Discovery Enhancement - Add More Sort Options

July 2020 URM-125635
Since the launch of Collection Discovery, it is apparent that many customers configure their Collection Discovery pages to show only collections or items. With this in mind, we have added separate sort drop-down lists for sub-collections (Sort sub-collections by) and items (Sort items by). This allows users to independently sort sub-collections and items on a collection's discovery page. For sub-collections, users can sort by relevance and title only, and for items, users can sort by author, date (oldest and newest), relevance, and title. The default sort type is now configurable with top-level collections in Alma (see Configuration Options).

Only relevant sort drop-down lists will appear on the collection's discovery page. Since the collection has only items in the following example, the page displays only the Sort items by drop-down list for the listed items in the collection:

Index Additional Title in MARC 800 Field

July 2020 URM-100433
Previously, only the f, k, l, m, n, o, and p subfields were indexed from the MARC 800 field for additional title searches. With this enhancement, the t subfield is also indexed from the MARC 800 field for additional title searches.

Add Discovery to Scheduled Jobs Status Widget

July 2020 URM-123108
The Scheduled Job Status widget in Alma allow you to monitor scheduled jobs based on various categories. With this enhancement, you can now view the status of the scheduled jobs that are specific to Discovery (such as the Creates DB Categories File job). For more information, see Viewing Scheduled Jobs.

If you need further details, select the right arrow next to the Discovery option to display the Discovery jobs that were executed on the selected day.

Support Popular Hebrew Acronyms

July 2020 URM-91987
To support searches with popular Hebrew acronyms and to align with Primo, popular Hebrew acronyms have been added to Primo VE. For example, searches for the Hebrew acronym רמב"ם will return results that match both רמבם  and רמב"ם.

Get JWT Public Key REST API

July 2020
This service returns a public key that can be used by external systems to verify JWT authentication tokens issued by Primo VE. For more information on this API, see the Public Key API in the Ex Libris Developer Network.

For a use case example, see the Alma - PayPal Integration in the Ex Libris Developer Network.

Normalization Rule Changes for July

July 2020 URM-115315
The following UNIMARC rules were updated for July. If you have customized your rules and want to apply the updated rules, you can either copy the rules below or restore the rules to their out-of-the-box settings. For more information regarding the new actions wrap subfields and replace wrapping delimiters, see Configuring Normalization Rules for Display and Local Fields.

• Title display field (UNIMARC) – A semicolon will be prefixed to each appearance of subfield a (except for the first appearance). For example, if the UNIMARC 200 field is defined as follows in the source record:

  $$a First title $$e Other Title Information $$f First Statement of Responsibility $$a Second title $$e Other title info $$f First Statement of Responsibility (for the second title)

  Its output will appear as follows in Primo VE:

  First title : Other Title Information / First Statement of Responsibility ; Second title : Other title info / First Statement of Responsibility (for the second title)

  rule "Primo VE Display title 200"
      when
         MARC "200" has any "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,v"
      then
        set TEMP"1" to  MARC."200" sub without sort "a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i,v" wrap subfields
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","a"," ; ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","b"," [","]")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","c",". ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","d"," = ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","e"," : ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","f"," / ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","g"," ; ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","v",". ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","h",". ","")
        replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","i",". ","")
        remove leading and trailing spaces (TEMP"1")
        remove substring using regex (TEMP"1","^(/|:|;|=|,)+")
        remove substring using regex (TEMP"1","(/|:|;|=|,)+$")
        remove leading and trailing spaces (TEMP"1")
        replace spaces (TEMP"1"," ")
        remove string (TEMP"1","<<")
        remove string (TEMP"1",">>")
        create pnx."display"."title" with TEMP"1"
  end

• Publisher display field (UNIMARC) – In addition to subfield c, the Publisher field now displays subfield a for UNIMARC field 210. For example, if the UNIMARC 210 field is defined as follows in the source record:

  $$a Roma $$c Associazione italiana per le ricerche di storia del cinema $$a Bologna $$c Persiani $$d 2014

  Its output will appear as follows in Primo VE:

  Roma : Associazione italiana per le ricerche di storia del cinema ; Bologna : Persiani

  rule "Primo VE Display - publisher 210"
  priority 20
      when
          Latin display MARC."210" has any "a,c"
      then
          set TEMP"1" to MARC."210" sub without sort "a,c" wrap subfields
          replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","a"," ; ","")
          replace wrapping delimiters (TEMP"1","c"," : ","")
          remove leading and trailing spaces (TEMP"1")
          remove substring using regex (TEMP"1","^(/|:|;|=|,)+")
          remove leading and trailing spaces (TEMP"1")
          replace spaces (TEMP"1"," ")
          remove string (TEMP"1","<<")
          remove string (TEMP"1",">>")
          remove string (TEMP"1","\\(")
          remove string (TEMP"1","\\)")
          remove string (TEMP"1","\\[")
          remove string (TEMP"1","\\]")
          remove substring using regex (TEMP"1","(/|:|;|=|,)+$")
          set pnx."display"."publisher" to TEMP"1"
  end