Configuring the Newspaper Search Interface

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If you are working with Primo VE and not Primo, see Configuring Newspaper Search for Primo VE.

The Newspaper Search page enables users to search only for newspaper content from a dedicated index that contains a wide variety of newspaper collections. In addition, you can configure a Featured Newspaper section in Newspaper Search. For more information about Newspaper Search, see Overview of Newspaper Search.

The Creator and New records facets are not available in Newspaper Search.

Newspapers Search Page (New UI Only)

Enabling the Newspaper Search Interface

Newspaper search is enabled at both the institution and view levels. This allows you to enable this feature as needed per view.

To enable Newspaper Search:

Edit your institution with the Institution Wizard (Primo Home > Ongoing Configuration Wizards > Institution Wizard).
Select the Newspapers Search check box.
Save and deploy your changes.
Edit your view with the Views Wizard (Primo Home > Ongoing Configuration Wizards > Views Wizard).
On the Edit View Attributes page of the Views Wizard, select the Display link to Newspapers Search check box.

On the Titles Configuration page of the Views Wizard, edit the Home Page > Main Menu tile to ensure that the Newspapers Search link is configured as follows:

Code	Label	URL	Link should open in
newspapers_search			current window

Save and deploy your changes.

Configuring Featured Newspapers

The Featured Newspapers option allows users to search from newspapers that you have selected and categorized using either of the following methods:

Click a link in the Featured Newspapers section to display all matching results for the selected category. From these results, users can then search within the selected category to narrow the search.

Featured Newspapers Section
Select the Featured Newspapers option in the search box, specify a search string, and then select the category from an additional drop-down list that appears in the search box.

Featured Newspapers Search Option

The Featured Newspapers option is enabled at the view level and is configured with the Featured Newspapers mapping table.

To enable and configure Featured Newspapers:

Edit your view with the Views Wizard (Primo Home > Ongoing Configuration Wizards > Views Wizard).
On the Edit View Attributes page of the Views Wizard, select the Display Featured newspapers check box.
Save and deploy your changes.

The Featured Newspapers section does display until you have configured the Featured Newspapers mapping table.
Edit the Featured Newspapers mapping table (Primo Home > Advanced Configuration > All Mapping Tables).

Featured Newspapers Mapping Table
Specify the following fields to create a category of newspaper articles to display in the Featured Newspapers section of the Newspaper Search page:
- Enabled – Select this field to enable the featured newspaper category.
- View – Select the view to which you want to display the featured newspaper category.
- Name – Specify the code name for the category. The display label for the category is defined with the Newspapers Search code table.
- DescriptionCode – Specify the code name for the category's description. The display label for the description is defined with the Newspapers Search code table.
- Order – Specify the order in which the category displays in the Featured Newspapers section. The valid values are 1, 2, 3, and so forth.
- Query – Future use.
- ISSN – Specify the ISSN of the newspaper. You can specify a maximum of 10 ISSNs per category by separating them with a semicolon. For example: 0362-4331;1085-6706
- Description – An optional description to internally document the category.
You can define a maximum of five categories per view (including disabled categories).
New for August 2023 - If you want to set the default sort to Date-newest (instead of Relevance), edit the Institution Properties mapping table (Primo Home > Advanced Configuration > All Mapping Tables) and then add and set the default_sort_newspaper_by_date_newest parameter to true.
Save and deploy your changes.

Configuring Display Labels

The labels associated with Newspaper Search appear on various pages in the New UI. The following table lists the code tables used to customize these labels.

Configuring Display Labels

Code Table

Description

Newspapers Search code table

This code table defines all labels associated with the Newspaper Search page.

Code	Description
default.nui.newspapers_search.desc_withfeatured	Search across 1 billion newspapers articles from hundreds of newspapers, or use the link below to view articles from Featured newspapers.
default.nui.newspapers_search.title	Search within newspapers
default.nui.newspapers_search.featured.all	All featured newspapers
default.nui.newspapers_search.desc_nofeatured	Search across 1 billion newspapers articles from hundreds of newspapers.
default.nui.newspapers_search.featured.title	Featured newspapers

For each Name and DescriptionCode that you define in the Featured newspapers mapping table, an associated code table row is created to allow you specify the displays labels for the featured newspaper categories and their descriptions.

Facet Labels code table

This code table defines the facet labels that display in the UI.

Code	Description
default.facets.facet.facet_rtype_newspapers.tooltip	Newspaper results are excluded from the default search. Click to search within newspapers.
default.facets.facet.facet_rtype_newspapers	Newspapers search

Facet Resource Type code table

This code table defines the facet labels that display in the UI for the resource type. This facet appears only on result pages in which the results no longer contain newspaper content.

Code	Description
default.facets.facet.facet_rtype.newspaper_articles	Newspaper Articles

Calculated Availability Text code table

This code table defines the availability labels that display in the UI.

Code	Description
default.delivery.class.fulltext_newspaper	getItGreen
default.delivery.class.no_fulltext_newspaper	getItRed
default.delivery.code.no_fulltext_linktorsrc_newspaper	No full-text
default.delivery.class.no_fulltext_linktorsrc_newspaper	getItRed
default.delivery.code.fulltext_newspaper	Full text available
default.delivery.code.no_fulltext_newspaper	No full-text
default.delivery.class.fulltext_linktorsrc_newspaper	GetItGreen
default.delivery.code.fulltext_linktorsrc_newspaper	Full text available

Results Tile code table

This code table defines the labels that display on the Brief Results page.

Code	Description
default.nui.newspapers.title	Newspapers search
default.nui.newspapers.description	These search results do not include newspapers. View results from our entire collection of newspapers, or search specifically within Featured newspapers.
default.nui.newspapers.back	Back to library search

Search Tile code table

This code table defines the labels that appear in the search box for the Newspaper Search page.

Code	Description
default.nui.newspapers.searchbox.featured	Featured newspapers
default.nui.newspapers.searchbox.description	Newspapers
default.nui.newspapers.searchbox.help	Search for newspaper, magazine or article
default.nui.newspapers.searchbox.title	Newspapers
default.nui.newspapers.searchbox.all	Newspapers

View Labels code table

This code table defines the labels associated with the view (such as the links that display in the main menu).

Code	Description
default.nui.mainmenu.label.newspapers_search.tooltip	Newspapers
default.nui.mainmenu.label.newspapers_search	Newspapers

Configuring Availability and Delivery of Newspaper Content

The following table lists the settings used to configure availability and delivery of newspaper content.

Configuration for Availability and Delivery
Code Table	Description
GetIT! Link 1 Configuration mapping table	The following availability statuses were added to support this functionality:
GetIT! Tab 1 Text Configuration mapping table	The following availability statuses were added to support this functionality:

Deep Links for Newspaper Searches

The following deep link formats are supported for searches using Newspaper Search:

Newspaper Search page:

<Primo base URL>/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=<view_ID>&lang=<lang>

Example: https://primo-demo.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=NORTH&lang=en_US
Search results from all newspaper collections:

<Primo base URL>/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=<view_ID>&query=any,contains,<search_terms>&search_scope=all&lang=<lang>

Example: https://primo-demo.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=NORTH&query=any,contains,test&search_scope=all&lang=en_US
Search results from all featured newspapers (as defined on the Featured Newspapers mapping table):

<Primo base URL>/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=<view_ID>&query=any,contains,<search_terms>&search_scope=featured&issn=<issn_list>&featured_scope=all&lang=<lang>

Example: https://primo-demo.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=NORTH&query=any,contains,test&search_scope=featured&lang=en_US&issn=03624331;0362-4331;03071766;00999660;15436667;1543-6616;1543-6616;00216437;1051340X;10949453;1944-2424;1944-2289;0362-4331&featured_scope=all
Search results from a specific featured category (as defined on the Featured Newspapers mapping table):

<Primo base URL>/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=<view_ID>&query=any,contains,<search_terms>&search_scope=featured&issn=<issn_list>&featured_scope=<featured_category_name>&lang=<lang>

Example: https://primo-demo.exlibrisgroup.com:1701/primo-explore/npsearch?vid=NORTH&query=any,contains,test&search_scope=featured&lang=en_US&issn=00216437;1051340X;10949453&featured_scope=name4