Primo VE November 2018 Release Notes

Normalization of Display Fields and Local Display Fields

November 2018 URM-83375
This enhancement allows you to create MARC21 normalization rules, which allow you to alter the presentation of the out-of-the-box display fields and any local display fields that you have created in Primo VE. The normalization rules are applied immediately to the records for discovery.

Browse Databases by Category

November 2018 URM-83375
The Database Search page has been enhanced to allow users to display a list of databases by clicking specific categories and subcategories up to three levels.

When the Database Search page opens, the categories display the first category level only. Users can select the  icon to display the category's next level.

For more information on Database Search, see Configuring Database Search for Primo VE.

Direct Linking from Brief Results

November 2018
This enhancement uses existing Alma configuration to enable direct linking for online records. When direct linking is enabled, users are directed to the full text after selecting the record's availability status in the brief results. Otherwise, the user is directed to the full display of the record, where access to the record's full text is provided in the View It section.

For details on configuring direct linking, see Enabling Direct Linking for Primo VE.

Additional API Support

November 2018 URM-83375
Primo VE now supports the following APIs:

• Primo User JWT – Returns a token that allows you to perform searches for restricted material and to display information for a specific user's My Favorites.

• Primo Configuration – Returns view, institution, and general configuration information that is associated with the specified view.

• Primo Translations – Returns the translations for all code labels based on a specified language.

• Primo Favorites – Returns information from the user's My Favorites. This API requires you to get a token using the Primo User JWT API.

For more details on each API, see Ex Libris Developer Network.

Improved Display of Institutions in My Library Card

November 2018 URM-83375
In multi-institution networks, users are permitted to perform requests for specific institutions. Previously, users had difficulty locating the Location drop-down menu that allows users to display request information per institution in My Library Card. This enhancement allows users to easily switch between institutions to see relevant information by clicking an institution name from the page's left panel.

Boolean Operators for Additional Languages

November 2018 URM-83375
For searches in English, the Boolean operators (AND, OR, and NOT) allow users to create more complex search queries in both basic and advanced searches. This enhancement adds the Boolean Operator mapping table, which allows you to configure these operators for other languages. For more information, see Configuring Boolean Operators for Primo VE.

Support Translations for Local Facet and Display Values

November 2018 URM-83375
This enhancement allows you to define and use translations for local facet/display field values. If no translation is provided, Primo VE will display the value provided by the source record.

To support this functionality, the following changes have been made:

• The Local Fields page (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Display Configuration > Manage Local Fields) has been removed and its functionality is now handled by the Display Fields page (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Display Configuration > Manage Display Fields). To open the Define a Local Field page, you must select Add local field from the Add Field drop-down list:

  

  Accessing the Define a Local Field Page

• The Use Translations option has been added to the Define a Local Field page (Configuration Menu > Discovery > Display Configuration > Manage Display Fields) to allow you to configure whether a local facet or display field contains translations for the local field's values.

  

  New Use Translations Option

• The Local Field Translate code table has been added to define the values for the local facet and display values. If the Use Translations option is selected for a field and a corresponding value is not defined, Primo VE will display the value supplied in the source record. For each mapping row, use the value of the mapped subfield. For example, if you are mapping the MARC 907 $$a subfield to a local field, you would create a code for each value and modify the Translation field as needed per language:

  Mapping:

  907 $a 610medicineAndHealth

  Code:

  610medicineAndHealth

  Description (English):

  Medicine and Health

  Translation (Spanish):

  Medicina y Salud

  

  Local Field Translate Code Table

UNIMARC Improvements

November 2018 URM-83375
The following issues have been resolved to improve the normalization and display of UNIMARC records in Primo VE:

1. For the UNIMARC 011 field, Primo VE now displays the ISSN label for the $$a subfield in the record's full display.

2. The UNIMARC 205 field has been added to the Brief Record Display.

Japanese Index and Search

November 2018 URM-83375
To support Japanese searches, the following areas are now supported:

• Indexing:

  • 1-gram

  • Normalization of special characters (based on mapping)

  • Variant Kanji

  • Hirgana - Katakana

  • Half-width

  • Full width

  • Punctuation marks are removed

• Search:

  • BASIS to tokenize the search query

  • Search for each token as a phrase

  • Normalization (based on mapping)

  For example:

  ABCD, which composes the words AB & CD, would be indexed as A_B_C_D and searched as “A_B” AND “C_D” (and not ‘char by char’).

• Sort:

  Ranking is based on Basis tokens:

  • With exact match first

  • According to field weight