Question

How to implement Primo extract's Location Sort Order feature, introduced in Voyager 9.0.0?

Answer

1. Decide which locations to sort and in what order.
2. Update PrimoExp-Publishing.ini and PrimoExp-Selective.ini with the location codes and order of locations in the [LocationSortOrder] stanza. Be sure ordering matches in both files.
3. Re-extract database so all records now have applicable location sort numbering by running Selective extract. (See How to run Selective extract)
4. Schedule a pipe process in Primo to collect the extracted records & update Primo.

Additional Information

Locations not specified in LocationSortOrder will appear after sorted locations in alphabetical order.

For example, if PrimoExp-Selective.ini contains location codes in this order:
1=main
2=reference

and a bibliographic record contains holdings at main, reference, biology and agriculture locations, the holdings will appear in the order

main
reference
agriculture
biology

• Article last edited: 20-Sep-2018