How to configure Primo, that it is automatically detected, if the end-user is accessing a view by a desktop/laptop pc or by a mobile device.
When Primo Front End is accessed by a mobile device, the view shall switch from the institutions standard view to the institutions mobile view.
Add a "NEW SEARCH" button to the Primo front end (basic and advanced search pages) so that users can click this to take them back to the initial Primo search screen and clear any checkboxes/searches they had on the go
Created by: Randy Oldham, Tri-University Consortium, 30 Sep, 2011
Last updated by: Randy Oldham, Tri-University Consortium, 30 Sep, 2011
The Primo UI is very flexible and can be modified to the customer needs. One possibility you have in Primo is to use jQuery to check and include external data and services. This code contribution uses existing code from the jQuery documentation website (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/autocomplete#Example)and explains how easily you can integrate an autosuggest service in the Primo searchbox.
This code will hide from the display information for a FRBR group that should not be displayed due to it being specific to an individual item in the group. In other words, the Publisher and Availability information is not appropriate to display for the group record as it is only specific to the current preferred record. Instead, we'll display just the title, creator, format (optional based on your FRBR rules) and the link to show all versions of that item. Once all versions are displayed, the full records return.
Additionally, this code can order the display of the individual records in date descending order and return the user to their previous sort order when closing the group of records.
Created by: Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University Library, 25 May, 2011
Last updated by: Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University Library, 01 Aug, 2011
This is a very basic PHP example of how to search and display results from the Primo X-Services Brief Search API. I'm actually not a PHP developer but put this together for an ELUNA 2011 presentation to compare it with a ColdFusion version to show that the language you use to access the API is not important (i.e. use whatever you are comfortable with whether that be PHP, ColdFusion or something else).
Created by: Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University Library, 25 May, 2011
Last updated by: Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University Library, 25 May, 2011
The Primo UI is very flexible and can be customized according to the institutions branding only by adjusting the standard Primo CSS file. Furthermore this allows a seamless integration into the institutions website - and avoids confusion for users- as they do not need to learn to use a new URL, website or a link they need to click. A very good example for a customized Primo CSS (among others) can be found at SLUB Dresden: http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/home. Customizing the CSS file is easy - and this addon contains some Primo UI themes (CSS files) that can be used as a basis for your library - and your library branding. You don´t have to agree with the colored themes (blue, orange, green - they are only examples) - as the installing instructions will explain the basic areas you can change according to provide a UI that looks like your institutions website.
With the Google Charts API (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?type=visualization) you can dynamically create charts and embed these for example in the Primo UI. This addon uses the output from the date facets to generate a column chart in a local facetTile.jsp.
