In this blog post we will show how to create a general electronic service to search by title in OPAC SBN Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale.  This will enable the end user in Primo to be able to click a link and automatically search OPAC SBN Catalogo del Servizio Bibliotecario Nazionale for the title of…

IntroductionIf an electronic collection or an electronic portfolio has a license, then it is possible to display a link to show the license information (license terms) from within the Primo View It tab.Note that the license is displayed to the end user but does not have a functional effect. It is for informational purposes only.Let's…

IntroductionIn this blog post we will show how the institution can use the Online Services Order to control the order of the services on the Services Page in Primo after clicking "Available Online".This can be useful if the institution wants to put certain Electronic Collections on top of the list to "promote" them.  It is…

Introduction In this blog post we will show how we can use a Direct Linking to enable a Primo user to access a resource directly after clicking "Available Online".  In this way, the Primo user skips the Services Page and the need to further click an Electronic Collection (service) to access the resource. Let's take…

Introduction In this blog post we will show how we use a Display Logic Rule to remove the "Request" link in the Primo GetIt tab according to the User Group of the logged in user. This can be useful, for example, if we want a user to be able to have a physical item request…

IntroductionIn this blog post we will show how we can use a Display Logic Rule to display Electronic Collections in the Services Page depending on the Interface Name of the Electronic Collections. We will see that we can set up a dependency between the Interface Names of the Electronic Collections in order to state which…

In this blog post we will show how to create a general electronic service to send an email with bibliographic information and predefined text.  This will enable the end user in Primo to click a link and automatically have the email open in the email client with bibliographic information of the record in Primo to…

In this blog post we will show how to create a general electronic service to search by author name in VIAF.  This will enable the end user in Primo to click a link and automatically search VIAF for the author of the record in Primo to which he or she has navigated. The same flow…

In this blog post we will show how to create a general electronic service to search by title in "National Taiwan University".  This will enable the end user in Primo to click a link and automatically search "National Taiwan University" for the title of the record in Primo to which he or she has navigated.The…

When creating a General Electronic Service it is necessary to identify the exact syntax of how field names are called when formulating the URL Template which is part of the General Electronic Service.This blog post will show how to identify the exact syntax of how field names are called.  Other blog posts describe how to…