Xerxes Primo Central Integration

Project Owner: David Walker

About

Integrating Primo Central into Xerxes a year before going live with Primo allows us to end our Summon contract early, saving the CSU a considerable amount of money, and to get an early look at and use of Primo Central.

Known Issues

Case#IssueNotesReportedStatus
00238044Boolean 'OR' and 'NOT' don't work between search fieldsBoolean AND, OR and NOT work within a field. Apparent limitation in API query syntax. Has gone to Ex Libris Development, and we are looking at other possible options for fix. In the meantime, Xerxes only showing AND as an option between fields in the advanced search.
 

WITH EX LIBRIS

00339451Facet hit counts can be off by large amount from actual returned results when you select that facetLikely related to some other issues that Ex Libris is addressing in PCI, has gone to Development

 

WITH EX LIBRIS

00352340OpenURLs from Primo are not encoding the "&" correctly in the journal titleHalf of the journal title is missing when being passed from the Primo OpenURL to SFX causing linking issues.

 

WITH EX LIBRIS

00351212Special characters in the DOI are not encoded properly from Primo CentralThere is a known issue with special characters in the DOI not being encoded by Primo causing full text linking issues from Primo/Xerxes records. Will be fixed in February 2017.

 

WITH EX LIBRIS

Webinars

Introduction to Primo Central with Xerxes, March 18, 2016

Follow-up Q&A session, April 8, 2016

Second follow-up Q&A session, May 13, 2016

Major Milestones

StageComplete ByStatus
Primo Central instances provisioned by Ex Libris
 

COMPLETED

Initial integration of PCI into Xerxes

 

COMPLETED

Webinars and training for CSU staff

 

COMPLETED

Final bug fixes and refinements to facets, advanced search

 

COMPLETED


Go-live calendar

CampusDateStatus
Maritime
 

COMPLETED

San Diego

 

COMPLETED

Sonoma

 


COMPLETED
Fullerton

 

COMPLETED

Fresno

 

COMPLETED

San Francisco

 

COMPLETED

East Bay

 

COMPLETED

San Luis Obispo

 

COMPLETED

Pomona

 

COMPLETED

San Bernardino

 

COMPLETED

All other campuses

 

COMPLETED