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Make the Most of Primo with EL Commons

IGeLU | Zürich | September 2012

Ido Peled, Primo Product Manager

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So What Am I Talking About ?

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/

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And I’ll Focus on CodeShare

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Home

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IMAGINATION

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Short Lesson in Hebrew (and Yiddish)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reborrowing

Hebrew: ית ל� כ� taχˈlit / (purpose) / ת�

Yiddish: taχləs / (result; purpose; serious business) / תכלית

Hebrew: ס ל� כ� taχles / (directly, matter-of-factly, cutting the crap) / ת�

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Last Time I Counted…

• 49 code contributions

• 23 x-services

• 19 web services

• 10 wiki UI customizations

• 6 plug-ins

• 4 deep links

• 3 deep search adapter (API + 2 examples)

• 3 guidelines

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Last Time I Counted…

Code Con-tributions

X-Services Web Services Plug-ins Deep Links Deep Search Adapters

Guidelines

49

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64 3 3

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Useful X-Services

What URL

Brief Search http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Brief+Search

E-Shelf Structure http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/Get+E-ShelfStructure

RTA Plug-in http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/RTA+Plug-In+%28new+version%29

Push To http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/PushTo+Plug-In+%28export+records+to+social+bookmark+sites%29

File Splitter http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoOI/File+Splitter+Plug-In

EXL Tab API http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Essentials – Views Wizard’s Layout Set

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Essentials – List of CSS Files (;)

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Essentials - (Freeware) Tools

Eclipse

http://www.eclipse.org/

Dropbox

https://www.dropbox.com/

Notepad++

http://notepad-plus-plus.org/

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Development Skills (the more the better…)

What Why

CSS Colors, elements, layout

HTML Content

Javascript Actions, changes

jQuery Javascript framework

JSON Data

XML Data

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jQuery – Life After Death

jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library

that simplifies HTML document traversing, event

handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for

rapid web development

Simple way to make BIG changes

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Examples

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Add Tab API

http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/Primo/EXL+Tab+API

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Google Analytics

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Google Analytics - Steps

1. Add a new custom tile at the end of the brief results page

2. Link the custom tile to a web accessible HTML file (Dropbox)

3. Create a Google Analytics account

4. Create New Property

5. Use the custom tile HTML as the website URL

6. Copy-paste the Google Analytics Javascript to the tile

7. Start enjoying more reporting features !

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Personal Favorites

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Adwords+Hotwords+JavaScript+code

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Primo+Result+Extender+Aggregator+Service+%28PREAS%29

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/FRBR+Display+Improvements

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/LibGuides+Pipe+Configuration

• http://www.exlibrisgroup.org/display/PrimoCC/Change+the+Colour+of+the+VERSIONS+tab

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Ideas

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Ideas

• E-Shelf integration with LibGuides

• JQuery for broad topics

• Brief results to JSON

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Summary

• Lots of API available

• API covering the majority of the Primo functionality

• Many extensions already available

• Vibrant community

• Go out and build your own (and then share it !!)

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Q&A(or a live demo)

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Thank You!

Ido.Peled@ExLibrisGroup.com