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How Cursor IDE Handles Large Codebases: Performance Insights
When working on a large codebase, the biggest challenge is usually maintaining speed—both in navigation and development workflow. That’s where Cursor IDE has been surprising a lot of developers. Unlike many traditional editors that start to feel sluggish once your project grows beyond a certain size, Cursor IDE takes a more AI-assisted approach to handling code structure, which noticeably improves the experience.
One of the most appreciated aspects is how quickly Cursor IDE indexes files. Even with thousands of modules, the search and “jump to definition” features remain responsive. The AI-powered understanding of code allows Cursor to create a sort…
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Possibility to set facet 'New Record' to Expanded by default
In Summon, in addition to the 'Time Period' facet which allows you to filter by 'Last 1/3/5/10 years', there is also a facet called 'New Record', which allows you to filter by 'Last 7/30/90 days'. This facet is collapsed by default, and there is no option to have it expanded by default. I would like to have the ability to configure this setting.
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Ability to customise the text above search box in the Summon home page.
We would like to have the ability to change the name above the search box in the Summon home page. The text currently reads "Library Search" and, in order to customise it, the only option is adding a JavaScript code. JavaScript isn't user friendly and it relies on customers knowing JavaScript. Despite that, we have tried adding a script but it did not work successfully across all browsers, with some browsers displaying the new text and others not picking up on the change.
Creating an static option, such as adding an option in Translations, would make it easy for customers…
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Add option for Public Notes to display in the Summon brief result
The 'Display eResource Public Notes' and 'Display eResource Public Notes' settings in the Summon Administration Console currently allow public notes from the Client Center to be displayed in the Quick Look, but users may not always click on 'Quick Look' before trying to access the content and would be unaware of the note. If the note could also appear on the brief result (under the journal/bibliographic information, for example) then that would flag any important information to users without them needing to click on 'Quick Look'.
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Add a search result facet for Publication Title
Currently there is no option to add a facet on the search results screen to filter by publication (journal) title. Searching a specific journal can be done in the following ways:
- Pre-search, by using Advanced Search/Options to add the journal's title or ISSN as an AND;
- Post-search, by clicking on a hyperlinked journal title within a result, which opens the "search within journal" function in a new window;
- Using the E-Journal Portal to find the journal, then using the search box to search within the journal
None of these options allows for the user to execute a search, then browse…
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Bring back the date slider to the Publication Date facet
We'd love the option to use a date slider in addition to manually inputting start and end dates for the Publication Date facet. The slider is so much simpler for users, as having to think up very specific dates can seem arbitrary, and takes more time to execute. You've indicated that the histogram in previous versions of the Summon UI caused performance issues; we don't necessarily need a histogram. Just a slider!
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Create collections in Summon
It would be great to be able to create collections by selecting resources directly in Summon, even if we don't have Alma.
Collections could be displayed in the same way as in Primo :
https://aul.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01AUL_INST:AUL&inst=01AUL_INST5 votes -
Customise New Search button
We would like to be able to customise the url of the 'New Search' button, so that it links to our own Library Search home page, with embedded Summon search, rather then the default Summon instance.
Currently, we only have the option to use the Home link, via the institutional logo, to link back to our Library Search home page, which is not accepted practice, as this should link to the institution's home page.
We can currenetly use the 'Custom Link' option, but this is not user-friendly, as the link appears in the banner (and hamburger menu), rather than next…
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Improve the copy function in Research Assistant
The copy function in Research Assistant copies the abstracts of all the 5 articles, some of which can be very long abstracts. Links to the record will be more suitable instead. E.g. Summon permalink to the record.
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Library Locations > Translation in other language
The library's locations are currently displayed in Japanese only. We would like to add the other language terms.
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Add a language toggle to the Summon Research Assistant
We need to provide our users with a language toggle on our web pages to switch between English and French. We've noticed that users can't switch from English to French and vice versa once they're on the Summon Research Assistant page. Users have to switch languages on the Summon page, or click on the Library Search function to return to the Summon search page before they go to the Summon Research Assistant page.
Can you please add a language toggle/switch to the Summon Research Assistant?
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Add "Game" to Content Types in Summon
Games have become an important way to teach concepts to GenX, Millennials and GenZ. Both at college level and for use in teacher training, games are a growing component of our collections. Users want to search for games in our collection. This content type would be very useful. In MARC this would translate into 008 character position 33 = g when Leader type is any of the following: o, r, g or k
10 votes -
Provide ability to make a link to Advanced Search with pre-selected facets
I would like to be able to provide a URL to the advanced search page and have the English language facet preselected.
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Make Request button display behavior more configurable
Give libraries a configurable option to suppress the Request Button under certain conditions. For example, the library may not want to present the Request Button to patrons when there are multiple copies (items) attached to a bib record and at least one of the items is Available (on the shelf).
Academic libraries in particular may have a policy of not paging on-shelf materials for patrons.
Allowing libraries to set this kind of display option would improve the user experience as it would be clear to the end user from the outset that the item is not requestable, rather than presenting…
8 votes -
Provide the ability to separate journals and ejournals when searching
Similar to Sophia Birden's idea for books and ebooks, currently I do not think there is a way to separate journals and ejournals without clicking the full-text limiter for the electronic.
3 votes -
Chat Widget Obstructs Functionality on Small Screens
Hi,
I have noticed that the Springshare V2 LibChat widget covers the "New Search" and sorting options on small screens (see attached image). It would be helpful if the widget moved to a location where it does not cover any functionalities, such as horizontally in the top right corner.
While I know that the widget's position can be adjusted to sit next to other menu icons, we prefer the right positioning on large screens. It would be a significant improvement if this issue could be addressed.
Kind regards,
Carl Johannesson9 votes -
Customisable Snippet size
We would like to be able to customise the Snippet size in the Administration Console.
Snippet size for search results has a fixed length, displaying a short text that makes it difficult to assess the relevance of a specific search result.
In order to expand the viewable section of the snippet/abstract, it would be useful to have a customizable length of characters for the snippet in the Administration Console.
8 votes -
Display Language Filter after search in default search language
Currently the Language Filter on the left hand side of the search results displays (some) languages in their original language and character encoding (see: 日本語, 한국어, ไทย...) while other languages in the facet/filter are displayed in English (English, Japanese, Korean...).
Allow the Language Filter to be metadata independent, displaying language results consistently in the default search language (English, German, etc.)5 votes -
Revise display logic so that collection names do not display as corporate authors
Based on the MARC 21 standards, collection names are in the 710 field. For example:
710 2 Alumni Ph.D./Th.D. Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary)
As in https://catalog.ptsem.edu/record=b3319515~S1
This is a typical way that most libraries handle their collection names. However, the current Summon mapping and display rules result in the collection name appearing as the author in the search results when there is not a main author for the work: https://go.exlibris.link/DZxpskWX
Do black lives matter?: how Christian scriptures speak to Black empowerment
by Alumni Ph.D./Th.D. Collection (Princeton Theological Seminary)
edited by Bowens, Lisa M.; Edwards, Dennis R. (Biblical scholar)
2023How…
9 votes -
CDI Display Document Attributes
The "CDI Display Document Attributes" functionality in Primo allows preprints to be labelled. There is an ongoing problem in Summon where aggregators and publishers use the same electronic collections but provide a different level of access. Especially with preprints - which look like broken links because aggregators dont provide them but they are included in results because publishers do.
This functionality could identify preprints so users would have a better idea of why they can't access them.
Can this functionality please be made available to Summon users?
3 votes
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