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"Quick Look" - Improve the quick look to be more flexible, including delivering with the four major elements in a "closed" position
Quick Look - improve the quick-look to be more flexible, including delivering the key elements (subjects, table of contents, abstract, etc.) in a "closed" position, linearly in one column, allowing the user to choose which one to see on demand. The fixed display (headed by the 1-25) does not move or actually center on screen (laptops), making the right column data extremely hard to see at the bottom right of the screen. Make the elements "on demand" with clear "back" buttons to return to the quick look landing page. Also the page is not pdf or print friendly, and since…
6 votesCompleted as part of the 2023 roadmap.
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Ability to customize color of preview and facet panes, topic pane and right-hand menu
The ability to specify a background color, font, and font color for the preview, facet and topic panes.
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Add Section number to Course ID in Course Reserves page
The Course Reserves page in Summon is a nice improvement for Summon Over Alma customers. In Summon, only the Alma course code is displaying as the Course Number. In the attached example, you can see that Bio 220 has 3 sections. It is not clear in Summon which section number corresponds to which course number. Please add the section number to course number in Summon.
5 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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RestrictionsOnAccess
Make access restrictions visible (MARC field 506 / mapping "RestrictionsOnAccess").
In mapping, MARC field 506 is assigned under RestrictionsOnAccess. Unfortunately this field is not visible in Summon. For the user it would be a big advantage if the access restrictions are shown at the hits.5 votesReleased in 2023. Displaying Library Notes in Summon - Ex Libris Knowledge Center
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Include Oxford Reference content in the Topic Explorer
Oxford is an important reference source that would add scope and value to the topic explorer.
5 votesThis is live as of March 6, 2019. To select this as a source for Topic Explorer, if you are a subscriber, simply go to the Topics section of the main Settings page in the Summon Admin Console, and drag and drop Oxford University Press from the Disabled column to the Enabled column.
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Results Beyond Your Library's Collection
Add "Results Beyond Your Library's Collection" as a filter to the "Refine Your Search" Area.
4 votesCompleted as part of the facet improvements in December 2021.
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Permalink popups get in the way.
Permalink popups on each records get in the way and hide the clear button when we bring up the permalink window.
And when we tried to click the clear button, cursors and popups blink and do not look very good. I hope that it will be modified.4 votesFixed in the June 5 2024 monthly maintenance release.
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Mandatory e-mail field
In summon you can email records / titles, from your search results to others via the small feature in the top right corner. Unfortunately, it is not a requirement that the sender of the email is obligatory to fill in the sender field. In principle, you can email posts / titles with associated messages in the note field anonymously - which makes correspondence difficult.
3 votesThis was delivered in April 2023.
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Make custom panels visible for mobile phone users
There appears to be no way for custom panels to display on mobile phones, which forces us to provide alternative instructions for doing certain things in Summon for people using phones. There should be a way for these panels to display.
2 votesThis was added as part of the user interface improvements in the August 2022 release.
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Ability to exclude a facet value on the results page
At present you can only exclude a facet value by going into the "More" option. For example the Book Review content type is probably not that useful. So it would be ideal if the was a way to exclude them when the results are displayed. The default action when clicking on the Book Review content type would be to just include this type.
This is something available in Primo and would be a great addition to Summon.2 votesThis was included as part of the facet improvements for the User Interface in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release.
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Add "Council of Science Editors" (CSE) to Cite this Item options
Faculty has requested that Council of Science Editors (CSE) formatting style be added as an option in Summon's "Cite this Item" drop-down menu.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2022 Summon Roadmap.
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Consistent link back to search results
The user leaves the search result and goes to detail page, advanced search or saved items. Then when the user wants to return to search results this is done in three different ways. We would like the link back to search results look the same in all three situations. The one we prefer is the one in the detail page.
2 votesCompleted as part of the 2020 roadmap.
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Top menu bar - Feedback, Help, Language
Some suggestions for the top menu bar.
- Allow enable/ disable for Feedback & Help in top menu. Currently, feedback and help are able to pointing to specific links. But not able to disable/ enable the links.
- Move the language dropdown to the top menu, instead of under the manual button then click and select from the dropdown. It's not easy for patron to find out this option and change the language.1 voteThe language dropdown was moved out with the recent User Interface changes
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Usability of Advanced Search
Certain elements of the advanced search screen are very difficult to use on mobile devices, particularly the 'Content type' and 'Discipline' multiple check-box options, where scrolling through a long list is problematic.
Is there a way to improve this, perhaps by using a larger pop-out box that can be scanned at a glance?1 voteCompleted as part of the November 2022 release.
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