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Add a Searchable Author Affiliation Index for Summon (Advanced Search)
Most commercial databases offer a searchable author affiliation index. Summon does not in the Advanced Search screen, nor is this information indexed in the Author field contents.
Since they must already have this information in their records, why not create a separate searchable index for Author Affiliation??
For our current awareness, we would like to create RSS feeds for journal articles written by professors from other engineering universities.
Thanks!
28 votesThis is a great recommendation and will require multiple steps to complete. We are currently working on improving author content within CDI including adding ORCIDs and normalizing author names, both of which would make completion of functionality such as this possible.
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Add scroll bar for faset column
When scroll to the bottom of the search results, it will make the facets invisible, so I would like to add a scrollbar to the facet column.
21 votesClosing, since this idea predates the recent facets redesign in Summon in December 2021.
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Pin "Apply" button on the Facet (Summon mobile screen)
We have an improvement request about the mobile screen on the Facet of Summon.
Because the "Apply" button is fade out if the user scroll down to the bottom.
Not only this, but there are "Search" button where the "Apply" button supposed to be, and the user click "Search" instead of "Apply" unconsciously.As the result of this mis-clicking, the facet fails often, so we have a request to pin the "Apply" button on the screen even though the user scroll down to the bottom.
Please see the attachment as detail.
16 votesAs part of the facet improvements for the User Interface in the December 2021 Summon Quarterly Release, we've improved the interactions with the facet pane on Summon, eliminating the need for the Apply button.
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Custom Panel Sections
Can it allow upload of image in the future?
a picture is worth a thousand words sometime.7 votesCurrently you can include an image in your custom panel using HTML. This doesn’t allow you to upload and store images on the Summon servers, but if you can host the image elsewhere you an easily include it using an image tag.
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Selecting multiple include/exclude facet at once.
I want to select multiple include/exclude facet at once.
Previous Summon UI, I could select several facet and apply all at once.6 votesYou'll have the ability to do this via the Advanced Search page with the planned redesign. This page will have both includes and excludes and the ability to select multiple at once.
As part of the redesign, we confirmed the More Facet pane that previously provided this functionality was vastly underutilized. Most users did not know if its existence, and if they did find it found the usability challenging.
Providing this functionality via Advanced Search will allow to provide the same benefit with user improvements and better discoverability. Users will be able to easily start with a basic search, then expand Advanced Search to apply multiple filters at once.
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Make back button work as expected
The back button in Summon has to be pressed twice if the user wants to return to the previous site. The back button works between Summons own pages, but when backing for example to the library start page, the user has to click twice. This is a user problem. The users press the button once and then think it does not work. It is also an accessibility problem.
1 voteWhere we can address this, we have. Some of the redirects causing this behavior is beyond Summon's control, so users may still encounter this.
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