Global settings

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Edit global settings

Digital object view screen showing reference display copy

Search results screen with pager after changing settings to show 5 results per page

Global settings allow administrators to control certain aspects of how ICA-AtoM appears and behaves. Features currently controlled by global settings include:

• The default display size of uploaded digital objects.

• The number of search results that will be displayed on results screens.

• Whether or not the application is serving as a multi-repository or single-institution system.

1. Click the admin > settings tab.

2. Click the global information area to display global settings.

3. Application version

• This field shows the current version of the software.
• The value is pre-set, ships with the application, and cannot be edited.
• The version number is automatically updated when you upgrade ICA-AtoM to a later release.

4. Upload directory

• This field shows the name of the file directory in which ICA-AtoM stores digital objects when users upload them.
• The value is pre-set, ships with the application, and cannot be edited.

5. Maximum image width (pixels)

• One of ICA-AtoM's design assumptions is that the display dimensions of digital objects users upload typically will be too large to fit into the view screen for an archival description. Therefore, when you upload a digital object, ICA-AtoM creates a reference display copy for displaying in the view screen.
• ICA-AtoM ships with a default setting specifying the maximum width of the reference display copy at 480 pixels. This is the optimized width given ICA-AtoM's field width. Administrators, however, can increase or decrease the maximum reference image width to suit the requirements of their institution or network.

6. Results per page

• By default, ICA-AtoM lists objects in list screens and search results screens 10 at a time, with a pager at the bottom of the page to allow users to navigate through long lists of objects.

• Administrators can increase or decrease this default number.

7. Inherit reference code (information object)

• When this is set to "yes", the reference code string will be build using the archival description identifier plus the identifier of all its ancestors (child level archival descriptions).

8. Sort treeview

• This setting determines how lower-level descriptions are sorted in an archival description's context menu box.
  • Selecting "none" means the descriptions will appear in the order in which they were entered into the DCB.
  • Selecting "title" sorts the descriptions by title.
  • Selecting "identifier" sorts the descriptions by identifier.

9. Multiple repositories

• Select "Yes" if your ICA-AtoM application is acting as a "union list" or portal for descriptions of materials held at more than one archival institution or repository.
  • The repository will appear as a column on the List archival description screen.
  • The repository will appear as a link in the context menu box.

• Select "No" if your ICA-AtoM application is being used only by a single institution.
  • The creator rather than the repository will now appear as a column on the List archival description screen.
  • No repository link will appear in the context menu box.