Setting Almagest Preferences

Almagest gives users the ability to customize several features through preference settings. You can change your prefences via the My Preferences menu option. After choosing your personal preferences, you must click the Update button to first commit the settings to the system, and then click the Close button to close the window.

The preference settings are as follows:

Search Results

Search Results controls the display of the Search Summary page.

Search Summary Page
By default, the Search Summary page will display, even when only a single item is found for a particular search. To limit the display of the Search Summary page to only searches that result in more than one match, select the Skip search summary if just one item found option.

Show '50' Images at a time on Image List page
Use this option to control the number of images that display on the Image Search Result page after initiating a data search. By default, 50 images display.

Editing

Edit Mode
Edit mode is a preference setting that applies to editors, and it controls the availablility of editing tools in the projects for which they are an editor. By default, Edit Mode is enabled or On.

Setting Edit Mode to On results in the following page display changes (ONLY if you have editing rights in the current project):

1. Direct access to editing features from the Image Search Result list, or any image/object list, is made available by way of an Edit icon on the page.
2. New, Edit, Link and Delete editing buttons, link icons, and a complete list of 'commonly linked' attributes appear on the image/object display page.
3. When performing searches for data, the button Search all of Almagest is provided on the Search page, and allows editors to search across projects for data.

Setting Edit Mode to Off disables the display features listed above, allowing editors to view pages as a regular user would.