Confirmed Issue and agree that this would be a needed update. Currently the Digital Object module opens in a new tab, but any external links or internal links to other collections open in the same tab which could be confusing for users. Recommend passing. Carried over from last meeting.
Added for March meeting: Brianna found a good resource from W3C school on guidelines for opening in a new tab and shared in a comment on the ticket. TLDR: best to open in same tab but if must open in new tab should have the little symbol with alt text stating that is what is happening. This symbol is already utilized within ASpace with regards to digital objects and so wouldn’t be foreign should we elect to do that. I believe that external doc and digital objects are the majority if not only examples of outside materials hyperlinked in ASpace, so it probably would be best to have those items handled uniformly?
ANW-1783 - I was able to replicate the issue and seems pretty aesthetic in nature. I wonder if a possible solution would be to allow for the symbols included when the digital object is not marked “representative” to be the default unless otherwise clicked. The user suggested checking the “digital object type” as a potential solution, but this is an editable field and so wouldn’t be feasible across all instances (same with file format). As an institution that uses the digital object functionality to link to a digital repository the blank square also appears for us when we link in this way.
Previously reviewed for March 2024 Dev Pri meeting and was unable to replicate the issue. Contacted ticket creator to try and replicate their settings. Tried to replicate following update from ticket create but still not able to produce the error being reported. Contacted ticket creator to see if they could replicate in the test instance and share results.