We are excited to present our latest release: 2024-R8-v5.0.0 Beta. This release went out for UAT on the Thursday 20th June 2024. The site will be available for UAT for a two week period and is due to be released to all live production sites on Thursday 4th July 2024.

Table of Contents:

Highlights

Backend Framework Upgrade

As part of the Version 5.0.0 release we've upgraded our backend framework, resulting in a more up-to-date, faster and secure platform.

Enhanced User Management System

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We’ve enhanced our user management system with the following features:

• new user signup functionality

• a new user browser that allows you to view all users on the same page

• a variety of options to export user data (including Csv, Excel and Pdf)

• new simplified roles

To learn more about the changes:

Managing users and user groups

Signing up

Publication Notification

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Subscribed members of a user group can now receive an email notification when a dataset is published within their user group.

To learn more:

Creating and Managing User Groups

New and Improved Import Options - Including Live/Scheduled Updates

Create a Copy of a Data Model

New Features

• Enhanced User Management System: signup functionality, new user browser, export options and simplified user roles

• Publication notification: subscribed members of a user group can now receive an email notification when a dataset is published within their user group

• New Importer Options: including the ability to configure periodic imports from external databases

• Create a Copy of a Dataset: an exact copy of an existing dataset which includes both the descriptive and structural metadata

Other Resolved Issues

Login/Signup

• Fixed an issue where the login link was incorrect

• Fixed an issue where some users would not receive a reset password email

• Fixed an issue where users were not able to signup

Onboarder

• Fixed an issue where importing the example bulk import spreadsheet would result in an error

• Fixed an issue where users were unable to add a model policy from the Advanced View

• Fixed an issue where an error would occur while onboarding a new dataset

• Fixed an issue where the Last Updated column display name was not fully displayed

• Fixed an issue where incorrect options were displayed in the "Dataset Types” filter

• Fixed an issue where the import/export buttons were missing

• Fixed an issue where a newly imported dataset was not visible

• Fixed an issue where spaces were not counted in a field character count

• Fixed an issue where users could not create a new dataset

Advanced View

• Fixed an issue where an error would occur when using the advanced view search

• Fixed an issue where the user is unable to search for existing data types to use in a new Data Element

• Fixed an issue where users were logged out when trying to add a new Data Class or Data Elements in the Advanced View

• Fixed an issue where the MDW favicon was missing from the Security Management Console

• Fixed an issue where users could create multiple draft versions of the dataset by entering a different semantic version than the existing draft model

• Fixed an issue where users were not able to delete a relationship between classes

• Fixed an issue where the Importer link in the top menu bar did not work

• Fixed an issue where users could not add a model policy

Manager

• Fixed an issue where the Manager displayed the wrong kibana chart

• Fixed an issue where the Manager page would crash for certain user roles

Browser

• Fixed an issue where the wrong resources were displayed in certain datasets

• Fixed an issue where search terms over a certain character length would cause an error

• Fixed an issue where the Resources tab was missing for certain datasets

• Fixed an issue where certain datasets would give a 404 error when opened

• Fixed an issue where resources could not be downloaded

• Fixed an issue where the controller filter was not working correctly

Roles

• Fixed an issuer where the Supervisor was not able to change the privacy setting of a dataset in the Advanced View

• Fixed an issue where the Supervisor was not able to access 'Advanced view' when logged in as 'supervisor' U

• Fixed an issue where users with the Editor and User roles were able to onboard new metadata

• Fixed an issue where sers with the Editor role were unable to create a new version of a data model

• Fixed an issue where Users were unable to see public and private datasets when logged in

• Fixed an issue where logged in Guest users were unable to view public datasets

• Fixed an issue where logged in Admin users were unable to access the Security Portal

• Fixed an issue where logged in Admin users were unable to access the Advanced View

• Fixed an issue where Admin users could not create a new version of a dataset

• Fixed an issue where Editor users could not create a new version of a dataset

• Fixed an issue where the Create New Version or Submit for Review buttons were incorrectly available for certain user roles

• Fixed an issue where the Curator was not able to create or update datasets

UI

• Fixed an issue where the footer was displayed consistently for different user roles

• Fixed an issue where the “Choose file“ and “Upload file“ buttons overlap each other

• Fixed minor accessibility issues on the Onboarder