CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

0.9.14

Added

• Changelog Viewer
  • Added to Plugins Settings (if an update is available)
• System attributes
  • Attribute Group Separator
    • attributes can now be sorted into self-defined groups, shown as tabs in Main View
• Option to set the width of entity attributes (50% or 100% (default))

Fixed

• File types to attach to bibliography items
• Deleting files attached to bibliography items
• Enable button if only file is added/removed from bibliography item
• Modal Backdrop

Changed

• Attach file button text in Bibliography Item modal to make clear that Drag & Drop is also possible
• Update Laravel to v10
• Update several dependencies
• Replaced markdown renderer dependency
• Moved Add Entitytype button to the header
• Several UI- and Bug-Fixes

0.9.13

Fixed

• Adding/Editing bibliography entries of a type where a field is only mandatory if another field is not set

0.9.12

Fixed

• App not useable when a notifications with a reference to a deleted entity exists

0.9.11

Fixed

• Error on page access with no installed plugins (because Plugin directory is missing)

0.9.10

Changed

• Attributes in entity detail's link list are now grouped by linked entity

0.9.9

Fixed

• Plugin updates

0.9.8

No notable changes in this release

0.9.7

Added

• Attribute Name and path to entity detail's link list (path is shown on hover; entity type name is shown on dot hover!)
• Reload button to Not Found page
• Highlight matching strings in bibliography search

Fixed

• Dropdown overflow in Add/Edit Bibliography Item modal
• Attribute Dependencies could not be added/updated
• Modal footer buttons on small screens
• Again: References list not visible after added a new one if it's the first literature reference added to that attribute
• Add new bibliography items from file import to list
• Prevent to add already added attributes to entity types
• Non-translated toast text shown when references tab in Entity Detail panel can not be opened
• Empty dropdowns for newly created and added attributes in Entity Detail panel
• Save entity with values set for a former empty Entity (Multiple Choice) attribute

0.9.6

Added

• Info modal in references tab to view all information from an literature reference
• Copy BibTeX-Code of literature item to clipboard
• Entity type color dot to entity detail's link list (entity type name is shown on hover)
• Attach files to bibliography entries
• Validation to bibliography add/edit form
• More (optional) bibtex fields (doi, email, url, type)

Fixed

• Only delete avatar if is set and exists on disk
• Display image in About modal
• Closing modal after user is (successfully) added
• Display errors from server if user can not be added (e.g. due to already existing nickname or email address)
• References list not visible after added a new one if it's the first literature reference added to that attribute
• Newly created entity types only selectable as sub-entity types after reload
• Column ordering in bibliography
• Saving changed type of bibtex entry
• Do not show Delete Entity action in entity's dropdown if user does not have the permission
• Translations for read notifications

Changed

• Updated Modal Library to Version 4
• Better handling of ", { and {{ in BibTeX
• Show translated BibTeX-Type in literature entry add/edit modal's type selection
• Make new modal library useable by plugins

0.9.5

Fixed

• Display option to access analysis tool in Tools (if available)
• height of notification panel if larger than screen
• Missing styling in Add Entitytype component
• Several geodata related bugs
• Node dropdown not closed on outside click

0.9.4

Fixed

• Error on deleting plugin (Plugin not found)
• Allow geography as column type in plugin migrations
• Importing values for integer/percentage datatype in data importer

0.9.3

Fixed

• Wrong translated concepts for languages with lang code mismatch

0.9.2

Added

• Support for color schemas (Dark Mode with unrounded corners included)

Fixed

• Login of deactivated users
• Remove references to removed extensions preference

0.9.1

Fixed

• Incompatible version of ol-ext to match updated ol

0.9 - Isfahan

Added

• Global State for shared information (Vuex)
• Reset unsaved Entity attribute values
• Delete/Restore individual rows in tabular attribute
• Load csv data into tabular attribute
• Preview resulting attribute in New Attribute Dialog
• RISM-Attribute
• Button to jump from Entity Attribute to linked Entity
• Entity Multiple Choice-Attribute
• List with all entities that reference currently selected entity in Entity Attribute
• Line numbers and skipping rows to CSV table component
• CSV-based Data Importer
• Supply matching user list for mentioning (type '@' in comment to get a searchable list)

Fixed

• Improved Attribute Validation
• Editing Entity Name

Changed

• Revamp Role Permission Configuration
  • Add Presets to Derive Role Permission Set from
  • Allow Plugins to have their own Permission Set and extend existing Role Presets
• Disable Loading Iconclass Button when attribute value is not set
• Switch Icon for Loading Iconclass Button
• Update Laravel to Version 8
• Update VueJS to Version 3
• Restructure Bootstrapping and Setup of App
• Restructure Layout of Data Model Editor for better UX
• Restructure Layout of Preference Pages
• Replace most of Checkboxes with Switches
• Replace Infinite Loading Plugin with simple directive
• Replace search backend (and adding search for attribute value)
• Update Dependencies
  • Bootstrap 5
  • Multiselect (switched from vue-multiselect to multiselect)
  • Modals (switched from vue-js-modal to vue-final-modal)
  • Validation (Updated vee-validate from v2 to v4)

Removed/Deprecated

• Dropped Infinite Loading Plugin (for now as there is no proper replacement)

0.8 - Helgö

Added

• Support to extend all data with a comment section. Currently:
  • Attributes
  • Entities
• Notification-Panel
  • Get a notification when a new comment is posted (and the notified user has already commented on this resource)
• User profile to allow users to edit their information
  • Support for phone numbers and avatars
• Activity Log (Logging changes to all models (Entities, Files, ...))

Fixed

Changed

• Switch from momentjs to dayjs for dates
• Replaced certainty description with new comment section

0.7.8

Added

• Show info after file upload is finished
• Make links in lists accessible
• Chart visualization to table attribute

Fixed

• Position of long entity names in link tab (file viewer)
• Error when parts of Exif data is not available

0.7.7

Added

• Caching attribute data in GIS layer styles
• Chart overlays to GIS layer styling
• Display multiple attributes in GIS view as labels

Fixed

• Unnecessary initializing snapping to features on the map (snapping is now initialized when editing mode is activated and onyl for the current visible part of the map)
• Drag & Drop in entity tree
• Timezone of date filter
• Proper error messages for incomplete data in time period and epoch datatypes
• Display entity name in GIS layer labeling instead of ID

0.7.6

Added

• Caching map styles to speed-up map performance

Fixed

• Unnecessary loading of data of all entities in gis view, even if they don't have any geo object linked
• Selection of sql attributes as label in gis view
• Loading speed of linked geo objects on map

0.7.5

Fixed

• Some attribute changes not saved, when one was a delete operation
• Area/Length computation in map popups

0.7.4

Added

• Bing Maps Support
• Iconclass-Attribute
• Re-add dependency lock-files

Fixed

• Accidentally moving map outside viewport
• Ignore uppercase/lowercase letters in login form user names
• Overwriting existing files/thumbnails
• Error on file loading due to invalid exif data

Changed

• Select newly created layer in Layer Editor

0.7.3

Added

• CLI command to create new users/roles
• Login using a nickname instead of e-mail address

Fixed

• Weird layout for some attribute lists
• Do not open tree elements instantly when hovering while drag&drop (a delay of 500ms is now used/respected)
• Dropping entities when tree is scrolled
• Do not allow to save a user/role without required fields set
• Set max zoom level on map fit to fix blank map layer due to unsupported layer zoom
• "Send Reset-Mail" now actually sends reset mails (Please see INSTALL.md for further details on how to set this up)

Changed

• Replace JS bibtex-parser
• Replace debounce package with lodash's

0.7.2

Changed

• Make debounce delay in TypeaheadSearch component a prop and increase default value (250ms => 500ms)

Fixed

• Clear queue before sending another request in typeahead searches (should speed up tree search and others with large data sets)

0.7.1

Added

• Seeder for basic map setup

Fixed

• Replaced function calls of old roles package in RolesPermissionsSeeder and AdminUserSeeder

0.7 - Giza

Added

• Time Period datatype (epoch datatype without dropdown)
• Screencast functionality (in Tools menu)
  • Save local or upload to Spacialist
• File modal
  • 3D editor
    • Click on objects to select
      • Move, rotate, scale objects using handler or GUI
      • Press f to focus on object
      • Add LOD support
  • Images
    • Image manipulation
      • Supports several filters (blur, sharpen, color-based filters, ...)
      • Manipulations can be stored
  • PDF
    • print button
  • OCR support (PDF and Images)
• Dynamic Parent-Element for string-sc (Single Choice Dropdown) datatype
  • Reference another SCD attribute in Data-Model-Editor to use it's value as Parent-Element
• Parents Breadcrumb added to Entity Detail view header
• Allow width expansion of attributes (Currently supported: Tabular)
• PHPUnit tests (see README.md for further instructions)
• Option to set root element, entity-type and column as entity name in GIS importer
• Also search for author in reference modal

Changed

• Use Tree-Shaking in supported modules
• Improved fullscreen handler code
• Update to Laravel 6.2
• Rework search components (should no longer logout on fast typing)
• Switched (unmaintained) permission package
• Dependency updates

Fixed

• Do not fire upload-from-clipboard event in input fields
• Update references in Reference Tab, Attribute Icons in Entity Detail View and Reference Modal
• File modal container height
• Conversion for image formats not supported by PHP
• Several styles and translations
• Popup not working for newly added and linked geodata on click on linked entity
• Adding first entity with a serial attribute
• Sub-Entity counter for first added sub-entity
• Linking geodata to entity-types with allowed geometry type 'any'
• Hide file export checkbox/button if user doesn't have permission
• Reset fields in add entity-type modal after closing modal
• AD/BC dropdowns overlapping dropdowns of other attributes
• Non-visible selection list for entity search in file linking tab
• Overflowing container in file upload modal (upload from clipboard)
• Storing dates in epoch (if start and end are BC)
• Version Info modal after Login (without reload)
• Several fixes in the Geometry Datatype modal

Removed/Deprecated

• Unused/unmaintained packages

0.6.3

Added

• Entity as table column datatype
• Entity type to entity detail form header
• Demo Seeder (See INSTALL.md for more details)
• Show notification if attribute is deleted
• Color indicator (based on entity layer color) to tree and entity-detail view (replaces monument icon)
• Apply new preference values without reload
• Editmode to upload from clipboard
• Switch between card and list layout in file viewer

Changed

• Sub-Entity count in tree is now displayed inside color indicator
• Cleaned up geodata popup (Removed coordinate table, added length/area of geodata)
• Moved file name to bottom of card, made font size smaller, display file name on hover
• Reworked map popups (supports dynamic content such as hideable coordinate list; no more "click through")

Fixed

• Use color picker for simple layer styling (GIS)
• Deleting geodata on map
• User locale after login
• Font loading
• Error on empty layer array in map
• Unset preference handling
• Use user's language/default language for retrieved concepts
• Jump to selected element in tree
• Empty table row after add
• Search in other available languages for labels that have no match in user's language (to make concepts available as label that are not yet translated)
• Align user menu dropdown to the right, so dropdown is not displayed outside document bounds
• Position of user menu dropdown
• Polishing file list layout
• Compatibility with latest version of vue (2.6)
• File modal container height

Removed/Deprecated

• Monument icon in tree and entity-detail view

0.6.2

Fixed

• Bug in migrations causing errors on saving new values

0.6.1

Added

• Scaling control to 3D file viewer

Fixed

• Missing content in Chrome/WebKit/Blink browsers
• Migration from previous version
• Links to Data Analysis-Plugins
• Several style issues

0.6 - Federsee

This version is a complete rewrite using Laravel and Vue.js. Please refer to the INSTALL.md for migration and new setup information.

Added

• File Viewer
  • Simple Office Documents Viewer (as HTML-Text)
  • Edit Mode for text and XML files
  • Replace single files (even with different file types)
  • Rendering of HTML files
  • DICOM Support
  • Rename files
  • 3D-Viewer can now load all 3D files of sub-entities into same scene
  • New audio plugin (based on wavesurfer, visualization and EQ)
  • Simple navigation to jump to previous/next file right from the modal (using buttons or left/right arrow key)
  • Icons in the upper right corner to indicate whether this file is linked and has tags
  • Checkboxes in the upper left corner to select files for export/download
  • Properties (copyright and description) and tags fields to upload page, to set them for all uploaded files
  • Shortcut (ctrl + v) to directly upload files from clipboard
• Tree View
  • Reorder buttons (by rank (default), name, entity-type, children count)
• Welcome Page
  • Maintainer (Name and E-Mail-Address), Project Description and Access (Public/Private) can be configured in settings
• Reference Modal
  • Options (Edit/Delete) to reference list
• Bibliography
  • Export BibTeX
  • 'Hide BibTeX metadata fields' toggle in Bibliography view
  • Auto-Fill from clipboard (ctrl + v) in new/edit entry modal
• Attribute Types
  • SQL Type
    • Rendered as Table or single value
    • Supports translations (Use concept_url as header/content)
    • Supports :entity_id as placeholder for current selected entity
  • Serial Type (Auto-incrementing ID)
• Geometry Preference (EPSG-Code). E.g. to display coordinates in popups different from EPSG:4326
• Measurement tool for map
• Attribute Dependencies
  • Attributes can now depend (are visible/invisible) on values of other attributes
• GIS View
  • QGIS-like styling (categorized, graduated (equal interval and quantile) and color) and labeling
• Contributors in about modal
• Data-Model-Editor
  • Duplicate Entity-Types
  • Option to restrict options for dropdowns
• Info texts on hover to icon-only labeled buttons/links/etc.
• Set user's language to browser's default in user settings

Changed

• Moved from Lumen (5.3) to Laravel (5.7)
• Moved from AngularJS (1.5) to Vue.js (2.5)
• Moved from LeafletJS (1.0) to OpenLayers (5.2)
• Updated Bootstrap 3.3 to 4.1
• Switched from Material Design back to original Bootstrap
• Switched from Material Icons to new FontAwesome 5.5
• Moved Plugin-like parts to real Plugins
• Certainty Modal now has 3 icons to view information without opening the modal
  • !-Icon: Always displayed. Color based on certainty level
  • Comment-Icon: Displayed if there is a comment
  • Bookmark-Icon: Displayed if there is at least one reference
• User/Role Management bundle several actions (Save, Edit, Delete, ...) in single dropdown (...-menu)
• Adding/Reorder attributes in Context-Type tab in Data-Model-Editor is now done using Drag&Drop.
• File Viewer
  • Load files as chunk of 15
  • Filter by ... for each tab (Linked, Unlinked, All Files)
    • Filetype
    • Camera
    • Date
  • Link tab revamped
    • Added option to link to entities from a search bar
    • Added 'Unlink/Link from/to entity' button in
• Tree View
  • Now loads root elements only. Sub-elements are loaded on request
• Bibliography
  • Only loads the first 20 entries. More entries are loaded on scroll.
  • Dropped differentiation between mandatory and optional fields (all are optional now).
• Tree Search is now async and matching entities can be selected from a list (and expanded/highlighted)
• Global search based on relevance. Also supports bangs for different categories:
  • !e + Search term: Entities
  • !f + Search term: Files
  • !g + Search term: Geodata
  • !b + Search term: Bibliography

Fixed

• 3D-File-Viewer: Mouse Controls now work even if WebVR is available (but not active)

Removed/Deprecated

• Links: The links have changed, but they will continue to work. We recommend to update your bookmarks, because the old link structure is now deprecated
• Edit Mode (Column sizes can still be modified in preferences)

0.5.1

Added

• Only show up to first 10 rows in csv preview
• Add option to parse csv without header row
• Add help icon to header (links to github wiki)
• Allow to clear selected epoch
• Submit buttons to most forms (hit enter to submit)
• Version info/about popup in header bar (settings menu)

Changed

• Revamp header bar

Fixed

• Tree search (deleting last char in search didn't show whole tree)
• Height of containters (global scroll bar should be gone)
• Missing map

0.5 - Ephesus

Added

• GIS View
  • Importer
    • CSV/DSV
    • WKT (as CSV)
    • KML/KMZ
    • Shape Files
    • GeoJSON
  • Export layers
    • GeoJSON (default)
    • CSV
    • WKT (as CSV)
    • KML/KMZ
    • GML
  • Layer options
• Analysis View (Beta)
  • SQL-like expert mode
  • simple non-SQL mode (default)
  • Visualizations based on plot.ly
    • Scatter
    • Line
    • Bar
    • Pie
    • Histogram
    • Ternary
  • Export
    • as CSV (ambiguous columns are currently not supported)

0.4.4

Fixed

• Error on empty Geo Objects
• Fix Tree Search
• Fix empty and non-working filter in files tab
• Map (and files, if both deactivated) was still visible/selected, if deactivated
• Fix tag section in file modal

0.4.3

Added

• Spinner icon to login screen as indicator for loading data (For some instances it can take several seconds to load the required data)

Fixed

• Roles/Permissions are now only seeded if they don't exist yet (It was not possible to add new permissions to existing projects without reseed everything)
• Catch exception in exif parser to keep Spacialist running even if exif parsing failed
• Check if file exists before parsing exif to keep Spacialist running even if a file gets lost on disk, but is still present in the database.

0.4.2

Added

• New supported filetypes
  • .pdb files (Protein Data Bank)
  • compressed files (e.g. .zip, .rar, .tar)
• Download button in the file viewer

Fixed

• Delete Context Modal didn't get closed and context was not removed (see #292)
• Add disabled state to round Save button and Unstaged Changes Popup (see #293)
• Better filetype handling.

0.4.1

Added

• New Datatype: Table

Fixed

• A couple of bugs in epoch datatype (it was possible to store non-integer data and data with a start date > end date)
• Context form must be valid to store context
• Error after adding a literature to the Additional Information popup
• Fixed a drag&drop bug in the context tree (see #255)

0.4 - Delphi

Added

• Preferences to allow customization for admins and users as well
• Global search, Supports
  • Contexts by...
    • name
    • lasteditor
    • updated_at (supported format is MM.DD.YYYY <DayName> <MonthName>)
    • Context-Type
    • Attributes (Values and Labels)
  • Files by...
    • Tags
    • Copyright
    • Description
    • lasteditor
  • Layers by...
    • Name
    • URL
  • Sources (click on the star icon in the results to jump to the source entry) by...
    • description
    • lasteditor (literature, source and context)
  • Literature by...
    • all fields
  • Users by...
    • Name
    • E-Mail

Fixed

• Unstaged Changes Popup is no longer displayed when reference icon (the star icon) next to an attribute of the same context is clicked
• Description for Literature References Entry is no longer required
• State changes after a file popup is closed is no longer buggy (clicking another file before the page was reloaded led to weird behaviour)
• Saving a context no longer requires a page reload
• Flickering of the References tab in the right-hand view (map, files, ...) is fixed

0.3.5

Added

• Display csv as table (with support for different delimiters)
• Display context type's layertype in Data Model Editor
• citation key in bibliography table (update/overwrite now based on citation key)
• Vive support for 3D viewer
• Display reference-indicator if certainty is changed

0.3.4

Added

• List linked contexts in file popup
• Exif Data viewer for image files (JPEG and TIFF)
• Display coordinates in DMS (Degree Minute Second) in marker popup

Fixed

• Fix missing values of metadata in file popup
• Marker popup form styles
• Opacity of layers (Storing was not possible, stored value was ignored)

0.3.3

Fixed

• use current selected language for search requests
• encode search term in context search (fix missing results for terms with special chars, e.g. umlauts)

0.3.2

Fixed

• The fab-styled save button (context detail view upper right corner) didn't work
• The Last modified info was not updated after saving the context
• The Toggle Edit Mode button is now disabled on not-supported states (should only be visible in the main state with the tree, detail view and map/files)

0.3.1

Fixed

• Context Search (didn't work at all)
• Possible Error retrieving files without a thumbnail (every file except images)

0.3 - Cannae

Added

• Drag & Drop Support for Element Tree
• More Datatypes (Integer, Geography, Slider, Boolean)
• Dynamic UI (The three columns on the main view can be shrinked/extended, enable Edit Mode in the Settings Dropdown menu)
• Basic Unit-Testing (Lumen API)
• State-based Routing using ui-router
  • Shareable Links
  • Redirect to last state after (re)login
• Unset Selected Values (string-sc aka Single Dropdown)

Changed

• Photo Viewer => File Viewer (Please read section Protected Files in INSTALL.md for proper setup)
  • PDFs (pdf.js & angularjs-pdf)
  • Text documents (including text highlighting using highlight.js)
  • 3D files (.dae and .obj/.mtl, using three.js)
  • Markdown files (marked & angular-marked)
  • Audio/Video files
• Remove input field placeholders
• Layer Control
  • Add layers for all existing contexttypes + one layer for unlinked geodata objects
  • Contexttype layers are restricted to a type (either MultiPoint, MultiLinestring or Multipolygon)
  • Geodata snapping
  • Add Bing and Google Maps as Tile-Provider
  • Layer Editor
    • Change color
    • Enable/Disable layers (only overlays, on startup)
    • Set opacity
    • Set default baselayer
  • Real RESTful API

Fixed

• Display context-type in properties tab again
• Store epochs (without exact date span)
• Add/Remove items from a list
• Display thumbnail after image upload
• Show tags (enabling Show tags in filter tab didn't change anything)
• Search bar in tree column (Search results couldn't be expanded, thus children were not accessible)
• Deleting Context-Types
• Store/Retrieve double (datatype) attribute values
• Missing Attributes in Lumen Seeders
• Missing translation (Context datatype label)
• Missing dimension units in dropdown

Removed/Deprecated

0.2 - Babylon

Added

• Data Model Editor (Add/Delete Attributes, Add/Delete ContextTypes)
• Tree Search Bar
• Bibtex Importer
• Add Info Popup (left bottom corner)
• Guest Account and default Admin Account

Changed

• New Design (Based on Material Design)
• Some other Style improvements (Geodata, Login Page, ...)
• Extended Photo Functionality
  • Delete Photos
  • Edit Photo Properties
  • Add Tags
  • Search By Tag, Camera Model and Date
  • Update to Leaflet 1.x

Fixed

Removed/Deprecated

0.1 - Atlantis

Added

• Objects Tree View
• Object Property Editor
• Geomap
• Data Analysis (based on https://github.com/DH-Center-Tuebingen/dbWebGen)
• Bibliography Manager
• Photo Manager: upload and linking
• User Manager: users, roles, permissions