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@laurenwalker laurenwalker released this 15 Jun 19:16
2.12.0
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New features

Replace data files in the dataset editor

Click "Replace" next to any file in the dataset editor to replace a file in the dataset while keeping all of its metadata intact. (#653)

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Improved app configuration

MetacatUI can now be configured by supplying an appConfigPath in index.html that points to a configuration file. The configuration file contains all of the custom options for your MetacatUI deployment.

Why is this better?

  • Upgrading MetatcatUI is now much faster, since you only need to update the appConfigPath. Nothing else in index.html or loader.js needs to be updated!
  • This new configuration option eliminates the need for AppModel overrides by themes.
  • You can maintain separate configuration options for multiple deployments by creating a configuration file for each.

The full suite of configuration options can be found in the AppConfig documentation: https://nceas.github.io/metacatui/docs/AppConfig.html

Step-by-step instructions for the new configuration process: https://nceas.github.io/metacatui/install/#for-metacatui-v2120-and-later

Note MetacatUI will still support the old way of configuring index.html (i.e. setting the data-metacat-context, data-theme, and data-maps-key in the loader.js script tag HTML attributes). However, this will be deprecated in a future release.

(#281 and #1237)

Encoded identifiers in URLs

Identifiers in dataset landing page URLs are now URL-encoded by default. (#523)

Link directly to the entity/data file metadata section of a dataset landing page

Copy the URL from the "More Info" link to link directly to tthe entity/file metatdata section on the dataset landing page.

These entity section URLs look like:

https://your-repo.com/view/metadata-id#data-id

(#83)

Bug fixes

  • Some portals had a loading spinner forever on the Metrics tab (#1346). Enable Solr Joins in the MetacatUI AppConfig to take advantage of this fix. (AppConfig.enableSolrJoins)
  • Some invalid XML characters were not bbeing filtered/caught properly by the editor. (#1401)

Deprecation notes

Deprecated in 2.12.0

  • The StatsView contained fallback options for browsers that don't support SVG/D3 (mainly, IE 8 and earlier). These fallbacks were removed, and the MetacatUI.useD3 attribute has been officially deprecated. D3 and SVG will always be enabled by default.

Soft-deprecated in 2.12.0

  • MetacatUI will still support the old way of configuring index.html (i.e. setting the data-metacat-context, data-theme, and data-maps-key in the loader.js script tag HTML attributes). However, this will be deprecated in a future release.
  • A new AppConfig option, enableSolrJoins is turned off by default for Metacat users who may be using a Solr version pre-4.0.0. In future releases, this flag may be removed and Solr Joins may be required for MetacatUI.
    • This includes functions in StatsModel which are now unnecessary with the Solr Joins feature. Note the list of functions marked deprecated in the StatsModel docs and make sure your MetacatUI theme does not rely on these functions, since they will be removed in future releases.
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