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Release19Changelog

lizwoods edited this page Apr 12, 2016 · 3 revisions

Technical Changelog

The first major release for 2016 implements a number of Research Data Australia, Research Vocabularies Australia and ANDS Registry bug fixes and enhancement requests received through the ANDS Service Desk.

Highlights of R19 include:

Research Data Australia (RDA)

  • RDA record view page:

  • Fix the incorrect display of some locations on the map when using some ISO3166 codes (CC-712)

  • Optimisation of view page load times (CC-1164)

  • Fix a map display issue wherein a map is not displayed in a record view page when the spatial location or spatial coverage contains a value of zero (CC-1620)

  • Optimisation of subject search filters (CC-1164)

  • Grants and Projects

  • Slightly re-arranged the Activity/Grant view page to highlight grant PURL identifier (CC-1122, CC-1500)

  • Enhancements to the Funder, Grant & Project view pages to highlight child activities and data outputs (CC-1208)

  • Contributor Page:

  • Fix the number of research groups in Research Data Profile (CC-1546)

  • Change the auto-generated text for all state and federal pages (CC-1414)

Research Vocabularies Australia (RVA)

  • Fix issue with My Vocabs authentication via twitter (CC-1621)
  • Enhancements to vocabulary portal authorisation checks (CC-1464)
  • Minor enhancements and bug fixes to the Vocabulary View Page (CC-1534, CC-1552)
  • Search filters "view more" bug fix (CC-1493)
  • Improvement to vocab publication workflow (CC-1475)
  • Addition of 'widget explorer' page on RVA to allow users to explore the use of a widget in their systems(CC-1452)

Widgets, APIs, Tools

  • Capture information of users who download and use an ANDS widget (CC-1506)
  • Logging/tracking of all ANDS Registry OAI-PMH provider activities (CC-1070)
  • Enhance research grants API to include new grant attributes and search indices. (CC-1169)

Installation of this upgrade:

  • update the ANDS-Registry-Core codebase (either fetch latest tarball or git fetch && git rebase origin/master)
  • update registry database (dbs_vocabs_r18_to_r19_incr.sql)
  • RDA Solr schema has been changed. In the maintenance directory run php index.php registry maintenance migrate doMigration registryIndex
  • Reindex
  • (optional) Create the new vocabs core:
  • cd /opt/solr-5.4.0/bin
  • ./solr create -c vocabs
  • Install Solr schema in new core:
  • sudo su -s /bin/sh apache -c "php index.php registry maintenance migrate doMigration vocabIndex up"
  • Reindex in Solr: log in as a registry superuser, and load this URL: https://vocabs.ands.org.au/vocabs/services/vocabs/all/index