v0.6 - Federsee

This release is based on different frameworks. Please check INSTALL.md for upgrade informations.

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)

v0.5.1

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

v0.5 - 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)

v0.4.4

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

v0.4.3

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.

v0.4.2

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.

v0.4.1

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)

v0.4 - 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

v0.3.5

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

v0.3.4

Fixed

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

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