Uwazi v0.3.0 released

Documentation Updates

Uwazi user guide is now available!

We’re very happy to announce that our first draft of the Uwazi user guide is now available in English on our Github wiki! If you find any mistakes, or parts that can be improved, please suggest edits to the wiki using your Github account. This guide will be a work in progress until we have a stable release. We’re currently working on translating this guide into Spanish.

New Features

Improvements to the uploads section

These improvements make the uploads section more similar to the library, including:

• Properties can be displayed in document and entity cards, just as they are in the library.
• Document and entity cards can be sorted, filtered, and searched, just as they are in the library.
• The right side panel behaves the same as the library: the user can view the table of contents, properties, connections, and attachments without opening the document.
• The Add New Entity button has moved from the bottom right corner of the uploads section, to the top right corner of the main window in this section.

Create multiple users and assign roles

Administrators can now create user accounts and assign one of two roles: administrator and editor. This feature is especially helpful if you have a team of users who are adding and organising documents and entities in your collection. More information on the permissions assigned to each role >>

What does this mean for you?

• For those of you who have an instance hosted with us, we have already deployed this upgrade to your Uwazi instance, so there’s no need to do anything.

• If you are hosting Uwazi yourself, you will want to upgrade by downloading the latest release and run the following database migration using terminal on the root directory of Uwazi:

  export DATABASE_NAME='name'

  by default the name is uwazi_develaopment.

  If the mongodb server is on a remote machine, then configure it by:

  export DBHOST='theHost'

  then run:

  node run_migration.js

• See all of our updates in our GitHub changelog

• We’re working on our user guide on GitHub and you’re invited to contribute!

• Contact us if you have any questions!