Release v3.7.1

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issues caused by latest major revision of primefaces 7.0
  • Allow file uploads with file types typed in any case. (ex: .jpg = .JPG = .Jpg)
  • Resolve issues with filtering within various data tables.
    • Tables that rely on generated item identifier column.
    • Tables that rely on item membership 'part of' column.
    • Tables that rely on locatable item 'location description' column.''

Release v3.7.0

MAARC Domain

• Detect file items that represent a view able file
  • Generate a scaled and thumbnail preview
  • Store generated previews for improved performance after first load
  • Represent the file by the thumbnail
  • Open a new tab instead of downloading to a file
  • Interactive gallery
• Settings
  • Add user settings for MAARC domain
  • Default maarc type in the maarc item list to "Study"
• Add ability to sort and filter files in a study view
• Allow removal of study file references
• MAARC relationship
  • Allow MAARC relationship to be created using API.
  • Allow creation of MAARC relationship with Machine Design items
  • Allow creation of MAARC relationship with Inventory items
  • Allow removal of MAARC relationships
• Add custom style for MAARC pages

Plugins

• Traveler Integration Improvements
  • Ability to archive travelers
  • Ability to view all archived travelers
  • Ability to restore archived travelers
  • Ability to remove travelers from a binder

Portal Enhancements

• Upgrade to Primefaces 7.0
• Functionality to allow an admin to preview and manage all active sessions.
• Application scoped controller that interacts with all sessions.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve the issue of using " symbol when creating a new item.
• Resolve issue with creation of new property type with a new plugin handler not being to be completed in one step.
• Resolve issue with not being able export a list to excel.
• Resolve issue with multi-edit continue button not working.

Release v3.6.1

Bug Fixes

• Resolve the missing alternate name for various machine design create options
• Resolve the missing filter functionality from item selection data table

GUI Test Improvements

• Utilize the alternate name when adding machine design items

Release v3.6.0

Machine Design

• Add functionality for specifying an alternate name to machine design items
• Add a default sort order for newly added machine design child items
• Include Machine Design items in item membership section of other items

Inventory

• Allow user to edit location and location details from the multi-edit screen
• Allow user to update the component instance status from the multi-edit screen

Portal Enhancements

• Add various performance improvements when loading item lists and detail pages
• Add a "reset session" button to allow a user to clear their session without needing to log out and in. It clears data cached for the user
• Allow user to select a blank location from the location menu
• Allow authenticating user with ldap dn lookup

Web Service Enhancements

• Allow adding log entries to item using item id
• Allow authenticating user with ldap dn lookup

Plugins

• Add IRMIS location plugin - @imranau

Bug Fixes

• Resolve issue with scaling wide images
• Resolve errors when starting search page while waiting for results
• Resolve issue with property type handler with display type and allowed values to allow user to pick from allowed values
• Resolve filtering issue with type (function on catalog) for items in data table
• Resolve issue with property value history not saving during the time of change
• Resolve missing save all button from multi-edit screen for some cases
• Resolve issue when uploading certain PDF document
• Resolve the missing property value history dialog from machine design details page
• Resolve issue with item selection lists showing incorrect items for selection in certain cases
• Resolve issues with creating traveler instance from multi-edit screen

Release 3.5.0

Machine Design

• Allows building an advanced hierarchy of items in CDB to allow a user to build a machine design.
• Machine designs are unique and could only be used once in the hierarchy
• Primary editable tree view GUI
• Dual view functionality
  • Split view with machine design tree view and current action.
  • Allows users to edit the hierarchy while viewing the machine design hierarchy.
  • Allows users to view details of a machine design item and preview its parents (location) in main hierarchy
• Supports location relationship. Machine design items can have locations defined.
• Machine Design Items can represent catalog and inventory items
• Machine Design Items can extend existing assemblies
• Configurable tree columns
• Allows for multiple machine design with same name to be created
  • Example: Rack
• Supports sorting of machine design items
• Supports Templates (See below)

Template Functionality

• Separate list page for templates
• When creating item from template a relationship is added
  • This will allow to build future use cases on updating the template and items created from template
  • User interface allows user to see items created from template and template and item was created from
• Machine Design Templates
  • Utilize the template relationship to allow updating, removing, and creating elements.
  • Uses parameters using {param name} in template name to be replaced during creation of machine design item.
  • Elements are link-able to only catalog and not inventory items.
• User can now create catalog template items
  • Some item info, properties, and sources automatically get cloned.

Catalog Item Enhancements

• Allow (In View) Sorting of Catalog Assembly Elements
• 'Edit All' Button for Inventory items

Inventory Item Enhancements

• Assembly sort order derived from catalog item
• Allow in view location update
• Add inventory status internal property that describes the status of the inventory item (received, spare, ordered, etc.)
• Update the spares tracking functionality to use the new inventory status.

Domain Specific Properties

• Allow administrator to define the properties available in each domain
• Domain lists now have a property type button that allows users to preview the domain property type list.

Other Portal Improvements

• Add icons that represent each domain in the system (Catalog, Inventory, Machine Design)
• Fetching of thumbnail images goes down the chain of related items.
  • Example: if inventory item does not, it will show the catalog image (if exists).
• Add scroll box to inventory column of filter view when too many inventory items exist
• Reload filter view to show newest items on the view when navigating back to the filter view
• Add effective date to log entries.
• Add filter functionality for properties with many metadata keys
• QR ID filtering is now more intuitive
• Add functionality for property handlers that would skip cloning their properties during clone
  • Example: Traveler instances and binders should not be clone-able (now implemented)
• Add a pencil icon for editable item fields
• Prevent opening multiple tabs and back button
  • CDB Architecture causes unexpected results with multiple tabs open or use of back button
• Allow users to wipe all settings back to defaults
• Reordered property value list for easier understanding of the data.
• Reduced on view load function executions. (Now it only executes on page load and not every ajax request)
• Update to primefaces 6.2
• Update to glassfish 5.0
• Github reference on about page

Plugins

• Allow property type handlers to define required metadata keys that will be automatically added during property type creation.
• DEEI Inspection
  • Link directly to a specific inspection using metadata key of inspection number
• Document Management System Integration
  • Allows users to search and add document collections, containers, and individual documents
  • Allows users to pull up information about documents
• Traveler Integration Improvements
  • Allow specifying a default set of templates relevant to all items.
  • Allow adding new and existing travelers travelers to existing binders
  • Set traveler to active automatically
  • Resolve issue with reusing a filter when adding multiple templates

Web Service

• Item Relationships
  • Allow adding of item location relationship
  • Allow adding relationship using qr id
• Allow fetching locations (All and top level)
• Allow updating the inventory status
• Allow providing derived from item id
• Require item project is specified during addition of items
• Allow uploading of images
• Allow specifying display value when adding property value (useful for http links)

Bug Fixes

• Growl notification messages no longer disappear before their expired time
• Resolve issue with filter boxes in data tables not working on the iPad
• Resolved Multi Create issue with not creating placeholder elements for catalog assemblies
• Hide traveler template delete/unlink from catalog item button unless user has permission
• The 'Catalog Item' column in inventory list now filters the same and the 'name' column in catalog list.
• Purchase req and other generated http properties do not ask for a display value any longer.
• Resolve issue with certain property value allowed values to cause the dropdown to not show the values.
• Allow deleting of catalog items with elements with properties (elements no longer editable for users)
• Improve performance of loading all location for inventory on the item list.
• Resolve issues with items that have single quote in their name.
• Use the appropriate list of technical systems of domain for in view editing of item and not global list.
• Update the dependency with vulnerability.
• Resolve issue with checking uniqueness of item on the database level
• Restore functionality for dynamic properties

Release 3.4.0

Traveler Improvements

• New sections added in item view pages
  • eTraveler Templates List (Catalog)
    • Ability to create/assign templates to a catalog item
    • Provides traveler template metadata specific columns
  • eTraveler Instances List (Inventory)
    • Ability to create traveler instances
    • Ability to create traveler binder (grouping of traveler instances)
    • Provides traveler instance metadata specific columns and dialog
    • Provides traveler binder contents and metadata UI
• Multi-Create/Multi-Edit
  • eTraveler Templates (Catalog)
    • Ability to create/assign template to a catalog item
    • Ability to create/assign same template to all selected items
  • eTraveler Instances (Inventory)
    • Ability to create a traveler instance for individual items
    • Ability to create a new traveler instance based on certain template for all selected items.

Plugin Framework

• New plugin functionality
  • Ability to specify a new section in catalog and inventory
  • Ability to specify multi-edit/multi-create configuration under "Extras" tab
  • Ability to specify multi-edit/multi-create edit columns
  • Ability to specify multi-edit/multi-create support files
• Plugin framework
  • Support finding files for new sections
  • Support finding files for multi-edit/multi-create configuration
  • Support finding files for multi-edit-multi-create edit columns
  • Support finding files for multi-edit-multi-create edit support files

Properties

• Property Type
  • Ability to create metadata keys
  • Ability to create allowed metadata values for keys
• Property Value
  • Redesigned add property value dialog
    • Only property type and value is shown by default a new "additional attributes" collapsed section contained the rest.
    • Added a new section for specifying metadata for a property value with type that contains metadata keys.
  • Moved the show metadata dialog button under value.
  • Resolve issue with missing metadata dialog on the item list page from row expansion.
• Update the catalog property section under inventory to use the catalog background.
• Resolve issues with allowed values sorting

Multi-Edit/Multi-Create

• Add functionality for editing type/category (Function/Technical System) from the multi-edit screen.

Release 3.3.0

Multi-Edit Multi-Create

• The functionality allows users to create or edit many catalog or inventory items.
• Available fields:
  • General attributes such as name, descriptions, etc.
  • Permissions
  • Properties
• Apply value or sequence (if applicable) to all items being updated.
• Delete many items.
• Revert unsaved changes made to item.
• Create many inventory items directly from the catalog item details page.

Simplified Item Elements

• User interaction as simple as adding another item within an item.
• Hidden attributes of element such as logs and properties to promote simplicity.
• Auto-naming feature allows the user to not worry about naming elements.
• More relevant item information is shown in the assembly listing (prior element list)
  • Item information as well as if the item is required within the assembly.

Other Improvements

• Add copy permanent link functionality to the system
• Add metadata view for property values [hidden for items currently].
• Support 512-character property values
• Support wiki-syntax for http link handler
• New icons applied to many areas in the system.
• Improve item element constrains enforcement by notifying the user about constraints one at a time as they are corrected.

Web Service

• Fetching
  • Property types
  • Allowed values
  • Fetching metadata
  • User groups
• Adding
  • Property value
  • Adding property metadata
  • Items
  • Item elements
• Updating item element
• Allow assign entity types, item identifier 1 & 2 when appropriate to items
• Package python rest API added to pypi.

Bug Fixes

• Resolve eclipselink internal server exception when fetching location history.
• Resolve issue where catalog item selection list would not be updated upon creation of new catalog items.
• Resolve issue that would prevent viewing item inventory list with a certain setting configuration.
• Update the export to excel and pdf functionality to work with new version of primefaces.

Code Improvements

• Separate out items of various domains to different model entity
  • Item entity only holds what applies to all items
  • Domain specific entity holds the extras
• Add extension controllers
  • Allow separation of item functionality within separate files.
  • Improved maintainability as more and more functionality is added.
• Separate out settings to designated files for all entity controllers.
  • Simplifies adding new settings.
• Add triggers to enforce some entity uniqueness on db layer appropriately.

Release 3.2.0

Catalog Assembly Designs

• Add functionality for modifying item elements with inventory based on certain criteria
• Add preview of constraints that prevent of certain updates on an item elements
• Optional Elements
  • Add functionality for tracking item elements as optional
  • Add UI for inventory items when adding elements that are optional.

Other Improvements

• Add PDMLink search utility when setting a PDMLink property value
• Setting to allow show of model number/serial number in item element list.
• Setting that allows to automatically refresh last used filters on the Catalog & Inventory list pages.

Bug Fixes

• Restore the purchase requisition property plugin (PARIS Link)
• Restore the no-cache header that improves user interaction when navigating using browser back button.
• Hide XHTML private directories from the user on the portal.
• Restore the appropriate user error pages & clean up styling.
• Do not allow user to modify Catalog properties from the Inventory page.

Release 3.1.0

Open Source

• Apply Licensing & prepare CDB source code for open sourcing.
• Add a plugin framework to aide in managing facility specific functionality.

Documentation

• Integrate the DB APIs source code documentation into readthedocs.
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Testing

• Add unit and integration testing framework with contained db for testing portal source code.
• Add selenium functional tests that interact with portal UI to ensure defined test use cases pass before release.
• Add simple unit tests for python web service source code.
• Automate the portal and web service testing by integrating git repository with TravisCI.
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System Log

• Add system logging functionality that stores various events in the CDB DB.
• Add an administrative user interface for browsing of the system added logs.

General

• Hide internal property types from user selection.

Web Service Log Functionality

• Add REST functionality for fetching, adding, updating, and removing logs. Including adding of attachments to logs.
• Add command line utilities that allow for use of the REST log functionality.

Bug Fixes

• Add missing edit page for item elements.
• Fix cloning functionality.
• Prevent hierarchical circular reference.
• Fix null converter error preventing selection of handler and category when defining a property type.
• Fix issue that prevented users from setting Boolean and date values.