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April 2023 Updates

Major Update

On April 10, 2023 (US Pacific Time), the Local Contexts Hub received two new features: Sub and Related Projects. Read the latest post on the changes here. If you encounter any issues, please let us know at support@localcontexts.org.

Important Changes

  • API Updated (for more information, visit the API Guide)
    • Related Project unique_ids added to Project Detail API.
    • Sub Project unique_ids added to the Project Detail API.
    • API call added: filter by Provider ID in institution search.
  • Sub Projects
    • Sub projects on actions page now appear as linked titles.
    • Editors and admins of community and institution accounts can create sub projects.
    • Sub Projects section moved on the Project Action page to be by Related Projects.
  • Related Projects
    • Related projects can be created or connected as well as disconnected. These actions also create new Project activity on each action.
    • Archived Projects will now appear in the Connect Related Projects list.
  • Newsletter subscription, un-subscription, and preferences updates (available via production Hub only).
  • Project Overview page — Projects now in a table and pagination UI has been updated.
  • Projects can no longer be downloaded on the test/sandbox site. If a user hits the URL directly, it will redirect to a 403: Forbidden.
  • Unconfirmed communities and institutions on the main site will no longer be able to download Projects. The button will be disabled and if they try to hit the URL directly it will redirect to 403: Forbidden.
  • Unconfirmed communities can no longer download Labels and Label download has been disabled for the sandbox site.
  • Unconfirmed institutions can no longer download the OTC Notice and OTC Notice download has been disabled for the sandbox site.

Other Changes

  • Some stylistic updates to all modals for consistency.
  • Project View Page now has a copy button for project URL.
  • Updated the API Documentation
    • Added call example for institutions/providers_id, sub and related Projects and updated the OTC call with the URL to Usage Guides.
    • Added active implementations of our API to the documentation.
  • Public account pages in the registry and connections pages: list of projects now in a table.
  • Share Project modal on the View Project/Project Actions page added.
  • Labels now group by Community on the View Project/Project Action Page
  • Content updates to the registration process for account response time limits.
  • Usage guides updated from PDF to URL in Project and Label Downloads, Notices, and API.

Bug Fixes

  • Adding a contributor as a researcher was throwing a 500 error.
  • Opening some projects without a source unique_id was throwing a 500 error.
  • If a source Project is deleted, its sub projects still retained the unique_id as their source project uuid.
  • If user enters wrong or malformed unique_id on the API Project Detail call, will redirect to a 404 Not Found instead of 500 Server Error.
  • Private Projects can no longer be seen by other users.