Hub Changelog

Changelog

The Local Contexts Hub is a web portal that allows Indigenous communities to customize the Local Contexts Traditional Knowledge and Biocultural Labels, and institutions and researchers to generate Local Contexts Notices.

The Local Contexts team appreciates user questions and feedback as we continue to develop the Hub into a useful tool! Please get in touch with us by emailing support@localcontexts.org.

August 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Public account pages updated to show projects where an account is a contributor instead of just projects owned by that account.
• Projects board added (for more information, visit our blog post)
• Notice translations added to the Project workflow (for more information, visit our blog post)

Other Changes

• Collections Care policy upload limited to PDF, DOC, DOCX file types.
• Tooltip added to Label language fields.
• Open to Collaborate Notice filter added to the Registry.
• Added the option to remove your account as a contributor on a Project (as long as you are not the creator of the Project).
• “Local Contexts Registry” menu item renamed to “Registry” and “My Profile” renamed to “Profile” for consistency.
• Added help hints for “Project comments” and “Project activity” sections.
• Updated Community entity and Project visibility help hint language for consistency.
• Content updates to downloadable template letter for Communities in the registration process.
• Updated content on the Newsletter sign-up page.
• Added notifications for when a Label is approved/not approved and added a delete button to user notifications.
• Notice page content updates.
• Collections Care download zip file updated with QR codes and PDFs.
• Added alt text to all the CC Notice icons for accessibility
• Updated Engagement Notice zip file download process to match CC Notice process
• Added a New Researcher email with a survey (sent when a new Researcher joins the Hub).

Bug Fixes

• Labels bug fixed so the Labels cannot be approved by the last user that edited them.
• Fixed bug where Researcher location was not displaying on public pages.
• Fixed bug preventing certain Label customizations to not submit.

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July 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Collections Care Notices modal added under the Notices tab for Institution and Researcher accounts.

Other Changes

• Content updated in the Engagement and Disclosure Notice README files.
• Label language and translation validation added.
• UI update for Label audio file upload/removal.
• Added OTC Notice to Institution and Researcher accounts in the Registry that have added OTC links.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed bug for account image uploads.

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June 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Create Institution page now linked to ROR API. User input shows a list of most relevant institution suggestions and, once clicked, the Town or City, State, Provinence, or Region, and the Country fields are automatically populated based on ROR.
  • ROR institutions cannot have their locations changed in account settings.
• Institution form for non-ROR institutions moved to separate page. UI for link updated to be more prominent on the main Create Institution page.

Other Changes

• Sample confirmation letter download has been added to the Preparation Step page of Creating a Community.
• Sample support letter download has been added to the Preparation Step page of Creating an Institution.
• Added file validation for uploading support documents to only accept .pdf, .doc, .docx files.
• Confirmation step now checks for either a contact email OR an uploaded letter before moving on.
• Updated Connect Related Projects modal so the Connect Projects button is disabled until at least one Project is selected.
• Added original Label language information on the View and Edit Label pages.
• Added a user notification when a user is removed as a member from an account.
• UI update for institution/community/researcher image uploads. Users can now preview their images and clear them.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where some projects were unable to be viewed due to missing Project Creator.
• Fixed errors in the title filtering/search of the Project List on the API.
• For Label creation when setting a language, the drop-down list will now show accented/macron characters when unaccented characters are typed in.

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May 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Editing a Project will no longer redirect to the Projects page, instead it will redirect back to the Project’s Action page.

Other Changes

• Social media buttons have now been added to the Share portion of the View Projects / Project Actions page.
• Some UI updates on the invitations page for when a user is invited to join an account.

Bug Fixes

• Project Contributors were not able to remove communities and researchers from Project contributors.
• Registry list is now alphabetized and search now searches across all account types and takes into account names with accents.

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April 2023 Updates

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.

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March 2023 Updates

Other Changes

• New email templates added.
• Copy ID button for Project ID on Project Action page.
• Project sorting on Projects pages changed to a dropdown and added sorting by Title A-Z.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a bug where Communities that created a Project were not able to apply Labels to their own Projects.
• Fixed a bug that showed a 404 error on Project view.
• Bug fixed where emails were not being sent out during certain Actions where they were supposed to (adding/removing contributors, member join requests, member invites, etc.)

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February 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Contributing communities can only apply Labels to a Project if they are notified of it first.
• Public Projects have a “View As” card, where only contributors can view the Project action page as one of their contributing accounts and a public view.
• Added and updated in various locations around the hub the Privacy Policy link and disclaimers:
  • Added privacy policy link to the registration page.
  • Added disclaimers to account creation: institution, community.
  • Added disclaimers to settings in profile and all accounts, as well as create-profile and Project comments.
  • Added a tooltip with a disclaimer to the customize Label page next to the Label text.
  • Content updates to apply Labels tooltip and adding disclaimer to join request popups

Other Changes

• Styled email templates for all outgoing emails.
• Notify Communities popup content update.
• Project action page misc content updates.
• Content update for different Contributor Views
• Copyright in footer set to dynamically change every year without having to manually change it.
• Adjusted the footer: it would jump up the page when there wasn’t enough content to fill the page, will now stay on the bottom regardless of content.

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January 2023 Updates

Important Changes

• Add placeholder content to account public pages in place of the Contact Us button — for unauthenticated users, it will say Login to contact and for members of accounts, it will say You are a member of this account.
• Link communities to public account pages in project action when a project has Labels, meaning when a Label is applied to a Project by a community the shared by {community name} is now a link to the public account page for those communities.
• Adding a Project message now creates an action notification to the relevant accounts.
• The content for the Project message notification was updated from the generic ‘Project has a new message’, which now includes a truncated title of the Project.
• Added Project creator name to “creator” in Project Actions so it now displays Created — Creator Name | Account.
• Added names to the Project activity of who did the action.
• Hyperlinked contributors and notified communities to public pages on the Project Action page.
• Added members’ emails to members’ cards that only admins can see.
• Make non-community-created Projects, where the community has added a Label, appear on the community public page.
• Set up backend to delete instances of project archive on project deletion.
• Adjust public project view to exclude actions besides Share and Download.

Other Changes

• Misc content and UI updates for the Project Actions page and Community Notes.
• Project activity was not working right for Labels being added and removed.
• Member request cards and member invites now have the user’s email visible to only admins of an account.
• Project messages: changed to Project comments.
•  Change discoverable to contributor view in places where it wasn’t changed yet.
• Adjust Project activity when Labels have already been applied to not display ‘Notices have been removed’ as more Labels are added/removed.
• Added terms and conditions to the registration page.

Bug Fixes

• Welcome to the Hub email had a login URL that was not working properly.
• Project comments were not showing up on the Project Action page for communities.
• In the contributor view of a Project, the Download and Share buttons were not displaying, this has been fixed.

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