Repository Management – Miscellaneous Improvements
This is a release, focusing on repository administration. And various miscellaneous improvements.
Quickly to share what is included …
Regards – your Coreon Team
Repository Management
A functionality improvement that makes the life of repository administrators a bit easier, namely when administering not only one but various repositories. “Copying” the repository configuration (properties, rating rules etc.) was up to now nothing but a manual task: “type it in again”. If your repository has only a few properties (like in W3C SKOSwith not much more than “Definition” or “Note”), then re-typing in the configuration settings was an acceptable approach. And the configuration of a repository does not change every day. But in some customer repositories we see up to 30+ properties (such as Definition) and some of them complemented with picklist value lists longer than 50 items, altogether more than 100+ settings … Keeping the configuration of two or three repositories then in sync was quite tedious.
We have now added to our export and import modules the capability to optionally also include the repository configuration. This is then saved together with the data in the Coreon XML file. Except the – always repository specific – list of users, the saved repository configuration includes all settings from the dashboard: Model, Rating Rules, Relations, Breadcrumbs, Languages, Access Rules.
That means to “copy” the configuration from one repository to the next, you would first export it from the one and then re-import to the second.
One technical consequence of this enhancement was to enhance the Coreon XML Schema (coreon.xsd) to carry that information. This is an incremental change to the schema, thus older Coreon XML files remain valid. Official, public URL reference:
https://coreon.com/schema/2023-05/coreon.xsd (and we’ve added a couple of documentary comments to the schema now, too 😉 )
Miscellaneous
And a couple of further bug fixes and improvements since the last update in March:
- Export: When running an export job with many (i.e. 20 or more) transformations embedded, then some transformations remained in status ‘pending’ and didn’t finish. This has been fixed.
- Todo List: When working with longer todo lists, in some Chrome browser configurations only the first few todo items had been fetched, while the remaining further ones were not shown. This was an issue caused by some screen resolution contexts. A difficult one … It has been fixed.
- Concept History log: Viewing a concept and then clicking the History log icon, then the changed values of properties have been shown only for a second, and were immediately hidden again. This has been fixed.
- Concept Map: When starting to add a concept, but then cancelling it – the placeholder of the drafted concept remained in the map. This has been resolved.
- Concept View: When editing a property of type multiselect that has many many value options, then no wrapping was applied to the UI control. This made it pretty difficult to edit such long value option lists. This has been improved by adding a wrapping behaviour.
