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@tkleinke tkleinke released this 23 May 09:10
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v3.4.0
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Features

  • Inventory management: Resources of categories "Find", "Find collection" and "Sample" can now be assigned to storage places
  • QR codes (available for categories "Find", "Find collection", "Sample" and "Storage Place"):
    • Generating new QR codes (optionally automatically at resource creation time)
    • Linking existing QR codes to resources via camera scan
    • Accessing resources via camera scan of QR code (available via the new QR code scanner button in search bar)
    • Printing QR code labels (fields to print can be selected in the category editor)
    • Setting storage place of a resource via camera scan of the QR code assigned to the storage place
  • New menu "Warnings": Data problems are now displayed in a filterable list and can be resolved with a number of tools. The following warning types exist:
    • Conflict
    • Unconfigured category
    • Unconfigured field
    • Invalid field data
    • Value not included in the configured valuelist
    • Missing target resource of a relation
    • Missing or invalid parent resource
    • Missing identifier prefix
    • Ambiguous identifier
    • Resource limit exceeded
  • New image import option to either read image creators from image file metadata or set them manually
  • Configuration export
  • Configuration import from file
  • New option for setting a resource limit in the category editor (available for operation subcategories and category "Place")
  • New welcome screen shown when starting the application for the first time

Changes

  • The interface is now available in Turkish. For questions and comments on the translation, please contact: [email protected]
  • The user name is now displayed at the top right side of the navigation bar
  • Entering a user name is now mandatory
  • The button "Show child resources" is now used to switch directly to the hierarchy level of the respective resource
  • Child resources are now shown in resource view (in new group "Hierarchy" per default)
  • The info button has been removed from the resource list items, instead the resource info view now opens when clicking the list item itself
  • New category "Storage Place" (used in inventory management) with subcategories "Building", "Room", "Shelf", "Compartment", "Box" and "Bag"
  • New relations "Is stored in" and "Is storage place of" for linking a find, find collection or sample to a storage place (and vice versa)
  • Relations "Is present in profile/planum" and "Include stratigraphical units" are now shown in group "Position / Context" per default
  • Subcategories of category "Place" can now be created
  • New search constraint "Child resources" is now available in field specific search
  • The creation date is now automatically read from image files when importing images and added to the image resource
  • The dating type "Exact" has been renamed to "Single"
  • Dating type "Single" can now be marked as imprecise
  • Changed layout of relation target resources in resource view and relation picker of resource editor
  • The project properties can now be edited via import if the category "Project" is selected and the option "Update existing resources" is enabled
  • The project properties can now be exported by selecting the category "Project" in the export menu
  • A custom CSV separator can now be set in the export menu
  • File selection dialogs now always start in the last opened folder
  • The selected grid size and image metadata import settings are now restored when restarting the application
  • Values selected from a valuelist are now shown in sorted order in resource view
  • The info widget for values that are not included in the configured valuelist is now also shown for fields that use a field of the project properties as valuelist and for fields of input type "Dropdown range" and "Dimension"
  • A warning icon is now shown in the resource editor for composite fields that contain values that are not included in the configured valuelist
  • Resources without a valid parent resource are not displayed in resources view anymore
  • The order of identifier and short description has been switched in the resource labels shown in the resource selection widgets of menus "Matrix", "Import" and "Export"
  • The project name is now used as the default file name for backup files
  • Improved scrolling behavior when navigating resource lists via arrow keys
  • The input type "Single line text with multiple selection" is now called "Single line text (List)"

Bugfixes

  • Fixed a bug where the info widget for values that are not included in the configured valuelist would not be shown for fields of input type "Dropdown"
  • Fixed marking fields of input types "Whole number", "Decimal number", "Positive whole number", "Positive decimal number" and "URL" as invalid in resource editor
  • Fixed a bug where georeference information would not be parsed correctly from GeoTIFF files
  • Fixed a bug where relations of type "Is present in profile/planum" would not be removed correctly when the target resource was deleted
  • Fixed a bug where image synchronization would not continue after stopping and restarting synchronization
  • Fixed a bug in CSV import where files with fields of input type "Checkboxes" could not be imported if the fields were left empty
  • Fixed a bug in import where fields of input type "Single line text (List)" could not be imported without enabling the option "Allow input in multiple languages" in field editor
  • Fixed a bug in import where the option to ignore invalid fields would not work correctly if the option "Update existing resources" would be enabled
  • Fixed a bug where invalid data could be imported in composite fields
  • Fixed a bug where imported type catalogs could not be deleted
  • Fixed a bug where synchronization would be restarted after importing resources even if it had not been active before
  • Fixed displaying short description in geometry tooltips
  • Fixed inheriting relations from supercategory "Opening"
  • Fixed character encoding issues when displaying field values with multiple entries in resource info
  • Fixed a bug in relation picker where the previously selected relation target would not be restored after closing the dropdown menu
  • Fixed a bug in configuration editor where changes could not be reset if a category filter with no configured categories was selected
  • Fixed a bug in configuration editor where the first group of the first category would in some cases not be opened correctly after deleting a category
  • Fixed a bug in valuelist editor where a value would appear in the list of ordered values even if the value creation modal was cancelled
  • Fixed the layout of the close button in resource view modal and image view modal for long resource identifiers

Notes

  • IMPORTANT: It is recommended to create backup files for all projects or synchronize the data with a server before installing a new version of Field Desktop.
  • QR code functionality is only available after enabling QR code usage for the respective category in the category editor. The QR code scanner button is only shown if at least one of the project's categories is using QR codes.
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