Activity
From 03/04/2009 to 04/02/2009
04/02/2009
- 07:08 PM Revision 4899 (metacat): Enable uploads for the default KNB skin. With the improvements to infrastructure Mike's done, this should work like a charm
- 05:45 PM Revision 4898 (metacat): do not duplicate the true/false indicators for the metadata vocab/value matrix
- 05:40 PM Revision 4897 (metacat): use recordNum instead of studentId for transposed data
- 05:20 PM Revision 4896 (metacat): use "recordNum" rather than "studentId"
- 05:00 PM Revision 4895 (metacat): omit studentId values from normal resultset
- strip the html tags from the qti elements for both return formats
- 04:27 PM Revision 4894 (metacat): Removed spatial coverage requirement for KNB skin
- 03:20 PM Revision 4893 (metacat): disable output escaping for CDATA html elements
- 02:24 PM Bug #3928: Support multiple administrators ACL rules in editing existing documents
- The issue isn't actually with auth.moderators, though we will want to either change the behavior to not include every...
- 09:36 AM Revision 4892 (metacat): split vocab/value into two columns (can easily switch back to single column)
04/01/2009
- 05:03 PM Bug #3929: Mulitple keywords aren't processed by the edit action properly
- Fixed in r4891
- 05:00 PM Bug #3929 (Resolved): Mulitple keywords aren't processed by the edit action properly
- There's been a regression since 1.8.1 and editing multiple keywords no longer works (originally part of #3319). It l...
- 05:01 PM Revision 4891 (metacat): Adding back fix for editing documents with multiple keywords, closing #3929
- 04:01 PM Bug #3928 (Resolved): Support multiple administrators ACL rules in editing existing documents
- This document is throwing and ACL error when trying to edit it:
http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat?action=rea... - 12:00 PM Revision 4890 (metacat): question choices and metadata selection controlled by a counter - can easily increase the number returned...note: probably need to make this a parameter for user or be intelligent about figuring what the widest question is (ie: does it have 5,10,20! metadata entries?)
- 10:21 AM Revision 4889 (metacat): include short answer prompts in the resultset view
- 10:06 AM Revision 4888 (metacat): include prompt for both multiple choice and short answer questions when downloading
- 09:08 AM Revision 4887 (metacat): omit the demographic data - this is not well-defined for the prototype
03/31/2009
- 03:43 PM Revision 4886 (metacat): omit duplicate values in the for the standard metadata header section (columns for each question)
- 03:26 PM Revision 4885 (metacat): omit the metadata vocab/values from the normal header section since they will be used in the "matrix-style" header section
- 02:16 PM Revision 4884 (metacat): added more docs
- 01:03 PM Bug #3922 (Resolved): Registry inserts "Select state or territory here." as default value
- On the data registry form for new data submissions, the "U.S. State or Territory" drop down menu has a default value ...
- 12:03 PM Revision 4883 (metacat): add vocab name/value matrix above data rows.
- currently there is only a single column for the concatenated value of the vocab name + "/" + vocab value. it's so muc...
- 09:33 AM Revision 4881 (metacat): reduce the extra whitespace on the transpose
03/30/2009
- 04:01 PM Revision 4880 (metacat): hide the "transpose" checkbox except when on the data cart page
- 11:10 AM Revision 4879 (metacat): use name attributes for selection entity-attributes.
- note: this is still a static version of which question-level metadata is being included in the resultset
- 11:08 AM Revision 4878 (metacat): only "correct" non-null values
03/27/2009
- 01:25 PM Revision 4877 (metacat): allow both text nodes and cdata nodes to provide content for document data package values (FIRST)
- 01:17 PM Revision 4876 (metacat): include qPrompt and qChoice
- need to quote the csv so that commas in the question text do not throw it off
- 11:21 AM Revision 4875 (metacat): Now the metadata attributes show as rows above the data.
- very close!
todo: special handling for thesaurus (ie NBII/Bloom) metadata fields - 09:15 AM Revision 4874 (metacat): pivot constrained to a List of specific attributes: studentId (record number), score, response.
- This is the "lower half" of the return set (data).
now: on to the metadata header rows
03/26/2009
- 05:02 PM Revision 4873 (metacat): Update version to 1.9.1. Add nrs ldap properties to configuration.
- 04:06 PM Revision 4872 (metacat): Now doing the dataquery/download in the FIRST skin's jsp rather than embedded in the Metacat servlet.
- TODO: implement the very-custom data return format agreed upon by the FIRST team
- 04:02 PM Revision 4871 (metacat): remove DataTranspose from core metacat - only used in FIRST skin for this 1.9.1 release
- 02:21 PM Bug #3920 (New): ldapweb should use the correct location for 'organization' properties
- To work around issues with modifying metacat.properties post-deployment, the UCNRS organization properties (including...
- 02:04 PM Revision 4870 (metacat): Include hack for UCNRS organization properties.
- 02:03 PM Revision 4869 (metacat): add LDAP base to NRS skin properties
- 11:09 AM Revision 4868 (metacat): - build up username using base if username isn't fully qualified (e.g. cn=Manager,dc=ecoinformatics,dc=org)
- - additional debugging statements for changePassword
- 11:07 AM Revision 4867 (metacat): add UCNRS LDAP properties
03/25/2009
- 06:34 PM Bug #3913: "forget password page" (ldap) on dev doesn't work for nceas organization
- The removal of the organization LDAP properties (r4729) caused this to break. I've added an simple autoconfiguration ...
- 06:29 PM Revision 4866 (metacat): - fix error reporting for failed password reset request
- - automatically generate necessary LDAP parameters from our defaults,
included in auth.base and unaffiliated proper... - 04:38 PM Revision 4865 (metacat): - reformat header
- - add debugging for getLdapEntry searches
- add 'filter' parameter for organizations - 03:42 PM Revision 4864 (metacat): Provide improved contextUrl, provide proper URL in password reset message body
- 03:04 PM Revision 4863 (metacat): Accidentally removed ACCESS constant declaration. Restored.
- 02:41 PM Revision 4862 (metacat): Handle UtilException
- 02:41 PM Revision 4861 (metacat): Roll back replication user changes. Fix code that converts access levels to integer and to text.
- 02:36 PM Revision 4860 (metacat): Add date to log output
03/24/2009
- 04:36 PM Revision 4859 (metacat): include pivot options for dataquery
- 03:25 PM Revision 4858 (metacat): added more to the draft.
- 02:18 PM Bug #3906: Can't read files whose names are a path
- This bug was third in a chain reaction that is described in but 3889. Basically, permissions issues caused zero leng...
- 01:56 PM Bug #3908: replication data user permission error
- Note, the replication user was added to the SessionService (next to the public user) so that it is always logged in.
- 01:56 PM Bug #3908: replication data user permission error
- The replication system was getting a user from the post request for certain read operations. It should have ALL perm...
- 01:53 PM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- This was related to but 3908, where there were permissions issues with the replication handler. This caused a chain ...
- 11:24 AM Revision 4857 (metacat): Somehow log4j.properties is missing from head. Restoring it.
- 10:17 AM Revision 4856 (metacat): Introduce replication user. Use the fileutil writer methods instead of writing directly.
03/23/2009
- 05:02 PM Revision 4855 (metacat): new datamanager feature!
- Pivot a result set (rows to columns).
Handles simplest case:
-single id column (observation)
-single pivot column (p... - 02:56 PM Revision 4854 (metacat): Beef up exception handling from file utilities. Move UtilException to MetacatUtilException to eliminate conflict with similar exception in utility package.
- 12:55 PM Revision 4853 (metacat): add date to log output
- 10:45 AM Bug #3908: replication data user permission error
- Hi, ben. I think this is perhaps the issue: "pisco_recruitment.314.1" is trying to ALSO specify access for data file...
- 09:57 AM Bug #3908: replication data user permission error
- looking at the error message again, and looking at the Ids involved:
i found EML doc "pisco_recruitment.123.1" that s... - 09:23 AM Bug #3908: replication data user permission error
- looking into documents on LTER metacat:
pisco_recruitment.120 is a data file in the package pisco_recruitment.123.
Th...
03/20/2009
- 05:19 PM Bug #3911: Old cgi-bin references are still being rendered by 1.8.1 registry code
- The URLs in the pages themselves (e.g. the 'Registry' link from the NCEAS skin) will work fine, only preexisting refe...
- 03:33 PM Bug #3911: Old cgi-bin references are still being rendered by 1.8.1 registry code
- This type of a redirect will simply shield the actual URI problem in the source. Can't we find these problems and fix...
- 03:15 PM Bug #3911 (Closed): Old cgi-bin references are still being rendered by 1.8.1 registry code
- References to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/cgi-bin/ should be redirected to their new and permanent home at /knb/cgi...
- 03:46 PM Bug #3913 (Resolved): "forget password page" (ldap) on dev doesn't work for nceas organization
- I was trying to figure out the issue that "forget password page" doesn't work for UCNRS. After changing the username/...
03/19/2009
- 06:02 PM Revision 4852 (metacat): added more documentation.
- 11:33 AM Bug #3907: Zero length documents are getting written to disk
- Added code to make sure zero length docs do not get written.
- 08:44 AM Bug #3907 (Resolved): Zero length documents are getting written to disk
- From jim r:
As promised, below are some DPs that return a blank page when I attempt to view them on the web. Note ... - 10:25 AM Revision 4851 (metacat): Do not read or write zero length documents to/from disk
- 10:01 AM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- sbc_eml210_test.4 and sbc_eml210_test.5 are definitely erroring out on the knb side with an error described in ticket...
- 09:59 AM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- Moved the replication data permissions error to a separate ticket #3908
- 09:43 AM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- Did you see any access control error which I reported on the second comment during the replication from lter to knb?
- 09:21 AM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- checked on replication for the 6 packages listed when this bug was opened. Replication for these is at 50%. 3 out of ...
- 09:57 AM Bug #3908 (Resolved): replication data user permission error
- From Jing
I observed some error message during the replication from LTER to KNB:
Failed to write doc pisco_recru... - 08:41 AM Bug #3906 (Resolved): Can't read files whose names are a path
- During replication, Metacat is getting a lot of errors that look like:
knb 06:35:44,975: [ERROR]: error to handle...
03/18/2009
03/17/2009
- 05:12 PM Revision 4849 (metacat): Handle all places where ldap may be null
- 04:54 PM Revision 4848 (metacat): enclose more references to ldap and mesg in the if (ldap) statement.
- 04:40 PM Revision 4847 (metacat): made mesg var global to function.
- 04:35 PM Revision 4846 (metacat): left off ;
- 04:28 PM Revision 4845 (metacat): Do not try to use non-existant ldap object if ldap server is down.
- 02:41 PM Revision 4844 (metacat): made a few minor changes and additions.
- 09:19 AM Bug #3889: KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- Hi, Mike:
I observed some error message during the replication from LTER to KNB:
Failed to write doc pisco_recruitm... - 08:15 AM Bug #3895 (Closed): Add/update authentication architecture documentation
- The current authentication documentation is out of date.
- 08:14 AM Bug #3894 (Resolved): Document metacat eclipse dev setup
- Fully document setting up metacat eclipse development environment
03/16/2009
- 03:10 PM Bug #3891 (Resolved): Create a scheduler service
- Right now, tasks in metacat are scheduled either via an event, like hitting metacat servlet, or timed delays. We sho...
- 01:38 PM Bug #3889 (Resolved): KNB and LTER metacats not replicating some 210 test docs
- Mike asked me to put this info into a bug.
sbc_eml210_test.6.2 (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/metacat/sbc_eml2... - 01:24 PM Bug #3885: KNB metacat replication error log file is empty
- There are several errors in ReplicationHandler that only report to the metacat log. These should report to the repli...
- 01:12 PM Bug #3882: KNB Web links don't work correctly
- Two issues. KNB web was still looking for cgi in the /cgi-knb directory. Changed it to look in /knb/cgi-bin.
Knbwe... - 01:10 PM Bug #3883: OBFS skins still using ant tokens
- The ant tokens were in the common directory for eml beta 6. Created beta 6 branch and fixed tokens in eml-settings. ...
- 01:08 PM Bug #3853: Make sure the sbclter and pisco skins work with token replacement
- Updated the SBCLTER skins with margaret. Chris said to leave pisco. They would make it work with an existing skin.
- 09:12 AM Bug #3887: Add sessionid parameter to XML link in EML stylesheet
- If the functionality is the same, can the session Id be left out? The URL will look much better and can also be maile...
03/14/2009
- 09:28 AM Bug #3887 (Resolved): Add sessionid parameter to XML link in EML stylesheet
- Margaret O'Brien recently reported the following problem accessing an XML-formatted EML document with protected acces...
03/13/2009
- 01:37 PM Revision 4843 (metacat): replace eml2_0_1-style-tag with eml2-style-tag
- 01:28 PM Revision 4842 (metacat): remove unneeded ecogrid.hostname property
- 01:27 PM Revision 4841 (metacat): Use only one eml common stylesheet directory for all post 2.0.0 beta versions of eml. Point all eml versions to that directory in skin xml files.
- 01:22 PM Revision 4840 (metacat): Increase database.maximumConnections from 25 to 200
- 01:20 PM Revision 4839 (metacat): Fix registryService file locations.
03/12/2009
- 04:40 PM Bug #3886 (Resolved): Metacat perfomance analysis
- Metacat is using a lot of memory on production and seems to use many db connections. We should monitor and determine...
- 10:46 AM Bug #3885 (Resolved): KNB metacat replication error log file is empty
- In the new 1.9.0 knb metacat, it seems the replication log files' name are changed. Somehow the error log file is emp...
- 10:40 AM Bug #3881: Replication not working between KNB and LTER metacats
- Got email from Duane and the replication seemed working.
03/11/2009
- 06:07 PM Bug #3881: Replication not working between KNB and LTER metacats
- After getting the new certificate issued for metacat.lternet.edu and change the server to metacat.lternet.edu:8443/kn...
- 01:21 PM Bug #3881: Replication not working between KNB and LTER metacats
- LTER changed the host name of metacat. But the certificate and the host name in knb xml_replication has not been upda...
- 01:13 PM Bug #3881 (Resolved): Replication not working between KNB and LTER metacats
- After the 1.9.0 upgrade on knb and lter, docs are not replicating from knb to lter. Jing is working with Duane C to ...
- 05:50 PM Revision 4838 (metacat): made a couple corrections.
- 05:26 PM Revision 4837 (metacat): Very rough draft of Metacat Admin guide outline
- 01:22 PM Bug #3884: Perl modules missing from 1.9.0 install
- Completed the perl install instructions for 1.9.0 which included the Config::Properties module.
Works now. - 01:21 PM Bug #3884 (Resolved): Perl modules missing from 1.9.0 install
- Per Matt
Go to NCEAS skin (http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/style/skins/nceas/)
then search for 'soil' which ... - 01:19 PM Bug #3883 (Resolved): OBFS skins still using ant tokens
- After the 1.9.0 Metacat release, Matt wrote:
Go to http://knb.ecoinformatics.org/knb/style/skins/obfs/
Search... - 01:18 PM Bug #3882: KNB Web links don't work correctly
- This was found after the 1.9.0 metacat release to KNB.
- 01:17 PM Bug #3882 (Resolved): KNB Web links don't work correctly
- There are several issues with links and hardcoded paths in knbweb. These have been reproduced in a dev environment.
...
03/10/2009
- 01:55 PM Revision 4836 (metacat): Draft of Metacat overview for scientists.
- 01:52 PM Revision 4835 (metacat): Added draft of Metacat overview for scientists.
03/06/2009
03/05/2009
- 01:39 PM Revision 4832 (metacat): Added jing's suggested changes
- 01:29 PM Revision 4831 (metacat): include NSF grant number
- 11:26 AM Revision 4830 (metacat): Add documentation for query caching and indexing mechanisms.
03/04/2009
- 04:18 PM Revision 4829 (metacat): found more method that should be plural
- 02:08 PM Revision 4828 (metacat): removed duplicate variable settings
- 02:00 PM Revision 4827 (metacat): fixed path for sibling access
- 10:19 AM Revision 4826 (metacat): 1. changed path for doc-level access to sibling instead of child
- 2. renamed template "datasetaccess" to datatableaccess and changed path to distribution/access
- 10:02 AM Revision 4825 (metacat): updated templates to reflect new spelling of dateTime and methods in attributes.
- 09:31 AM Revision 4824 (metacat): Added eml 2.1.0 stylesheets for sbclter.
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