5.1

Colectica 5.1.5014 (2015-06-16)

  • Colectica for Excel

    • Upgrade to DDI 3.2

    • New Colectica for Excel Professional Edition

    • Metadata completeness checks and validation reports

    • Speedup of creating task panes at startup

    • Improved installation documentation

    • Speedup of reading and saving all variable details

    • Fix: improved support for multiple main Excel windows in 2013 and 2016

    • Save DDI xml in a custom xml part in the .xslx file instead of a hidden sheet, providing huge speedup

    • Fix: ensure combo box fields are saved even when focus is not changed

    • Automatically show the variable details when opening a documented workbook

    • Keyboard shortcuts

    • Column counts on dataset view

    • Improved code list editor

    • New pdf generation allowing improved speed

    • Upgrade process for workbooks documented using DDI 3.1

    • New documentation and user guide

    • Add support for SPSS 23

    • Add support for STATA 14 and new STATA unicode text

    • Signed setup files with Colectica authenticode

    • Fix: handle special 0,0 defined empty dynamic strings in Stata

    • Fix: detection and better logging of too many rows in Excel

  • Colectica Designer

    • Labels and Descriptions for Question, QuestionGrid, QuestionBlock

    • New reporting Framework for pdf generation

    • Default SPSS number type to double

    • New metadata validation checks which organizations can implement for items, along with default checks

    • Metadata validation reports

    • Fix: support additional corner cases in IBM SPSS Dimensions Data Collection mrscript grammer

    • Updated user manual

    • Name, label, and description on QualityStatementView

    • Improved formatting of survey instrument Statement editing

    • Survey sections renamed to Data Capture. Waves renamed to Studies

    • Fix: show correct icons for items in the Item Type Chooser

    • Include ItemName (when it is present) in Links, ItemPicker, and Navigation

    • Fix: Horizontal scrolling for breadcrumb bar

    • Add support for SPSS 23

    • Add support for STATA 14 and new STATA unicode text

    • Signed setup files with Colectica authenticode

    • Fix: calculate summary statistics using actual data file type instead of DDI described type

    • Fix: handle special 0,0 defined empty dynamic strings in Stata

    • UI for picking ConceptualVariable in RepresentedVariableView

    • Allow reading in deprecated urns in 3.2. Note: Not best practice, use canonical identifiers

    • Fix: AddLanguage binding issue when working with IfElse branches

    • Improved CSPro survey generation. Item label and name cannot be empty

    • Improved CSPro survey generation. Give labels to valueSets

    • Improved CSPro survey generation. Item names and value set names must be unique

    • Show a label for QuestionGrid dimensions, for both Roster and Code dimensions.

    • In DataCollectionView, rearrange Instruments and Processing lists into appropriate tabs

    • New views for ProcessingEventScheme and ProcessingEventGroup, ProcessingInstructionScheme and ProcessingInstructionGroup

    • ProcessingInstructionScheme and ProcessingEventScheme can be added to a Resource Package

    • Support multiple ModeOfCollection, CollectionSituation, and ActionToMinimizeLosses items in CollectionEvent

    • New UI for CodedType CV property of DataCollectionItem (ModeOfCollection, CollectionSituation, ActionToMinimizeLosses)

    • Show date controls for CollectionEvent DataCollectionDate and DataCollectionFrequency

    • Hide IntendedFrequency CV control when no DataCollectionFrequency is set

    • Classifications TaskMode for Statistics Denmark. Implementation of GSIM classification system

    • Inline Category editor as part of CodeList editor

    • Group all of the individual AddItem commands

    • Show all properties in QuestionGrid reporting template

    • Consistent report templates for all schemes and groups

    • SourceQuestionGrids and SourceQuestionBlocks on Variable

    • Fix: Update to abbreviations editor in SeriesStatementControl

    • New icon for CheckOutItem command, distinct from Create New Checkout

    • Consistent UI for displaying lists of items (item lists, checkouts list, search results list)

    • Support for CodeList Levels

    • New duplicate item as checkout command

    • Support multiple KindOfData in StudyUnit

    • Support SpatialCoverage/Country

    • Support Archive in StudyUnit, Group, and ResourcePackage

    • Make UriControl, including buttons, readonly when an item is locked. Don’t allow document uploading when the item is read only.

    • Display computed information for levels and selected codes

    • Larger text fields for MethodologyItems

    • Don’t silently hide connection errors when searching an external repository

    • Allow import of items from delimited files into any multi-ref control

    • Hide multiple audience button in Task mode

  • Colectica Repository

    • Faceted search within item sets

    • Improved technical and installation documentation

    • Fix: alter..owner assignment in Postgresql repository creation script

    • Improved readability of example config files

    • Allow either 32 and 64 bit integers from counts when different providers are used computing repository usage stats

  • Colectica Portal

    • Show new Label and Description fields for questions

    • Create a view for Quality Standard in Portal

    • Fix: “Algenta.Colectica.Model.Code.Value” displaying in the Variable type field

    • Show information about code list level descriptions

    • Represented Variable and Conceptual Variable links in the Variable view

    • Fix: Allow viewing prior item versions in navigable portal items

    • Fix: Don’t navigate to root item when using icon-buttons in navigable portal item child views

    • Hundreds of updates to Colectica Portal vNext. Release schedualed for summer 2015

  • Colectica SDK and tools

    • Nuget packages for the SDK assemblies and documentation for deploying the SDK via nuget

    • Show and log version information in Repository Developer Edition

    • Better support for checking for empty optional date fields when serializing to DDI

    • Use a HashSet instead of List to speed up the Item Gatherer Visitor

    • Import DDI 2 data descriptions using the improved 3.2 format

    • Improved Quality Standard serialization

    • Obey ConciseBoundedDescription for DdiInstance in 3.2 serialization

    • Fix: check for empty DataCollectionMethodology before serializing in 3.2

    • Fix: Refresh the view for the fields in a QualityStatement calling the ComplianceDescription OnPropertyChanged

    • Fix: After calling an IVersionableCommand in TaskMode, the treeview is refreshed with the ModernNavigationMode

    • Fix: QualityStatementItemState.Disabled makes the field grey, but not readonly

    • Fix: Changing the language while in TaskMode causes repository nodes to be populated with static content

    • SourceQuestionGrids and SourceQuestionBlocks on Variable

    • Support for CodeList Levels

    • Allow setting a default culture when importing 3rd party underspecified text