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eagle-i™

Version 1.0 MS 5

Release Notes

Please read the following document carefully. This document lists important issues and topics concerning eagle-i. The eagle-i Consortium recommends that you read the entire document before using eagle-i.

What’s In This File?

You can find information on the following topics in this file:

What's New in This Release
Known Limitations and Workarounds
Documentation
Obtaining Technical Support

What's New in This Release

Single URL and Landing Page—The URL, www.eagle-i.net, opens to a login page where you can start to search for resources or enter data.
Unfinished Tasks ToDo List—Partially completed resources are now identified on an Unfinished Tasks list. The Workbench takes you to your ToDo List.
Create New—You can partially create a new resource within another resource form. These resources that need completion appear on the Unfinished Task list.
Embedded Forms—Fields are more logically presented in the data entry forms though the implementation of subsections where you can add additional resources.
Search Timeout—Search logs you out after 30 minutes of inactivity. You must log in again if you want to search again or click to go search result page.
NIF search integration—You can now search for mice indexed by the Neuroscience Information Framework.
More intuitive search results—Previously, Search returned certain lower-level resource model data structures as results. Search now returns the resource itself, instead of lower level resource data. For example, a search on a gene id previously returned Mutation Types as a search result. Now it returns the Organisms that have Mutations involving the gene.

Known Limitations and Workarounds

Adding or editing properties from the Ontology list

You cannot select the top-level type in an ontology list, such as Technique or Laboratory. In a resource form, expand the book icon to see a picklist of available terms.

Workaround: Select <none>, type the term in the field, or use auto-complete.

Cannot create a laboratory in Internet Explorer

Internet Explorer is not supported for this eagle-i release.

Workaround: Use Mozilla Firefox, version 3.0 or later.

Term request information does not display after saving

Term request information does not display in the resource view after saving.

Workaround: Open the Information for curators section to see the term request.

E-mails of lab contacts are not associated with the laboratory

The e-mail that appears in a lab record is not populated with e-mails from contact people records.

Workaround: Add email addresses to individual contact people records and to the laboratory record separately.

Laboratory Operations versus Resource Operations

Operations that you perform on a lab record (for example, delete or send to curation) apply only to the lab record and not to any associated resources.

Workaround: To perform an operation on all resources associated with a lab, go to that lab and select All Resource Types on the sidebar menu; using the check boxes, select an action to apply to all.

Note: There is no global delete. You must delete resources individually.

Linked resources do not appear in resource list

If a resource is linked to a resource that you do not own, such as a Laboratory linked to a Person, you cannot edit it, and it will not appear in your list of resources.

Workaround: People doing data entry must send all resources, including People and Organizations, to Curation by the same method that they send Laboratories and Resource Types such as Instruments, Organisms, and so forth. If Curators find a secondary resource that is still in Draft, such as a laboratory's PI, they should contact the current record owner and request that they send the linked record from Draft to Curation.

Organizations that were ETLed do not correctly display as Affiliations

Organizations were ETLed without more granular types associated to them (for example, Department). Therefore, they do not correctly display as affiliations when editing a resource. Instead, you see a message, [probably deleted]. These organizations also do not appear as choices in affiliation picklists.

Workaround: Edit the Organization to assign a more specific type.

Person selection lists do not refresh

When you create a new laboratory, and you create a new Person record as a contact, the selection list for PI does not update.

Workaround: To see the new Person record in all selection lists, save the form and edit again. Optionally, you can <create new> and create a person with the identical name. The saved record contains one person with that name. For example, if you create a PI named John Smith and a Contact named John Smith, they become the same Person resource.

Selecting a Resource Type may append incorrect information to the resource

If you complete some fields and then re-select a resource type, the form redraws. In certain cases, such as when the new type requires fewer fields, information disappears, but is appended to the resource.

Workaround: Best practice is to select the resource type first, or save before selecting it.

Restrict to choices from this lab or See choices from all labs hyperlink may not appear

When you add a resource, the link for all labs or one lab is not visible.

Workaround: To add a resource and restore the link, first select <none> as the resource.

Published resources may not be immediately available in Search

When a resource is published, normally Search finds the resource after five minutes of publishing. In certain cases, publishing takes much longer, before a published resource is available in search.

Workaround: If the resource does not appear immediately, wait longer than five minutes before searching for a newly published resource.

Documentation

The eagle-i User Guide is provided as online Help. Additional documentation will be available in pdf format.

You must have Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® to read these files. If you do not have a copy of Acrobat Reader, you can download a copy from Adobe's Web site, http://www.adobe.com/.

Obtaining Technical Support

The eagle-i team has performed extensive testing before releasing releasing eagle-i. If you find a problem, please log a JIRA ticket on the JIRA web site (http://jira.eagle-i.net:8080/).

World Wide Web: http://www.eagle-i.org