New Features and Usability Enhancement

This project aims at adding new features to the CDLI framework and enhancing the usability of some of the pre-existing features. The objectives of this project are : Presenting retired artifacts in a tabular format and redirecting users to the new entry when they link to a retired artifact. A new feature like the download button for the publications page will help users download it with all bib type options like bib, ris, formatted etcetera. Adding a feature to bulk update artifacts (multiple edit form) based on any of the properties of artifacts will be a huge time saver. Lastly, displaying a dropdown to export entity indexes in various formats like csv, ttf, json, json-rdf on all entity pages.

Objectives and Deliverables

–> Completed Tasks –> Ongoing Tasks

#	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	issue(s)
1	Implementing Features for Retired Artifacts	Modifying tables in the database, making index page, adding retired artifact section	#747
2	Export Data on Entities Indexes	Create export button, implement Utility class for entity exports	#786
3	Bulk Update on interface	Create bulk update button and modal to choose fields, create controller, create bulk edit page	#280
4	Export Bibliography from Publications Pages	Create export button for single and indexviews	#521

Additional Objectives

None

Tentative timeline

–> Completed Tasks –> Ongoing Tasks –> Work Demonstration

Week	Objectives	Deliverables
1	Retired Artifacts Backend	Fix artifact_id & new_artifact_id fields. Move artifact_id and retired_for to artifacts table and delete retired_artifacts table. Modify Artifact Update & Artifact Entities. Tables should be prepared.
2	Retired Artifacts Functionality	Create index page. Redirect users to new entry. Index page for retired artifacts and redirecting should work properly.
3	Retired Artifacts Functionality	Not searching among/displaying retired artifacts. Adding retired artifacts section to edit artifact form. Section for retired artifacts in edit form and not earching among them.
4	Testing Retired Artifacts Implementation and writing Documentation	Checking if the added functionality is working as expected and if a bug is found, debug it.
5	Export data on Entities Index	Create export button element and display it on entity indexes. The added button element should not distort the entity pages.
6	Export data on Entities Index	Implement the Utility class for exporting entity data. The export functionality should work properly and export all the required data.
7	Testing Entity Export Functionality and Writing Documentation	Checking if the added functionality is working as expected and if a bug is found, debug it.
8	Bulk Update on Interface	Create Bulk Update button on the search results page. Create modal for choosing fields to be bulk updated. The button should make the modal to be displayed and fields chosen here should be detected properly.
9	Bulk Update on Interface	Create bulk update controller. Create bulk update page.
10	Testing Bulk Update Functionality and Writing Documentation	Checking if the added functionality is working as expected and if a bug is found, debug it.
11	Export Bibliography from Publication Pages	Create button to export bibliography in BibTex format on single and index views. The export button should work properly.
12	Testing Export Bibliography Functionality and Writing Documentation	Checking if the added functionality is working as expected and if a bug is found, debug it.