Summary

The second phase of my GSoc journey was a very great learning experience and of course it had its own challenges. I had never thought I would create such code which will be used by people in their daily lives. The last week was the most stressful as I was constantly worried about the bulk update not working.

Objectives and Deliverables

#	Objectives	Associated Deliverables	Issue(s)	PR(s)
1	Implementing Features for Retired Artifacts	Modifed tables in the database, created index page and added a retired artifact section to artifact edit form	#747	!642
2	Export Data on Entities Indexes	Created a drop-down element for export, modified model files of entities to include the getTableRow() and getCidocCrm() functions, implemented a view for txt files	#786	!677
3	Bulk Update on interface	Created bulk update button and modal to choose fields, created controller and index page for the bulk update with a master form in the index page. Also modified the ArtifactUpdates controller to check if data is coming from BulkUpdate form and process it.	#280	!699
4	Export Bibliography from Publications Pages	Modified and reused the entity export drop-down element and added constraints on the export based on number of results	#521	!709

Learning and Success

• Learned how exports for different categories of formats work and implemented them.
• Learned to change an element dynamically according to conditions while modifying the export drop-down for publications export.
• Learned to manipulate data from one form to another while implementing the modal and forms for the BulkUpdate functionality.
• Learned to write technical and user-friendly documentations.

Difficulties

• It was a bit challenging to change the publications drop-down according to the number of search results.
• I had some difficulties when working on the bulk update master form because it had data of different types and I had to modify this data to suit the input for the existing artifact update functionality.

Plan update

• Brush up any problems the bulk update functionality may have.