Hello all, we’re pleased to share our work on a new release of KoBoToolbox, which was deployed
- on kf.kobotoolbox.org at 31 May 2021 20:35 UTC, and
- on kobo.humanitarianresponse.info at 1 June 2021 22:00 UTC.
We hope you enjoy this release, and please do not hesitate to use this forum to report any new issues that you may discover.
New features and enhancements
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
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#3174 kobocat#706 kobocat#724 |
Allow users to synchronize forms in the legacy interface with the new interface | closes #3150 |
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#3236 #3242 kobocat#716 |
Upgrade pyxform from 0.15.1 to 1.5.1. Please see the pyxform change log for a complete list of changes. This adds XLSForm (not form builder) and export support for the question types background-audio, start-geopoint, and rank. The types select_one_from_file, select_multiple_from_file, xml-external, and csv-external are also supported but in a more limited way: exports will show only raw response values (e.g. choice names) for these, not labels. |
Closes #2605 Closes kobocat#604 Includes kobotoolbox/formpack#247 |
| kobocat#676 | Add friendlier version information to form lists shown in KoBoCollect and ODK Collect Instead of showing the unique, randomly-generated version identifier, Collect will now display sequential version numbers (1, 2, 3, …) that match the “Form history” interface, as well as the date that the version was created. You will need to redeploy existing forms to see the new version information, but no changes to the form content are needed |
Fixes #674 Related to kobotoolbox/kpi#3046 |
Bug fixes and other improvements
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
| #3135 | Change tags endpoint limit to avoid timeouts Fix Form Builder timeouts caused by tags endpoint fetching too many tags. |
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| #3144 | Fix missing drag-and-drop guide in formbuilder The formbuilder used to have a helpful box displaying where a dragged question will land. This was lost due to a regression in the colour rework PR but is fixed here. Also changed colour and thickness |
Fixes #3138 |
| #3182 | Fix transient missing translation issue Clone form content before operating on it, as opposed to using the original value. Fixes one known issue and possibly some more we haven’t noticed yet. |
Fixes #3179 |
| #3196 | Remove warning message from ZIP exports Remove the message “This export format will not be supported in the future. Please consider using one of the other export types available” from ZIP exports. It was misleading because ZIP exports will be supported indefinitely: there’s not yet a replacement for them in KPI (non-legacy) exports, and when there is, we’ll offer a seamless transition path. |
Fixes #3186 |
| #3219 | Assigning “Change submissions” now implies "Add submissions" Because editing a submission in effect is creating a new submission that replaces the old one (see deprecatedID), “Change submissions” actually requires “Add submissions”. The user interface now reflects this. |
Fixes #3218 Closes #3148 |
| #3233 | Fix page crash when translating empty form Fix issue where attempting to translate an empty form crashes the page |
Fixes #3232 |
| kobocat#715 | Change the legacy interface banner and pop-up message to warn of immiment feature removal |
Of interest to developers
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
| #3157 | Fix kobocat proxy request user Properly identify the requesting user when performing bulk edits or submission duplication, instead of attributing to the project owner |
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| #3166 | Avoid unnecessary external traffic when synchronizing user profiles between KPI and KoBoCAT Switched KOBOCAT_URL to KOBOCAT_INTERNAL_URL |
closes #3001 |
| #3201 | Fix API documentation typo Fix the API documentation so that it refers to the KoBoCAT submission (singular) endpoint, not submissions (which doesn’t exist) |
Inspired by #3190 |
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#3210 kobocat#710 |
Mongo query timeout Added a timeout to Mongo Queries to ensure that they don’t run for several hours at a time |
fixes #3158 |
