Hello KoBoToolbox Community! We are pleased to release version 2.021.30 with the following changes. This release:
- has been deployed to kf.kobotoolbox.org as of 02:00 UTC on 17 August;
- has been deployed to kobo.humanitarianresponse.info as of 03:15 UTC on 19 August.
While the work offered here has gone through a cycle of internal testing and improvement, please do not hesitate to report any problems that you find. This helps the community as a whole in addition to yourself. Thanks.
New features and enhancements
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
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#3057 #3117 #3271 #3345 #3346 kobocat#686 |
Dynamic Data Attachments Adds UI for exporting/importing data across connected projects using xml-external
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Supports #2767 Fixes #3019 |
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#2900 #3123 kobocat#721 |
Row Level Access Extend row-level permission controls beyond viewing to editing, validating, and deleting |
Closes #2768 |
| #3234 | Add support for background-audio in the table view.Adds UI changes outlined in #3193 that implement table view and formbuilder support for background-audio recording |
Fixes #3193 Fixes #3037 |
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#2993 kobocat#672 |
Allow for view-only access to submissions in Enketo UI. Update submission /edit endpoint to /enketo/<action> and accept view or edit
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Closes #2992 Part of #3322 Closes kobocat#671 |
| formpack#249 | Support choice from previous repeat answers for select_oneHandle the case of select_one ${question_name} to support XLSForm/pyxform#472. |
Closes formpack#248 |
| #3294 | Allow anonymous users to export data from publicly-shared projects | Closes #3293 |
| #3177 | Library upload asset type selector Whenever user uploads one file (through NEW modal or by dropping on list) in My Library, it is possible to select the desired type, e.g. “template”. |
Fixes #3142 |
| #3274 | Table view style improvements New design for Table View. This PR contains mainly stylistic changes. Also includes an update for our Roboto font (added Roboto Mono). |
Fixes #3198 |
| #3409 | Make authentication required more obvious in permissions UI When “Authentication required to see forms and submit data” is not enabled, we display a warning message in “Share project” modal. We also make “Add submissions” always checked (and, following the permissions rules, “View form” too). |
Fixes #2620 |
Bug fixes and other improvements
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
| #3320 | Change downloaded media file names to the original file name Explicitly provides the media download link with the original name of the uploaded file |
Fixes #3315 |
| #3292 | Allow viewing REST services settings for archived forms | Fixes #3290 |
| #3298 | Bring back gray background for form-view | |
| #3339 | Responsive styles fix for icon buttons | |
| #3340 | Include new icons for media files | |
| #3365 | Fix text alignment when adding a new question inside a group | |
| #3396 | Style fix: sidebar tabs labels alignment and table submission actions alignment, for when there are only view icons. | |
| #3325 | Fix for filtered repeat group exports | Closes #3324 |
| #3308 | Fix Table View’s class names. | |
| #3322 | Fix Table View crash when user has only view permissions | |
| #3323 | Fixed a bug where files with spaces in its name does not properly show in the single submission modal or table view. | |
| #3328 | Disallow matrix column names that contain certain characters (e.g. spaces), which caused serious problems for Enketo. | Fixes #3326 |
| #3301 | Update formpack hash Fix for dynamic select_* questions included in formpack update kobotoolbox/formpack#249. |
Closes #3300 |
| kobocat#757 | Remove django-registration-redux Removes account registration and password reset functions from KoBoCAT, which are handled by KPI in any KoBoToolbox installation. Fixes a 500 error when attempting to access the KoBoCAT login page, which usually only redirects to KPI but can be configured to display a form (see the KOBOFORM_LOGIN_AUTOREDIRECT setting). |
Fixes kobocat#756 |
| kobocat#755 | Restore /api/v1/forms/<formid>/enketo endpoint |
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| kobocat#738 | Improve metadata content type validation Content type is auto-detected when uploading form media files and can no longer be specified manually. Also improves content type detection when attaching media files by URL. |
Closes kobocat#736 Closes kobocat#737 |
| kobocat#742 | Fix ZIP exports of files attached to submissions for large projects | Hotfix for kobocat#475 |
| kobocat#741 | Update supported media types to broaden support for wav and zip mimetypes. | Closes kobocat#740 |
| #3398 | Frontend QA fixes for 2.021.30 release | |
| #3400 | Fix problem where the “Manage project” permission could not be assigned | Fixes #3399 |
Of interest to self-hosters
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
| kobocat#732 | Always remove deleted submissions entirely instead of merely marking them as deleted When deleting submissions through the legacy view (but not via the API), a special marker was applied to the “deleted” submissions instead of removing them outright. This meant that every query to retrieve submitted data needed to filter out submissions having this marker. We now always remove submissions outright when deleting and therefore no longer need this extra filter, which caused high database overhead. |
Closes kobocat#696 Related to kpi#3287 |
| kobocat#744 | Add data migration to purge deleted submissions Automatically removes submissions that were already marked as deleted. Necessary for self-hosters so that the changes in kobocat#732 do not cause deleted submissions to resurface.  Includes a migration that could be slow on large databases. If you run your own instance of KoBoToolbox with many thousands of submissions, consider using manage.py shell_plus inside the KoBoCAT container (kobo-install/run.py -cf exec kobocat bash) to purge deleted submissions using the code shown in kobocat#696 prior to upgrading to this release. |
Closes kobocat#733 Related to kobocat#732 |
| kobocat#685 | Integrate the improved version description from kobocat#676 into the new dynamic data attachments feature. | Related to kobocat#686 |
| #3309 | Submissions by Country Report Creates a report for Submission-by-country which can be filtered by a start and end date at the /superuser_stats/country_report/ URI. |
Fixes #3065 |
| #3303 | Django admin panel: Sorted the users by their join date and added a Join Date column |
Fixes #3069 |
Of interest to developers
| PR | Description | Related Issues |
|---|---|---|
| #3317 | Added a new UI component for dropdowns. | Needed for #3199 Part of #3266 |
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#3268 #3271 |
Refactor for Dynamic Data Attachments | Part of #3057 |
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#3358 kobocat#747 |
Refactor Enketo endpoints for edit and view | Related to #2992 Related to kobocat#671 |
| #3327 | Refactor some utils code | |
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#2691 #3302 |
Refactor some components that use methods React will remove in 17 | Part of #2677 |
| #3321 | Enum creation function for constants New utility function for writing cleaner code. |
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#3173 #3124 |
Row Level Access - Refactor deployment backend: Abstraction and variables renaming. - Add Mongo and XML support to unit tests for Row Level Access. |
Related to #2768 Related to #3115 |
| #3367 | Describe submissions API unit tests Submission API tests are many and this helps (a little bit more) to understand what they are doing (until #3360 and #3359 are ready to go) |
Part of #2900 #3123 Related to #3360 #3359 |
| kobocat#739 | Disable pre-delete signal for bulk_delete | Closes kobocat#735 |
| kobocat#750 | Incorporate changes from the code review of kpi#2900 (row-level write permissions), with the aim of increasing code clarity and security. | Related to kpi#2900 |
| #3388 | Fix failing mock submission tests Flush the mock MongoDB in unit tests only when appropriate—not always—so that tests using multiple assets function properly |
Related to #3387 |
