Restarters.net software updates (changelog)

[james]

We’ve continued working on Restarters over the last few months. Here are the most important changes…

November 2022 to January 2023

Introducing data downloads

If you are a group host or network coordinator, you can now download your repair data! This option is available for individual events as well as for groups as a whole. See how it works here:

How to download repair data for your group or event

Restarters is built on open source principles. Not only is the underlying code accessible to everyone, but you also have full access to your own data. If you’re a group host or network coordinator, you can download all the repair data uploaded for your group(s) and for each of your individual events. This can be useful if you want to save your own backup somewhere, move to a different platform or perform your own analysis. Here’s how it works… Download your group’s repair data To download all the repair data for your group, you need to be a host of the group or a coordinator for the group’…

Features for networks

• We’ve added some new capabilities to the API used by networks. It can now fetch more information about groups and API users can now filter by date when retrieving events

Small improvements

• We added an ‘item’ column to the item log on event pages (to make it easier to see what was brought to the event at a glance). Thanks for the suggestion @Florine_Paquay!
• The first message in event conversations is now much clearer
• Sharing a wiki page on social media will now look better, featuring an image

Back end upgrades

• We’ve complete a huge piece of work to upgrade some of the back end technology on which the site is built (Laravel and PHP). This will help us stay up to date with security patches and more.
• We added more automated testing to catch bugs before they’re released into the system

Bug fixes

• Adding or editing items brought to events sometimes deleted certain fields. We’d like more detail, not less, so we fixed this.
• Some items were recorded as being many hundreds of years old. It’s probably safe to assume that Renaissance mice would require a zooarchaeologist rather than a repairer (at least, probably), so we’ve capped the age limit to 500 years.
• Long titles in tabs no longer break the layout in the ‘Device breakdown’ section on group pages
• Number of repairers at events is now displayed consistently in different parts of the site
• Re-ordered lists of past events by most recent first. Thanks for flagging this @Florine_Paquay
• Fixed mislabelled iFrame impact visualisation
• The email field on the reset password page no longer appears deactivated. Thanks for reporting this @Alex_Horn

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