We have resolved 79 ticketed tasks, bugs, or improvements. Significant improvements are listed below:

• Copy a collection. Members may now copy an entire collection to a new community. This feature allows collaborators with offer subscription permission to share entire resource collections. Resources may still be shared on an individual basis without sharing the entire collection.
• Move a collection. We have also added a new feature that allows members to move a resource collection from one community to another. Once the collection has been moved, it may be moved back to its home community or to yet another community.
• Delete (permanently) a collection. It is now possible to delete an entire collection.  Members may remove collections by clicking on the Actions button and selecting Remove under the Manage Subscription heading.
• Resource versioning. Now members may view an earlier version of a resource. Simply click on the versioning box located at the bottom right of each resource and select the version of the resource that you wish to view.
• Archived Members
• Previous community members are now visible.
• Community members are divided into two groups; Active and Archived.
• Members may view a list of community alumni (archived) by selecting Members from the Community Menu and then clicking the Archived button at the top right of the members listing page. Click the Active button in order to return to the current (active) members listing.
• Landing Pages for Communities
• Custom built, individually branded web page
• Enables a community to advertise all of its primary features, services and objectives on a single web page and facilitates quick access to areas within the VanderbiltResearch.org community or to external websites.
• A landing page may begin with a short description, similar to the one found on the VanderbiltResearch.org community profile page.
• Include images
• Other key features may include contact information, faculty listings, general information, upcoming meetings and other highlights.
• In the case of Core Labs, important items such as available services and pricing provide easy access to this information for core customers.
• If on-line customer sign-up is available, a link to request the core facility services may be included.
• Information can be dynamically imported into the landing page that is updated via the community management web interface.
• Other
• Action menu - significant consolidation and improvements to the actions menus
• Email templates are now HTML and TXT based
• Community and collection management pages have been simplified
• Subscriptions permission area simplified

We have resolved 149 ticketed tasks, bugs, or improvements. Significant improvements are listed below:

• New Features
  • Homepage Features - We have added feature description banners (and target pages), resource search, and upcoming meetings to the homepage. We hope that this will provide useful context and instruction for those new, and still learning, the site.
  • Meetings - Perhaps our most exciting new feature, any community now has the ability to add, edit, and share meetings. With meeting-specific annotations, you can manage lab or core facility meetings, seminars and others. Decide whether to share them to everyone, or keep them private to your community.
  • Resource Transfer and Copy Actions - You can now transfer (or move) resources from one collection to another. This is especially useful if you are trying to break a large collection into multiple smaller ones. Furthermore, you can now also copy (duplicate) a resource, either to the existing collection or another. This will result in two identical copies, which can then be independently edited and/or shared.
  • On-the-fly PDFs for Resource Pages - If you would like to simply share a resource with someone who cannot access the resource page, you can save the page as a PDF and email it or otherwise share it.
  • Action Menu - Throughout the site, we have been making available a context-specific "Actions" button, which drives a menu with page-specific actions. For example, if you are on a resource page, you may see the ability to edit, share, copy or transfer a resource, as well as revoke its contribution to the collection.
  • Publication Timeline - For members, we have added a graphical timeline of publications managed by members.
  • Re-invites for Pending Affiliations - If you have invited a new user to your community and they have not yet accepted the invitation, you can re-invite the member, as well as update their email address.
• Significant Improvements
  • Consolidation of Collections - We have merged the five pages that comprised collections into one page and removed the Collections menu. This results in an easier-to-navigate interface and demotes the collection to being more of a virtual folder. The collection page will show resources by default, and optional and additional information at the user's discretion.
  • Login Forwarding - When trying to access a confidential page while not logged in, should the user successfully login, they will be redirected to the original page they were attempting to access.
  • Look and Feel - We have moved towards a fixed-width layout, a lighter-colored theme, simplified resource and member pages, metadata viewing and dashboard notifications.
  • Resource Counts in Community Dashboards - The resource and collection counts now provide a more logical selection of information.
  • Contributions to the VUMC and World Communities - Resource contributions (by sharing or otherwise) are automatically accepted by both communities. This is especially useful when sharing meetings with the public, so that they will be immediately viewable.
• Other Improvements
  • The community collection menu option has been relocated above the subcommunities menu option, for better access to community resources.
  • Downsized the member images in the member lists and displayed 10 per row.
  • Increased the allowed character length for affiliation titles.
  • Community profile page now shows only featured publications
  • Improved the sitemap page layout
  • Consolidated various Javascript and CSS to improve speed of page loads
  • Revoking a master contribution automatically revokes related resource contributions
  • Added a “View All” display count in side-menus
  • Resource-associate files now include the name of the user who uploaded the file
  • Allow contributions to be removed via the Action button
  • Fixed links to PowerPoint in secured pages
  • Allow non-owner subscription permissions to be editable
  • Fixed display issues in Help page and made improvements to glossary terms
  • Removed dummy text in a few areas
  • Community featured publications are now paginated
  • Gene Targeting Experiment Tracker – a variety of issues have been resolved
  • Improved sanitization of rich text editor input
  • Fixed default addresses behavior for members
  • Upgraded to newer version of the Zend Framework

We have resolved 71 ticketed tasks, bugs, or improvements. Major issues are outlined below:

• Resources
  • Resource Sharing Widget - We have made significant improvements to the resource sharing widget, which allows searching and filtering to quickly find what community/collection to share to, as well as list which community/collection a resource may already be shared with.
  • Improvements to Resource File Management - Improvements to the resource-associated file management and viewing should provide an easier mechanism for adding, editing, deleting and viewing such files.
  • Resource Search Includes File Search - As a first pass, searching resources will match the file name and description of all files associated with the resource. We will be working on a file management interface for a future release.
  • Resource Tags/Keywords - Improvements to the interface, mainly to do with validation.
  • Mouse Resource Type - Research applications are now optional, without generating a failure.
  • Document/Pages/Services - The "Content" field is now optional.
• Gene Targeting Experiment Tracker - General improvements and fixes.
• Freezer Inventory Application - General improvements (searching, ACL, viewing), fixes and data curation.
• VUMC Identity/Branding - For the VUMC Community context, we have added the Vanderbilt Medical Center logo.
• Email Notifications for Primary Resource Contribution - We have added back email notification for primary resource contributions. These are dispatched based on the subscription permissions for those users allowed to accept resource contritbutions.
• Support Files - Improvements made for file/document mime types.
• Collection Profile - We have simplified the collection profile page to provide quick access to a collection's resources.
• Subscription permissions - We have removed from view those permissions that are not currently used, so as to simplify the user interface.
• Community Member Profile Listings - In some contexts, the listing of community/workgroup members were not shown.
• Other improvements
  • Mini-dashboard responds to keyboard entries in Internet Explorer
  • Print layout improved (overlapping title and logo)
  • Member card now displays primary affiliation

We have resolved 131 ticketed tasks, bugs, or improvements. Major issues are outlined below:

• Server migration - Migration to new servers (web and database).
• GTET Migration - Migration of the VCSCB.org Gene Targeting Experiment Tracker. Available in member context sidemenu for allowed users.
• Freezer/Inventory Application Migration - Migration of the VCSCB.org Freezer/Inventory application. Available in member context sidemenu for allowed users.
• PubMed records - Provide ability to set a PubMed record as a citation or a reference.
• Affiliation role switching - Member affiliation roles can be changed, without dropping and recreating the affiliation.
• Mouse Strain Resource type - Improvements made to Mouse Strain resource type.
• Thumbnails for miscellaneous image files - In resource miscellaneous files, image files are also shown as thumbnails.
• Community dashboard resource counts - Resource count provided in dashboard > overview page for communities.
• Sharing resources - "Share this resource" button available on resource view pages, for quick sharing.
• Member list toggle - Member listing toggles between thumbnail and list views in community member view.
• Message UI improvements - Improved design of flash messages and notifications.
• Javascript upgrade - Upgraded 3rd party javascript library.
• Framework upgrade - Upgraded underlying application framework.
• Release information - this page you are reading was added as a means of keeping our users aware of changes.

• Center for Molecular Neuroscience - A new Vanderbilt Center was added with Dr. Randy Blakely as its director.
• Mouse strain resource type - A new resource type, allowing for the management of key information describing genetically-modified mouse strains, was implemented.
• CORES improvements in features and performance - Improvements were made for those members with CORES data that will allow them more flexible queries of the CORES data and speed up the login event.
• Combined collection profile and resources - Consolidated two views (collection profile and collection resources) into a single view, as a means of simplifying access to resources.
• Clarification on the use of SSL - Inline documentation was added to clarify the use of SSL for the login event.
• Improvements to forms and UI - Various improvements were made to forms and user interface elements.
• Member dashboard overview - Added number of publications and citation of the latest
• Member mini-dashboard - Added "My Workgroups" and "My Publications". Improved other linkages.
• Help and Support - The FAQ section was reformulated as a Help and Support area and content has been added.
• New contribution status for pending contributions of resources - When resources are contributed to a collection, they exist within a pending (private) state until they are submitted to the collection for approval. This affects all resource types.
• Default affiliations - For new members joining, a default affiliation is required.
• Member dashboard - Added a publication count as well as the latest full citation.
• MyVU RSS feed location updated - Updated the feed location since it had moved on the vanderbilt.edu website.
• Publications management pagination - Within the context of publications management, pre-search views are now paginated.
• Homepage now includes latest contributions - The latest contributed resources are now displayed on the homepage.
• Release information - this page you are reading was added as a means of keeping our users aware of changes.

• Invitation of new users - In order to allow community Chiefs and Leaders to invite users who are not already in the system functionality was added to invite new (Vanderbilt-only) users to the system.
• Improvements to PubMed access - Various improvements were made on how the PubMed widgets work and what/how data is stored.
• Subscription permission widget - for those with permissions to manage collections, a widget was implemented to allow them to modify the permissions that surround collections and the ability of users to contribute and access these.
• Print-friendly pages - All pages will now print only the main content block, in a way that will not clip information and avoid printing navigation elements.
• Improvements - Numerous facilities were improved.
• Bug fixes - Various fixes were put in place.

• Initial public release
• Sharing Arc - The combination of members, communities, collections, and resources was implemented.
• Member context - Management and display of profiles, publications, affiliations, and contact information.
• Community context - Management and display of formal communities (those that fall within the VUMC hierarchy), members, publications, collections, and contact information.
• Collection context - Management and display of collections, including subscriptions and publications.
• Resources - A descriptor of information that is defined by two major types, each with selectable categories:
  Document - Page Document - Service Document- Protocol Vector - Plasmid Vector - BAC
• Affiliations - The stored relationship between a member and a community, including a defined role as 1) Chief, 2) Leader or 3) Member.
• Subscriptions - The stored relationship between a collection and a community. Per collection, more than one subscription can exist, permitting the exchange of collections to more than one community.
• Contributions - The stored relationship between a resource and the collection it is added to.
• User-to-User Messaging - The ability to send short (140 character) messages within the system from user to user.
• System Messaging - When key actions are taken that involve the creation of members, communities and collection, as well as the modification of affiliations, subscriptions and contributions, key messages are generated and displayed in appropriate dashboards.
• Dashboards - Existing with the member, community and collection contexts, the dashboards allow users to follow what is happening within the system.
• CORES - Users who have invoice data in the VUMC CORES system will have a read-only view of their last 30 days of orders and invoices.
• VUNetId - Login authentication depends on the Vanderbilt-wide "VUNetID" authentication system.