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August 1st, 2007: Release 3.11
- A new required field, 'Requirement Type', has been added to identify
whether the requirement is a Data Request or Planned Data Acquisition.
- The Geospatial One Stop (GOS) XML was modified to include the appropriate
requirement type for the status progress field. This ensures the CIDR
requirements are accurately represented in the GOS system as either a
data need or planned acquisition.
- The Platform Preference list has been updated.
- A bug with saving shapefiles has been resolved.
- Other minor various tool enhancements and minor bug fixes.
November 28th, 2006: Release 3.1
- Significant updates have been made to the requirement input form to make it
more user-friendly and to ensure we are collecting valuable information
about the data requirements in order to improve our analysis capabilities.
- A help guide for the requirement input form has been created. It is linked
to in multiple places off the requirement definition page.
- Created capability for GOS to harvest the CIDR requirements flagged to
allow this further publication of the data need.
- Added 'All Years' to year selection list on homepage. This allows users to
work with agency requirements across years in a single session.
- Added a link to the login service profile management page.
- Other minor various tool enhancements and minor bug fixes.
July 25th, 2006: Release 3.0
- Modified the AOI input method on the requirement form. The user must now
provide either a shapefile or define a bounding box on an interactive map
of their AOI for the data needed.
- Automated portions of the validation process.
- Added an additional parameter on the Spatial Query page. The user can now
further refine their search by fiscal year. This is the first additional
search criteria of a number that are planned.
- Extended years supported by the tool through fiscal year 2011.
- Updated which columns are shown on the View Requirements table listing to
make that more useful for quick research of requirements for potential
partnerships.
- Added new item to requirement definition form to request users to let us
know if we can make their requirement available for harvesting to send to
Geospatial One Stop (GOS).
- Added a link to EarthExplorer (EE) to allow users of CIDR to quickly get to
the tool to access the library of existing data available for distribution.
- Other minor various tool enhancements and minor bug fixes.
February 22nd, 2006: Release 2.1
- Reworked and completed the shapefile export capability. Users may now
export an aggregate shapefile of the QC requirements returned by a
spatial AOI query. Users are given the option to export the AOIs of all
or only selected requirements returned by their query.
- The focus of this release was on source code maintenance. The bulk of the
changes are not visible to the end-user. The non-visible improvements
include security enhancements, modularization, code restructuring, etc.
- Other minor various tool enhancements and minor bug fixes.
October 27th, 2005: Release 2.0
- The login/registration functionality of the CIDR tool was replaced by
utilizing the USGS login/registration web service. Since EarthExplorer (EE)
also uses this login service, this means users can now access both the CIDR
tool and the EE system with the same login name and password. This reduces
the login profiles required by the USGS Commercial Project's tools to a
single profile.
- Added visual display on a world reference map of AOIs for requirements
returned by spatial queries. Zooming and panning capabilities are provided.
- Further enhanced analysis capabilities by adding options to export
aggregate shapefiles of all or selected requirements returned by spatial
queries. NOTE:
Testing of this functionality revealed a critical bug. The release was
executed with this capability disabled temporarily. The export links will
be activated when the bug(s) have been resolved.
- Verified and improved the tool to be fully functional in MS Internet
Explorer 5.5+.
- Added a new field to values collected with a requirement - the
requirement's mission priority.
- Reformatted the website look and style.
- Enhanced the Record Actuals feature to allow users to provide a shapefile
to define the actual extent of the data they received.
- Added paging capability for the View Requirements page so as not to be
overwhelming with lists containing potentially hundreds of requirements.
The paging can be turned off as well, if the user desires.
- Deleted requirements are now temporarily stored and only completely removed
from the system by an administrator. This also means requirements may
potentially be restored as well. Please contact crssp@usgs.gov if you have
accidentally or otherwise deleted a requirement and would like it restored.
Please provide the requirement's ID number, if possible.
- Various tool enhancements and minor bug fixes.
May 24th, 2005: Release 1.2
- AOI geographic query input has been enhanced from four text input boxes
to be a graphical map interface that the user can point and click to draw
a rubber-band selection box around their area of interest. This new
interface also gives options to zoom to state and international boundaries
quickly and still allows the manual input option we provided previously.
Note: Older versions of Java Runtime Environement do not communicate
properly all the time with the various browser versions.
In most cases, upgrading to the most recent versions of Java
(version 1.5.0_03 is known to work) and your web browsers should fix these
plug-in/application communications issues. The AOI geographic query tool
works best in the following browsers, using JRE 1.5.0_03: Internet
Explorer 6.0.28, Netscape 7.1, Firefox 1.0.4 and Mozilla 1.4.4.
- Updated the AOI query tool to only include QC'd requirements in the
returned requirements list. Going forward any general queries/reports other
than requirement definitions will only include QC'd requirements.
- Updated the requirement's Edit mode to reset the status of the requirement
to Pending if a non-admin user modifies a requirement that had
previously been QC'd. This will cause the requirement to drop out of any
queries/reports that it previously was viewable in until USGS staff reviews
the modifications and re-QC's the requirement.
- Added a What's New page to highlight major changes for each release.
- Updated the code to adhere to new DOI security mandates. These updates
included adding validation of all user inputs to check for proper formats
and disallowed characters (Note: The semicolon is now disallowed, but was
found in many previous inputs - they have been removed from those inputs by
the QC staff in most cases).
- Made the shapefiles a link on the detailed view requirement page so they
can be exported directly from that page rather than needing to go into
Edit mode to get access to them.
- Added some descriptive text on the Login page about the CRSSP project and
the CIDR tool.
- Made some visual improvements to the design of the site (navigation links,
colors, etc.).
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