Uwazi v0.4.0 released

Uwazi v0.4.0 released

New features

Full text search improvements

We have made significant improvements to our full text search feature using Elasticsearch. These improvements allow users to:

• see an example snippet with highlighted text from the search results,
• see a list of all the places this text is found in the document, and
• quickly jump to any of these places in the document itself.

New date property types and improvements

There are many situations in which a single date on your document or entity does not capture enough information for your analysis. You may be working with event entities that have start and end dates (or multiple start and end dates). You may have documents in which you need to capture the date for each time something happened.

For these kinds of use-cases, we have added three new date property types: date range, multi-date, multi-date range.

Additional improvements:

• Users can use the DD/MM/YYYY date input format
• We’ve added date description information to the cards in the library so visitors know what each date is referring to:

What does this mean for you?

• For those of you who have an instance hosted with us, we have already deployed this upgrade to your Uwazi instance, so there’s no need to do anything.
• If you are hosting Uwazi yourself, you will want to upgrade by downloading the latest release and run the following database migration using terminal on the root directory of Uwazi:

    $ export DATABASE_NAME='name'

by default the name is uwazi_development.
If the mongodb server is on a remote machine, then configure it by:

    $ export DBHOST='theHost'

then run:

    $ node run_migration.js

• See all of our updates in our GitHub changelog
• We’re working on our user guide on GitHub and you’re encouraged to contribute.
• Contact us if you have any questions!