ePADD 7.3.1

ePADD 7.3 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules.

More about installation can be found here.

Release Notes

ePADD v7.3 includes one major bug fix.

Fixed

1. Resolved an issue where dropdown menus on the Add Label Screen were not appearing as expected.

ePADD 7.3 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Release Notes

New

1. ePADD v7.3 includes a new user interface for reviewing email attachments. This new interface includes both a grid and list view, the ability to facet attachments based on certain metadata fields, and a preview window for attachments.
2. New ways to access attachments. There is a new option on the Browse screen to access “All Attachments,” and an “Attachment view” button on the Message screen that will display all attachments associated with the current set of messages.
3. Optional feature to generate thumbnails for many common office file formats to display in the attachment review interface after installing ImageMagick and OpenOffice.

ePADD v7.3 includes two major bug fixes.

Fixed

1. The “Name of Archive Owner” field on the Import screen of the Appraisal Module has been made mandatory. This prevents an error during the subsequent export of the email archive from the Appraisal Module. (#375)
2. Resolved an issue where creating new lexicons would result in all other lexicons disappearing. (#377)

Known Issues

1. In order to use the optional feature to create thumbnails for files in the attachment review interface, the user will need to be able to add files to their root directory. Users working on institutionally managed computers may not have permissions to add, delete, or edit files in their root directory.
2. .tiff files will not render in the Chrome and Firefox browsers.

ePADD 7.3 Beta

ePADD 7.3 Beta documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Please be sure to back up all previous work prior to experimenting with this software. We appreciate all testing and feedback, but please note that as a beta release, this should not yet be integrated into a production workflow.

Release Notes

New

1. ePADD v7.3 includes a new user interface for reviewing email attachments. This new interface includes both a grid and list view, the ability to facet attachments based on certain metadata fields, and a preview window for attachments.

2. New ways to access attachments. There is a new option on the Browse screen to access “All Attachments,” and an “Attachment view” button on the Message screen that will display all attachments associated with the current set of messages.

3. Optional feature to generate thumbnails for many common office file formats to display in the attachment review interface after installing ImageMagick and LibreOffice.

ePADD v7.3 beta includes two major bug fixes.

Fixed

1. The “Name of Archive Owner” field on the Import screen of the Appraisal Module has been made mandatory. This prevents an error during the subsequent export of the email archive from the Appraisal Module. #375

2. Resolved an issue where creating new lexicons would result in all other lexicons disappearing. #377

Known Issues

1. .tiff files will not render in the Chrome and Firefox browsers.

2. In order to use the optional feature to create thumbnails for files in the attachment review interface, the user will need to be able to add files to their root directory. Users working on institutionally managed computers may not have permissions to add, delete, or edit files in their root directory.

ePADD 7.2 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Release Notes

ePADD v7.2 includes two major bug fixes.

Fixed

1. In some cases, full email addresses were being displayed in the Discovery Module (issue #370)
2. Importing email files into the Appraisal Module would hang when encountering large .zip files (issue #368)

Known Issues
The introduction of message error labels has complicated the label upload mechanism. For the time being, please refrain from using the Upload Label Description feature on the Manage Labels screen. You can manually add or delete labels as needed as a workaround.

ePADD 7.1 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available [here]:( https://github.com/ePADD/epadd/releases).

Release Notes

ePADD v7.1 includes two major bug fixes.

Fixed

1. For some Windows installations, an exception error is returned during email indexing (#365)
2. Adding profile, landing page, or banner images causes bag verification failure (#361)

Known Issues

The introduction of message error labels has complicated the label upload mechanism. For the time being, please refrain from using the Upload Label Description feature on the Manage Labels screen. You can manually add or delete labels as needed as a workaround.

ePADD 7.0 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available here.

Release Notes

The final release of the IMLS grant follows a code review with the help of static analysis tools, a code-level overhaul for better readability and maintainability, better error checking and user-interface messaging, additional user interface updates, and other fixes discovered through community testing. ePADD v7 has introduced the following major updates:

Updated

1. ePADD now supports collections containing email archives belonging to multiple owners. The archive owner field is now optional. Many screens have been updated to accommodate this change. Optionally, the user can still set an archive owner to view additional statistics (the number of messages received from the owner) on the browse correspondents screen. This new feature provides ePADD with the flexibility to support new use cases, such as reviewing mailing lists or organizational email. (#329) (#338)

2. Code optimization and precomputation of tables. Users should see improved loading times across the application, including loading of message results, correspondents, and lexicons.

3. Additional improvements to loading times for email archives up to 750,000 messages. (#192)

4. Major improvements to the factoring and resolution of correspondent names, and the ability for users to review and improve the results computationally, assign trusted correspondents, and debug the address book (#329) (#338) (#346)

5. Downloading a set of messages from the message browse page will now download all messages in the current set as mbox, as well as all attachments (in original formats).

6. Labeling of irregular messages (e.g. no date, no recipients, etc.) by the system to allow for easy review. (#214)

7. Multi-Term search to facilitate the search of text copied from external sources. (#225)

8. Introduction of thread view, which groups messages in email threads to facilitate easier browsing of related messages.

9. An in-application correspondent list search feature, accessible from the search page, replaces the “upload correspondents (CSV)” interface as the first step to applying a label to a set of correspondents.

10. Addition of sample lexicons in French and German to demonstrate the multilingual search capability of the system. (#337)

11. Profile, landing, and banner photos can now be uploaded as jpg as well as png. (#269)

Updated UI/UX

1. Major UI refresh providing a much more intuitive and polished user experience

2. Access to some functionality has been improved through consolidation or movement to more logical and intuitive locations. Consult the user documentation for more information.

3. In-app help is now available on most screens.

Known Issues

1. The introduction of message error labels has complicated the label upload mechanism. For the time being, please refrain from using the Upload Label Description feature on the Manage Labels screen. You can manually add or delete labels as needed as a workaround.

ePADD 7.0 beta 2 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available here.

Release Notes

Updated

1. Simplified the mechanism for users to access lexicon graph views (#328)
2. Added the ability for the user to debug the list of name forms identified by ePADD as being associated with a single email address. Users can then optionally navigate to messages associated with a seemingly errant name form, and assign a label to differentiate these messages (#322)
3. Improved loading times, especially for larger collections (#192)

ePADD 7.0 beta 1

ePADD 7.0 beta 1 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available here.

Release Notes

Updated

1. A complete code review was performed prior to this release to ensure the quality of software and optimize performance.
2. Significant improvements have been made to improve loading times, primarily through pre-computation of some tables.
3. Search results are now stored in cache. Users should see improved loading times across the application, including loading of message results, correspondents, and lexicons.
4. Major improvements have been made to how correspondent names are resolved.
5. Profile, landing, and banner photos can now be uploaded as jpg as well as png.
6. Downloading a set of messages from the message browse page will now download all messages in the current set as mbox, as well as all attachments (in original formats).
7. An in-application correspondent list search feature, accessible from the search page, replaces the “Upload correspondents (CSV)” interface as the first step to applying a label to a set of correspondents.

Updated UI/UX

1. Major UI refresh providing a much more intuitive and polished user experience
2. Access to some functionality has been improved through consolidation or movement to more logical and intuitive locations. Consult the user documentation for more information.
3. In-app help is now available on most screens.

ePADD 6.1 documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available here: https://github.com/ePADD/epadd/releases.

Release Notes

Reminder

In order to switch modules, the user must now navigate manually in the browser to localhost:9099/epadd/switch-module. Although less convenient for the purposes of testing and development, this change helps ensure that collection donors do not inadvertently switch modules. (#293)

Fixed

1. Edited entities are now saved after restart (#294)
2. Profile, landing, and banner images are now saved and correctly passed to other modules under Windows (#299)
3. Regular expression lexicon search now works as expected (#298)
4. Reporting a problem from Processing no longer sends you back to the Collections page. (#300)

ePADD 6.1 beta

ePADD 6.1 beta documentation

Releases for the appraisal, processing, and delivery modules; and the stand-alone discovery module.

More about installation can be found here.

Important: This release packages all email archives files using the BagIt specification, and is not backwards compatible with past releases prior to v.5. Users should migrate v.5 ePADD folders using the script available here: https://github.com/ePADD/epadd/releases.

Release Notes

Updated

1. In order to switch modules, the user must now navigate manually in the browser to localhost:9099/epadd/switch-module. Although less convenient for the purposes of testing and development, this change helps ensure that collection donors do not inadvertently switch modules (#293)

Fixed

1. Collection details added in Processing are now saved (#265)
2. Adding collection details in Processing no longer breaks the checksum. (#283)
3. File size filter for Other Attachments now works correctly in all modules (#274)
4. System labels no longer display in Discovery or Delivery (#260)
5. Fixed errors related to editing entities in all Appraisal and Processing (#273) (#291)