Tuesday, October 12, 2021

This release adds the ability to search by basic file attributes.

Previously, this application only allowed querying by Annotations. "Basic" file attributes like File ID, Filename, Date Uploaded were unable to be queried in this same way due to the sheer quantity of them since every file is likely to have a unique value for each of those attributes. Moreover, the way one would query an Annotation like by asking "What are all the files with Cell Line AICS-0?" does not align perfectly with how one would ideally query a file attribute. Filename is likely best queried by a partial match where the search query would match every file with the query present as part of the filename rather than matching the filename exactly, as though one were to ask "What are all the files with a Filename containing ?"