Problems creating a new experiment (Testing)

[franfrutos]

Hello everybody!

I'm testing the platform, and to start with I've tried to create a new experiment. To do so, I set up my osf token and I have already been able to access the board where my experiments are displayed. I have created a new project in osf to be able to connect the experiment, but when I try to click on "create" it loads briefly and nothing changes. I have tried to modify some settings (enable disable data validation, create multiple conditions, etc) but the result is always the same.

I don't know if there has been an error on my part or if I'm running into a potential bug. In any case I report the issue to see what could be going on.

[jodeleeuw]

thanks @franfrutos. that definitely sounds like a bug and some kind of error that we are not handling correctly yet. I'll see if I've got logs of this attempt on the server. Can you screenshot what the new experiment page looks like right before you submit?

[mzettersten]

I think I might have run into the same issue at first: clicking on "create" didn't create a new experiment. The issue was that I had pasted the full OSF link (e.g. https://osf.io/pgj94/) into the "Existing OSF Project" prompt, rather than the OSF repository id (e.g., just "pgj94"). Once I entered just the repository name, it seems to have worked. Whether or not this is the same issue, maybe an informative error message could help here? I bet this will be a common thing to happen if people are copy-pasting.

[franfrutos]

Thanks @mzettersten, that definitely solved the problem! I completely ignored that in the "Existing OSF project" section the part that can't be edited was the root of the page. I also think that specifying in that section what is requested (the id), either with an error message or by explaining it beforehand might help.

[jodeleeuw]

This is very helpful, thanks! I will work on a validation check to remove the extra part of the URL if someone enters in the full thing.