v30.0.0 (November 30, 2017)

Enhancements

• General Changes
  • Improved landing page styling
  • Removed expired flow limitation challenges
• Admin Changes
  • Improved Downloads by Quarter report loading speed
• API Changes
  • Dataset versions now have their release date set on creation
• Dashboard Changes
  • Improved user profile and settings management from dashboard
  • Users can now provide profile information about themselves
  • Users can now delete their account
• Data Request Changes
  • Data requests now use SignaturePad for capturing signatures
  • Data requests now follow a simpler path, with a new left hand menu and a
    simpler URL structure
  • Supporting documents can now be attached to data requests
• Dataset Changes
  • Dataset status has been simplified:
    • released, also the same as listed, public, and
    • unreleased, also the same as unlisted, private
  • Datasets without documentation now show the dataset menu after creation
• Organizations Added
  • Organizations are used to group datasets, legal documents, and reviewers
  • Organization editors can now create legal documents
  • Improved data request spreadsheet export task
• Legal Documents Added
  • Legal documents create frameworks for data access and use agreements
  • Organizations can create multiple legal documents for different user types
  • Legal documents are defined by:
    • Commercial Type:
      • both, commerical, and noncommercial
      • Users are asked whether they are commercial or noncommercial unless
        both is selected, and this is saved on the per-user level
      • Users can change their commercial type per agreement if needed
    • Data User Type:
      • both, individual, organization
      • Individuals vs organizations may be required to specify different types
        of data in agreements
      • Similar to "Commerical Type", users are asked if they are entering an
        agreement as an individual as an organization, and this setting is also
        saved for future agreements
      • Users can change their data user type per agreement if needed
    • Attestation Type:
      • none, checkbox, signature
      • Legal documents that require no attestation simply store that the user
        has viewed the agreement at a certain timestamp
      • Legal documents that require a checkbox explicitly ask the user to check
        a checkbox to attest that they have read, answered truthfully and to the
        best of their knowledge, and agree to the legal document
      • Legal documents that require a signature require that the user signs
        attesting that they have read, answered truthfully and to the best of
        their knowledge, and agree to the legal document
        • Users who can't sign can have a Duly Authorized Representative sign
          on their behalf for these types of legal documents
      • All three types of legal documents track when a user has attested by
        either submitting, checking, or signing the agreement
    • Approval Process:
      • immediate and committee
      • Legal documents that have an immediate approval process simply require
        the data user to complete and submit the agreement
      • Immediate approval agreements can still have time limits placed on the
        duration of the agreement after which a renewal is required
      • Legal documents that require committee approval get sent to the
        organization committee for review
      • An organization primary reviewer can approve these agreements, or ask
        users to make changes and resubmit
    • Legal documents that require no attestation or checkbox attestation and
      have and immediate approval process can be filled out directly using the
      NSRR downloader
    • For the NSRR downloader, checkbox attestation is replaced by typing "Yes"
      or "No" instead of checking a checkbox
  • Legal documents consist of one or more pages with content and data collected
    from data users
  • Legal documents can also contain optional riders and supporting
    documentation uploads
  • Organization editors can create and modify legal documents and assign them
    to one or more datasets
  • Multiple legal documents can be assigned to datasets to cover the different
    commerical/noncommercial and individual/organization user types
  • Legal documents are versioned when they are published, and subsequent
    changes to the agreements only affect new users
• Profile Changes
  • Users can now delete their account
  • Users can now directly upload profile pictures
• Reviewer Changes
  • Simplified voting on agreements as a reviewer
  • Reviewers can upload supporting documents to a data request
  • Reviewers can mark specific data request fields for resubmission
  • Reviewers are now blinded before casting initial vote
  • Reviewers are prompted to vote again after a data request is resubmitted
  • Dataset changes are now tracked in the data request history
• Variable Changes
  • Improved display of long variable names
• Gem Changes
  • Updated to ruby 2.4.2
  • Updated to rails 5.1.4
  • Updated to bootstrap 4.0.0.beta2
  • Updated to carrierwave 1.2.1
  • Updated to haml 5.0.4
  • Updated to kaminari 1.1.1
  • Added bootsnap 1.1.5

Tests

• Added tests to assure user passwords can be reset