FAIR Data Services Version 2.50.0

Summary

This release contains a number of minor back end changes.

Upcoming items

FAIR 2.51.0 will amalgamate the form building code for catalogue templates and data access request (DAR) forms. This change has been made to make the far wider array of field types currently available when creating a catalogue template available to users creating DAR forms. 

This change will have no impact on end users, but it does mean that where a DAR form is being edited via the API type safe attributes will now be required for things like maximum and minimum e.g:

• maximum: 2, instead of maximum: “2”
• defaultValue: true, instead of defaultValue: “true”

Where a hub has a third party integration with its DAR process there is a small possibility that there could be issues with:

• submission and display of new requests (based on existing 3rd party request forms)
• display of existing requests

In this circumstance we suggest hub owner tests their integration when the change is released to their staging environment. Any new forms or amendment to forms will also now need to be type safe.