Workspaces Release Notes: 3.21

First released: 12th June 2023

Summary

We have made some more additions and improvements to the new Data Table Detail page as well as some other bug fixes and changes.

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Upcoming items

We are working on the New UX features, Large Data Tables and the rest of our 2023 Roadmap, please get in touch with the team at Aridhia to discuss this further.

UX preview features can be trialled by selecting the "Use new view" button in the profile menu.

Released features

Feature	Type	Jira key	Summary
Improve error handling on workspace-api file access when actions fails due to file lock	Enhancement	XAP-21813	We have improved some error messaging when workspace files are not available for the user (e.g. when they are locked by an app or another user)
Dropdown menu in files/database table list does not wrap all the options	BugFix	XAP-22401	We fixed the menu button in the new UI which sometimes did not display all options if it was near the bottom or top of a list.
Delete modals are different width	BugFix	XAP-22212	We have fixed an inconsistency in the width of some modals in the new UI
Show DB table size on DB list	Enhancement	XAP-22159	Users of the new UI can now see the size of database tables in the database table list. The size of the table in bytes is shown.
File tab should be closed when file or folder deleted using multi-action delete button	BugFix	XAP-21703	We noticed that when deleting more than once file in the file list, open files were not closed in the browser. This has been fixed
View table column details	Enhancement	XAP-21272	`In the new UI, Database table column details can now be seen. Users can now view the column name and type as well as metadata when available`
Change default CRAN for the R Console	Enhancement	AT-1374	We have changed the default CRAN mirror for package installation in the R Console from http://www.stats.bris.ac.uk/R/ to https://cloud.r-project.org/.
remove https://mran.microsoft.com from default whitelist	Enhancement	AT-1259	Microsoft is shutting down https://mran.microsoft.com , so it has been removed from our default whitelist.
Prompt users to add rows to new datasets	Enhancement	AT-1248	A user is now prompted to add rows to a dataset when they have created a new dataset to make that journey easier and smoother.
"Save log" from mini-app does not save the log content, it only creates the log file	Enhancement	AT-1218	A bug where the mini-app log was not saved properly has been fixed.