CS 2024

Creation and update of contacts are upgraded.

To facilitate a better user experience, improvements are implemented on the following features:

1. Names. Special characters, such as punctuations, are now allowed when specifying names of new and existing contacts.

2. Addresses. A delete () icon is enabled so you can remove an address from a contact. This applies only when there are changes to the primary address specified for a contact.

3. Add Information. An improved error message is now displayed when users add an information type (Phone Number, Email, or Web Page) and value that duplicates an existing one.

4. Contact Type, Purpose, and Crop. When creating or updating these for an Institution, you can now use the text field and expect the options to be narrowed down as you type.

Bug fixes

You can now expect to encounter no errors when:

1. creating institutions, such that no duplicates are made,

2. updating a contact’s primary address, and

3. deleting additional information on a contact’s profile.

Access and permissions of user profiles is improved.

Several upgrades are made to integrate a user’s profile and other related permissions. Specifically, you can now:

1. Permit access to the germplasm tool’s coding feature. You can now assign users to have access to the germplasm tool’s new feature to code additional germplasm names. The tool is available in the Core Breeding (CB) domain.

2. See only relevant units. When adding a user as a member of a unit, the list of possible options are limited to the units belonging to the selected institution.

3. Define CB access at action-level. All CB tools have an improved role-based access control (RBAC), where access is now defined up to the action-level. This means that users' access to data browser action buttons, such as view (), update (), and delete (), are now defined by how EBS administrators defined a profile’s roles and permissions for a specific tool and its functionalities.

The user interface is enhanced.

The following improved features can now be expected:

1. Account Type. This new column is now available in the data browser that lists EBS user profiles.

2. Add Information. An improved error message is now displayed when users add an information type (Phone Number, Email, or Web Page) and value that duplicates an existing one.

3. Users, Roles, and Security Rules. For an improved user experience, these three sections are now properly separated. As such, separate roles and permissions to access each section should also be assigned by an EBS admin to a user’s profile.

Bug fixes

The following reported bugs are now fixed. You can now:

1. receive a notification that user profile changes are successfully saved, and

2. update a user’s access by assigning a unit and role.

Creation and management of units are improved.

The user interface is improved in the following functionalities:

1. Data browser. New columns that house audit information on unit creation and modification is now available on the data browser. These new columns headers are: Created By/On and Modified By/On.

2. Create and edit units.

   1. Select address. When creating or editing a unit under an organization, you can now browse for applicable addresses associated to that organization using a drop-down menu.

   2. Enhanced Save button. The button is upgraded to reflect standard notifications with other CS tools after creating and editing a unit’s details.

   3. Remove unit contacts. When editing a unit’s contact details, you can now click the icon on the drop-down menu so you can replace the currently selected Unit Admin Contact and Unit Lead Contact.

   4. Add members. You can now view each member’s email addresses and institutions on the unit’s member list. Email addresses are now also reflected beside a contact’s name as you add them as members using the drop-down menu.

Bug fixes

You can expect to encounter no errors when:

1. sorting the data browser by unit abbreviation, and

2. specifying the Unit Lead Contact.

Field creation is improved.

When creating a field, you can now expect the map to sync based on the geospatial coordinates you provide. Simply supply the latitude and longitude values and click Send Coordinates.

Bug fixes

Reported bugs are now fixed. You can now:

1. create and link a field to a site,

2. download site reports reflecting accurate information, and

3. creating sites and fields with no pre-selected data fields.

Creation workflow for outgoing shipments for CIMMYT is upgraded.

The workflow for outgoing seed shipments processed by the Centro Internacional de Mejoramiento de Maíz y Trigo (CIMMYT) now support an:

1. improved Basic Information tab, where users can easily confirm when the requestor is the same with the recipient, as well as access the new request ID data field, and

2. exported file containing the transaction’s packages, where the contents are in ascending order.

Creation workflow for outgoing shipments for IRRI is enhanced.

Based on feedback from its Seed Health Unit (SHU), the workflow for outgoing seed shipments done by the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) now feature the following improvements:

1. Form validations. Unnecessary fields and buttons were removed, while additional options were enabled to improve the forms found on the General Information, Items, and Documents tabs.

2. Data browser. The Received Date column is now automatically populated with the date that the SHU received the shipment transaction. You can also download an offline copy of the data browser and its details using the button from the toolbar.

3. Notifications. Pop-up notifications are enabled to inform users of a successful action, while email notifications are also received by relevant users once the status of a transaction is SUBMITTED.

4. Documents. Downloadable IRRI-specific documents are also made available. These are generated using templates from the Core System’s Printout tool. These include, but are not limited to, Standard Materials Transfer Agreement (SMTA), Customized Materials Transfer Agreement (CMTA), and Open Materials Transfer Agreement (OMTA).

Bug fixes

You can now expect to encounter no errors when uploading and downloading files from the Shipment Manager.