Hi Joel, Glad to hear that you're already planning for v4. I'm very interested to hear about your experience with Azure and Arches (perhaps you could post when you get a minute!)
You asked a couple of good questions: Q1: Data migration wizard from v3 to v4? A1: We'll provide a documented workflow for getting data from v3 into v4. This may include a set of scripts to streamline the process. Q2: Resource Validation Workflow? A2: V4 will provide basic validation tools (e.g.: data type check, check for required values, etc) and allow you to script more sophisticated validation rules for your specific dataset Q3: API? A3: V4 will come with an API that supports reading graph instances, instance creation/update/delete, search, graph import/export Q4: Time frame for the mobile application? A4: Probably late summer of 2017. Hope this is helpful. Cheers, Dennis On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 3:14:26 AM UTC-8, Joel Aldor wrote: > > Hi Dennis, > > This is probably the best news I've read today. :) We are currently in the > process of migrating our servers from AWS to Azure, and we hope to complete > our migration next month so we can already upgrade to version 4. I have a > few questions though for this upgrade: > > 1.) Will there be a data migration wizard from v3 to v4? We have around > 8000 resources already on the map and we want to retain the data/reporting > structure with version 4 before we can modify the data entry forms. > 2.) As far as I remember, there will be a Resource Validation Workflow > that is supposed to be integrated for v4, but I believe you may have > deferred it for next release (or maybe this is the data collection project > manager tool?). When will this be available? > 3.) Will v4 come with an API that would help integrate with other systems? > 4.) Do you have a more definite time frame for the release of the mobile > app for Android and iOS? > > Regards, > > Joel > > On Tuesday, January 24, 2017 at 3:18:03 AM UTC+8, Dennis Wuthrich wrote: >> >> Hello Arches Community, >> >> We've been working very diligently on version 4 of Arches, and we're >> ready to announce March 24, 2017 as the release date for v4. >> >> Version 4 will come with: >> >> - An installation wizard that should make installing Arches much >> simpler for those uncomfortable with command line interfaces >> - Integrated graph design tools. V4 will let you build graphs and >> share your graphs with other Arches users >> - Data entry form design tools. Arches will automatically build data >> entry forms based on your graphs and let you configure them to meet your >> particular data entry requirements >> - An integrated geospatial data server that will allow you to manage >> your own map data (such as aerial photographs and historic maps) >> - A library of resource report templates that you can configure so >> that resource reports contain exactly the information you want >> - Node-based permissions manager that will allow you to define data >> access permissions for every node in a graph >> - Enhanced search tools >> - Better data import/export handling >> - Performance improvements >> >> For those of you waiting for v4, thanks for your patience! As you can >> see, v4 includes a number of new features and getting the engineering and >> code development just right has been a big job. If you'd like to see the >> current state of our development, check out the v4 repository at: >> https://github.com/archesproject/arches >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dennis >> > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
