Sinopia Known Issues

last updated 6/3/19; the project board is here

Linked Data Editor

• Trying to click on certain nested Resource Templates or fields results in a blank screen. (Issue 602)
• Browser refresh is required to see new Resource Templates that have been uploaded by another user (or in another session) after you started your session (NOTE: this is not an issue to be fixed; this is the expected behavior given the architecture of the application)
• When a revised Resource Template is uploaded, the revised version does not show up in other existing browser sessions, even after a browser refresh. WORKAROUND: hard refresh your browser (hold down shift key and click the refresh icon in your browser) to see the latest list of available templates. (Issue 545)
• Newly uploaded Resource Templates do not appear in a logical place in the list of available Resource Templates (not yet ticketed)
• All Linked Data Editor actions require login. The desired behavior is to be forced to log in only when doing actions that require login (importing resource templates, saving data). (Issue 495)
• Sign out button doesn't always sign you out. (Issue 556)
• The ability to specify the language of the literal value you enter is not working properly. (Issue 529)

Linked Data Editor: Obscure

• If you set up a Resource Template with multiple Property Templates that use the same Property URI, then a value entered in one literal field will be duplicated across all literal fields using the same Property URI. At first look, this is unexpected behavior; however it is correct behavior so there is no issue. (Have not tested with type = lookup)

Profile Editor

https://profile-editor.sinopia.io/

• Clicking the back button in your browser erases your entries. (Issue 158)
• We are not adding or updating the list of available vocabularies for "Select Resource" and "Select Property". Workaround: profile creator can manually enter any class or property URI and label into the necessary fields. (Issue 182)
• The list of available lookups in "Add Value / URI" dropdown does not update automatically when a new authority is available to Sinopia. (Issue 162)
• Not all Share-VDE datasets are available as lookups (Cornell, Stanford, UCSD currently available)
• While it's possible to add a default value and/or default URI in a property template with type = resource, Sinopia ignores those, as a single default value for a nested Resource Template does not make sense.
• While it's possible to mark a property template of type = resource as mandatory, this is not currently enforced.