EntryScape 3.17 comes with a lot of good news! Datasets can be locked for editing, new GIS functionality where data services and distributions can be created from map services in WMS format, customized top-level project modules for easier navigation, and Registry has undergone a series of fixes for improved usability.

Lock functionality for datasets

Group managers for a catalog now have the option to lock datasets for editing. This is particularly useful when preserving large amounts of published metadata and data that are not expected to change, and prevent unwanted edits.

New GIS functionality

Customers can now use published WMS layers to easily create both datasets and distributions directly in EntryScape. The metadata is extracted and the connection to the original WMS service is preserved. This opens up new possibilities for integrating EntryScape datasets with standalone web maps.

Customized project modules

It is possible to get customizable project modules at the top level, instead of going through Workbench. Examples of project modules could be “Documents,” and “Tourism” with customized application profiles and metadata fields. EntryScape can be configured with this functionality for users when needed.

Upgrade of Registry

Registry has been upgraded and made more user-friendly with name changes, more intuitive navigation, and new features. For example, there is a new validation page for your harvest source, where you can easily switch between the three most recent validation reports via a drop-down menu.

Other improvements

  • Finally, you can select existing publishers when creating new catalogs in EntryScape Catalog. This feature requires a configuration to be enabled.

  • Workbench and Catalog have been linked more closely so that entity types can be shared between projects and catalogs via a configuration change.

  • The table view has been changed to more easily display complex fields that contain multiple subfields.

  • You can both copy and download data directly in the detailed information dialog, which facilitates data management.

  • The statistics function in Catalog can now display history going back several years, a much-requested feature.

As usual, EntryScape also has many more small design improvements changes, bug fixes and other improvements that are not immediately visible.

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You can test the new version for free on EntryScape Free with EntryScape Catalog and EntryScape Terms!

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Open development for information and data management

EntryScape is an open source software for smart information management. Since 2014, EntryScape has evolved to become the market-leading solution for metadata, open data, internal data and shared data in Sweden. As EntryScape grows, new updates are regularly released. Here we describe the improvements with the latest version.

If you want to dig into the details, you can read more about all the issues in the release with new functionality, bug fixes, changes and more on our open project management and source code hosted at Bitbucket.

You can read more on our website about EntryScape Free and test it for free. You can read the changelog with all highlighted changes here. If you are interested in reading about issues, including bug fixes related to this version of EntryScape – read more here.