Martus (TM) Human Rights Bulletin System / News: Recent posts

This release is available in English, Farsi/Dari, Spanish and other
languages as indicated on the http://www.martus.org software download
page. Other languages will be available in the future, as language-packs
on the documentation page (http://www.martus.org/downloads)

Fixed issue when searching for entries in dropdown fields that have spaces
at the beginning or end of the entry.

Fixed issue when loading a previously saved search that contains fields
that no longer exist in any bulletins on your computer. Instead of receiving
an error that does not allow the user to search, the row in the search grid
containing those fields will be reset to the default/new search row values
(i.e. "Any Field contains")

In the 3.6 release, we added the option to load values entered in bulletins for text and dropdown fields in the search screen, and updated the Farsi/Dari user interface translation and Afghan calendar preferences options. The 3.6.1 release updated some English documentation, help screens, and translations.

Added data-driven dropdown fields (dropdown lists created by data entered in a bulletin grid) to list of available fields to search on in Search screen.... read more

Martus 3.5 included new bulletin format customization features, including the ability to create multi-level dropdown lists (e.g. for locations where you might want state/city/neighborhood definitions), and the option to define default values for bulletin fields for more efficient data entry. Martus 3.5.1 fixed several issues introduced in Martus 3.5.

This release includes the ability to change the Martus time-out length when there is no activity to be more flexible, instead of always timing out at 10 minutes -- this can help improve the performance of long operations (such as retrieval of bulletins from the server). For instructions on how to configure this option, please see the Release Notes file link below or view the README file in your Martus directory after you install the new version. This release also addressed an issue with very large customizations that would cause Martus to load very slowly and result in various errors. ... read more

Changes from version 3.3.2 to version 3.4

This release is available in English and other languages as indicated on the http://www.martus.org software download page. Other languages will be available in the future, as language-packs on the documentation page (http://www.martus.org/downloads)

* Added the ability to require data entry in certain grid columns before a bulletin can be saved.
* Added the ability to specify that all grid column specifications in the Search screen be matched to a single row of bulletin grid data. To do this, check the 'Match grid column specifications' checkbox in the Search screen. For example, if you want to search for a specific victim name in a single row in your bulletins created after a certain date, select the checkbox and enter the following fields in the Search screen: "Victim Information: First Name" = x and "Victim Information: Last Name" = y and "Date Created" >= YYYY-Mon-DD. If you do not select the "Match grid column specifications" checkbox, Martus will find bulletins created after your specified date where any row has the first name you specified and any other row has the last name specified, but not necessarily in the same bulletin row (you could have a row with "First Name" = x and "Last Name" = b, and a different row with "First Name" = a and "Last Name" = y, and Martus will find that bulletin as matching the search because you did not specify that it had to match in a single row).
* Added the ability to require that Martus validate all dates against user-specified date ranges in the bulletin customization (E.g. event dates cannot be before or after a certain date, including the ability to say that dates cannot be after “today”, i.e. in the future). Please note that you can require date validation of standard fields as well as custom fields. Date field Year dropdown choices will reflect the hard-coded date ranges specified in the customization.
* Added ability to capture 'Extended bulletin history' across users. This is viewable under the Bulletin Details button, so that a Headquarters account who creates a new version of the bulletin can see the public code and bulletin id of the previous author’s versions of the bulletins. The previous author and bulletin information is also added to the XML export of any bulletins with this extended history.
* Fixed Modify existing bulletin functionality so that Martus recognizes whether the always Private section customization has changed, and asks the user if they want to use the old or the new fields.
* Added a warning message if a user tries to import an incompatible xml file created by a different version of Martus.
* Several minor bug fixes, clarifications and clean-ups to the user screens.
* Updated version of English User Guide

Changes from version 3.3 to version 3.3.2

This release is available in English and other languages as
indicated on the http://www.martus.org software download page.
Other languages will be available in the future, as language-packs
on the documentation page (http://www.martus.org/downloads)

- Fixed issues related to expanded grids that contain data-driven-
dropdowns, such as user interface slowness or freezing when tabbing
out of a field in an expanded grid that is a data-driven-dropdown
source (and the data-driven-dropdown is also in an expanded grid),
collapsing a grid that contains a data-driven-dropdown, or saving
a bulletin with an expanded grid that contains a data-driven-dropdown. ... read more

This release includes the ability to view image attachments directly inside bulletins, and new "batch update" features for more efficient processing of groups of bulletins at once (e.g. option to add a new Headquarters account or seal draft bulletins in bulk). The full release notes and download of the new version are available here.

Martus 3.3 is available in English and Spanish, with "Language Packs" placed on http://www.martus.org/downloads as they become available.