When I select a collection and then click on "dataset", I get a list of the studies affiliated to the collection. But if I need to navigate to the next page (either by clicking on "page 2" or "next page"), I'm sent back to the page 2 of the "Central Data Catalog", loosing the collection variable. If I put back the collection name in the url manually (/index.php/catalog/COLLECTIONNAME?&page=2) it's working without problem.

The pagination on catalog search page is only displayed at the bottom of the page. Add pagination to the top of the page as well.

https://www.openarchives.org/pmh/

The data deposit page in site administration is not loading. I am getting the error HTTP ERROR 500

Display the abstract on the catalog cards (screenshot below). This information will consist of 2 lines in small fonts, with the text “… more” to show the full abstract. Add a configuration option to enable/disable abstract display.

Implement an auto-approval system for licensed datasets, which would automatically grant permission to users who meet certain criteria (based on the email address, whitelist, or other).

It's a small issue, but the setting "website_footer" is not displayed in the main footer.

It would be incredibly useful (and reduce alot of errors!) if we could upload the CESSDA CV or AN Other directly into NADA

Implement SOLR search with a web UI to manage the SOLR index

Installed 5.0.5, I get an error when I add new study after selecting DDI file & RDF file and then click submit.
I get an error which says:
This page isn't working.
Server is currently unable to handle this request.
HTTP ERROR 500

Hello 👋

I run a security community that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in OSS. A researcher (@rafaelcintralopes) has found a potential issue, which I would be eager to share with you.

Could you add a SECURITY.md file with an e-mail address for me to send further details to? GitHub recommends a security policy to ensure issues are responsibly disclosed, and it would help direct researchers in the future.

Looking forward to hearing from you 👍

(cc @huntr-helper)

Dear NADA team, One issue:
I'm using v5.2.

When editing metadata in the Site admin: the description of scope is populating the abstract field and description of scope is empty. The data looks correct on the front end, and in the XML file:

In XML (located: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\nada\datafiles\central[guid]\ ):
stdyDscr>
stdyInfo>
abstract> (appears correctly on front end, Identification.Abstract)
(Does not appear in metadata on admin page)

stdyDscr>
stdyInfo>
notes> (appears correctly on front end, Scope.Notes)
(Appears in metadata “Overview.Abstract” on admin page)

It could be an error on my part, but I'm having trouble figuring out what is causing it.
Thanks!
Fred

Hello,
Our NADA version is 4.1. Is it possible to upgrade 4.1 to 4.5 directly? Because we already changed own custom design. Here is to link: http://web.nso.mn/nada

Hi Mehmood,
when run pdf generator "......./index.php/admin/pdf_generator/setup/401"
I get error "HTTP ERROR 500"
my environment is IIS 8.5 , mbstring enabled..
How can I track down I couldn't find any error msg in php or iis log's
where can I get nada error logs...

Hello,

After working some time on the last nada upgrade, I gave to our survey team the task to look for any other bug in the application. They found some, for instance this one :

When you go on the search page, under "variable view" and you select "Data available from external repository", you get the following error :

ERROR - 2022-09-06 16:28:08 --> Query error: Unknown column 'forms.formid' in 'where clause' - Invalid query: SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS v.uid, v.name, v.labl, v.qstn, v.vid, surveys.title as title, surveys.idno, surveys.nation, v.sid
FROM `variables` as `v`
INNER JOIN `surveys` ON `v`.`sid` = `surveys`.`id`
LEFT JOIN `repositories` ON `surveys`.`repositoryid`=`repositories`.`repositoryid`
WHERE `forms`.`formid` in (5)
 AND `published` = 1
ORDER BY `title` ASC
 LIMIT 15

Hi Mehmood - We conducted an upgrade from 4.2 to 5.0.5 and picked up some issues.

1. Search by keyword feature not working as expected. It takes forever just to search a particular dataset with keyword. Not sure if the dataset tags are added during the upgrade.
2. It takes forever to move from one page to the next. You can only do this if one refreshes the button while it is searching. E.g. you are on the Central Data Catalog and you want to go the next page.
3. Searching for Variables is also not working - looking at the upgrade script the variables table is dropped and then recreated. How do we re-insert our existing project variables?
4. When creating a report for all the study downloads, you can only create a report for the downloads that done after the upgrade. I know the data is there but is there a possibility of creating a report for all the data downloads including those prior to upgrade?
5. In the 5.0.5 release notes point 4 indicates that dd_projects table needs to altered but I am not finding it.

Cheers
B

When I try to access a collection history from the dashboard, I get the following error :

An uncaught Exception was encountered

Type: Error

Message: Call to a member function result_array() on boolean

Filename: /var/www/html/nada5/application/models/Repository_model.php

Line Number: 706

Backtrace:

File: /var/www/html/nada5/application/controllers/admin/Repositories.php
Line: 746
Function: repo_survey_list

File: /var/www/html/nada5/index.php
Line: 343
Function: require_once

When importing a RDF into NADA 5.0.4 to add resources to a study, the abstract field is ignored.

By checking the dc2sql.xslt file used by the RDF parser, I found out a <dc:abstract /> tag is expected. Unfortunately, RDF files we get from Nestar use a <dcitems:abstract /> tag instead.

So abstracts generated by Nestar are ignored.

Discussed in #72

Add social media icons for sharing link

In nada4 under "data description", you had the option to select "variable groups". I can't find this option in nada5. Do you plan to implement this feature ? Or am I missing something ?

Hi Mehmood,

The upgrade shows incorrect count i.e. 1-15 of 1 instead of 1-15 of (all the survey count). Let's assume that I have 1000 surveys in the catalog and hence catalog page should show 1-15 of 1000 but currently it is showing as 1-15 as 1.

Please find attached image for your reference.

Implement notifications/alerts for registered users:

• Inform users when entries are added to the catalog
• Inform users if any changes are made to specific study metadata or data
• Users should be able to manage the notifications
• Options to subscribe/unsubscribe

Hi,

I am using WAMP 3.2.0 on a windows 7, 64 bit machine to install NADA 5.0.4.

WAMP Icon is green, presumably showing that all the configurations are ok?

localhost:8080 gives me the contents in the picture:

I am not sure how to sort out the error displayed about 8080 not being an Apache Listen port.

localhost:8080/nada5/index.php/install_ gives me a blank screen.

How do i get past this to at least see errors that need fixing?

Issue observed in UNHCR microdata library here:
https://microdata.unhcr.org/index.php/catalog/797/data-dictionary/Household_Data?file_name=Household%20Module

1. The reported percentages are 'strange'. I have included what I expected to see instead.
2. The bars appear 'strange'. The blue bar corresponding to the value {1=no} appears to be larger than the blue bar corresponding to the value {2=yes} despite the frequency for {2=yes} is 4 times larger than that of {1=no}.

Hello,
I followed your upgrade guide from 4.4 to 5.0 and the code still produced errors caused by mysql_connect() call. It took me some time to find out that I had to change the $db['default']['dbdriver'] var to "mysqli" in order to work with php 7.
Maybe you should precise this requirement in the doc ?
Thanks

Hi again :)

Our antivirus pointed this file :

/var/www/html/nada5/javascript/superfish/js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js: SecuriteInfo.com.Exploit.22396.7953.UNOFFICIAL FOUND
/var/www/html/nada4/javascript/superfish/js/jquery-1.2.6.min.js: SecuriteInfo.com.Exploit.22396.7953.UNOFFICIAL FOUND

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 10560234
Engine version: 0.101.1
Scanned directories: 23846
Scanned files: 156859
Infected files: 2
Data scanned: 8341.41 MB
Data read: 8169.42 MB (ratio 1.02:1)
Time: 1905.744 sec (31 m 45 s)

The reason is that jQuery version 1.2.6 was released more than 10 years ago and several XSS vulnerabilities has been found in it since then. Maybe you should upgrade your jQuery version ...

hi mahmood,

I have installed nada 5.0.4 with sql server, but i have a problem in nada/index.php/home, bellow the error

**An uncaught Exception was encountered
Type: Error

Message: Call to a member function row_array() on boolean

Filename: C:\wamp64\www\nada-master\application\models\Stats_model.php

Line Number: 64

Backtrace:

File: C:\wamp64\www\nada-master\application\views\static\home.php
Line: 3
Function: get_survey_count

File: C:\wamp64\www\nada-master\application\controllers\Page.php
Line: 185
Function: view

File: C:\wamp64\www\nada-master\application\controllers\Page.php
Line: 71
Function: static_page

File: C:\wamp64\www\nada-master\index.php
Line: 343
Function: require_once**

this url works fine when using database mysql

thank you

Hello! We are upgrading from 5.05 to 5.2 and we noticed that when browsing the data in the new version, the result of the surveys are not displayed anymore.
5.0.5 :

5.2 :

Is this behaviour intended ? Are these data availible elsewhere ? I didn't found anything about that in the changelog.
Thanks!

Using 5.01 it looks like IDNo format such as
doi:10.7910/DVN/27883
is breaking the import.

It looks like the validation is being applied as one would for the ID attribute i.e. xs:ID rather than content which can accept pretty much anything, which I dont think is correct.

Hello!

I'd like to ask about the catalog search functionality, specifically regarding Boolean full-text searches using MySQL. In Catalog_search_mysql.php, it appears that keywords are being fixed so that the default behavior is a conjunction of search terms. Since a disjunction of search terms (i.e. operator OR) is the default in MySQL fulltext search, the keyword modifications make it syntactically impossible to build an expression with Boolean OR functionality.

My question is whether I'm parsing the behavior correctly and whether there is a capability to search with OR that I may be missing. Thank you for any insights.

If a raw DDI 2.5 XML file is imported using Manage Studies, the country facet is not populated until the refresh DDI link is clicked.
ZMB_CLOSER_CGP_v1.xml.txt

Hi Mehmood - We have nested study publication with four data files and unable to generate the Metadata in PDF - It seems to timeout. Are there any limitations with publishing study with over 4k variables?

Incidentally, we see this behaviour with studies with 2k variables as well but not for studies with 1k variables or less. Seems 1k is the sweet spot. Any ideas where I should be looking at or is this limitation in NADA?

Are there any plans to develop NADA to support a fully DDI-based solution for both study-level and variable-level metadata, (e.g., Lifecycle, or perhaps the forthcoming CDI standard)?

I've been discussing with an organization that is looking to adopt a more comprehensive metadata solution. Given the content they oversee, a more pure social science metadata paradigm would probably be ideal for them. NADA still seems promising as one of the best options for them right now, but as they're growing they're trying to think carefully about future directions as well.

On study info pages, the link to download JSON only provides partial metadata for Microdata projects. The JSON export should include full study, data file and variable level metadata similar to the DDI.

Hi again :)
During the DDI batch refresh, I get a huge amount of "Error: 200 - Ignore errors and continue?" messages. Only 41/903 entries receive the {"success":"UPDATED: XXX"} messages, other ajax responses are empty. I have no errors in apache or php server side.
When I go to the studies, I have no "data description" tab in these failed update entries. Do you have a clue on what's happening ?
Thanks.

Hello everyone!
Please I need some help with NADA 5.0.6 configuration. It was installed in Linux Centos 7 with mysql 5.7 and php 7.4, everything was fine until the upload files in add studies was tested. I can't find the right folder where the study files are uploaded, datafiles, imports and files folders have 777 permissions but nothing works. Other attachment upload actions like citation files and bulk import ddi works but not this one. Please help me to find the path or missing configuration. This is the image of the error.

thanks.

Hello,
I noticed that the ihsn.org still propose version 4.4 for download. Does it mean that the version 5 is not yet considered as production-ready ?
If so, when do you think that version 5 will be released for production ? In one month, six months, ... ?
Thanks in advance for your answer,
Best

Implement a UI to control access to API by user IP address.

Explore various applications/solutions to make it easier for users to get document citations in different formats (BibTex, etc), add the citation to their collection (Endnote, Zotero, …), and see what makes sense for NADA.

See for example what’s in Semantic Scholar:
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/A-Conversation-with-Angus-Deaton-Deaton-Rausser/1194301fad9df6054570c0c66d0d1a17e961b4b1

Hello,
Mysql 5.6 use InnoDB Antelope by default, therefore I got some warnings during mysql nada5 update :

InnoDB: ROW_FORMAT=DYNAMIC requires innodb_file_format > Antelope.
InnoDB: assuming ROW_FORMAT=COMPACT.

Do you thing it is safe to ignore these warnings or do you thing dynamic row format is mandatory and we should deploy Barracuda on our servers ? (which would represent quite some additional work).

Hi,
During the mysql database upgrade from 4.4 to 5, the following line :

install/nada5-upgrade-mysql.sql:56

UPDATE TABLE `surveys` set type='survey';

produce an error. I corrected it this way :

UPDATE `surveys` set `type`='survey'; 

Is this correct ?

Dear Nada team,
I have created accounts for our license request reviewers. They seem to be working properly. However, when a user makes a new request, the Reviewer does not receive an email notification that there is a pending request. I was trying to look up this feature in the documentation. Is this a feature?

When the reviewer logs in and processes a request, the notificaiton back to the user is working properly. Also, the email associated with accounts and passwords is working properly, so I don't think it is an email issue.

Thanks! Fred

Hi Mehmood

We picking up that studies with over 2000 variables are timing out when we include variable description. I have increased the memory_limit and max_execution_time in php.ini. This error doesn't occur when we only choose variable list and external resources.

`An uncaught Exception was encountered
Type: Mpdf\MpdfException
Message: The HTML code size is larger than pcre.backtrack_limit 1000000. You should use WriteHTML() with smaller string lengths.

Filename: /var/www/html/nada5/vendor/mpdf/mpdf/src/Mpdf.php
Line Number: 26661

Backtrace:
File: /var/www/html/nada5/vendor/mpdf/mpdf/src/Mpdf.php
Line: 13159
Function: AdjustHTML

File: /var/www/html/nada5/application/libraries/Pdf_report.php
Line: 145
Function: WriteHTML

File: /var/www/html/nada5/application/controllers/admin/Pdf_generator.php
Line: 134
Function: generate

File: /var/www/html/nada5/application/controllers/admin/Pdf_generator.php
Line: 63
Function: _export_pdf

File: /var/www/html/nada5/index.php
Line: 343
Function: require_once`

Hi again,

Just a small question, it seems that in the search page, sorting by year is not working. In the code in application/libraries/Catalog_search_mysql.php line 1033 I can see that the 'year' parameter is replaced by 'title'. Maybe it's better not to have the option if it's really not used, not to confuse users ?

Best

Hi,

Another bug spotted :

When you do a search with parameters, as long as you are getting result the said parameters are kept with the hidden input forms :

<input type="hidden" name="sort_by" id="sort_by" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="sort_order" id="sort_order" value=""/>
<input type="hidden" name="ps" id="ps" value="15"/>
<input type="hidden" name="repo" id="repo" value="XXX"/>
<input type="hidden" name="sid" id="sid" value=""/>

But as soon as you have no result, the hidden fields are not displayed and the parameters are lost, which can be quite confusing for the user.

Upgraded from 5.0.3 to 5.0.5 and study download report not showing any result after upgrade

Got this PHP warning showing when trying to send an email during the license requeset process :

A PHP Error was encountered
Severity: Warning
Message: sprintf(): Too few arguments
Filename: admin/Licensed_requests.php
Line Number: 411

It's just a sprintf() call that needs to be removed.

We probably shouldn't show PHP warnings in production, but it's a small fix.

When editing a page using the TinyMCE editor, links are automatically modified.

For instance, a correct link we use is : https://microdata.pacificdata.org/documentation/what_is_microdata_and_the_pacific_data_hub_microdata_library.pdf

But even if I set the A tag attribute to be
href="/documentation/what_is_microdata_and_the_pacific_data_hub_microdata_library.pdf"
it saves as
href="/index.php/documentation/what_is_microdata_and_the_pacific_data_hub_microdata_library.pdf"

The extra index.php is always added by the editor.

The only way I found to fix it was by disabling the WYSIWYG editor.
But this is certainly not as convenient for our editors.