CHANGELOG.rst

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

Unreleased

2.2.1 - 2022-02-03

Fixed

• Fix logic and syntax mistaks in parts of process
• Remove hard-coded email domain from Schild-NRW import templates.

2.2 - 2022-02-03

Added

• ZIP files with multiple CSVs and accompanying photos can now be imported
• Field types can now provide values for arbitrary alternative DB fields
• Virtual fields can be generated from literal fields using Django templates
• Field data can be post-processed using Django templates
• Fields for Group.parent_groups and Person.member_of
• Quote character can now be configured in template

Fixed

• CSV files with non-UTF-8 charsets can now be imported
• Imports could expose undefined behaviour when hitting the same interpreter process

Changed

• Refactored import and field type code for better readability

2.1 - 2022-01-17

Added

• Add RegEx field type for parsing CSV fields to multiple DB fields.
• Add field type to parse a combined street and housenumber.
• Add field type to set an owner of a person's primary group by its short name.
• Add support for synchronously running the import using the management command.
• Support uploading template definitions as YAML files through the frontend.
• Add overview of all registered import templates in frontend.
• Register string functions lstrip, rstrip, strip, capitalise, lower, upper, and title as converters
• Allow defining one or multiple converters in templates

Changed

• Use YAML for configuration of (default) import templates.
• Extend the field type API using getters to make attributes more dynamic.
• Don't limit the import on specific models.
• Support adding domains to local parts of email addresses.
• Unclearly used is_active flag for Person model was removed
• Use phone number country code setting from AlekSIS-Core.
• Update German translations.

Fixed

• Management commands like collectstatic now work with no database being configured.
• Import failed when phone numbers weren't exactly valid (e. g. a missing number).
• Field type primary_group_by_short_name failed on non-existing group.
• Match field types ignored the priority settings.
• Data in match field types weren't used for the import if not used for match.
• Fixed argument parsing for management command
• First column of CSV files could not be imported
• Celery task wasn't correctly registered.
• Management command wasn't usable due to missing arguments.
• Add documentation.

Removed

• Drop TOML support for configuration of (default) import templates.

2.0 - 2021-12-20

Nothing changed.

2.0rc2 - 2021-07-23

Fixed

• Drop usage of no longer existing method get_subject_by_short_name.

2.0rc1 - 2021-06-23

Fixed

• Preference section verbose names were displayed in server language and not user language (fixed by using gettext_lazy).
• Fix distribution name discovery for AlekSIS about page

2.0b1 - 2021-06-01

Changed

• Make Chronos optional: * Department group creation works without Chronos now.