Announcements - HBP Wiki

=== **Drive issue** ===

Users have reported issues trying to access the drive. This is something we are aware of and trying to fix as soon as possible. This issue seems to be an Openshift problem.

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Until this is resolved, users will have issues accessing any functionality that requires Drive access. This mainly concerns the Lab and to a less extant, any service that requires access to the drive.

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**Potential fix: **We believe we have identified the issue and will be bringing the Lab service down for up to an hour at 10pm CEST on April 28th as we attempt to deploy this fix. All current Notebooks will be killed during this downtime. - Unfortunately this fix has not worked and we are looking at other solutions at the moment.

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We apologise for any inconvenience this has caused

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=== **Collaboratory 2 release (2021-04-28)** ===

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**Due to the problem described in the "Drive issue" announcement, the Collaboratory release was delayed from 27th April to the 28th April**

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**Collaboratory.Wiki**

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* The new "Bucket" menu is now available in all collabs

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* Various UI fixes.

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* Collapsible macro styles have been updated.

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* Fixed some issues with our Search functionality.

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* Favourite collabs API has been developed for future integration into the UI.

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* Added a report button to collabs, you can now report unused or inappropriate collabs.

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* Issue for some users getting permission denied messages when they should not has been resolved.

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**Due to team members being on vacation, the Collaboratory.Lab release will instead go ahead on Monday 3rd May.**

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**Collaboratory.Lab**

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* Nueron installation has been fixed and updated to latest version.

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* The "Copy shareable link" button should now work without manual intervention.

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=== **Collaboratory 2 release (2021-04-13)** ===

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**Collaboratory.Wiki**

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* The new "Bucket" menu will be available in every new collab created, and will be rolled out to existing collab's in the coming days.

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* Users logged into the wiki, should now automatically be logged into the lab in an iFrame instead of needing to login again.

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=== **Collaboratory 2 release (2021-03-30)** ===

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The release going ahead on the 30th March will contain numerous upgrades and fixes throughout the Collaboratory Drive, Wiki and Lab.

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**Collaboratory.Drive**

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* Incorrect name formats are now automatically fixed

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* Improvements to Automated tests.

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**Collaboratory.Lab**

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* Current Notebook image was rebuilt with extra extensions. These are : nbgitpuller,ipywidgets, jupyterlab-plotly, jupyter-matplotlib

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**Collaboratory.Wiki**

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* The "Favourite" button was moved to the top right of a collab page.

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* New API added, this will allow users to get the Collab(CollabObject) via the DriveId - [[More information>>https://wiki.ebrains.eu/bin/view/Collabs/the-collaboratory/Technical%20documentation/For%20Developers/Collaboratory%20API/]]

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* Highlighted Collabs is now a responsive design.

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* Improvements to Automated tests.

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Note: This release will cause all running containers to be reset.

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=== Collaboratory User Group (UG) meeting ===

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The UG meeting is a great way to stay informed about recent and upcoming changes to the Collaboratory as well as making your voice and ideas heard directly by the developers. If you are interested in attending this meeting, or know someone who is interested, please feel free[[ to join these meetings>>https://wiki.ebrains.eu/bin/view/Collabs/collaboratory-user-group/Joining%20the%20group/]]

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=== Wiki update (2021-03-02) ===

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As well as numerous bug fixes and small improvements to the Wiki, we are also upgrading the current version of XWiki(Version 10.11.9) to the most recent version of XWiki (Version 12.10.2). We are also adding a few fixes to its integration in the Wiki front end . A new feature was added: a new "Like" (Represented by a [[image:https://a.slack-edge.com/production-standard-emoji-assets/13.0/google-medium/2764-fe0f.png||alt=":heart:"]]) feature that is now available on Collab pages. For now, it can be used to show support and approval for any Collab page you like and use, in the future, we will be expanding upon this functionality.

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If you would like to see new features or feel certain functionality is required to improve the Collaboratory, please [[join the Collaboratory user group>>https://wiki.ebrains.eu/bin/view/Collabs/collaboratory-user-group/Joining%20the%20group/]], once joined, please do not hesitate to [[make your suggestions>>https://drive.ebrains.eu/lib/aac38e36-4bd9-48ee-9ae6-b876a65028aa/file/Collaboratory%20User%20Group%20-%20Suggestion%20box.docx]].

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=== EBRAINS ticketing system (2021-03-02) ===

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The categories of tickets are being aligned to the description of [[services on the EBRAINS.eu website>>https://ebrains.eu/services/]]. We are using this opportunity to also upgrade the ticketing system to a more recent version.

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=== OnlyOffice license issue ===

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We are aware that some users are getting issues when trying to use OnlyOffice similar to the following image~:

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[[image:1613726704318-340.png]].

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We are working on this issue and will have it fixed as soon as possible, thank you for your patience and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.

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=== Collaboratory 2 release (2021-02-17) ===

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The release going ahead on 17th February has the following enhancements.

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1. Mounting a new "Shared" drive for the ability to easily share links from Seafile. So going forward, any links that need to be shared should be generated in the "Shared " drive. The original "/drive" will be kept so it does not break any of the already existing links.

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1. OnlyOffice is being upgraded to the latest version. This should solve the issue listed below in the "Files locked in the Drive " section. The section will remain temporarily until it is verified this issue is fully fixed.

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1. Seafile file system is being increased

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=== Collaboratory 1 maintenance ===

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Collaboratory 1 services will be down from 18:00 CET [[(my timezone)>>https://everytimezone.com/s/4a9daa55]] Thursday Jan 7 for maintenance. The services are being re-hosted from the EPFL/BBP infrastructure to the Fenix infrastructure. The OIDC authentication service will be reactivated first (within 30 minutes); all other services will follow in the evening. Once the Collaboratory 1 services are back online, you may find that files added to the storage within the last days do not initially appear. This will be remedied overnight as we synchronize the storage. Thank you for your patience and understanding.

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As a reminder the Collaboratory 1 services are deprecated and will be shut down in September 2021.

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If you encounter issues with Collaboratory 1 after Friday 12:00 CET, please contact [[https:~~/~~/ebrains.eu/support>>url:https://ebrains.eu/support]]

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The re-hosting was completed on Thursday evening. Some services relying on the Collaboratory 1 may need to be restarted to take into account the new DNS entries. Please notify [[support>>https://ebrains.eu/support]] of any issues you identify.

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=== SSL certificates (2020-12-04) ===

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Our SSL Certificate provider (Let's Encrypt) has been using new certificates to sign our SSL certificates as described on their [[website>>https://letsencrypt.org/certificates]]. This requires updates on our servers and on your web browsers. The updates on your web browsers often go unnoticed by the user but in some cases your browser may inform you that it needs to fetch a new certificate. You can accept this safely; most browsers don't even mention it to the user.

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Note that this is not the same as accepting an exception in your browser because of a bad certificate. Accepting such exceptions can put your data and credentials at risk of a person-in-the-middle attack.

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We believe we have addressed all the issues that may arise from this change in SSL certificates. If you experience any issue, especially when accessing EBRAINS APIs, don't hesitate to contact [[support>>https://ebrains.eu/support]].

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=== Files locked in the Drive (2020-09-30) ===

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A few users have reported issues in saving OnlyOffice edits to the Drive of a collab.

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We are looking into this. At the time being, it seems that a small number of files are locked by the Drive which prevents OnlyOffice to update these files when they are edited online.

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We are actively trying to correct the problem as promptly as possible.

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==== The temporary workaround ====

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When you open a file in OnlyOffice:

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1. check if other users are editing the same file. The count appears at the top right corner.