Release Notes 2.18 (March 2024)

Collections - Improved Data Asset Addition

With the newly Improved Data Asset Addition, you can now easily add or remove assets from a Collection.

By simply clicking the "Manage Assets" button, this functionality opens a side panel, offering a quick and efficient way to curate your Collections. Previously, the process of adding assets to Collections involved manual copy-and-paste of URLs in a modal. The new flow transforms this into a dynamic side panel allowing you to search or choose from a filtered list, significantly enhancing the speed, efficiency, and overall experience while setting up your Collections.

Additionally, this feature supports bulk addition or removal of assets.

Capsules and Pipelines - Owner/Admin Ability to Capture, Delete, and Rename Runs

There may be instances in which Admins or Capsule Owners want to view or manage the results of another user's Reproducible Runs such as when a result was generated from a third-party user or a user who has since left the company.

As a solution, Capsule/Pipeline Owners and Admins now have the ability to rename and delete runs from other users, as well as create Result Data Assets from those runs. Additionally, Code Ocean Admins also have the ability to see all runs on Released Capsules/Pipelines and perform these same actions on those runs

Pipelines - Customize Error Strategy in Pipeline Settings

To provide users an easy way to define a Code Ocean Pipeline's behavior when an error is encountered, users can now configure the Nextflow error strategy for their Pipeline from the Pipeline Settings menu as shown below.

Users can select from Default, Terminate, Finish, Ignore, and Retry. When the user selects Retry, they will be able to set the minimum and maximum number of retry attempts.

Pipelines - Automatic nf-core App Panel Creation

Code Ocean will now automatically generate an App Panel for imported nf-core pipelines, providing users with an easy to use no-code way to parameterize each pipeline run.

Search - "Clear Search" Button Added to All Search Boxes

An inline X button has been added to all search boxes in Code Ocean to allow a quick and easy way to clear the search contents.

Admin Improvements

Custom Metadata - Enhanced Creation and Management Functionality

Until now, once a Custom Metadata Tag was created, there were almost no changes an Administrator could make to the tag. in v2.18, the functionality and UX for Administrators adding and managing Custom Metadata tags has been improved so they are now able to easily make the following changes to Custom Metadata tags:

• Edit or delete values in a list of values for custom metadata tags that are not in use

• Raise/lower values in a tag's number text box

• Edit units for tags that are not in use

• Change tags from not required to required

Support Bundle - Specify Log Timeframe (Up to 24 Hours)

The Support Bundle contains important log files with helpful troubleshooting information which can be generated from the Admin Dashboard. To aid in the ability of deployment Adminstrators to troubleshoot issues, the Support Bundle can now be generated for a specific timeframe of up to 24 hours instead of for just the past 2 hours.