Changes for 2.5

Changes for v2.5 release

New Features

• Completely new user interface for project creation, including:
• Live preview with interactive settings before creating project
• Fixed-width importer that allows for specifying column widths by clicking (issue%20#85)
• XML and JSON importers that allow for interactive selection of elements to import
• Direct access to Google Spreadsheets (issue%20#278) and Google Fusion Tables (issue%20#279)
• Import and export to private Google Spreadsheets & Fusion Tables for logged-in users
• Import using results of Google spreadsheet visualisation API query (issue%20375
• Sheet selection for import from Excel (issue%20280 & Google Spreadsheets (issue%20281)
• Support for directly selecting files within zip/archive file without unpacking them first (Issue%20131)
• Support for creating a project using contents of the paste buffer (Issue%2084)
• Better progress feedback during upload & processing (issue%20179)

• Custom tabular exporter that allows for selecting and configuring columns to export, and direct upload to Google Spreadsheets and Fusion Tables
• Support for IE8 and IE9 through Google Chrome Frame
• New command "Key/value Columnize" (see explanation)
• New importer for PC-Axis file format.

Enhancements

• Issue 31: Maximum number of facet values should be configurable.
• Issue 38: Wishlist Fix the table header so that it's always visible when scrolling a long page
• Issue 97: Exporting CSV should allow for optional columns
• Issue 447: Extend toTitlecase() function with support for custom delimiters
• Operation "Transpose columns into rows" now supports an additional mode of generating 2 key and value columns (rather than generating just one combined column); it also has an option for filling in other columns.
• reinterpret() now supports optionally specifying a source encoding to be used instead of the project encoding - reinterpret("target encoding", "source encoding")

Bug Fixes

• Issue 149: rows button stays strike-through when clicking on it
• Issue 349: Clustering not finding duplicates when facet is showing groupings
• Issue 394: Add a reset button to Text filter
• Issue 419: Values with Characters like é split across several lines
• Issue 424: Duplicate column names don't allow user to recover
• Issue 426: filter with custom facet adds zero lines choice
• Issue 428: Excel import sometimes drops last row of data
• Issue 433: Usability: use HTML label (e.g., for checkboxes)
• Issue 440: Fetch URLs aborts while saving/loading/computing facets
• Issue 441: onError - "keep-original" / "store-blank" working oddly for value.toDate()
• Issue 442: Two column transforms to date on the same column turns the cells blank
• Issue 449: Uncaught exception from Excel importer
• Issue%20502 - Fetch URLs does not return a correct HTTP response

Miscellaneous

• Issue 233: 404 Error upon Launch
• Issue 362: Augmentation screencast (#3) is now missing/private
• Issue 410: Convert line-endings to DOS format
• Issue 435: refine sh script only checks for java 1.6, not > 1.6
• Issue 444: Patch for /trunk/main/webapp/modules/core/scripts/dialogs/custom-tabular-exporter-dialog.html
• Issue 445: Patch for /trunk/main/webapp/modules/core/scripts/dialogs/custom-tabular-exporter-dialog.html
• Issue 453: Patch for /trunk/main/tests/server/src/com/google/refine/tests/importers/JsonImporterTests.java

Full%20list%20of%20Issues.