We released version 2.3 of the CEDAR Workbench on May 1, offering significant new user features and internal capabilities.

New Value Recommender Service

We significantly updated CEDAR’s value recommendation capabilities in this release. The new approach adopts a powerful mechanism to suggest new values for fields in a templates as users fill in those fields. If the template creator enables the value recommender for at least 2 text fields (using each field’s SUGGESTIONS tab), CEDAR will find patterns across all the previously entered values for recommendation-enabled fields. If those patterns are strong enough over many metadata instances, CEDAR will recommend values to a user based on the (enabled) values that the user has already filled in.

This functionality is documented in more detail here.

New Sharing Modes

CEDAR now provides Shared With Me and Shared With Everybody modes on the workspace to let users see globally shared resources, or just resources explicitly shared with them. The default Workspace view just shows the files you own and administer. Shared with Me shows content that someone shared with you directly; and Shared with Everybody shows content that all CEDAR users can see (there are a lot of those!).

Your searches will always find everything you can see, no matter how it was shared.