These are the condensed release notes for all changes to Simplifier in Roadmap 16, leading up to the 16th connectathon in San Diego.
Stability and performance
Our team has spend a big effort on cleaning up, stabilizing, performance, and making the site more user friendly and consistent.
Share
- You can now share FHIR resources with permanent links, without the administrative overhead of creating a project. A conviennce feature for quick communication, like discussing invalid resources and asking questions.
- You upload files to a share, edit/copy/paste xml and json.
- The editor automatically switches syntax highlighting highlight.
Go to https://simplifier.net/share to try it out.
Custom workflow improvements
For our enterprise customers, we have improved our custom workflow . The workflow editor provides a better overview and gives more insights into relation of statusses
- There is a new workflow overview page, for all user,
- For all users: custom workflow status now are links to the workflow overview
Editing
You can now edit resources on Simplifier itself in an only XML/JSON editor.
Digest
We are in the final stages of testing our mail engine. When we turn it on, users will get a daily, weekly or monthly update of their bookmarked resources and projects. The setting is already available in your account settings.
Import improvements
For uploading, fetching, pushing and posting on the project FHIR endpoint, copy and pasting, and if you have a team account or highter, also when a project is linked github, we have improved getting meta data out of resources.
- this is only implemented for STU3 resources and upwards.
- now vastly improved metadata (title, description, etc)
- We are not yet satisfied with the speed of importing/uploading resources, and we expect to deploy a performance gain in the next few weeks.
Linking improvements
Rendered resources are full of links to other resources on Simplifier but also to resources elsewhere. We have improved dynamic link generation on our renderers. Properly switching between STU3 and DSTU2, prefering canonical links inside the project, etc.
New: Documentation redirection
- Each project and resource in Simplifier now has a Documentation URL.
- If set, users that go to https://simplifier.net/resolve and enter a canonical URL will get automatically directed to that documentation url.
- The default (fallback) will be the resource page on Simplifier itself.
- These documentation URL are templates. You can provide (FHIR type), (the type that a structure definition describes) and of the resource.
StructureDefinition tree rendering improvements
- STU3 structure definition trees are now collapsed to level, giving a better overview and allowing user to open details when necessary.
- Slices are now shown as a separate node set, to improve overview.
Simplifier Files
In order to allow authors to work with 'not yet valid resources' and to allow other content that can be part of an implementation guide, the philosophy of Simplifier had to be subtly changed. We now see the content of a project primarily as a set of files, no longer as a set of resources.
- Allows invalid content
- allows any file needed for rendering implementation guides.
- Simplifier now understands images
- Simplifier now understands markdown files.
Downloading
- You can download resources only or ALL files.
- Downloaded resources are now pretty printed (indent and line feed).
Implementation Guides changes
- IG's are now part of a project
- save content as separate files in your project
- You can now edit an IG resource in the Simplifier IG editor
- Existing implementation guides can be moved on request. Just contact us through the feedback button.
Canonical Base
We have started working on a better way to manage and administer canonical URLs, by allowing authors to register canonical base URLs at the project level. In the future, we will only see canonical URLs as valid if they match the canonical base URL of their project.
Invite
Enterprise customers now have an easy way to invite organization members
Connectors
Connectors used to be JSON only. They can now send and receive both XML and JSON.
Account Settings
- We have improved the account settings page and separated it from your user profile page.
- The user profile page is now your face to the community
Fhir endpoint
- Now supports system wide search
- Supports history search
- supports the search fields _content and jurisdiction,
The Simplifier platform now also powers the FHIR foundation registy:
- registry at: https://registry.fhir.org
- FHIR endpoint at: https://registry-api.fhir.org
- Filters on STU3 resources only and excludes test projects.
- In the future will filter published resources only (active and milestoned)
Feedback
We hope you enjoy working with our platform. If you have questions or feedback, it is always welcome. Just use the feedback button on the topleft of the site.