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https://github.com/dmx-systems/dmx-zukunftswerk

The Zukunftswerk collaboration platform
https://github.com/dmx-systems/dmx-zukunftswerk

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# DMX Zukunftswerk



Zukunftswerk is a platform for bilingual collaboration. Zukunftswerk provides shared workspaces for handling and commenting on various kinds of content objects (documents, notes, textblocks). Content objects are freely placed on a workspace "canvas" and can be further decorated by heading and arrow elements. Every user input is automatically translated on-the-fly by the means of the [DeepL](https://www.deepl.com) service.



The canvas is synchronized between collaborating users. There are 3 user roles: *administrators* (create workspaces and user accounts, manage menberships), *editors* (edit content objects and arrange the canvas), and *users* (browsing canvas content).



The Zukunftswerk application is developed by contract with the

[Deutsch-Französisches Zukunftswerk](https://df-zukunftswerk.eu).

The Zukunftswerk UI is fixed to German/French languages. A generalized version of this application, with configurable

languages, is available as project "[Linqa](https://github.com/dmx-systems/dmx-linqa)".



Zukunftswerk is an application for the [DMX platform](https://github.com/dmx-systems/dmx-platform). Both, Zukunftswerk and Linqa are Open Source software under the GNU AGPL license.



## Version History



**1.6.2** -- Aug 15, 2023



* Fix: there was a bug that prevented the deletion of an user in a certain situation



**1.6.1** -- Aug 1, 2023



* Fix: replying to untranslatable comment shows proper comment reference



**1.6** -- Jul 16, 2023



* Features:

    * **Text blocks**: a new type of content object that shows both languages at the same time, colorizable, commentable, used for collaborative bilingual text creation

    * **Canvas search**: user can search content on current canvas, search results are highlighted in-place, when browsing search results the canvas auto-pans to respective object (animated)

    * **Multi-selection**: users can select multiple objects at once, editors can multi-move and multi-delete

    * **Text highlighting**: editors can highlight text, 7 colors available, available for notes, text blocks, and comments

    * **Snap-to-grid**: when moving content objects they snap to a 20px grid, rotation takes place in 5° steps

    * **Object locking**: administrators can lock objects to prevent unintended changes by editors

    * Admin area: in the user list an **"Active" checkmark** indicates whether the respective user has logged in at least once

* Improvements:

    * Usability improvements:

        * All workspace lists are sorted alphabetically (in both, user area and admin area), and are resorted when the UI language is switched

        * All bilingual text forms: a "translation modified" indicator is shown when automatic translation was modified manually, to prevent unintended overriding when redoing an automatic translation

        * Canvas: the object commands ("Edit", "Delete", ...) have bigger click area

        * Canvas: zoom-1:1 button is removed, it was not needed

        * All automatic panning/zooming operations are *animated*, e.g. home button, zoom-to-fit button

        * All buttons show tool tips when hovered

        * More consistent wording in UI elements

    * Rich text editor:

        * Removed 3 formats from toolbar: code, blockquote, and code-block, these were not needed

        * All toolbar buttons are placed in a single row (instead of 2 rows)

    * Login page:

        * Username/email address is handled case-insensitively

        * Login page shows no "beta" label anymore

    * Admin area: a workspace can be deleted by *all* team members (not only by workspace owner)

    * The DeepL API URL is configurable, so it works with both, the free, as well as the payed DeepL plan (improved in DeepL plugin)

    * Smaller DB size (improved in DMX platform: transaction log files are purged on a regular basis)

    * In case of a server/network loss an alert box is shown and the application is relaunched (improved in DMX platform)

    * Legal information: imprint and privacy statement are updated to reflect the organizational change ("IASS" -> "GFZ")

* Fixes:

    * Text containing special characters (HTML's `>`, `&`, ...) is properly translated (fixed in DeepL plugin)

    * All bilingual text forms: after pressing "translate" the translation state switches back to "automatic"

    * New workspaces are available immediately, page reload is not required

    * The workspace menu is now scrollable, in case there are a lot of workspaces

    * When switching to another workspace the canvas search is cleared

    * Downloading files (documents, comment attachments) always works on 1st attempt

    * Discussion panel: long attachment names are line-wrapped

    * Deleting a workspace (admin area) does not corrupt other workspaces (fixed in DMX platform)

    * Various view inconsistencies and layout oddities are fixed, particularly in the admin area

* Compatible with DMX 5.3



**1.5** -- Sep 5, 2022



* Improvements:

    * Auto-translate document name

    * Manual-translate button is always visible (documents, notes, headings, and comments)

    * PDFs remember selected page when fullscreen is switched on/off

    * Note and heading forms have a gray background

    * Image data-URLs are not send to the DeepL service (improved in DeepL plugin)

    * Discussion panel shows a spinner while loading

    * Admin area:

        * The respective workspace owners are displayed

        * Only the owner can delete a workspace

    * Send email digests: only one mail per day and workspace (at 6am)

* Fixes:

    * Working with multiple forms at the same time works

        * The selected form appears before other forms

    * New canvas items are selected programmatically

    * New document name is shown if entered afterwards

    * New viewport zoom value is respected immediately (when pressing the Home button)

    * When switching UI language the document resize-frame adapts

    * Document discussion button appears yellow when doc-filter is set

    * Change no-workspace error text ("Du" -> "Sie")

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**1.4** -- Aug 6, 2022



* Features:

    * New user profile dialog:

        * The user can edit her Display Name

        * The user controls whether to show her email address to other users by the means of a checkbox

        * The user can initiate a password-reset

    * Chat panel: show email-address of other users, if allowed by respective user

    * Canvas: documents can be downloaded

    * The Privacy policy text is now in place

* Improvements:

    * ZW UI language:

        * At first launch the browser's language setting is respected

        * The UI language chosen by the user is remembered

    * Canvas:

        * Item rotation is restricted to steps of 5 degrees, so resetting to 0 is easy

        * New "reset zoom" button sets the zoom back to "normal" (1)

    * Chat panel: scroll comment's OK/Cancel buttons into view when clicking Edit

    * Imprint/privacy policy: clicking the ZW logo returns to home page

    * Updated texts for the password-reset workflow

* Fixes:

    * Canvas:

        * Zoom-to-fit button works as expected

        * Editing of notes/headings when created w/o translation

        * Item selection works for participants (selected item appears on-top)

    * Chat panel:

        * Break long words in comments

        * Comments are properly rendered when logged in using uppercase in username

    * Admin area: workspace names in membership list reflect UI language

    * Images survive the auto-translation

    * Special characters in sent emails are properly encoded (both, HTML and plain text parts)

    * Client-sync:

        * Client sync for update-comment and delete-comment

        * Control box is updated when item moves

    * Redirect if user is logged in but the requested workspace is not readable

    * Missing translations are added

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**1.3** -- Jul 7, 2022



* Features:

    * 4 new canvas buttons: "Home", "Zoom to fit", "Zoom in", "Zoom out"

    * Rotatable canvas items: Notes, Documents, Headlines

* Improvements:

    * Login:

        * User lands in recently used workspace (based on ws-cookie)

        * Workspace deep-links: request login if due

    * Canvas / PDF viewer:

        * Larger "fullscreen" toggle button

    * Chat panel:

        * Accept only images and PDFs as comment attachments

        * Use "paper plane" icon for submit

* Fixes:

    * Canvas: arrows properly follow when moving handles

    * Chat panel:

        * Editors can't edit posts (only her own)

        * Reset doc-filter on workspace change

        * New-comment placeholder text adapts to UI language

    * Header: workspace drop down is up-to-date after WS edit

    * Admin area: disable "Editor" checkbox if "Member" is unchecked

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**1.2** -- Jun 4, 2022



* Features:

    * Client-sync for canvas items:

        * Notes, Documents, Arrows, Headings, Viewport Topic

        * Operations: Create, Move, Edit, Delete

* Improvements:

    * Auto-translation:

        * Untranslatable notes and headings can be saved anyways

        * Notes, headings, and comments can be auto-translated after creation

    * Canvas:

        * Add Note colors "white" and "transparent"

        * Draggable items show hand cursor

        * Arrows:

            * Arrows appear before other items (except selected items and forms)

            * Different mouse cursors for move-arrow vs. move-arrow-handle

        * Slightly more prominent grid in the background. The grid now zooms along with canvas.

    * Discussion panel: strip "video" button from text editor toolbar

* Fixes:

    * Login of users which are not Team members

    * Set initial viewport in zoomed topicmaps. "Persistent Viewport" feature is now complete.

    * Header: show workspace names in dropdown bilingually

    * Admin area:

        * User list shows workspace names bilingually

        * User area is up-to-date once workspace edited

    * PDF viewer works with Chinese characters

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**1.1** -- May 6, 2022



* Features:

    * Freely editable arrows

    * Admin area: Edit/Delete of Users/Workspace

    * Editor role (selected users can create/edit canvas content of selected workspaces)

    * Colored notes

    * Persistent viewport

* Improvements:

    * Clicking on canvas deselects

* Fixes:

    * In comment-refs show Display Name (not email address)

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**1.0.3** -- Apr 6, 2022



* Improvements:

    * Login page has a "beta" stamp

* Fixes (admin area):

    * Also the 2nd level of workspaces/users lists is sorted

    * Workspaces and Users areas are consistent after updates

    * Disable create-user button when user input is missing



**1.0.2** -- *rejected*



**1.0.1** -- Apr 4, 2022



* Improvements:

    * Show notification once password reset mail is sent



**1.0** -- Apr 4, 2022



* Features:

    * Admin area (for ZW team members)

        * Create users and workspaces

        * Manage memberships

    * Notification mails (team members are notified via email about new comments)

    * PDF read mode (the entire canvas is used)

* Improvements:

    * Login page (no public access anymore)

        * Password reset dialog

    * Users are pseudonymized via "Display Name" (email addresses are never shown)

    * Comments which are not auto-translatable can be stored anyways (and manually translated later on)

    * Comment auto-translation status is shown: "automatic"/"edited"/"none"

    * Workspace selector (in case the user has more than one workspace memberships)

    * "Imprint" & "Privacy Policy" shown on to Login page (linkable)

* Design:

    * ZW corporate style guide is applied (not yet complete)

* Fixes:

    * Only team members can move canvas items

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**0.9.1** -- Mar 1, 2022



* Fixes:

    * PDF viewer and language switch

    * Edit/Delete and non-team members

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**0.9** -- Mar 1, 2022



* Improvements:

    * UI-less PDF viewer

    * Discussion panel: chat metaphor

    * Reply works also when doc-filter is set

    * Canvas zooms around mouse position

    * Edit and Delete functions for all types (Notes, Documents, Comments, Labels)

    * All forms have a Cancel button

* Design:

    * Redesigned discussion panel

    * Doc-filter is more visible

    * Header shows ZW logo

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT



**0.8** -- Jan 15, 2022



* Data model: Notes, Documents, Comments, Labels, Arrows

* Basic UI: header, canvas, discussion panel, doc-filter

* Actions: create, reply, set doc-filter, pan, zoom, move item, resize item

* User roles: team member (authoring), participant (commenting)

* Client-sync: comments

* Compatible with DMX 5.3-SNAPSHOT