Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 24 2026 at 07:53): Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 24 2026 at 07:53):I am trying to create an anonymous preview URL without success. My production dataverse runs v6.5. Following the docs I tried with an unpublished dataset. When clicking at edit+Preview URL I only see the general URL version, not the anonymous. Also, in my 6.5 version, something seems to be broken with the URL creation window.
In any case, when trying with a 6.10.1 version, similar behaviour (but not broken window)
Am I missing some configuration parameter?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 24 2026 at 09:31):The anonymous flavor didn't exist in 6.5.
The 6.5 docs: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.5/user/dataset-management.html#preview-url-to-review-unpublished-dataset
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 24 2026 at 09:45):Thanks for answering @Philip Durbin 🚀.
The doc seems to say it does (if I am reading it correctly). In any case, I tried with a 6.10.1 version and doesn't work either.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 24 2026 at 11:50):Oh! You're right! Sorry!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 24 2026 at 11:53):I think you have to set this setting: https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.5/installation/config.html#anonymizedfieldtypenames
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 24 2026 at 12:09):That's it, @Philip Durbin 🚀 . Thank you!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 24 2026 at 12:16):Sure! If you want to open an issue to improve the documentation (or even a pull request), please do! It's definitely a gotcha! One of the hidden features of Dataverse! 
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 24 2026 at 12:27):Will do! Thanks.
Now I have another issue. The user has already published the dataset, so the anonymous option is not available for their dataset. Is there any way to make a copy dataset without having to upload everything to the new dataset?
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 24 2026 at 13:18):Huh. Can you delete the Preview URL and recreate it? Does restarting Payara help?
Notification Bot (Jun 24 2026 at 13:58):A message was moved from this topic to #troubleshooting > copy a dataset by Philip Durbin 🚀.
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 25 2026 at 14:16):@Philip Durbin 🚀 I have created a PR for modify the original doc about this:
https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/12486
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 25 2026 at 14:30):Nice! From the preview at https://dataverse-guide--12486.org.readthedocs.build/en/12486/user/dataset-management.html#preview-url-to-review-unpublished-dataset I can see I'd like to tweak a couple things. I hope you don't mind!
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 25 2026 at 14:42):I don't mind. I see that the link I put to the doc is incorrect because I used a markdown one.
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 25 2026 at 14:54):Yeah, no worries. I'll fix it so you can see the right way. .rst is weird!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jun 25 2026 at 20:46):I just pushed at fix: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/pull/12486/changes/d126a41465eb1cdd228b6862f400e9fb1a6bace4
Carlos Perez-Miguel (Jun 26 2026 at 08:33):Much better. Thank you!
Philip Durbin 🚀 (Jul 13 2026 at 18:34):@Carlos Perez-Miguel I just merged #12486! Thanks!
Last updated: Aug 18 2026 at 08:27 UTC