Stream: dev

Topic: send message to author on return

Juan López (Aug 12 2024 at 20:48):

Hi! I'm trying to set a step in my workflow to let the Curator of a dataset, send a message to the author when they return the dataset in question. So far I've used this workflow.json:

{
"name": "Internal steps with pause",
"steps": [
{
"provider":":internal",
"stepType":"log",
"parameters": {
"step":1,
"stepName":"first step"
}
},
{
"provider":":internal",
"stepType":"pause/message",
"parameters": {
"paramName":"parameter value with a longer name."
}
},
{
"provider":":internal",
"stepType":"log",
"parameters": {
"number":42,
"anotherMessage": "This is the last step before releasing."
}
}
]
}

I've set the workflow with this:  curl -X PUT -H "Content-Type: application/json" --upload-file workflow.json  https://papyrus-datos.co/api/admin/workflows

And then assigned that workflow to "PrePublishDataset" like this: curl -X PUT -d 1 http://localhost:8080/api/admin/workflows/default/PrePublishDataset

When I do a  "curl http://localhost:8080/api/admin/workflows/default" I get the following: {"status":"OK","data":{"PrePublishDataset":{"id":1,"name":"Internal steps with pause"},"PostPublishDataset":null}}

But when I'm trying to return the dataset to the author... Dataverse doesn't show the modal with the message textbox:
image.png

Can anyone help me a little bit? What am I doing wrong?

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Aug 12 2024 at 21:03):

@Juan López what version of Dataverse are you running? If you upgrade to 6.2, this feature is included.

Please see "When Returning Datasets to Authors, Reviewers Can Add a Note to the Author" at https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/releases/tag/v6.2

Juan López (Aug 12 2024 at 21:06):

@Philip Durbin Hi Philip... I'm running Dataverse 6.0. Is upgrading to 6.2 the only way to have this feature?

Philip Durbin 🚀 (Aug 12 2024 at 21:10):

Well, with 6.0 your curators can send a message via API. See reasonForReturn at https://guides.dataverse.org/en/6.0/api/native-api.html#return-a-dataset-to-author

Juan López (Aug 12 2024 at 21:28):

Ok... that works! Thank you Philip

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