An intermediate ART-DECOR® release – 1.8.26 – has been published mid of August. Since the last update to 1.8 in April, a lot of new features and improvements have been implemented so the Expert Group felt, that an intermediate release – before ART-DECOR® 2.0 gets published by the end of this year – would be of great support for the community.

ART-DECOR® allows you to create and maintain Data sets, Scenarios, Templates and Value Sets; it features cloud-based federated Building Block Repositories BBR for Templates and Value Sets.

This is a summary of the recently added features and enhancements, sorted by areas.

Templates

Performance update in viewing templates anywhere in ART. The new engine is up to 20 times faster than the old one. To this end the rendering engine has been replaced with the engine that powers publications. Not only is this many factors faster than before, it is also guaranteed consistent rendering.

Templates now support folding of elements and includes. This significantly improves navigability.

Improved: Editor can now save-and-close/create-and-close as usual or just save/create without closing the window

New feature Live Runtime Compilation introduced. Project editors may, through the Project form, compile the project at any time during their development cycle to test their drive their definitions. See Live_Runtime_Compile for more information.

New feature: You may now trim the template list to only those that belong to the selected transaction (if applicable)

New feature: Now supports parameter selector to initialize the form with a transaction as scope rather than a dataset

Script changes, additions and adaptations in order to serve well for Live Runtime Compile LRC and Instance Fragment Validation IFV.

Terminology

Improved the view of valueSets in all relevant places like Datasets, Terminology, Terminology-Mapping and Issues has been updated so levels are more clear

The Terminology/Value set editor now supports creating a new value set from the data concept conceptList as defined on the in scope concept. This sets up a new value set with as much data as possible (level/type/name), and terminology associations are created upon save

New feature: The DECOR valueSets now support a new attribute ordinal that allows you to specify ordinal values connected to codes. This supports assessment scales such as Glasgow Coma Scale and Apgar Score.Note that HL7 Datatypes Release 1 as found in CDA for example, does not support communication of this attribute. Its use is therefore mostly for documentation and/or import in systems.

Value set editor now searches in code of CLaML systems as well as descriptions.

ADRAM (ART-DECOR Release and Archiving Manager)

Adds option to create default PDFs when publishing a project version. Also contains sub switches for what parts / artefacts should be included.

ADAWIB (ART-DECOR Automatic Wiki Interface Bot)

Rewritten logic for ADAWIB regarding templates and value sets to explicitly include them in Wiki output even if they are not from this governance group. This enhancement has brought forward from the Swiss colleagues (eHealth Suisse).

Projects

Get proper ADRAM status via httpclient again, show value set from repo if so.

Enhanced support for creating an ADA community: if you choose the name ada, the new community is immediately set up with the right prototypes.

Datasets

Improved conceptList id algorithm is updated for versioned concepts

Dataset/transaction tree now only marks a concept as ‘mapped’ when either the full dataset in scope or when the concept is mapped in a template that is part of the selected transaction.

Scenarios / Transactions

Concept conditions are now multilingual. Text nodes are considered to be in the project default language for backward compatibility

Pre-populate new scenarios/transactions with minimal requirements.

General

Performance boosts for menus: asynchronous or smarter loading of projects menu and terminology menu, governance groups behind projects menu and localization messages

New feature: all relevant forms now support a self link. This allows you to bookmark the exact context of where you are at a given point in time or to send a precise link to a third party. See Copy_artefact_deep_links for more information

Updated HL7 artefacts index for performance

Updated the language/user parts of the menu slightly for better behavior on smaller screens

Datasets/Template/Value sets now allow setting status to “draft” from “pending”