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Trouble shooting

When using SciCat it is possible you encounter unexpected things. Here is a list of what we had.

#1 No images visible

Despite a working set up, sometimes no images are visible. The GUI may look like that: broken page has no images

This may to be related to the site-specific setup. Check with your site-administrator or github issues. Indeed there was a bug in the release, a new version fixed it.

#2 Admin/Ingestor login behaved differently

Cause emails in functionalAccounts.json can not be twice the same.

db.getCollection("User").drop():

delete User table

fix by deleting the dublicate and relaunch backend at restart.

#3 SciCat complains about non-standard PID

error message when trying an ingest of a dataset:

Datasets": [], "usedSoftware": [], "relationships": []} Scicat returned 400 Bad Request: PID is not following required standards {'message': 'PID is not following required standards', 'error': 'Bad Request', 'statusCode': 400}

Fix was in the variable : DATASET_CREATION_VALIDATION_REGEX if enabled with default values. Switch is DATASET_CREATION_VALIDATION_ENABLED, see documentation of backend here.