Documentation/Nightly/Report a problem/UploadData

This document presents the steps allowing to share and associate a dataset with an issue.

Create account

1. If not yet done, create an account on our dedicated server: http://slicer.kitware.com/ by clicking on "Register" in the upper right corner.

Create directory structure

2. Create the following structure in your user public folder clicking on the "Create new folder" link

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  Create the directory structure Public/NA-MIC/Slicer/Issues clicking on the "Create new folder" link.

Upload options

3. There are now two options:

Archive

3.1. Create and upload a TGZ archive.

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  Step 1: Select the "Issues" folder and click on "Upload here".

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  Step 2: Select TGZ archive named after your issue (1), choose a license (2) and click on Upload (3). Archive should be named after the issue.
  For example: 2873-GrowCut-FailingTestCase.tar.gz

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  Step 3: After selecting the upload item, click on "View"

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  Step 4: Then click on "Edit"

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  Step 5: Update the description entering a link to the issue.
  For example:

  See <a href="http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2873">http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2873</a>

Folder

3.2. Upload a folder containing all the data.

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  Step 1: Select the "Issues" folder and click on "Upload here".

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  Step 2: Click on "Upload folder"

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  Step 3: Click on "Browse" and select folder (1), choose a license (2) and click on "Start Upload" (3)

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  Step 4: After selecting the created folder, click on "Edit"

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  Step 5: Enter name (1), description (2) and click on "Save".
  For example:
  Name: 2873-GrowCut-FailingTestCase
  Description:

  See <a href="http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2873">http://www.na-mic.org/Bug/view.php?id=2873</a>

Share download link

4. Reference the data in the issue tracker

Uploaded archive

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  Step 1: Select the uploaded archive (1), click on "Share" (2) and copy the download link (3).

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  Step 2: Reference download link in the "Steps to reproduce"

Uploaded folder

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  Step 1: Select the uploaded folder (1), click on "Share" (2) and copy the download link (3).

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  Step 2: Reference download link in the "Steps to reproduce"

Remarks

The process could be streamlined and simplified by for example ...

• ... customizing Mantis so that it exposes an additional upload field that would upload the data to midas

or

• ... enhance Midas so that if a mantis issue is referenced in description, a note is automatically added on mantis

or

 ... <your idea>