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Source: NEWS.md

shinyplanr 0.1.8

New features

  • Category display order (sidebar sliders, checkbox groups, Cost/Climate dropdowns, and the Layer Information dropdowns) is now explicit and consistent across the whole app, driven by a new internal helper, forder_dict_categories().

    • Categories are grouped by their “master category” (Dict$type), always shown in the fixed order: Feature -> Bioregion -> Cost -> Climate -> LockIn -> LockOut -> EcosystemServices. This mirrors the existing hardcoded sidebar section order in the Scenario tab.
    • Within a type, categories are ordered by a new optional numeric categoryOrder column in Dict_Feature.csv. If categoryOrder is absent, category order falls back to the pre-existing default (alphabetical by categoryID) – fully backward compatible with dictionaries created before this release.
    • Dict$category is now an ordered factor (not a plain character column) once 3_setup_app.R has run. This lets dplyr::arrange() / dplyr::group_by() consumers (dropdowns, spatialplanr bar charts) automatically follow the same order as the sidebar sliders, which rely on Dict row order.
    • See vignette("ac-setting-up"), section “Controlling category order”, for how to set categoryOrder.

  • validate_dict() gained two new checks:

    • categoryID must be identical across every row sharing the same (type, category) combination. Previously, an inconsistent or blank categoryID on some rows of a category was silently ignored (via dplyr::first()), producing confusing results that depended on row order rather than raising an error.
    • If present, categoryOrder must be numeric and identical across every row sharing the same (type, category) combination.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed a latent bug where categoryID inconsistency within a category (e.g. blank on some rows) was silently tolerated rather than causing master-category sliders / bioregion display columns to behave unpredictably. This is now caught by validate_dict() (see above).

Internal changes

  • create_fancy_dropdown() (R/utils_ui.R) and the interactive Layer Information dropdown builder (R/mod_4afeatures.R) now explicitly coerce the grouping category to character before passing it to purrr::map_chr(), since that function does not coerce factors and would error once Dict$category became an ordered factor.
  • inst/templates/setup/3_setup_app.R now calls shinyplanr:::forder_dict_categories() instead of dplyr::arrange(type, categoryID) when building Dict.
  • The generated Dict_Feature.csv templates (both the oceandatr-based and minimal manual templates) now include an example categoryOrder column.

No config_list keys were added, removed, or renamed, so the config schema version (get_schema_version()) is unchanged at 2.