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To ensure we provide our customers with the best possible experience, we periodically evaluate the usage and effectiveness of existing product features and determine which ones should be deprecated so that we can invest our engineering and support resources on the really valuable and often-used features. To make the deprecation process a smooth one, we publish a deprecation schedule on the Socrata Knowledge Base to provide advanced notice and help you plan if you’re impacted by the changes.
Upcoming Deprecations
This section identified features that will no longer be supported and will be removed from the platform at some point in the future.
| Feature | Replaced With | Announced On | Scheduled Deprecation Date* | Scheduled Removal Date | Notes and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dataset Nominations | June 20th, 2024 | August 28th, 2024 | August 28th, 2024 | Dataset Nomination Form | |
| Legacy Open Payroll |
July 1, 2024 |
August 30th, 2024 | August 30th, 2024 | New sites will be provisioned to the small set of impacted clients at no added cost. |
Deprecated Features
This section identifies features that are no longer actively supported and will be removed from the platform at some point in the future.
| Feature | Replaced With | Announced On | Deprecated On | Scheduled Removal Date | Notes and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Datasets and Derived Views in Grid View |
Primer Page Exploration Canvas |
September 19, 2023 | March 19, 2024 | TBD |
Exploration Canvas for Enterprise Data Platform
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| Campaign Finance App | N/A | March 15, 2023 | March 15, 2023 | TBD |
N/A |
| Support for TLS 1.1 | TLS 1.2 | March 28, 2022 | April 25, 2022 | N/A |
N/A |
| opendata.socrata.com | N/A | August 14, 2019 | April 1, 2021 |
TBD |
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| Editing Assets with the Classic Visualization Builder (charts, maps, calendars) | New Visualization Canvas | July 1, 2020 | July 1, 2020 |
TBD |
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| RSS Exports | N/A | August 26, 2019 | December 31, 2019 |
TBD |
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| Rich List View | N/A | August 26, 2019 | September 30, 2019 |
TBD |
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Removed Features
This section identifies features that have been removed from the platform.
| Feature | Replaced With | Removed On | Notes and Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Lens | Perspectives Stories | December 4, 2023 | |
| Editing Data Lenses | Stories | May 31, 2023 | Replace Data Lens with Stories |
| Creating New Data Lenses | Stories | March 15, 2023 | Replace Data Lens with Stories |
| Dataset backups | Dataset Archiving | March 20, 2023 | Dataset archiving support article |
| Preview images for legacy charts, maps, and data lenses |
N/A | October 8, 2021 | N/A |
| Legacy Open Performance | Open Performance Cloud | October 1, 2021 |
Socrata's Performance Solutions
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| Classification/category field in Discovery API | N/A | August 5, 2021 | Please note this field is not the category metadata field value assigned to an asset by data publishers. That is a separate field and is unrelated to this deprecation. |
| Legacy Site Metrics | Enhanced Site Analytics | January 4, 2021 | |
| Legacy Asset Inventory Dataset | The New Asset Inventory Dataset | November 13, 2020 |
Legacy Asset Inventory has stopped updating but remains as a static dataset. |
| Creating reports with legacy Report Builder | Perspectives | November 18, 2019 |
Users can still access and view existing reports created with Report Builder. |
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Social sign in |
Username-password sign in | August 30, 2019 |
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| Creation of Location Column Types | Point Column Types | August 30, 2019 |
Creating Georeference Columns in the New Publishing Experience |
| Routing and Approval and View Moderation | Approvals | November 13, 2018 |
How to Approve a Dataset (Video)
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| Creating Calendars with the Classic Tool | New Calendar Visualizations | August 1, 2019 | |
| Followers | N/A | May 13, 2019 |
This is legacy, little-used functionality. It is not being replaced by a new feature. |
| Creating Charts with the Classic Visualization Builder | New Visualization Canvas | April 8, 2019 | Users can still access and edit existing charts created with the classic chart builder. |
| Creating Maps with the Classic Map Creation Tool | New Visualization Canvas | April 8, 2019 |
Creating Maps with Lines and Polygons Product Update: Deprecating Classic Maps and Visualizations Users can still access and edit maps created with the classic map builder. |
| Classic Edit Experience (Append-and-Replace Wizard) | Socrata Data Management Experience (New Edit Experience) | March 31, 2019 |
Editing Datasets with the Socrata Data Management Experience |
| Socrata Legacy Import (Classic import) | Socrata Data Management Experience (New Import Experience) | March 31, 2019 |
Using the Socrata Data Management Experience Deprecated Features in the Socrata Data Management Experience |
| Legacy Dataset of Datasets | Asset Inventory | November 30, 2018 |
These datasets were replaced by the Asset Inventory and ceased being updated in 2016. They have been deleted due to reliance on deprecated datatypes and lack of utility. Asset List and Asset Inventory Dataset Overview
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As always, our Global Services team is available to help with any questions you may have about these upcoming transitions. You can contact Socrata Support at datainsights-support@tylertech.com, or you can reach out to your Client Success Manager for additional information or with any concerns specific to your Socrata site.
*Please note this is not a product roadmap and is subject to change.
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