HCF-Web: implementação de funcionalidades e atividades de manutenção do sistema

Abstract

The Federal Center Herbarium (HCF) of the Federal Technological University of Paraná, Campo Mourão Campus, is constantly expanding and uses the HCF-Web platform to optimize the management of its collections. Recently, aiming to modernize the infrastructure and ensure scalability, the system underwent a database migration from Firebird to MySQL. However, the production launch revealed critical inconsistencies that compromised data integrity and user experience. This work aimed to stabilize and evolve the platform by correcting systemic failures and implementing new features. The activities focused on resolving persistence issues in complex relationships, simplifying the modeling of taxonomic data, and changing the deletion strategy from logical to physical, ensuring referential consistency. On the front-end, performance optimization techniques, such as debounce in searches, and usability improvements in dynamic forms were applied. Of note is the complete refactoring of the specimen (accession) registration and editing flow, unifying previously scattered business rules, and the development of a new module for managing collection locations. As a result, HCF-Web became more robust and performant, with a safer and more maintainable codebase, ensuring the reliability necessary for continuous use by researchers.