Get Project By ID

[uirmaksever]

Hi! During the workshop we had with Gitma in Manual and Automated Annotation class (10-06-2026), a strange behavior has been observed with Gitma. Throughout the course, students create two projects: let's say "Project A" and "Copy of Project A", whereas the first is original one, and the latter is the copied project to share with members of another group and make comparisons.

In this setup, some students reported although they are using correct name to access their projects by name, they would get access to other project. Please review the following example:

my_catma.load_project_from_gitlab(
    project_name='Project A',
    backup_directory='../../user_projects/'
)

this can return the copied project with annotation collections of non-group members (course-wise, not from CATMA standpoint). One of the students even got duplicate project names from the call my_catma.project_name_list(please see attached photos, and sorry in advance for the potato quality).

So there are various solutions coming to mind:

• Investigate and fix naming issue, make sure it is presented to Gitma
• Add methods to Gitma to access a project with ID, make project ID visible in CATMA url structure or in UI

Also, I have tried to change of a project, renamed it, and got an error. After that, the name of the project seem changed in the UI, although it did not reflect to Gitma.

Name of the problematic project is "Copy of Project, Group D", which is created on 27-05-2026.

[maltem-za]

@uirmaksever Thanks, this is a duplicate of #7, where what you observed is also explained a little more. Note that the access token in your last picture should be revoked, as it has now been exposed.

[uirmaksever]

@maltem-za Ah, got it, now I can see why. I am sorry about opening a duplicate issue, feel free to close this one. We got the access token revoked.

[maltem-za]

@uirmaksever No need to apologise, and thanks for recording what you observed with such detail :) We can chat about this next time we meet if there are still any open questions. Also, we're currently still in a planning phase for the next phase of CATMA development, but this could be something where you can get involved and help improve things!