[Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Tue Jul 17 13:24:56 BST 2012

Fair enough. We've got the wind in our sails now, so if someone else can have a look, then we'll take it off your hands.

If the problem is as simple as un-hiding the button it shouldn't be too hard.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 17 July 2012 13:24
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

i can fix this, but the reason I half don't want to is I have shed loads of other stuff to work on
On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
I've compared how this currently works with 1.8 and previous versions but wouldn't really know where to start to fix it...

In previous versions and in 1.8 clicking publish via the editor window or by clicking ok when prompted to publish after closing the editor window works fine and works whether the project is set to public or not. e.g. works as it should.

However in 1.8 when clicking publish with the project selected in the workspace the publishproperties window opens but the publish button is inactive if the project is private and when set to public the publish button disappears altogether.

In 1.7 when clicking publish with the project selected in the workspace the publishproperties window opens and the publish button is inactive if the project is private but when set to public the publish button is then active and works.

I think publish should work whether the project is public or not - as it does when publishing via the editor window. e.g. the owner might want to export and deploy outside of toolkits rather than making public from toolkits.

Not sure why the button now disappears when the LO is made public in 1.8. However opening the project in the editor and publishing from there works fine.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 17 July 2012 12:45

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Ron, is it within your skills / time constraints to have a look a this publishing stuff? This seems like the big outstanding issue on the toolkits side.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 12 July 2012 11:21
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Have been testing further and don't think this is a xampp issue...

Create a project click publish in the editor - export works fine
Create a project click play but not publish in the editor, close the editor and click ok when prompted to publish - export works fine
Create a project click play but not publish in the editor, close the editor and click cancel when prompted to publish - LO isn't published so export creates a zip but when viewing LO is empty or doesn't contain latest changes - this is as expected

Create a project click play but not publish in the editor, close the editor and click cancel when prompted to publish then click publish button in workspace - panel opens but publish button is greyed out - so if exported at this stage LO is empty or latest changes not shown. This greyed out publish button in the pop-up panel is the same in 1.7. re-edit the project and click publish in the editor - export is fine.

So I wonder if this issue has always been there or at least for quite a while?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:52
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

We still need to test it on Xampp.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:49
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

The test install is updated with revision 373 now and deployment export works fine for me.

Fay - I've sent you a link to the google doc offlist - because it's set to allow anyone to edit and obviously the list archives are public. Please all remember to initialize any entries and also to confirm when issues are fixed.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:41
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Keep your own lists for now, and we'll put them somewhere common, thanks,

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Fay Cross
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:33
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

I'm just going through all the page types now and have found a few small problems - are we emailing everything we find to the list or putting them on the google doc somewhere?  Where is that?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:27
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Cc: Alistair McNaught (Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk<mailto:Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk>)
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Here's a good example of the level of detail we need to test. I create a bullets page:

The default for delay is 10 seconds. This doesn't seem appropriate for a default.
The label is confusing: what does Delay (in 0.1 seconds) mean?
The gaps between the bullets on the page are too big, should be 20 pixels to be consistent with other spacing.

And that's just bullets.

Guys, we really need to test this properly. I don't know how we do this, because we are all busy. But if we don't, we might as well not have bothered.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:17
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

OK, I'm making a list of the things I find that's wrong, because when the list gets busy like this it's impossible to keep track of what's going on.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:16
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Sounds like a logic fail in the code (will check at lunch)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Yes, there was.

Back to that publishing thing: if a project is private, I see a greyed out publish button: if I set it to publics, there's no button

Error! Filename not specified.

Then after making publis

Error! Filename not specified.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:11

To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

no, when you publish it creates a copy of data.xml in the folder for that project in USER-FILES
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
The export folder?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:03

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

well if there a publish.xml in the folder?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Told me it did.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 July 2012 10:01

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Has it published?
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
This needs looking at. If I create a LO, add a page, preview, and quit the wizard, I get prompted to publish. I say 'yes'.

Then export fails.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 09:52

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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Erm, silly question time, but when I click the publish button, I get this form: but there is no 'publish' button? So how do I publish it?

Error! Filename not specified.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 12 July 2012 09:49
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

I think you fix it by making sure you publish the project before exporting... (just a guess)
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
Same goes for all the export options. Tom, how do I fix this?

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 12 July 2012 09:45
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Subject: [Xerte-dev] Exporting Deployment Zip

I make a simple project, graphics and sound page: looks like this:
Error! Filename not specified.

Export a deployment zip, I get this:
Error! Filename not specified.

Not good. We need to test everything again now, please, I need everyone's help, because if we start deploying stuff with problems it's just going to be a massive PITA for everyone, and we'll lose people.

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