[Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip

Tue Jul 17 13:23:47 BST 2012

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>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.****
>
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> *From:* 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.****
>
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> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<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?****
>
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>
> ** **
>
> *From:* xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:52
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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<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.****
>
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>
> 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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:41
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:33
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:27
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Cc:* Alistair McNaught (Alistair.McNaught at HEAcademy.ac.uk)
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Re: Exporting Deployment Zip****
>
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>
> 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.****
>
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>
> 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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:17
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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<xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Pat Lockley
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 10:16
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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> 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****
>
>  ****
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>  ****
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> Then after making publis****
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>  ****
>
> *From:* 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> wrote:****
>
> The export folder?****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* 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****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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> wrote:****
>
> Told me it did.****
>
>  ****
>
> *From:* 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****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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> 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] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 09:52****
>
>
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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?****
>
>  ****
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> *From:* 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
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *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> 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] *On Behalf Of *Julian Tenney
> *Sent:* 12 July 2012 09:45
> *To:* For Xerte technical developers
> *Subject:* [Xerte-dev] Exporting Deployment Zip****
>
>  ****
>
> I make a simple project, graphics and sound page: looks like this:****
>
> ****
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>  ****
>
> Export a deployment zip, I get this:****
>
> ****
>
>  ****
>
> 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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