[Xerte-dev] Re: Export / Import

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Wed Jul 25 11:37:00 BST 2012


I don't have a mac or safari though, and  I'd mangled a lot of stuff, to the point I felt functionality was almost being changed.

This submit was more of a "needs proper testing" than a guaranteed fix.

On 25 Jul 2012, at 11:31, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> We need to verify all the bugs we logged when we think we have gold code, but if you can, complete the testing for sake of a another couple of minutes whilst you have the code out, and have found your place in it, because otherwise people don't necessarily pick it up, and things remain untested. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
> Sent: 25 July 2012 10:54
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Export / Import
> 
> The techdis version should now work with safari, as I made the change
> anyways to make it work in chrome.
> 
> This means some one needs to test it in FF and IE
> 
> and locally
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
>> The updated files are in place on the test server.
>> 
>> As far as I can see export works fine.
>> 
>> Import of an exported LO works fine too.
>> 
>> Import of a zip which has a parent folder in the root now results in: The
>> files in your zip folder need to be in the main folder, not within another
>> folder in the zip.
>> 
>> Is there something specific you need testing with Safari?
>> 
>> BTW I couldn't find a solution to the change ownership issue so that still
>> exists. As far as I can tell the value going into templaterights is the
>> users id rather than the users root folder id - I think.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
>> Sent: 24 July 2012 23:07
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Export / Import
>> 
>> Been stuck for a while trying to debug export and i think with previous
>> changes it's gone a bit wrong
>> 
>> 1) If you export a non published / synched via publish project, then you
>> can't import it - it says it has imported but it seems export now renames
>> data.xml to template.xml, and from the look of the importer, it relies on
>> template.xml - so it copies data over the top of and therefore wipes out
>> preview.xml (even if preview is what you want).
>> 
>> 2) this doesn't throw any errors
>> 
>> So i've hacked import around to make sure preview.xml is copied over and
>> maintained
>> 
>> It seems to work (after 3 hours, 3 fricking hours)
>> 
>> I've also fixed the folder problem
>> 
>> I also removed the hash from the import src as this caused a problem in
>> chrome as well (the thing no one has tested in safari).
>> 
>> So we need to cycle import and export through tests and deliberate folder
>> level stuff
>> 
>> Pat
>> 
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