Adapt Learning Community: Authoring tool v0.1.5 has been released

Hi everybody,

I'm happy to announce that we've just released version 0.1.5 of the authoring tool. I'd like to thank all the developers on the authoring tool and framework side involved over the past 6 weeks for their efforts, and everyone in the community who has helped with testing.

The general goal of this release was to improve the build process, aligning the authoring tool with version 2.0.7 of the framework. As such you should expect faster build times on clicking Preview or Download, and smaller zip files, with only the plugins used bundled. We've also included an often requested feature to allow repositioning components at the click of a button, and an easy way of copying _id values of any content object, article, block or component to the clipboard. Documentation has also been improved.

The full list of issues resolved can be viewed here, but these are the highlights:

Added

Support for v2.0.7 of the Adapt Framework
Optimised build process, i.e. only plugins used are bundled
Ability to copy the _id value of contentobjects, articles, blocks and components to clipboard
Ability to easily change component layouts without using drag and drop
Ability to export the source code of a particular course
Caching added to assets to improve performance

Changed

_isAvailableInEditor flag persisted when a new plugin is uploaded
Optimised performance of processing course assets in preview/download
Preview redirects to index.html rather than main.html
The count of failed logins is reset after a successful login
Turned off automatic population of Display Title for blocks
Renamed Adapt Builder to Adapt Authoring tool

Fixed

Bug: Non-essential attributes removed from course.json
Bug: ACE JavaScript error when creating a new course
Bug: Hard 100kb limit on JSON payload
Bug: Corrected Project Details save issue

How to upgrade

IMPORTANT: If upgrading from a previous installation, first remove the node_modules folder and run

npm install --production

to install the latest code dependencies, then run

node upgrade

to get the latest authoring tool and framework changes.

I hope you enjoy using 0.1.5 and welcome any feedback at:
https://github.com/adaptlearning/adapt_authoring/issues

Thanks,

Brian

A superb update - really appreciated! Thank you for all the hard work - some great new features!

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I'm not used to doing things with the command line, so are warnings like this normal when I update?

npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.8: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated lodash@0.9.2: Grunt needs your help! See https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt/issues/1403.
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated npmconf@2.1.1: this package has been reintegrated into npm and is now out of date with respect to npm
npm WARN deprecated lodash@1.0.2: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@2.0.3: graceful-fs version 3 and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.
npm WARN deprecated lodash@2.3.0: lodash@<3.0.0 is no longer maintained. Upgrade to lodash@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated URIjs@1.12.1: package renamed to "urijs" (lower-case), please update accordingly
npm WARN deprecated lodash.padleft@3.1.1: This package has been renamed. Use lodash.padstart@^4.0.0.
npm WARN deprecated lodash.padright@3.1.1: This package has been renamed. Use lodash.padend@^4.0.0.

Thanks,

Sandra

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I had a ton of those yesterday trying to install - WARNS are fine they can be ignored. It's the ERRs you need to take note of - hopefully you had none!

Helen

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Good to know! Thanks!

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Stellar work as ever, team - installing it now.

Adapt gets better and better. You're all superstars.

Thank you so much for all your hard work.

Helen

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OK seemed to upgrade OK but Error generating preview :

*EDIT* Preview now works, second time round!

Running "less:compile" (less) task
Fatal error: {
"type": "Name",
"filename": "src\\core\\less\\base.less",
"index": 493,
"line": 25,
"callLine": null,
"column": 17,
"extract": [
" .focused, button:focus, select:focus, textarea:focus, a:focus, input:focu
s + label {",
" outline: @focus-outline; ",
" }"
],
"message": "variable @focus-outline is undefined"
}

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