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Authoring tool v0.6.0-rc.1 available for testing
by Tom Taylor - Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 2:37 PM
 

Good afternoon,

The open-source core dev team are pleased to announce that v0.6.0 of the authoring tool is now ready for general user testing!

This release packages up a bunch of different enhancements and optimisations to the form/input of the authoring tool. The headline features are:

  • Configurable settings can now be added to themes and menus
  • List input types can now be reordered via a drag and drop
  • Tags input type has been rewritten
  • ColourPicker input type has been rewritten
  • Tooltips with help text have added to all form inputs
  • A button to revert a field to its default state has been added to all form inputs
  • The custom Boolean true/false dropdown has been replaced with the Checkbox editor
  • Fields from the properties schema are now properly passed through to Backbone Forms

As this is a pre-release, we don't advise switching your production installs over just yet.

You can get your own copy by following these steps:

  1. Pull the code from git tagged v0.6.0-rc.1
  2. Run npm install && grunt build:prod
  3. Start the server as usual

To coincide with this release, the following plugins have been given configurable attributes:

Note: neither of these plugins are maintained by the core dev team, so please log any issues with them on their respective GitHub pages.

adapt-theme-community:

adapt-hotspotMenu: 

Log any issues you find to GitHub (following our guidelines), and get in touch via Gitter if you have any other questions.

We all hope you enjoy using this release!