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Adapt Authoring Tool - Preview & Publishing issues
by Brian Timoney - Tuesday, 27 January 2015, 10:27 PM
 

Hi,

Firstly, I'm really impressed with Adapt Framework :) I have a reasonably large training programme to develop and while I'm comfortable with JSON, I don't particularly want to have to hand edit the various JSON files to develop the training programme, hence my interest in the Authoring Tool.

I have now set up the Authoring Tool on both Windows and Linux and when I try to Preview my test course (on both platforms), I just get the message: 

"Preview Not Found
Your preview was not found. Please close this tab and try again."

When I try to Publish the course, I just get a blank screen (in a new tab).

In the terminal / DOS box where I'm running 'grunt server', I get the following error reports when I try to Preview and when I try to Publish the course:

info: 1. Setting up the user-friendly _id value array
info: 2. Verifying temporary folder exists
info: 3. Creating/verifying working folder
info: 3.1. Ensuring framework build exists
info: 3.2. Using theme: adapt-contrib-vanilla
error: exec error: Error: Command failed:
info: Friendly identifiers created
info: Temporary folder OK
info: Working folder verified
info: undefined ''
info: Error building framework

This occurs on both Linux & Windows - have I missed something or is this an issue with the develop branch?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Thanks,

Brian

 
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Re: Adapt Authoring Tool - Preview & Publishing issues
by Dennis Heaney - Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 9:11 AM
 

Hi Brian,

It looks as if there is an issue with the framework install that is used to build the preview.

You should be able to fix this by running "npm install", followed by "adapt install" in the framework folder. To do this via the command line:

 cd /path/to/project/temp/<tenant ID>/adapt_framework/

 npm install

 adapt install

You can then try to preview again. Note that you may have to re-select a theme for your course in order to force the course to rebuild.

If this doesn't work for you, I suggest you hold off on using the tool until we release the latest version (hopefully this week!) - this has a more user friendly install process, and is a bit more stable.

It's great to hear that you're getting hands on with the tool :)

Dennis

 
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Re: Adapt Authoring Tool - Preview & Publishing issues
by Brian Timoney - Wednesday, 28 January 2015, 9:28 AM
 

Hi Dennis,

That worked a treat - many thanks for the quick resolution - both Preview and Publish are now working!

Looking forward to the next release, all the same. Keep up the good work :)

Thanks again,

Brian

 
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Re: Adapt Authoring Tool - Preview & Publishing issues
by khaled sayed - Saturday, 7 February 2015, 5:51 AM
 

Thank you Dennis

I also have the same problem , and now it is solved by your Solution 

and the tool work fine now, I'm looking for the new release I have tens of course to be done , I wish I can make it with your fantastic tools .

Thanks again

Khaled

 
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Re: Adapt Authoring Tool - Preview & Publishing issues
by Aritza Mollar - Wednesday, 18 February 2015, 9:16 AM
 

Thank you Dennis I had the same problem too, solved!

 Praying for the new release ;)

Thanks all the team

Aritza

 
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