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  • New app API and lots of additional enhancements and bugfixes

    Posted by: Fagbokforlaget admin 29. May 2018 15:46

    Today's update (c018ee9) brings with it the following changes:

    New features

    • API for making JavaScript, Java and Flash apps in Portfolio. It is extensible, and other languages like SilverLight and Dart could quite easily be supported as well.
      • The editor field has been completely removed from object custom_init.
      • The codebase field (used by Java applets) has been completely removed from object custom_init.
      • The flash-settings, flash-data, java-settings and java-data object types should no longer be used (deprecated). You should use the object types app-input and app-output instead. They can be used by any app, regardless of implementation language.
    • New course_enrollment_ui() template handler. This makes it possible to create documents that allow students to enroll themselves into courses without institution administrator involvement.

    Enhancements

    • The search feature (top right in most templates) has been reimplemented, and now allows fairly easy addition of new search providers.
      • Translations for our supported languages are now also available.
      • Lexin search providers and others that use Latin1 encoding should now work with non-ASCII letters.
      • A good amount of Lexin nynorsk search providers have been added.
      • A lot of existing search providers have been updated with working URLs.
    • It is now possible to locate users in the new message dialog with autocomplete.
    • The course assignment to institution user-interface have been completely redesigned. It should now be much easier to assign course licenses to institutions, and also notice any excessive license usage.
    • Unlimited license count can now be accomplished by setting the license count to 0.
    • It is now possible to forcibly navigate to a course's root container when using nav_course request handler.

    Bugfixes

    • Plain textareas should now use a monospace font again.
    • When a user navigates to a course, their course progress is always updated.
    • Tables that used the tablesorter system should now properly sort cells with HTML in them.
    • Institution administrator role should now be reported properly in all reports.
    • Creating new groups with non-ASCII characters in them should no longer cause encoding error.
    • Invert checkboxes toggle in file manager should now work in Internet Explorer 7 and 8.
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  • New database server online

    Posted by: Fagbokforlaget admin 29. May 2018 15:46

    We've now upgraded our database server to a powerful Dell PowerEdge R710. This should give us quite a lot more of backend power, which should be apparent on the time it takes to render several types of reports.

    If you're still having problems with timeouts we'd appreciate the feedback.

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  • Better response time

    Posted by: Fagbokforlaget admin 29. May 2018 15:46

    We've just updated to version d635521, which should ensure the excessive response times we've been seeing lately to be a lot lower.

    A small fix for grammar mistakes in the Swedish version of the CEFR placement test email report has also been included.

    A new server will be added on Friday, which should further increase the response time. Pay attention to the message of the day, it will inform you when this new hardware will be installed. The system will be offline while we install this new hardware.

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  • Improved performance and concurrency

    Posted by: Fagbokforlaget admin 29. May 2018 15:46

    We're still working on improving things, and more improvements will come in a short time.

    This update (7088655) brings with it the following changes:

  • Performance enhancement: A secondary database connection (non-transactional) is now used to perform high-concurrency activities, to minimize waiting between clients.
  • Performance enhancement: Session refresh is also performed much less, which should allow increased concurrent activity.
  • Performance enhancement: We've decreased the amount of times the database is updated with information about when the last time a logged in user did something.
  • Performance enhancement: Logging of last access time on objects and containers has been disabled for anonymous users. For logged-in users it will now only happen if the object is considered "interactive".
  • Bugfix: Android browsers should now be able to see something more than just a blank page.
  • Enhancement: Album folder layout has been greatly improved.
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  • CEFR HTML email reports and several bugfixes and improvements

    Posted by: Fagbokforlaget admin 29. May 2018 15:46

    Today's update (11f60dac6b) brings with it the following changes:

    • New feature: The placement test (CEFR) report email now includes an HTML part in addition to plain text.
    • New feature: All emails can now have a header and footer overridden at the normal template levels.
    • Improvement: The delete button in the file manager now asks for confirmation.
    • Improvement: Cleaned up the layout and behavior of the file manager.
    • Bugfix: The radio quiz type now supports multiple correct answers correctly.
    • Bugfix: User list didn't sort correctly in all cases. This has now been fixed.
    • Bugfix: Group user list didn't sort correctly. This has now been fixed.
    • Bugfix: Fix inconsistent amount of vertical whitespace in object reading view (read request handler).
    • Bugfix: The list of templates didn't show all available templates recursively. The list should now be complete, and an encoding issue has been fixed as well.
    • Bugfix: Overridden text/plain email templates will no longer add excessive whitespace because of Windows newlines.
    • Bugfix: Removed HTML cleaning when template was being rendered on page. Also fixed a hard to find character encoding issue related to cleaning up extremely faulty documents.
    • Bugfix: Fixed recipient dropdown box width issue in placement test (CEFR) submission user interface.
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