adaptlearning/adapt_authoring

Source code for the Adapt Authoring tool

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

yeah realised my mistake almost as soon as submitted the message (can't see where it is now)

my mistake, I thought 16 was the LTS but can now see it's still 14

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

had me worried for a moment there

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

lol 'saallll good. I clearly don't read things carefully enough before jumping to conclusions.

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

ditto

Simon Date

@simondate

I've always wondered why the Authoring Tool uses non-release versions of plugins (e.g. 3.6.0-custom-1)? Have these versions been tested to the same degree as full release versions?

Marissa

@marissa-champions

Hello, I recently upgraded to V5 of the framework and 0.10.5 of the Authoring Tool. I typically work in the framework to develop the theme and then import to the Authoring Tool. I'm guessing that the Authoring Tool is grabbing the values from the schema files but I only edit the LESS files. I won't ever need to edit the colors in the Authoring Tool. Is there a way I can disable editing colors in the Authoring Tool or will I have to update the LESS files and the schema files for every change?

tomgreenfield

@tomgreenfield

@simondate, the tagged pre-releases are exactly the same as the latest release, just with an additional schema folder for the new authoring tool. it doesn't have any effect in the current authoring tool. for example, bookmarking comparison

tomgreenfield

@tomgreenfield

@marissa-champions, if you mean disabling the colour picker functionality then it should just be a case of removing the variables object from the theme's schema

Chetan Sachdev

@cksachdev

@tomgreenfield Is there a new authoring tool in development? Could you please point me to the github repo for the same.

Will the existing version 0.10.5 development continue or it will be stopped?

tomgreenfield

@tomgreenfield

it's the same product just with a fairly substantial rewrite of the backend. gitter discussion is here. alpha code is here

Marissa

@marissa-champions

Is there a way to restore a deleted course? I see the course folder in the adapt_framework folder but I don't see the database entry using robo3t to restore it.

tomgreenfield

@tomgreenfield

the course folder will just be a leftover cache of whenever it was last previewed – there's no way to restore the deleted mongodb record i'm afraid

Paul Steven

@paul-mediakitchen

Hello. Is there a way to turn on strict mode in the authoring tool? I am using the following and want to test if my plugin fails in strict mode

Authoring tool 0.10.5
Adapt Framework 5.15.2

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

@paul-mediakitchen i don't think there is a schema entry for course.build.strictMode

so once you've exported, if you add "strictMode": true into the course.json in the build object and rebuild using grunt dev or grunt build you should get strict mode enabled

Paul Steven

@paul-mediakitchen

Thank you @oliverfoster - much appreciated. I should of course have just fired up a framework only course and tested it but the heat prevented my brain engaging

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

:+1:

Paul Steven

@paul-mediakitchen

Found it:

"build": {
    "strictMode": true
}

tomgreenfield

@tomgreenfield

Paul Steven

@paul-mediakitchen

lol @tomgreenfield

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

lol

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

What would be my options if I wanted to add/edit the help tooltips for various plugin properties throughout the AT without having direct access to the AT backend myself? Would a simple extension work? If so, some tips how I might achieve this would be appreciated.

Simon Date

@simondate

@5am_gitlab The simpliest way to do this would be to fork each plugin you use and then edit the fields in the properties.schema file

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

@simondate I thought that, unfortunately our provider uses templating across Adapt framework/AT upgrades, so our forked versions may interfere with this, and we also can't disable any plugins they've enabled by default, meaning the course author would probably see two of every component in the list and this could be confusing.

ninode97

@ninode97

Was this intentional to do so?
As for example when we export course all custom styles will be wiped out when re-importing the exported-course.

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

myself and others have noticed this too: adaptlearning/adapt_authoring#2490

ninode97

@ninode97

Thanks!

Was wondering what could be the implications if I would remove "customStyle" from omitProps array?

I have tested it and it seems that it would import course with custom styles...

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

What would be the most practical/sensible way to host multiple older and newer versions of the AAT from the same server? Maybe containerisation? For example, I'd like to spin up a testing VPS and have a few subdomains pointing to different versions to make it quick and easy to test and compare versions of plugins etc.

I could easily do this with VMs locally, but then presumably there'd be no way to do quick mobile previewing

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

probably a process / service manager, with an apache proxy and nvm at minimum, or containerisation (like docker) to remove the nvm requirement

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

:thumbsup:

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

an apache reverse proxy is a nice way of bringing lots of websites run on different ports on the same kit under a series of sub paths at port 443/80

https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/howto/reverse_proxy.html

Sam Howell

@5am_gitlab

yeah, have some experience with Apache proxies. My personal site uses proxies for services like Plausible analytics, Netdata, Nextcloud etc. I'd quite like to try out Docker for some stuff eventually. My Plausible instance runs in Docker but was installed via a script, so I don't have much experience with setting containers up yet.

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

the containers, defined in a text file, usually inherit from a standard nodejs container by directive, then you put in a config for the application installation bits, it's very straight forward. automating the startup and redirecting apache to it might provide a challenge

ninode97

@ninode97

Is there any reason why endpoints are not protected within authoring tool?
For example with postman without auth we can execute endpoints?

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

No reason @ninode97 they just weren't designed to be. The newer AAT currently in progress has better standing in that regard.

PRS to the current one are welcome

It looks as though you can execute them but they return an error.

Which is almost fair. Really it should just be a 404.

ninode97

@ninode97

What's new for the newer AAT? is there any public branch available ?

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

It's in alpha still. There is a public repo... I may have to dig it out tomorrow...

ninode97

@ninode97

tried to look at adapt_authoring repo but couldnt find

Oliver Foster

@oliverfoster

https://github.com/adapt-security/adapt-authoring/ ahah, found it

That whole organisation is for the backend rewrite.

ninode97

@ninode97

Thank you very much! Will have a look at it.

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