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This file contains information on the current state of RC developments and lists ideas, features, bugs and problems.
Features and ideas
Features in development
Graphical editor: undo button and better versioning of exposition content
Merging of text-based and graphical editors
- allows authors to define both a graphical 2d layout and a responsive version of the same page content
- the responsive version of an exposition is the same as text based, now understood as a linear ordering of tools
- mixing the two formats within one exposition
- fascilitate migrate pages between the two formats
- the author decides which layouts are available to the reader
Google fonts (safe fonts)
Archive expositions [ requested ]
Media usage
How much media do users have?
Is it used in any exposition or made public?
Ordering of portals by creation data / or alphabetic
Features to be requested
TODO When user uploads a video with a problematic resolution, show user hint what would work.
TODO add grouping tags for users within portal user list (for organising)
TODO Publication tags for exposition, to separate it from keywords
TODO merge keywords of expositions and media repo
TODO make the media repo github repository public (clean up old state first)
TODO duplicate pages option within editors
TODO fix "add all" button in collaboration message dialog
TODO collaboration notifications removed from messages, should be prompt or notification. State should be live from the current state
TODO Picture tool should use tool default instead of intrensic size
TODO duplicate accounts (automatic detection)
TODO collaboration, finding the right person if you only have an email.
TODO Add "published by" to articles on the frontpage, published by JAR for example.
TODO Send email to NTNU admin when FEIDE student has logged in first time, creating a new account
TODO Media url's in text-based editor, not always translated to live url (https://www.researchcatalogue.net/text-editor/simple-media-resource?research=547070&simple-media=945677)
TODO Snapshot stored when admin changes revision state from "in revision" -> "in review"
TODO add trashcan button for comments on pages that can be seen by the commenter.
Released features
DONE searchbox is missing from front-page in responsive mode
DONE fix default license in text editor (or maybe postpone?)
Better error reporting
Admins can view snapshots that were made on submission.
Implement fix for font-boosting both in text-based and graphical expositions
#container-weave .tool-text { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -moz-text-size-adjust: none; -ms-text-size-adjust: none; }
#container-weave .tool-simpletext { -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; -moz-text-size-adjust: none; -ms-text-size-adjust: none; }
fix default license in media repo
Media of sets cannot be selected within tools, this is a problem for slideshow tool.
Media Repository & API
add support for .art domains
Frontpage Redesign
SARA feed on front page
File size limit HTML import (raise to 10gb)
cms for about, terms and other static pages
feide login for ntnu bergen, nmh
terms of use simplification, checkbox online
css of profile page responsiveness
Make exposition version on submit
Objects can now have a negative position but still be edited.
Ideas
Search box in navigation bar, so you can search in a single exposition. Future: expositions as searchable databases.
Managed expositions, how to make it easier within education to track an exposition and prevent students from making new ones?
Different versions of an exposition, that are somehow linked (show that something is just a newer version of an older exposition)
Internal statistics: Portal admins can view how many "expositions in progress" there are, see who is editing something.
How to stimulate early sharing in general?
Ac
Reviewing menu
Order of items (add note should be first option)
Add-note keyboard shortcut
remove all notes action
make impossible notes, impossible (near navigation bar) when clicked, it should come to front?
Even stronger warning on self-publication. Inform user on DOI being created, and that this means that the reference is permanent.
Users to be member of only a portal and not of RC, so they cannot accidentily publish in RC portal.
view media set in exposition, also as replacement for slide show tool
dropbox mode (upload/add but not change) in media repo
Increase audio quality of zencoder (currently, uses pretty low bitrate, filters out everything above 15k)
Search through expositions
Undo button
Markdown in text/html tools
Text tools size warnings, current lack of limits stimulates risky designs.
Keywords:
- Make keywords mandatory on publication
- Have a combination of closed and open vocabularies
versions visible for admins - for later reference/compare changes
exposition metadata export for journals
journal submission as application
application programs
save vs. submit, inform/warn people when deadline is close, message on save that this is not submitting
searchable inbox
object preview images without fixed width/height ratio.
profile page
- better display of objects without image, "tumblr" page
- state share status clearly
- display abstract on/off setting
- show keywords
- tagging for profile organization / change group button for item
- collapse all groups
dates of expositions:
- remove free "date" field.
- add automatic creation date
- publication date will not be altered by unpublish/republished (only last modified)
editor role
- can we allow this role without needing them to be portal admins
- list of objects of which they are editors
graphical editor
- pixel by pixel movement of tools with arrow keys (and pixel number display)
- linking to a tool instead of a position
- refresh overview when a tool was deleted
- alignment
- adjustments of margins for position links on the right side of the weave-some links currently 'bump' into borders, displaying the wrong position
- group selection (lasso / box selection)
- group locking (moving constallation)
- prototype tool/template
- copy-paste style tab settings
Archiving function
- this is an alternative form of publication where it is fixed, but only visible to portal admins.
- probably needs some extra meta-data like department / context in which the archived exposition was produced.
Sortable list view of expositions on "Recent activity" "Recent publications", "My Profile" and other locations in RC.
elm text editor based on https://github.com/SidneyNemzer/elm-text-editor
comments/notes
footnote like comments {1}
inline comments {<<>>}
{media} tag should be embedded in newlines for proper parsing of markdown paragraphs
we need to rendered html version, one for public preview not displaying comments and one for editing (with comments)
footnotes
singled shared model for both editors
one list for the entire exposition
type of footnotes (references etc)
footnote edit page
reference counting, footnotes need to know where they are used
Problems
clicking tool should no open defaults
empty tools when canceling tool dialogue
Black bars in JWPlayer, which dynamically aplies "object-fit:contain" causing lots o problems. .jwplayer.jw-stretch-uniform video { object-fit: cover !important; } is a solution for now.XS
Line-height in HTML tool can cause issues (there is a tinymce css line that inherits it from parent, but this causes wrong size if there is styling inline the copied html). One solution could be to filter pasted html.
Unpublishing changes publication date when republished (for example
Collaboration tab needs explanation text about what is what. UI
Supervisor permissions behave weird on publication etc.
No quick way for supervisor to delete/manage all their notes.
Notes list
Private note
No duplicate names for expositions
Common user confusions:
- Adding a page, not showing up in Table of Contents
- Work / Exposition
- Video tool / Video embed
- PDF tool : Preview / PDF fields mixup
- Audio tool should not be an empty box, but communicate: "Audio tool: filename"
DONE Preview of text-based exposition does not update quickly enough
background color of text-based editor should not change when body background-color is set (connected to margin issue)
If a footnote reference is copied from one page to the next, the content of the footnote remains in the old page.
Footnotes can be copied from other expositions, which will result in dead links if the original exposition is made private
dragging from media list creates tool with media size (not tool defaults)
Bugs
Bugs to be reported
?? Footnote issue -> if a label with text across two lines/paragraphs, creating a footnote with all highlighted seems to create two footnotes with different ID. I didn’t test this further, but seems odd.
If an exposition is unpublished and then republished, it cannot be reviewed (reviewer sees an error when they try to view it)
Reviewers added by the reviewer button in Users will not always be added (if they are existing users)
Supervised expositions show up in two places: Research Exposition (collaborated) and Research Expositions.
Background on WORK page is styled incorrectly: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/show-work?work=410001
Video playback in HTML expositions breaks down on mobile.
Controls do not work on mobile
In Safari this may be caused by a bug in Safari itself: https://www.ctrl.blog/entry/safari-csp-media-controls.html
Word import in Graphical Editor doesn't use HTML default tool settings
Scrollbars hhidden on Mac OS
[NO BUG] change of font in CSS is not accepted after the publication of the exposition: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/861875/861876
[CANNOT REPRODUCE] with pseudonyms the link to author's profile does not work
When user hits a "auth required" they do not return to the same page
[CASPER] The SARA unsubscribe menu accessed from the link of the announcement does not work
Problems with svg files in image tool, they are not properly scaled in edit -> options -> position -> size
file type detection should not be done by file ending (can create unusable media)
Menu of expositions in profile and of tools in workspace does not work in Windows 10, version 19041
Reported Bugs
https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/433112/616170 footnote problem (reported by Tero)
Profile > Exposition groups are not saved between sessions for normal users
HTML tool show's page's background color (good), but even as the tool itself has another background color (bad).
Fixed Bugs
WILLNOTFIX more users with Windows 10 cannot open the menu of expositions or profiles. (This is a sideeffect of weird virus js inject behaviour kasperski, users should want to turn it off, since it is pretty nasty). https://superuser.com/questions/981959/how-to-disable-kaspersky-antivirus-javascript-injection
DONE public sets are visible also to users that are not logged in.
DONE Fixed problem play tool state not being correct if another video stops the play tool.
DONE Fixed problem with videos in footnotes that continued played when closed
DONE fixed problem in graphical expos' where font sizes where blown up on mobile, causing layout problems
DONE A published exposition in JAR does not appear in the public profile of one of the co-author
exposition: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/462390/462391 author: Mariella Greil-Moebius https://www.researchcatalogue.net/profile/?person=91218
DONE Fullscreen does not work in embedded videos. example
DONE Login-as does not work for feide accounts
DONE position of tools can be made negative by mouse, but not edited by number in the style tab. (reporter: JAR, closed but not live)
DONE Fullscreen and Downloads on HTML-import videos (NTNU)
DONE (could not reproduce) Restoring an exposition while it was "in review", the "in review" status is inherited (SAR-1261)
DONE Footnotes -> dissapearing scrollbar problem when opening certain notes (SAR-1262)
DONE date of last change not updated for text-based expositions
DONE exporting JAR expositions caused problems with Safari/Chrome (Aubiome project)
DONE Declining connection request does not have effect (reported)
DONE Mail Link for owner with pseudonym on reviewing page (reported)
DONE restore deleted tools title column
DONE Exposition 849232 throws an error on preview
DONE Video player does not respond if autoplay is blocked.
DONE Issue name is missing from research page. (also ordering is arbitrary, should either be customizable or make sense) (reporter: NMH)
DONE Full screen doesn't work with autoplay
DONE metro js not loaded / Icons are not displayed
DONE Published exposition cannot be connected to
DONE Footnotes in copied expositions are not editable
Releases
DONE Research Video Integration
Text-based editor version 2.1.1
Text Editor
Codemirror gets slowed down, when there is lots of video tags used.
Fix issue with old expositions which have a missing "metadata" field in their json
Parsing paragraphs can run into trouble if !{media} tag precedes it directly
Guide
Add a special section for reviewers/supervising
How to use notes
How to find an exposition
How to accept invitations / what does "deprecated" mean
How to remove notes
Missing pagesc
FONT FEATURE
We would like to reduce the "font warning" messages, by making sure only fonts are used that RC can host itself. Currently, many of our fonts (Verdana, Terminal), are not available everywhere, and we cannot host them either as far as I understand? This is what Microsoft say about it: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/fonts/font-faq#redistribution-and-extended-rights Correct font is kind of important, and authors are often not aware that the wrong font may be displayed for many of their readers.
The solution we have in mind consists of 3 parts:
- Add self-hosted fonts:
We have selected a list of public domain fonts, which the RC can self-host, some of them are metrically based on Arial/Helvetica. These fonts should be added to the HTML/text font dropdown and the .woff served with every exposition:
Sans Serif:
- Nimbus Sans L (https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/nimbus-sans-l)
- Arimo (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Arimo)
- Lato (GF) (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Lato)
- Roboto (GF) (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto)
- PT Sans (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/PT+Sans?query=pt+sans)
- Open Sans (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Open+Sans?query=open+sans)
Serif:
- Libre Baskerville (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Libre+Baskerville?query=Libre+basker)
- Merriweather (GF) (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Merriweather?query=Merriweather)
Mono:
- Roboto Mono (GF) https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Mono?query=roboto+mono
- Courier Prime https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/courier-prime?q%5Bterm%5D=courier&q%5Bsearch_check%5D=Y
- User added fonts:
In the expositions settings (edit metadata, edit research dialog) we would like to add a "Fonts" tab, where the user can can upload (multiple) fonts (.woff or .ttf). There should also be a required name field, under which they will appear in the font dropdown of HTML and text tools. These fonts are local to the exposition and served by RC when the exposition is viewed. We should add a warning that the user is responsible for checking that the license of the font allows using it.
For new expositions, only make available the self-hosted and the user-uploaded fonts. For all older expositions, authors should still be able to use the old fonts (so both the old and new fonts). This includes expositions that have been restored from an old snapshot.
Does this solution make sense to you as well, is it possible?