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Release Notes
jamesballard edited this page Aug 31, 2012
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Due to a few new funded features and some testing issues for MSSQL 2.1 has remained an internal release.
Contributors
- Bournemouth & Poole College for improvements to the date field.
- Cambridge Regional College for pagination and other form library improvements
- City of Bristol College for file uploads
- Highbury College for MSSQL support
- Richmond College for additional MIS reports
New Features
- Cross-database functionality (MSSQL and PostgreSQL)
- File upload type form field
- Deadline and date combined into single date element that support improved calendar and reminder options
- Checkbox type form field
- Page break form element for report pagination pagination
- Additional MIS plugins for student reviews, cause for congratulations, and letters of concern
Fixes
- Multi-select form type now working correctly
- Form library bug fixes for consistency and performance
This build is only tested for 2.2 and 2.3 - we don't expect to continue support for older version although many parts may still work.
Contributors
- Special thanks to Lewisham College for funding improvements to the dashboard reports with course-wide overviews and summary option.
New Features
- 'Previous' and 'Next' links to navigate between students in a course from individual ILP page
- Ability to collapse or expand all columns on the dashboard
- New view to see all entries in a group for any particular report (e.g. all targets for my course)
- Ability to toggle between a 'full' and 'summary' set of fields in a report
- Ability to display appropriate data type (e.g.radio group) entries in Radar or Line plots
- Ability to set rule based 'locks' on reports (e.g. only 1 entry per week)
- Ability to override the 'locks' for individual users
Fixes
- Comments now support HTML when displayed back to users
- Add comment link does not display when comments are disabled
- Permissions fixes so that reports do not appear to incorrect users
- Some fixes to various MIS plugins: attendance, performance, initial assessments
- Tidy up of code libraries to improve development
Community Developments
- The first community plug-in has been released - many thanks to Mark Johnson for the timeline tab which we hope to include as a sub-module in this release
- Development documentation started by Mark Johnson and Nathan Friend
- Changed icons for achieved, failed and overdue deadlines (thanks to Neil Stapleton at College of West Anglia for providing these)
- Fixed indexing issue that was causing a slow query on the tutor dashboard page
- Fixed redundant database join that was causing a slow query on the tutor dashboard page
- Fixed issue with config path that was affecting some installations (particularly though not exclusively Windows servers)
- Added icons to indicate status (e.g. tick for complete)
- New capability to support manager style access
- Display count of overdue reports (count of any entries with field type state and not in a 'pass' or 'fail' status when deadline has passed. Includes extra state for 'withdrawn' or 'not counted' - items in this state do not appear in progress bar or overdue count)
- Deadlines added to the calendar
- Clear MIS setting function - useful if MIS system is not responding
- Radio buttons default to selection
- Admins can re-order reports
- Last update value includes status changes and comments
- Text Area field increased to allow more than 256 characters
- Refresh page doesn't create duplicate entries
- HTML field type error on IE9 Fixed
- Date Deadline field label now unique
- Target overdue count now displaying
- Comment link now removed if report doesn't allow comments
- Attendance benchmark colours now work with all Attendance plug-ins
- Archive tab pulls through ILP 1.9 data
- Filter selection improved
- Performance Indicator plugin - New Functionality
- Admins have ability to delete report entries
- And Many bug fixes