Upcoming features
As all Open Source applications, DOOR is a contant work in progress, pushed forward by its users' needs. Here is a description of what we have already planned and are doing.
If you find a bug, or you think you may have, please contact us.
- Introduction of a safe mode for viewing uploaded files
- Concurrency management
- Tracking
History
DOOR
Version 1.8.0: 27.08.2008
- New: OAIDP module (support for metadata harvesting, http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/openarchivesprotocol.html).
This feature can be enable or disabled through the configuration file
- New: node name must be unique at the same tree level
- New: LOs and Nodes cannot be deleted completely anymore. They can be marked as deleted instead.
Deleted LOs / Nodes can be restored by administrators / authors.
- New: new parameter Teaching disciplines (Enable/Disable only)
- New: added German translation (many thanks to Katja Krueger)
- New: date representation format is now customizable through the configuration file (eg. YYYY-MM-DD, ...)
- New: changed the tree path separator from '/' to '->'
- New: show nodes before objects in the tree
- New: let people rename the root node and display its name correctly
- New: DOOR is now able to remember the url if not logged in and redirect to it after log in
- New: door data directory out of the webserver (uploaded files, temporary files
and tree files are stored in this directory)
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- New: improved moodle plugin security (DOOR side)
- New: the config/ directory doesn't have to be writable by the webserver anymore.
The tedious firsttime.php has been removed and the setup procedure let people download the configuration file.
- New: count the number of accesses to each LO
- New: each LO has now a creation date and a last update date
- New: statistic of the top the object visited
- New: statistic of the last ten updated objects
- New: door updater interface
- New: at the moment it's possible to update from version 1.6.X to 1.7.X and from version 1.7.X to 1.8.X
- Fix: the exported IMS can now be imported in Moodle (manually) as IMS Content Package
- Fix: parameters with strange characters (eg. avvented ones, &, ...) are now correctly selected in the popup window
- Fix: security bugs
- Fix: update password bug
- Fix: copyright statement not updateable bug
- Fix: several security bugs
- Fix: js cache bug (tree not updates)
- Fix: tree management bugs
- Fix: execution of upload file (eg. php scripts)
- Fix: translated strings in the parameters popup
- Fix: updated english translations for strings in the search menu
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
- On the IIS webserver the mechanism to access resources (uploaded file) doesn't work.
Version 1.7.2: 20.11.2007
- New: Spanish translation (provided by the group Investigación Stellae de la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, http://stellae.usc.es)
- New: shibboleth parameters are now customizable
- Fix: some bug fixes
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.7.1: 05.11.2007
- New: added tinymce fontsize, font select
- Fix: fixed update user bug
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.7.0: 31.10.2007
- New: added tinymce HTML editor for LO description
- New: added statistics section
- New: supports both shibboleth and local authentications together
- Fix: search procedure bug
- Fix: stronger validation server side
- Fix: prevent duplicated parameters (keywords, languages, resource types, use by items, use in items)
- Fix: seveal parts has been rewritten
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.6.1: 15.07.2007
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.6: 27.05.2007
- New: DOOR supports multilanguage (easy to translate it)
- New: character encoding from latin1 to UTF8
- Fix: minor gui fixes
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.5: 06.12.2006
- New: security enhancement (curl library used to import LOs from MOODLE)
- Fix: minor gui fixes
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.4: 28.11.2006
- New: 'author' account type has been added
- New: useability improved
- Fix: authorization works correctly now
- Fix: other minor bug fixes
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.3: 28.07.2006
- New: management interface for keywords
- New: import of Learning Objects
- New: complete migration to ADODB
- Fix: now you cannot delete parameters used in LO
- Fix: better error management
- Fix: problems with popup for selection of parameters
- Fix: IMS file deleted after download to safe space on the server
- Fix: now single quotes and double quotes are supported by DOOR
- Fix: other minor bug fixes
Known bugs
- Detection of mime type doesn't work on windows servers
Version 1.2: 06.07.2006
- New: the repository supports the access from moodle
- Fix: error management for the attachment of the object
- Fix: error management during the creation of IMS
- Fix: security update on the page for the creation of IMS
- Fix: other minor bug fixes
Version 1.1: 12.05.2006
- New: integration with Shibboleth
- New: partial migration to ADODB
- New: creation of Learning Objects from URL
- New: better error management
- Fix: unix clients can now unzip IMS files
- Fix: search feature works correctly
- Fix: after editing an object from search/browse section you're not redirected to the home section anymore
Version 1.0: 23.03.2006
DOOR-Moodle plug-in
Version 1.8.0: 27.08.2008
- New: improved plugin security
- New: moodle plugin bash installer
Known bugs
- moodle backup doesn't save files
Version 1.7.0: 31.10.2007
- New: it's possible to connect a repository with both local and shibboleth authentication
- New: export block use tinymce for description
- Fix: works on Moodle 1.8.X and Moodle 1.9 beta (tested on Moodle 1.8.3 and Moodle 1.9 beta2)
Known bugs
- moodle backup doesn't save files
Version 1.6.0: 27.05.2007
Known bugs
- moodle backup doesn't save files
- DOOR to MOODLE plugin doesn't work on moodle 1.8+
Version 1.5: 06.12.2006
- New: security enhancement (curl library used to import LOs from DOOR)
Version 1.4: 28.11.2006
- New: export resources (door, txt, file, label) from Moodle to DOOR
- Fix: UTF8 issue for moodle 1.6 and greater
- Fix: minor bug fixes
Version 1.1: 28.07.2006
- Fix: import from URL works now
- Fix: minor bug fixes
Version 1.0: 06.07.2006
- First release
- Note that only >= DOOR 1.2 can be used by the plugin