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.

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)
  • 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
  • Fix: bug fixes

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
  • First release

 

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
  • Fix: minor bug fxes

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