Educdesign

We'd like to thank everyone who has participated to the prerelease testing. We've got some really useful feedback that has allowed us to ship the best possible version to our customers.

Interface improvements

• Unified view for guests and authors
• Quick access to common element functions
• The old way of handling conflicting changes was replaced with a locking mechanism. It is now impossible for two people to work on the same element simultaneously
• Elements auto-update their status, e.g. locked, public and content when changed by someone else
• The server now keeps track of your unsaved changes so it can recover them when the connection is interrupted
• Fonts are now available for titles
• A new color picker allows to chose more specific colors
• Elements can be edited in fullscreen mode
• Most elements offer a new file browser
• A live upload handler was included in order to easily upload new files
• A live preview was added to most elements

Gallery element

• It is now possible to directly manipulate the size of the gallery thumbnail pictures
• Additional display types have been included:
  • gallery: the classic display type on a grid
  • stack: displays the pictures randomly on a pile
  • slideshow: display only one picture at a time and cycle through them
• The technical limit of 25 pictures per element has been removed
• It is not required anymore to have all pictures in the same folder

Audio element

• OLEFA-Soundrecorder can be loaded on the fly and used to create new audio files

Video element

• Video size has been limited to popular choices, i.e. 320px, 480px, 720px

Document element

• It is now possible to select multiple documents per element
• You can sort the documents by drag & drop
• All filetype limitations have been removed. You can now upload and use any file you want
• An icon depicting the filetype has been included per file

Linklist element

• It is now possible to add text to a linklist
• A new and powerful project-finder was included. You can search your project and select them via a simple click
• Links can be sorted by drag&drop

Wiki-Layout interface was completely changed

• Default templates have been removed. This also removed the need for placeholder-elements
• Elements can now be placed via drag & drop
• The interface now figuratively represents the page, background-colors included
• You can preview the element by clicking on it or even edit it by clicking on its pencil
• The project-layout was completely redesigned. It now has a preview of the currently active layout-options

The new engine will be faster and offer many new features. Prerelease testing will be opened at a later stage.