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Build 129: "Cerberus" (Breaking Update, Read Carefully)
🕑 Added 2019-10-07 05:41:51 +0000 UTCWarning: Cerberus is a complex update. Your old, locally-cached LegendKeeper client might break. If you have issues, navigate to https://app.legendkeeper.com/logout. All else fails, clear your browser cache.
LegendKeeper's largest update to date is done! (Once we squash any bugs :p) I’m super proud of the features in this one. This was a huge, complex update, but everything gets easier from here. Thank you so much for you patience and support!
Overview:
- LegendKeeper clients now refresh most data in near-realtime.
- Granular permission settings for articles across your project. A great way to hide parts of your project and build a world full of secrets.
- UI upgrades for many dialogs, menus, and the pin editor.
- Re-vamped client upgrade process, so no more “restart your browser” nonsense.
What’s next after Cerberus?
- Pin Permissions (Show/Hide)
- Tag permissions (Show/HIde)
- Block permissions within document (Show/Hide DM-only text, etc)
- Activity log
- Better mass-management of permissions
- User groups
Build Notes
Realtime updates for certain parts of the app
- Updates to articles titles, tags, content should occur in real-time.
- Updates to pin location should occur in realtime.
- Updates to world global permission settings should occur in real-time.
- Addition and deletion of articles should occur in realtime.
- *** WARNING: THE EDITOR ITSELF IS NOT REAL-TIME YET ***
Sharing and Permissions
- Beta invite cap raised to 10.
- New role: Member.
- Permission options for new Role: Member.
- Members can create articles
- Members can upload maps
- Members can delete maps
- Members can upload images
- Members can delete images
- Members can create generators
- Members can edit generators
- Members can delete generators
- For user holding Owner role, Settings > “Users and Roles” now allows assignment to “Admin” role, or “Member” role.
- Admins can access all articles and assets; cannot change world name, delete the world, or invite others to the world (for now).
- Members are subject to permission rules.
- Due to issues with Story page implementation, Member access to Stories is completely disabled. This will be fixed soon.
- Article Permissions
- There are now 5 access settings available for Member Role->Article pair.
- Full Access: Can view, edit content, and access sharing settings for article.
- Can Edit: Can view and edit content.
- Can Read: Can view.
- No Access (Special Property): Cannot view in atlas, wiki, search, @-mentions, or Mentioned-In; blocks all access to sub-articles regardless of sub-article settings.
- Inherit (Special Property): Inherits access setting from immediate parent. If immediate parent is also INHERIT, continues up parent chain until no parent found. If no parent found, defaults to CAN VIEW.
- There are now 5 override settings available for every User->Article pair. (Advanced).
- Full Access: Can view, edit content, and access sharing settings for article.
- Can Edit: Can view and edit content.
- Can Read: Can view.
- Inherit (Special Property): Inherits access setting from immediate parent. If immediate parent is also INHERIT, continues up parent chain until no parent found. If no parent found, defaults to CAN VIEW.
- Role: Defer to role’s setting. (Default)
- You can override a Role permission with a User permission. This is useful, for example, if you are a DM and you want each of your players to have a character page where they can put their character’s backstory. You can set the Member role globally for these pages to CAN rEAD, and then set a CAN EDIT for each user that corresponds to each character wiki entry.
Client upgrades
- Re-vamp upgrade process; no more “restart browser to update”; just hit the Update button.
- Upgraded downloadable client code; should reduce issues with Firefox and Safari.
- Don’t clean caches of old versions; this should reduce Firefox White Screen of Death, but will slowly bloat your local LegendKeeper client over time. I will figure out a solution for this; in the meantime, clearing your cache will remedy it if it gets too big for your liking.
UI upgrades
- Converted 85% of dialogs to a newer, more powerful modal library.
- New modal library should be less jumpy on Safari.
- Introduced new popover menu component for slicker interactions.
- Upgraded Pin Editor UI
- Upgraded Role Selector UI
- Upgraded Permission Selector UI
- New wiki context menu styling
- New animations for most dialogs and menus.
New items in pin context menu
Bug fixes
- Don’t show context menus if interacting user can’t take any actions on the target object.
- Fix bug that occurs in map search when multiple map pins of the same article result in duplicate search entries.
- Add slightly better 404 experience for unauthorized access to pages.
- Fix map naming bug that occurs when pre-filled name from file is very long.
Known Issues
- All of these new features are disabled for the Story Tab until I re-do the underlying implementation. Members cannot view Story Tab at all.
- The autolinker doesn't have knowledge of permissions; this will take some work. Someone can autolink an article they don't really have access to, but can't navigate to it once they do.
- Managing permissions is a little tedious as it is; expect UI to expedite the process.
- Sometimes the realtime update socket loses connection and fails to reconnect. Navigating around or refreshing should fix this.
What’s next?
- Pin Permissions (Show/Hide)
- Tag permissions (Show/HIde)
- Block permissions within document (Show/Hide DM-only text, etc)
- User groups
- Activity log
- Better multi-management of permissions
