Chris
I'm not sure I know what you mean by "1. If you pass enrolled modules to
Aspire, the My Lists page will inform the user of these new enrolments (and
add them to the My Lists collection)." - could explain please.
Annette
Annette
--On 01 October 2010 10:11 +0100 Chris Clarke <[log in to unmask]>
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> Hi all,
>
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> Yesterday we released a new version of Aspire.
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> This release included extensive under the hood changes for the My Lists
> page. Previously, users with long collections of My Lists were
> experiencing performance issues with the screen. In addition, users were
> not able to remove either the lists they were enrolled on, or were list
> publishers for, from the screen - this made the first problem worse, as
> users could not always reduce the size of their My Lists collection!
>
>
> We've now addressed these problems in the new release. Users can now
> remove any list from My Lists, and the page has been re architected so
> that exceptionally long collections can load in the background. Users
> will be able to interact with the page and perform actions on lists
> whilst long collections load.
>
>
> To address the performance problem, we've had to change the shape of the
> data under the hood. So, a data conversion is performed in the background
> the very first time a user enters My Lists (after the release). On
> particularly long collections this might take more than one visit to
> complete. Once the conversion has been done the loading time of the
> screen should be much improved.
>
>
> As part of this work, we also took the opportunity to include a couple of
> enhancements:
>
>
> 1. If you pass enrolled modules to Aspire, the My Lists page will inform
> the user of these new enrolments (and add them to the My Lists
> collection).
> 2. The actions column on the My Lists page was getting very untidy as the
> amount of utility in the system grows. We've changed this to be a drop
> down menu instead. If this proves popular, we'll be rolling it out to
> other areas of the system.
>
>
> In other news, we also improved the performance of the system elsewhere
> too:
>
>
> * Browse hierarchy: Some nodes with large amounts of children wouldn't
> load, we've fixed this
> * Bookmark preview screen: We've improved the performance here, too.
>
>
> Any questions let me know,
>
>
> Chris Clarke
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