Lectora v11.3 Messes up Right Flushed Text in HTML, DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS UPDATE

Our group has noticed a similar error with v11.3 when publishing tables.

For a cell that has "colspan," "width," and "height" attributes, the (working) v11.2 code was:

The (hilariously bad) v11.3 code is:

I'm sure this will get patched eventually, but like many others, the workarounds implemented in the meantime are tedious and really do add significant time to larger products.

I mean, did anyone test this update?

-Steve

Hi There,

I had the same problem. I talked to Trivantis and they figured out a work around. If it´s possible you can adjust the text object height about three times bigger and the text came visible again.

@ummakumma 57242 wrote:

Hi There,

I had the same problem. I talked to Trivantis and they figured out a work around. If it´s possible you can adjust the text object height about three times bigger and the text came visible again.

For the size of projects we work on, a "work around" like this is pretty useless.

Hoping to not encounter this :@. Updates never go smoothly...

We discovered the same issue last Friday, however, we always put the updates on a test machine here first and test for backwards compatibility before we distribute updates to the content developers. I would remove 11.3 from your machine and back up to 11.2 and wait for a fix from Lectora. Like us, we have a lot of content in our courses that is right justified and not willing to doubled the height of all the text blocks in all the courses in order to publish to HTML with 11.3.

Is it possible to switch to 11.2? There are numerous issues I would rather just not have to create workarounds for.

I've been working with this "other" program for a while - it's NOT an elearning development tool - but it COULD BE - with a little work.

It's what Lectora should look like. If you get a moment take a look. jQuery, Database Connections, etc ALL BUILT INTO THE PRODUCT. Even a nice site manager to track pages AND a way to "clone" a page. Include external docs? no problem. CAPTCHA object? yup.

http://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

BTW - I've used lectora for years but the latest version (11) seemed to be a simple reskin of the old Lectora. Now with the multiple challenges created by version 11.3 I may stop the automatic updates and wait until other folks uncover the problems OR figure out whether it works or not.

Did I mention it costs $50.00? Yeah. 50 bucks.

I'll bet I can add SCORM functionality pretty easily too.

I'd have to respectfully disagree.

A major update would have addressed not only the lingering text formatting issues but would have provided all of the functionality of the jQuery library.

I'm assuming you have clients - as do we - and this kind of issue throws egg on our faces when a client asks - "why is this happening?" We're not perfect in our programming - and I can empathize with the challenge faced by Trivantis - but when a product like WYSIWYG Web Builder includes ALL of the stuff I wish this product had I begin to ask - why not Lectora?

A major update would have allowed us to meet some training challenges that are now met by competing products but not by this one.

A major update would allow a student to go through a question bank once and then be presented with ONLY those questions that the student answered incorrectly - a solution we're building for a client right now.

Sometimes it's not worth the ranting.

@peterLEXsorenson 57255 wrote:

the latest version (11) seemed to be a simple reskin of the old Lectora

I would like to add that any update, either major or not and either "free, if currently on maintenance" or not is too expensive if I have to pay for new features by loosing basic stuff.

I am not a too experienced programer and may not be able to fully empathize with the effort an update means for Trivantis but I do know the effort I've had this weekend to correct the "new features" of v11.3 that doesn't support right-aligned text any more and that breaks my custom built menu and user tracking by not setting up tables in the same way any more. If I didn't know Lectora so well I can build nearly anything in three different ways, I would be in trouble (either major or not) as my deadline is tomorrow.

My clients may not be able to fully empathize with my effort and (by the way) that is why they pay me to do it. So it may have been a real pain to reduce the misalignment of multi-line list items from "3 blanks" to "1 blank" but my clients say "It's misaligned". And they are right to say so.

Tim

I noticed that V11.3 doesn´t automatically convert button names to ASCII format anymore. Last night we needed to change over hundred button names and re-look the resources again in Lectora!

:(

@ummakumma 57264 wrote:

I noticed that V11.3 doesn´t automatically convert button names to ASCII format anymore. Last night we needed to change over hundred button names and re-look the resources again in Lectora!

:(

Can you provide us with some more details about your issue? Are you working with a title from a previous version? Do the button names change in Lectora or once published? Do you have any screenshots you can share?

We're planning to release a service pack very soon to address Lectora 11.3 issues and I want to make sure we've captured your problem as well.

@lauram 57284 wrote:

Can you provide us with some more details about your issue? Are you working with a title from a previous version? Do the button names change in Lectora or once published? Do you have any screenshots you can share?

We're planning to release a service pack very soon to address Lectora 11.3 issues and I want to make sure we've captured your problem as well.

We have sent a sample and information to Ed thompson.

Thanks.

@lauram 57284 wrote:

Can you provide us with some more details about your issue? Are you working with a title from a previous version? Do the button names change in Lectora or once published? Do you have any screenshots you can share?

We're planning to release a service pack very soon to address Lectora 11.3 issues and I want to make sure we've captured your problem as well.

Any ETA on the service patch? Eagerly awaiting this update.

@TR_GM 57330 wrote:

Any ETA on the service patch? Eagerly awaiting this update.

We are anticipating releasing a service patch this week. Be on the lookout for an email communication with information on how to install the update. We are eagerly awaiting this, too. Thanks for your patience!

@lauram 57331 wrote:

We are anticipating releasing a service patch this week. Be on the lookout for an email communication with information on how to install the update. We are eagerly awaiting this, too. Thanks for your patience!

Thank you for the update.

We are having to run any course publishing through certain colleagues who are on 11.2 because of the bullet point issue. The team's sanity is resting on this update!

http://lectora.com/e-learning-software-downloads/?mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojuqvNZKXonjHpfsX66%2BotX6K2lMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4HScNjI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQ7LMMbRm0LgMWBU%3D

WOOOOOOOOO

:D

I am no longer seeing this issue in 11.3.1 update.

The 11.3.1 update resolved this.

Yes. It also fixed some issues with tables in the 11.3 version.