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2 years 11 months ago #226296 by tammo

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Your LimeSurvey version: 5.2
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Survey theme/template: Custom, based on Vanilla
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When updating LimeSurvey, my customer ran into an error that I have never seen:

Errors happened during the update check. Please notify the extension authors for support.

[theme_name]: Extension [theme_name] has no updater defined in config.xml

What does this mean, what can I do about this?

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2 years 11 months ago #226298 by tammo

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In the XML-file of the mother template I found:

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<!-- Disable the updater system for core themes. -->
    <updaters disabled="disabled">
    </updaters>

Most probably this has something to do with this error, but what is the intention of this statement?

disabled="disabled" looks like a double negation. Does this mean that something is enabled?

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2 years 11 months ago #226313 by tpartner

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What version was it updated from?

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2 years 11 months ago - 2 years 11 months ago #226315 by tammo

Replied by tammo on topic Error when updating

From 5.3.x (I do not remember clearly) to 5.3.5

I looked at all custom templates. Somehow (in the config.sys) this has happened (I do not know when):
* The creation date was broken: only the tag </creationDate> existed, while I am sure I created this complete.
* the tag for last update changed from <last_update> to <lastUpdate> in a dirty way, which leaves the config.sys with:

<last_update>2020-12-25 17:57:31</last_update>
<extends>vanilla</extends><lastUpdate>2021-12-19 17:11:01</lastUpdate></metadata>

It seems that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark...

Tammo

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2 years 11 months ago #226316 by jelo

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tammo wrote:
In the XML-file of the mother template I found:

Is this line missing the the extened theme? Than add it there too.

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<updaters disabled="disabled"></updaters>

The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users

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2 years 11 months ago #226317 by tammo

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Thank you. I did.

Is there any documentation on this config.xml and what is defined here?

Thanks in advance,

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2 years 11 months ago #226335 by jelo

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tammo wrote:
Is there any documentation on this config.xml and what is defined here?

I'm not aware of a clean documentation about config.xml and the changes made between LS3 and LS5.
Infos about config.xml are scattered around because it's also used in Plugins and QuestionThemes. The LimeStore seems to use data too.

Since LimeSurvey version 4.0.0, there's a system in place to deal with plugin and other extension updates. To use this system, your extension config.xml file needs to include
updater configuration.

The info you're looking for can be found here:
www.limesurvey.org/manual/Plugins_-_adva...ates_.28New_in_4_.29

If you don't want to supply an updater, you should put the following text in your config XML file:<updaters disabled="disabled">
</updaters>

The meaning of the word "stable" for users
www.limesurvey.org/forum/development/117...ord-stable-for-users

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2 years 11 months ago - 2 years 11 months ago #226341 by tammo

Replied by tammo on topic Error when updating

Thank you, I was not aware of this page that you are referring to.
It is good to know that the config.xml of a theme also may have consequences for plugins, I had never before heard that. I would expect that that would lie in the config.php, since that configures the application and config.xml in the theme configure the theme.

I wonder what I would have to build to define an update for a theme that has no place in the LimeStore and which is not on Github, since it is a custom theme for a specific client.

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2 years 11 months ago #226342 by DenisChenu

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off-topic, who is this guy ?

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2 years 11 months ago #226343 by tammo

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By the way, I was set on the wrong foot, since LS now talks about "Extensions", which seems to be a container for: [Plugins, Themes, ...]

Time for a clear LimeSurvey language page. It was already confusing for users when we changed "templates to" "themes" and "Expression manager" to "Expression script". Not to speak about confusion in the interface of LimeSurvey and the manual.

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2 years 11 months ago - 2 years 11 months ago #226351 by holch

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Time for a clear LimeSurvey language page. It was already confusing for users when we changed "templates to" "themes" and "Expression manager" to "Expression script". Not to speak about confusion in the interface of LimeSurvey and the manual.

Yeah, you got to love these changes without a clear communication to the community.

I noticed that now "relevance equation" is called "conditions". Figure that. Now you don't know if they used the "condition designer" or if the wrote their "relevance equation" - ehhhh, sorry - "condition" themselves.

So you explain people that it is far better to write your own "relevance equation" instead of "conditions" and you just get a blank (virtual) stare, because they have never heard of "relevance equations" and it is no where to be found in the GUI either...