[LON-CAPA-admin] Republish Course Content?

[Raymond Batchelor]

Hmm.
I don't truly know, but I am wondering if in the "Course Editor" you select the tab 'Content Utilities" and try the 'Adminstration' option 'Verify Content' and/or the option 'Check/Set Resource Versions'.
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From: Young, Joyce E <young257 at purdue.edu>
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-->All,                We had an incident where our library server was not communicating with our application servers for a time. Users were all logging into the library server and all seemed fine until the library server got overloaded, we saw
 what was happening, and got all servers communicating again.                During the time when activity was only happening on the library server, some course problems were edited and republished. When we re-connected all servers and students were then re-routed to the application servers, we learned
 that the students were not seeing the updated problem versions. The updated problems were not pushed to the application servers as they would have been during normal circumstances.                We found that if the problems were re-published, once all servers were connected, then the version push happened as it should. To rectify our issue, we went in and manually republished any problems that were edited during
 the “dark” period.                Is there an easier way to handle this situation if it should happen again? Is there a way to “refresh” a whole course, re-publishing any content currently used in that course? Could we have just copied the affected .problem
 and .problem.meta files from the library server over to the application servers?                The authorspace directories that we pull from have unpublished resources in them (works in progress), so republishing at the directory level wouldn’t work for us. Any advice or ideas would be appreciated. We don’t expect
 this to happen again, but it would be nice to have a plan in place in case it does.                                                                                                Thanks,                                                                                                                Joyce Young Joyce Young

Programmer/Analyst

ITAS - Student Systems Competency Center 

Purdue University

3495 Kent Avenue, Suite 100

West Lafayette, IN 47906

Phone: (765) 427-6340

Fax: (765) 464-2233 

Campus Mail: ROSSyoung257 at purdue.edu 

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Raymond J. Batchelor, PhD.
Department of Chemistry
Simon Fraser University

Phone: 778-782-5635
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