Republishing repeatedly - what you need to know
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Binary110,
Posted on: 2009-05-06 20:53 in Mission Architect
Where are you seeing ratings? I'm kinda confused here. I tried exporting from the published version to a local copy, but there's nothing in the storyarc file that's related to the ratings.
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Where are you seeing ratings? I'm kinda confused here. I tried exporting from the published version to a local copy, but there's nothing in the storyarc file that's related to the ratings.
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I'm sorry, let me clarify.
Under the "My Creations" tab is "Published Arcs". That shows the ratings your published arc has received -- and those ratings can be different from the ones found under a global search for it. But that's the place you go to Edit a published arc, and it highlights the desync between the actual live version and the version on your machine.
I believe it's just an in-memory thing and it would clear up if you closed and reopened CoH also, but I didn't test the problem enough in-depth to verify that -- I just did a public search, then back to the "My Creations" version and it fixed it up.
I haven't experienced this myself, but it doesn't surprise me. When you do a search, you're downloading those 15, 100k files from the Architect server to your local computer. It's the same for when you're looking at your published missions in the "my published missions" tab. When you re-publish an arc, it goes directly to the architect server, but as you said, the search window still shows the old versions that you downloaded when you opened the tab. You have to click the search button to redownload the current version. And you can use the search button on your my published mission instead of moving to the public search.
Note: This only affects you if you try editing more than once in a single session.
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And you can use the search button on your my published mission instead of moving to the public search.
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That's good to know, I'll edit my original post to reflect it.
Over the course of the weekend, I got my arc published. Then I started republishing it based on feedback I received, and ran into a problem.
Basically, when you edit an already published arc, you still end up with a local copy on your machine somewhere. It may just be in CoH memory, but it's stored. I'll describe what this looks like:
I went to My Creations, selected the published arc, and hit Edit. Made a couple minor changes. Published the arc. Waited until I received notification that it had been updated, went back to My Creations, hit Edit, and checked -- and my changes weren't there! This means if I had continued editting while believing it was current, I would revert the previous changes, because the in-memory version didn't have them.
Related, I was doing work on it and noticed that the local version had 4 ratings listed. A friend checked and found that the live version had 5 ratings listed. The local copy apparently includes the ratings -- this information is not always pulled from the server just because you opened the MA window fresh.
To fix this, do a search for your arc (Just be sure to hit the Search button so it downloads it again). You don't have to play it or anything. Then you can edit your arc, and it will be sync'ed with the live version.
I hope this will eventually be fixed (I15 maybe?) but until then, if you plan on editting further after republishing I strongly recommend taking these steps.