v3.19.0-beta0

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Version 3.19.0 of Gameboard contains new features, enhancements, architectural optimizations, and bug fixes.

New features

• Gameboard now supports configuration of multiple hosts for external games (resolves Per-game external game hosts #410).
  • Hosts can be added, edited, or deleted from the Game Editor screen
  • Hosts can be reused across games
  • External hosts currently only support x-api-key header authentication
• New report: Site Usage (resolves New report: Site Usage #311)
  • Gives a high-level overview of user activity in the app, optionally constrained by sponsor and date range
  • This report is not exportable, as it's really a more general and digestible view of data contained in the Challenges report.
  • Where applicable, each statistic also has a modal view which gives greater detail about the data represented (e.g. active players, challenges attempted, etc.)
• A button has been added to each ticket activity entry which allows one-click copying of the text (resolves Ticket activity - one click copy #433)
• Alpha-level support has been added for admin-level manual deployment of game resources
  • Admins can predeploy all challenges for any enrolled player with a default expiration time determined by the game engine. Gamespace expiration times are adjusted to the desired session length when the player's session begins.
  • Gameboard's Admin -> Challenges tab will correctly represent these challenges as predeployed, but it does not currently display this information elsewhere. Usability refinements will be added in a future release.
• Alpha support has been added for simple integration between Gameboard and Mattermost's "bot" API. Related UI changes, expanded configuration, and more flexibility will come to this feature over time.

Enhancements

• The "unattempted [challenges]" label in the new scoreboard has been changed to read "remaining" for clarity.
• A team manager is now called "Captain" in Gameboard.
• The user experience of team invite generation has been improved slightly.
• Many "loading" animations in Gameboard now have descriptive text about the loading process (e.g. "Loading the game...")
• Additional loading animations have been added for certain longer-running actions (e.g. player enrollment)
• The Deployment view for external games now shows each team's assigned remote host if it has one.
• Challenge consoles now receive a default name if one isn't specified by the developer.

Architecture & Stability

• Gameboard's game launch and resource deployment pipeline has been revamped to improve its stability, performance, and maintainability.

Bug fixes

• Options in the "Games" filter in the Reports module now sort alphabetically.
• Resolved an issue that caused Practice Area certificates to fail to render in some cases.
• Resolved an issue that caused the nav bar to fail to properly "sticky" to the top of the window
• Resolved an issue that caused subscriptions to the scoreboard's feed to fail to dispose when navigating away from it.
• Resolved an issue that prevented admins from adding team-level manual bonuses for teams who had not started a session