Hi to all Buzztouch Admins. As one of the best functions of the "old" buzztouch, the Live/Design Mode still doesnt work, I would like to know if this is ever going to change or if it died for good? Not working for months now, so just curious if we can count on this coming back or not. An official answer would be very much appreciated. Leon

I'm not sure I know about this one. What's the issue exactly?

It's been working fine for me with the BT v3 code. Mark

Wrote about it first time here and others seem to have the problem too: https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=40F5CB434CF8AF24E8450E5 On v2 I didnt have that problem, but on v3 live mode does not work anymore. You on self hosted Mark? Weird!

I get the same thing. For example, I have published my most recent app for Android and Apple and the published config.txt is the 'live' one. I make a small change to the home menu, I don't click 'publish changes' and yet the app updates when I refresh the data, both IOS and Android. Tested today.

Okay - I just confirmed the bug. Here's a fix. Look in the BT_loadConfigDataViewController.m file, around line 178. You should see: //ask the app to parse this config data... [appDelegate.rootApp parseJSONData:[self configData]]; Immediately after that line, add this: //set currentMode status according to the bundled config file NSString *bundledConfigData = @""; if([BT_fileManager doesFileExistInBundle:[self configurationFileName]]){ bundledConfigData = [BT_fileManager readTextFileFromBundleWithEncoding:[self configurationFileName] encodingFlag:-1]; SBJsonParser *parser = [SBJsonParser new]; id jsonData = [parser objectWithString:bundledConfigData]; if (jsonData) { if([[jsonData objectForKey:@"BT_appConfig"] objectForKey:@"BT_items"]){ NSArray *tmpItems = [[jsonData objectForKey:@"BT_appConfig"] objectForKey:@"BT_items"]; if([tmpItems count] < 1){ [BT_debugger showIt:self message:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"the BT_items array is empty?%@", @""]]; }else{ NSDictionary *thisApp = [tmpItems objectAtIndex:0]; if([thisApp objectForKey:@"currentMode"]){ if([[thisApp objectForKey:@"currentMode"] length] > 0){ [appDelegate setCurrentMode:[thisApp objectForKey:@"currentMode"]]; }else{ [appDelegate setCurrentMode:@"design"]; } } } } } } //report to cloud (not all apps do this, dataURL and reportToCloudURL required)... if([[appDelegate.rootApp dataURL] length] > 1 && [[appDelegate.rootApp reportToCloudURL] length] > 1){ [appDelegate reportToCloud]; }

Chris is the man! I'm on BT.com, for what it's worth. Mark

Pretty swift Chris, pretty swift. Btw, I'm on self hosted. Tell me, do these fixes get rolled out to us & if so, how, or do I need to patch my own code for a while? Alan

Doesn't matter if you're on self-hosted or not - this is purely contained within the Xcode project. Not sure when David will update the core project to include this fix - I'm guessing it will be after Buzzcon though. Too much going on until then!

Thx Chris, will test it on my next update! Appreciate it!

BTW, I just noticed that on BT 3.0, both Android and IOS are affected, my updates go out without me hitting 'publish' on both apps.

Chris, do you have some code for Android too? Releasing an android app now and would gladly have the Live/Design Mode working here as well :-)

@Chris1 - THANK YOU for this - I finally have live/design mode correctly for the first time ever

Where is this file? on self hosted, i cannot find it. BT_loadConfigDataViewController.m

It's in your Xcode project

ok thanks, but so this will only work for iOS?

Correct and it's not really working now for some reason. I started a thread awhile ago and I haven't found a fix yet. I have a new app with this fix and my design changes show up in the live app Dave

Is there a fix to this yet please? I have applied the code modification chris1 has produced, but it has no effect. I am using the NAD advanced quiz and anytime I make a change it becomes immediately available to the live app even though I have not published the change. "Live" is set in the bundled config file. Can anyone help please.

Did you ever see a fix for this Norfolk?

Sorry, no answer to this one yet.

Haven't found a fix yet. There was a big announcement today about an all new Buzztouch though. Maybe the fix is coming with the new Buzztouch Dave

Did anyone get a chance to try this one yet? https://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=6B929DD9BEA427FE2EB276E&fid=06DB0BCB08E2222&sortColumn=FT.id&sortUpDown=&currentPage=1

I did try it. Published an update. The first few new devices registered live and push went out ok. Now I'm seeing devices register in design mode. Don't know why. Dave