NarraFirma v1.0.0

This is a major release of the software. Improvements are in four major areas:

• More graphs of more types to better support pattern detection
• Better importing of CSV data, to work better with other means of collecting stories
• Improved interface and colors for better usability
• Custom CSS to make surveys and outputs look the way you want them to

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v1.0.0.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma

Release 0.9.8

This is a "prettifying" release. The lists of pages on project phase pages (like Planning, Collection, etc) are now separated into groups with headings. This should help to avoid the "there are so many pages here" problem in Planning and Collection. Also, all of those page links now have popup hints (hover over the page link) so people can remember what the pages are about.

Also, exports of the story form, story cards, and catalysis report have been cleaned up and made nicer looking.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.8.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma

NarraFirma 0.9.7

This release contains three major changes.

1. Most importantly, the release has a fix for a bug that caused data entered (in a survey or during data entry) to be garbled for questions with multiple checkboxes. Instead of saving an array, NarraFirma attempted to save a text string. That meant that data for those questions was lost. Sorry :( This did not impact data imported from CSV.
2. The release adds functionality to support a "Does not apply" non-answer for sliders (scales). Now there is a check box under the slider, which starts out checked. When the user grabs the slider button and drags it, the box gets unchecked. To remove their slider value, they can check the box again. What it says on the box can be configured by adding a third line to the slider options. Some reasonable choices are "I don't know" and "Not sure" and "It's not important to this story".
3. There are also some improvements to usability and appearance in the "Review incoming stories" and "Explore patterns" screens.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.7.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma

NarraFirma 0.9.6

This release sanitizes a parameter supplied by user used in WordPress plugin SQL select. Current WordPress users should install this new version.

This release also improves TypeScript typings to compile under TSC 1.6.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.6.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma

NarraFirma 0.9.5

Fixes issue with Node.js login under Windows and improves README documentation about setup.

No changes were made that affect the WordPress plugin, so use the previous pre-built release in v0.9.4 for WordPress.

NarraFirma 0.9.4

This release fixes an issue with WordPress plugin surveys not being updated or disabled.
It also uses a "NarraFirma" namespace in PHP for the WordPress plugin.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.4.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma-on-your-local-computer/

NarraFirma 0.9.3

This version fixes GitHub issue #4. It makes some cosmetic changes, most notably to improve the labels for sliders for use with narrow mobile screens to be clear about which label is low and which is high. It also adds a readme.txt file needed to include NarraFirma in the official WordPress plugin archive.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.3.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma-on-your-local-computer/

NarraFirma 0.9.2

This version improves JavaScript library bundling and startup progress reporting.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.2.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more installation instructions: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma-on-your-local-computer/

NarraFirma 0.9.1

The major change from the previous beta version is bundling JavaScript files together to reduce loading time by using the requirejs optimizer.

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.1.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

See this link for more details: https://narrafirma.com/home/setting-up-narrafirma-on-your-local-computer/

NarraFirma 0.9.0

To use the WordPress version, you upload the WordPress plugin zip file (narrafirma-wordpress-plugin-v0.9.0.zip) directly into WordPress from the plugins section of a running WordPress installation. You can download that plugin zip file from the following link for this release. Be aware that zip file is a different file than the entire source code in narrafirma.zip. After you install the plugin, you will need to create a project from the NarraFirma plugin panel and specify what users have read or write permissions for the project.

The other option for running NarraFirma involves running it under Node.js. For that, you just install Node.js, unzip the entire source from narrafirma.zip, and go to the server directory in the unzipped source file, and startup the server using directions there in "readme_server.txt". There is a small amount of configuration needed in that case to set the superuser password for NarraFirma using a command line tool. You can do that via "npm admin.js" then within that, "update-superuser". Then create your first project using the NarraFirma administration tool in your web browser logged in as superuser.

The GUI for the main NarraFirma application under Node.js is identical to the one under WordPress. However there are differences for the project configuration administration GUI which runs as a separate application.