README.md

SyncMeta - Near real-time collaborative modeling framework

General information

For explanations, presentations, demos and links to modeling sandboxes and other stuff please visit the SyncMeta homepage.

Build steps

1. Make sure to have npm, bower and grunt installed
   • Use your favorite package manager or grab npm from here
   • Use npm to install bower: npm install -g bower
   • Use npm to first install grunt-cli and then grunt itself: npm install -g grunt-cli grunt
2. Install development dependencies: npm install
3. Install dependencies: bower install
4. Copy .localGruntConfig.json.sample and name it .localGruntConfig.json
5. Copy .dbis.secret.json.sample and name it .dbis.secret.json (or update Gruntfile.js accordingly)
6. Change baseUrl in .localGruntConfig.json to the deployment url
7. Run grunt build to build the widgets.

Library Documentation

Widgets

• Canvas widget The model canvas
• Palette widget Palette of elements that can be put on the canvas widget
• Activity widget Widget that gives awareness of activities of other users
• Attribute widget Edit model attributes
• Export widget Export the design to JSON.
• IMSLD Export widget Export the design as ZIP (in the IMSLD format) or link the design to ILDE
• Instancelist widget List all generated instances.
• Generate Instance widget Generate a new SyncMeta instance.

Deploy

In order to deploy SyncMeta to http://role-sandbox.eu/spaces/syncmeta, you have to push your latest changes to the gh-pages github branch. (See github pages for explanation)

Attention!, Please be aware that any changes you commit to the gh-pages branch will affect all ROLE spaces that link to widget definitions in this branch. Therefore only push very goodly tested commits to gh-pages.

Test Space for the Thesis

Link to the syncmeta view test space.