CheckIt to Overleaf

[AbbyANoble]

Poking around in our new exercise bank. I built an assignment with just FN1, and then opened in overleaf. The images are not showing up. (cue sad trombone)

[StevenClontz]

This is a known lacking in CheckIt - you have to manually upload images.

[StevenClontz]

And it ain't slick: you need to download each file from the preview page, then upload it to the right place in Overleaf

[AbbyANoble]

Woof. Good to know.

[AbbyANoble]

Consider this my feature request. 😂

[siwelwerd]

Why is this hard? We send images over with the RATs in one link just fine.

[StevenClontz]

I don't think there's a way to send images to a subdirectory in Overleaf

[siwelwerd]

If you zip everything up into one file then it respects the directory structure. E.g. https://www.overleaf.com/docs?snip_uri=https://drew-lewis.com/files/PR-RAT.zip

[StevenClontz]

Hmm. I cannot dynamically zip everything and make it available at a URL like that (as a client-side app). But I could zip everything, make it downloadable by the user, who can then re-upload it to Overleaf. https://www.overleaf.com/learn/how-to/Uploading_a_project

[StevenClontz]

That will require releasing a new checkit version. I think that's plausible, along with fixing a few bugs I've hotfixed in this repo.

[StevenClontz]

("outtro" will remain misspelled tho)

[siwelwerd]

But I could zip everything, make it downloadable by the user, who can then re-upload it to Overleaf

That seems reasonable. Folks can choose their LaTeX editor that way. Should we transfer this over to the Checkit repo?