Force a server installation to show auto-update option

rward

I'm a user/admin on our jatos server. That is to say, I'm an experimental psychologist and not any kind of system admin, but I have the role of admin on our jatos server to ease the load on IT. I'm really only comfortable with the GUI.

We're on jatos 3.3.5, I believe. (I've been trying to verify that, but can't see any version information on the GUI.)

I'd like to update using the auto-update version. I've been logging on repeatedly as admin, I've seen the 'would you like to update' screen only once, and didn't choose it then (I wanted to check with the other user).

Is there a way to force the update screen to appear?

Thank you for any help,

Rob

kri

Hi Rob,

That is strange. The update button should appear automatically on Linux/Unix/MacOS computers. However you can enforce it by using the version query parameter, e.g. for an update to version 3.5.3 you'd have to put https://my.jatos.domain/jatos?version=v3.5.3 into your browser's address bar. But be careful with the version, JATOS doesn't check them, so you could easily install a non-functional pre-release if you put the wrong one.

Best,

Kristian

rward

Thank you! I've been using Firefox. I tried the version parameter and nothing. I tried it in Safari and worked first time.

rward

HA! Problem solved!

The issue was simply that my browser window was too narrow. When I happened to enlarge my firefox window (which was previously showing nothing) then the verison information and update button appeared (although they were now out of date as I had already updated in Safari).

Sorry for that!

kri

Ah, that makes sense :)