Does anyone have a good way to copy Project Solutions between Teams?
Here’s what I’m doing now:
create my projects within a “Canonical” team
create the solutions in the Canonical team project
copy the project to the actual class teams using “Copy Project”
For each project in each class team, click “Create Solution” and copy / paste a bunch of times from the Canonical solution.
This is pretty annoying! If there’s a workflow tip or a feature I’m missing, I’m all ears. If I’m doing the currently-optimal thing, maybe this is an opportunity for the feature to improve?
Right - when I use that feature, the project gets copied, but not the solution, which is why I have to go and click “Create Solution” for each of those projects…
Creating a separate solution project like in the ‘Create project solutions’ video would probably work, but then it doesn’t get to use all the fancy “Solutions” features that are more recent - give students access when they submit, etc.
It’s just kind of a bummer that the solutions feature is not really ready for prime-time yet - the UI around it still feels hacked on instead of built in.
To restate so that I’m sure I understand: by design, solutions ought to be copied when Projects are copied. They currently are not, and that’s a bug that engineering will (eventually) fix?
Related to project copying - forking from a TFE project doesn’t work (little pink error box that says to check out pricing). This is probably an issue with TFE projects getting designated as ‘private repls’ in effect, since they have different kinds of permissions than normal repls. Still, seems very weird to have a non-working ‘fork’ button in the UI, when there’s a perfectly good “Copy Project” button back on the team home page, which is basically what I want in that spot in the UI anyways.
(should this be a new topic? still getting used to the Discourse)
