[Designer] Version Restriction

[jeffhoang]

Platform

• JavaScript

Version of SDK

1.1

Version of Adaptive Cards Designer

0.7.1

Issue / Feature Request

Is there a way to restrict the adaptive cards designer to only support a certain adapative cards version? We're still on version 1.1 and don't want our developers to use features beyond this.

[matthidinger]

Thanks for the feedback. This is something that is being worked on, hopefully we'll have it finished it shortly. In the mean time, can you try this code to at least restrict items from the toolbar?

let designer = new ACDesigner.CardDesigner(hostContainers);
Adaptive.AdaptiveCard.elementTypeRegistry.unregisterType("RichTextBlock");
ACDesigner.CardDesignerSurface.cardElementPeerRegistry.unregisterPeer(Adaptive.RichTextBlock);
 
Adaptive.AdaptiveCard.elementTypeRegistry.unregisterType("ActionSet");
ACDesigner.CardDesignerSurface.cardElementPeerRegistry.unregisterPeer(Adaptive.ActionSet);
 
designer.attachTo(document.getElementById("designerRootHost"));
 
Adaptive.AdaptiveCard.actionTypeRegistry.unregisterType("Action.ToggleVisibility");
    ACDesigner.CardDesignerSurface.actionPeerRegistry.unregisterPeer(Adaptive.ToggleVisibilityAction);

[shalinijoshi19]

@dclaux, can this be closed now?

[dclaux]

@shalinijoshi19 no, there is still a lot to do to actually make the designer version aware. What Matt suggests above is a way to de-register elements, but that doesn't fully solve the problem.

[shalinijoshi19]

Thanks; Do we have a quick one-pager/spec consolidating the versioning requirements we are targeting for the designer?

[dclaux]

We don't. By the time I have a PR for the feature, I will open an issue with a description of what it entails. But it's fairly simple:

• Designer has a version selector
• Cards are parsed per the selected version (e.g. don't parse the "minHeight" property if selected version isn't 1.2 or greater)
• Cards are serialized to JSON per the selected version (e.g. don't serialize the "minHeight" property if selected version isn't 1.2 or greater)
• Property sheet only shows properties that existed in the selected version
• Toolbox only shows elements that were available in selected version

[shalinijoshi19]

Thanks. I've also captured this to the internal OneNote I'd created for tracking.

[ghost]

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had any activity for 5 days.