[Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

Julian Tenney Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk
Fri Jul 13 13:00:44 BST 2012


It might have been me if the two places are one for normal setup, the other for xampp, because I remember changing that, but only in one place.

I don't know the answer to 2.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 13 July 2012 10:55
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

Actually there's possibly another bug too....

I changed and committed \setup\basic.sql line 69 so that multiple perspectives and media interactions are set to inactive however I was then going to change \languages\en-GB\setup\basic.sql in a similar way and noticed that line 57 of this file doesn't insert multiple perspectives or media interactions at all. This raises to questions...

1. should the two files be identical
2. When doing a new install should it be using \languages\en-GB\setup\basic.sql rather than \setup\basic.sql at the moment it seems to be using the latter

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat Lockley
Sent: 13 July 2012 10:39
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

log it as a bug
On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 10:36 AM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk<mailto:ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk>> wrote:
Yes it's a quick change to change \languages\en-GB\setup\basic.sql so that the two templates are inactive. I'll do that shortly.

What's not so quick and I'm not really sure where to look/fix is that visiting managemnt.php and then central templates and trying to change active to inactive doesn't work e.g. for existing installs to hide the templates. Changing the value of who can access from * does work as does changing active to 0 direct in the database.



From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 13 July 2012 10:07
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

Leave the folders, because then existing content (although I don't think there is very much) will still work.

I noted yesterday to make sure only the Toolkits and RSS feeds should be in the new build.

Can you attend to this please?

Fay has been through all the templates and made a list of issues: I'm going to work on as much as I can next week when I have some time: there are some that won't be easy for me to fix, so it would be good to have some help on the php stuff: I think the publish thing is the main one.

That giving templates issue Adam just mentioned would be good to fix as well.

The other area where there is quite a bit to do, is to put all those button label properties etc into the language or advanced or whatever it is checkbox. I'm surprised this wasn't done, I thought that's why I made those modifications to the engine? Am I missing something here?

This was my list of stuff that isn't related to templates:

Management.php
==============
Giving templates

Setup
=====
Documentation up to date?
Demo txt error on setup
Media Interactions and Multiple Perspectives still part of Xampp install - should be just the toolkit and rss feed (think this is just xampp)
Warn xampp users about losing work? Or migrate existing projects?

General
=======
Publish button and process doesn't seem quite right

Workspace
=========
Folder / nested content indented too far in the workspace, looks odd?
Deleting folder: prompt contains <IMG tag
Should we allow the user to force a folder delete when full of LOs?

Properties Panel
================
Export gives scrambled text .rlt file if not published. Can't we prevent export unless the file is published, or prompt the user to publish?
Exporting before publishing gives an LO with a scrambled title
Where do export files come from - are they updated with latest svn files?
Properties -> RSS feeds wrapping badly for the check boxes
Export JMOL folder?
Publish button in Publish panels.

Wizard
======
Click maximise window size in editor: can't minimise, seems to fire up publish process?
Maximise window prompts 'publish?'
Wizard: should optional properties be A-Z

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 13 July 2012 10:01
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

I've just tested a fresh install using the latest svn code and multiple perspectives and media interactions are still active and shown on a new install - I'm guessing that \languages\en-GB\setup\basic.sql got replaced at some point without the change you made?

Also \modules\xerte\parent_templates still contains all of the following:
               biochemistry
               Draw
               GEN
               Hotspots
               mediaInteractions
               multipersp
               Nottingham
               Numcalc
               Pbl
               Presentation

Should some of these be removed?

HTH
Ron

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 30 April 2012 13:47
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

I've done it for new installs. Old installs can keep them if they want...

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
Sent: 30 April 2012 09:52
To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

Set active to 0 in originaltemplatedetails for those two templates.

I guess this can be changed in the .sql scripts for new installs and admin's of existing installs can change to inactive via the management page.

From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
Sent: 30 April 2012 09:42
To: For Xerte technical developers
Subject: [Xerte-dev] Remove Multiple Perspectives and Media Interactions

How to remove the two templates from the site? We don't need them anymore, though will leave the files in to support old projects, and over the top upgrades will still show them in the panel (I guess they are in the database somewhere?).

Multiple perspectives is now a page in the main template, and media Interactions has all its functionality available in the main template too.


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