[Xerte-dev] Re: Connectors and xwds

[Tom Reijnders]

Yes, I thought so to, but I wanted to verify.

One way or another we (Jonathan and I) will  sort this one out.

Tom

Op 5-4-2013 17:24, Kemp Johnathan schreef:
> The xwd files with the _XOT addition are not just for Xerte Online 
> Toolkits, they are also for use in projects that are of the Page 
> Templates type (they use an rlt rather than an rlo file).
>
> The _XOT xwds use the pagelist control as a full list of pages in the 
> project can be derived from the single project xml file. This 
> information is not available for desktop Xerte projects that use an 
> .rlo file so they have to resort to the original approach of the user 
> defining a page ID for each page that they want to connect to, and 
> then using that page ID when specifying the connection in the 
> connector pages form.
>
> The automatic xwd builder i.e. the script that builds template.xwd (or 
> data.xwd) should only build a single xwd file that uses the version of 
> the xwds that are appropriate to XOt / page templates projects. Where 
> there are two versions of the xwd file e.g. cMcq.xwd and cMcq_XOT.xwd 
> the builder script should be able to identify which files to exclude 
> by the existence of an attribute in the top level <wizard > tag
>
> desktop Xerte only xwds contain
> <wizard restrict="develop" >
>
> XOT / page templates only xwds contain
> <wizard restrict="template" >
>
> I hope this clears things up.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnathan
>
> On 5 April 2013 14:38, Fay Cross <Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk 
> <mailto:Fay.Cross at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
>
>     Hello
>
>     I've just finished converting the connector pages to HTML5 and a
>     few issues have come up with the xwds.  The connector pages are
>     supposed to give different options in the wizard depending on
>     whether you're using desktop or xot.  In the xerte svn there are
>     two xwds for each connector page (e.g. cMcq.xwd and cMcq_XOT.xwd)
>     reflecting these differences.  When you build template.xwd it uses
>     the desktop versions (e.g. cMcq.xwd) but this is the file that's
>     then copied over to the toolkits svn when any xwd changes are made.
>
>     So, is it possible to have the automatic xwd builder create two
>     xwds? One that works as it does now and the other that uses files
>     ending in _XOT if there is one (this one is the one to copy over
>     to the toolkits svn).  Or are the differences between the two
>     versions of xwds for connectors actually important?  Am I just
>     getting extra options in xot that don't do anything or am I
>     missing out on important options too? Is it likely to cause
>     confusion if it's left as it is?
>
>     Fay
>
>
>
>
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