[Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard

Tue Apr 30 10:02:04 BST 2013

" Quite easy to do when you know how, perhaps we should have a wiki for
this and other stuff? "

There has been so much development over the last few months, it would be
really useful if some documentation was available to support developers who
want to create html5 pages.

I am thinking here of stuff like

   - how the xwd files work - structure and available controls, plus the
   need for unique naming of objects (though this perhaps should wait until
   the wizards are moved to html5)
   - XOT specific features - the project wide objects that are available
   and their attributes and methods,
   - Any guidelines to laying out a page
   - Pointers on how to make the page accessible
   - Some guide regarding scope - defining for project wide scope, page
   wide scope, finer levels of scope.
   - Perhaps a sample structure for a generic page model. With flash the
   xerte editor provided some structure, now that everything is written as
   code the structure is less obvious. A standard layout that makes it easier
   for someone reading the model code to understand what is going on, by
   breaking the code into sections and  into sections e.g. (this is off the
   top of my head and is only provided as a starting point - I am not well
   versed in html5 model design )

   1. Declare objects and methods
   2. Initialise variables and capture external xml data
   3. Set up page layout (page sections and css)
   4. Process data to arrive at initial display
   5. Event capture and response

   - Some models taken from those currently available going from the simple
   to the more complicated with clear annotation to provide worked examples to
   help the would be page developer.
   - Tips on how to debug your work.
   - Information on how to submit your new page template.

If any of the above gives the impression that I am groping about in the fog
a little here then the impression is probably correct :-) but I think you
will understand what I am trying to convey.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 30 April 2013 09:31, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:

> Yeah in the end that's what i did, added it to basic.xwd ran the .bat file
> yo build template.xwd, renamed to data.xwd and uploaded to svn. Tom then
> uploaded basic.xwd to the Xerte svn as i don't have write access to that so
> that it won't get removed if someone else does the same.
>
> Quite easy to do when you know how, perhaps we should have a wiki for this
> and other stuff?
>
> As for enabling by default, you might not want the user to be able to
> resume also i called resume as we might be able to make it resume in moodle
> without bookmarking for scorm or experience api purposes...
>
> It could work in flash too if we so wish in the same way that &page=xxx is
> fed in... But is it worth it?
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
> Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Add it as an optional property to the learningObject section of the xwd.
> Then the author can enable it, and the end user can make use of it. I think
> I got confused / distracted by the conversation about adding proeprties to
> each page, you don't need to do that in this case, right? Just one tick box
> for the author to say 'Enable bookmarking' and then if ticked, your code
> can run.
>
> As far as old LOs go, there aren't any HTML5 old ones as such - so you
> could push it in there and have it always on for HTML5 content without any
> wizard settings? I take it wouldn't work in the flash version (that's fine).
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 29 April 2013 21:47
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to
> wizard
>
> Too much confusing terminology....
>
> In my mind it needs added to the wizard so the creator can add it to the
> LO? Is the wizard not the editor?
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
> Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> So you only need to add it to the LO then?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 29 April 2013 12:13
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to
> wizard
>
> If you turn it on then it adds an extra resume=xxx parameter to the url.
> This can then be bookmarred to resume later...
>
> Regards
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health and Life Sciences
>
> Sent from Samsung Galaxy SII
>
>
>
> Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>
> This is going to be a property in the wizard? I'm not sure I follow... a
> property in the wizard for end users?
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Smith, John
> Sent: 26 April 2013 15:40
> To: xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Idiots guide wanted to add optional property to wizard
> Importance: High
>
> Hi,
>
> I have hashtag deeplinking working now in such a way that partway through
> a LO you can bookmark your page and return to that page at a later date. It
> appends the page number as a hash which overrides any other deeplinking
> options set. I'd like to get this checked in so that I can have a clear out
> of work-in-progress.
>
> I want to make this optional though so as not to affect any existing LOs.
>
> Can anyone tell me how you add optional properties to the wizard or point
> me in the general direction of any instructions? Any suggestions as to the
> name for this optional property also welcome or anything else that comes to
> mind?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith
> Learning Technologist
> School of Health & Life Sciences
> Glasgow Caledonian University
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