[Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created

Pat L (pgogy) xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Wed Jun 25 16:47:05 BST 2014


new template.php ends in a ajax call to the editor, so it's not one block
of PHP but one process. New template ends, echoes out a template id, which
the ajax gets, and then fires off the editor.

If the editor isn't working, I am suspecting it might be the template is
weird? Is it definitely Nottingham? Not one of the old mediainteraction
ones or something?


On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Julian Tenney <
Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:

> Data.xml is being created, but what seems to fail is the editor opening.
> Media folder is being created too.
>
> So it's the process of opening the editor that creates preview.xml?
>
> Come to think about it, I had issues myself in the same building on
> Monday. I just refreshed the workspace and I was in business, didn't really
> think about it.
>
> I found another user with the same problem: returning to the workspace
> later, his projects are all there and editable now.
>
> Some sort of timing issue? The editor opening and data.xml hasn't been
> created yet, so nothing to copy?
>
> -----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: 25 June 2014 16:09
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> Popup blocker doesn't usually stop preview.xml being copied, or at least
> it's never affected me like that before... plus wouldn't the popup blocker
> work for others too?
>
> Edit checks for the existence of preview.xml and either opens it or copies
> the blank
>
>
> https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/f5ad19b03ed2c76ac29cbcd0ec5199360dc61d6a/modules/xerte/edit.php#L47
>
> There are a few checks beforehand though that could error out (like
> below). Check the response in Google Chrome to see if any errors are being
> sent back i suppose:
>
>     if(empty($row_username)) {
>         die("Invalid user id ?");
>     }
>
> and
>
>     if(!file_exists($preview) && file_exists($data)){
>         copy($data, $preview);
>         chmod($preview, 0777);
>     }
>
> So it looks like data.xml needs to be there which comes from the
> Nottingham template. Is data.xml being created in the folder? And a media
> folder to hold the multimedia?
>
> If not then it looks like this is failing
>
>
> https://github.com/thexerteproject/xerteonlinetoolkits/blob/f5ad19b03ed2c76ac29cbcd0ec5199360dc61d6a/modules/site/new_template.php#L76
>
> It puts some debug messages into the logs so you might like to check there
> to see if anything shows up...
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>
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> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 25 June 2014 15:51
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> No, preview is not created. I think this is maybe to do with popup
> blocker, so edit never opens.
>
> What order do things happen in when a project is created?
>
> -----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: 25 June 2014 15:47
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> If the user creates a new LO and edit opens then do you see the blank,
> default preview.xml being copied into in the newly created USER-FILES
> folder?
>
> Regards,
>
> John Smith | Learning Technologist
> Room A250, Govan Mbeki Building | School of Health & Life Sciences |
> Glasgow Caledonian University Cowcaddens Road | Glasgow | G4 0BA
>
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> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk]
> Sent: 25 June 2014 14:27
> To: For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk)
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> We have only one of these usernames, dating from 2006, so predates
> toolkits, and not a duplicate.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tenney Julian
> Sent: 25 June 2014 12:38
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: RE: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> No, that looks right. At least the folder has the correct user name in it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney
> Sent: 25 June 2014 12:04
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> I'll check that. I didn't notice anything obvious though...
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron Mitchell
> Sent: 25 June 2014 12:00
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> My hunch would be a username issue - check username matches the folders
> being created including case sensitivity?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On 25 Jun 2014, at 11:00, Julian Tenney <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > Why only for one user?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> > [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of David
> > Goodwin
> > Sent: 25 June 2014 11:00
> > To: For Xerte technical developers
> > Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
> >
> > I have a feeling XOT may be mixing up it's saving of preview.xml and
> > data.xml - in that it saves data.xml when it should save preview.xml
> > etc
> >
> > David.
> >
> >> On 25/06/14 10:58, Julian Tenney wrote:
> >> Got a user here who logs in, tries to create a LO, but preview .xml
> >> isn't being created: consequently the editor has no LO icon in it
> >> when it loads up. Other users on same computer work fine. Any idea
> >> what's going on?
> >>
> >> cid:image004.jpg at 01CF905F.BC2E7D90
> >>
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