[Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
Pat L (pgogy)
xerte at pgogywebstuff.com
Wed Jun 25 17:37:30 BST 2014
Sorry, slow list is putting me out of sync (no pun intended)
John is correct.
The only issue is if the PHP is threaded maybe and isn't waiting for
functions to end? But I assume this isn't the case.
You could try creating lots of new templates and see how often it occurs.
Does management.php give you scope to create a template as them?
I guess it doesn't cause problems with any file system since?
Are the logging on in the UK? Over a VPN?
On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Smith, John <J.J.Smith at gcu.ac.uk> wrote:
> I think what Pat is saying confirms that it can only be synchronous.
>
> You click new and give it a name
>
> An ajax call is made to new_template
>
> When it returns with an id then that id is used to instruct the editor
> which LO to open.
>
> By the time the id returns, data.xml and media/ should be copied. Edit
> looks to see if there is a preview.xml and if not then it copies data.xml
> to preview.xml and then loads preview.xml
>
> 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:
>
>
> No, no weird templates, it’s Nottingham for sure.
>
> I’m sure what you say answers my question ‘is it synchronous or not?’ But
> I don’t know whether it means ‘yes’ or ‘no’.
>
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat L (pgogy)
> Sent: 25 June 2014 16:47
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: preview.xml not created
>
> 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<mailto: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> [mailto:
> 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
>
> Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:
> hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk> where one of the School Learning Technologists will
> pick up the job. This will ensure that all jobs are completed as promptly
> as possible.
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto: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> [mailto:
> 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
>
> Please address ALL support requests to hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk<mailto:
> hlsblt at gcu.ac.uk> where one of the School Learning Technologists will
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> as possible.
> ________________________________________
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> [
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
> xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>] On Behalf Of Julian Tenney [
> Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>]
> Sent: 25 June 2014 14:27
> To: For Xerte technical developers (xerte-dev at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> <mailto: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> [mailto:
> 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> [mailto:
> 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
> <mailto:Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk>> wrote:
> >
> > Why only for one user?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<mailto:
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> > [mailto: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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