<div><font>I have considered how to implement the ability to route pages for some time now. Part of the problem has been the lack of a suitable identifier for each page that could be set within an xwd form. In page wizards I used the "name" field of the page icon, but this is not definable from an xwd form. </font></div>
<div><font><br></font></div><div><font>In pageTemplates projects the xwd defined name value is used as the page title and there is no way to set the page Icon name property. The page title is a bad candidate as a unique identifier as its main function is to be a a page title making it potentially lengthy, potentially liable to change, possibly even unique and probably more prone to error in typing when referring to it as a page destination.</font></div>
<div><font><br></font></div><div><font>As part of the move to individual page templates I am including in every xwd file an optional property pageID the purpose of which is to act solely as an identifier to enable other pages to locate it in the project.</font><font><br>
</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>I have a number of page wizards that I will be converting to individual page templates that offer routing i.e. the ability to specify a target page which the user will be taken to on completing an action e.g. making a selection from a multiple choice question, clicking on a link in some text etc. These will use the new pageID property.</font></div>
<div><font><br></font></div><div><font>This is achieved by using the following code.</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>In the rlm file's getPageID script the following opening is used for any page that offers routing<br>
</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>if (extXML == undefined){ // Page Wizard <br> pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.extXML.toObject();<br> pageIcon.templateData = pageIcon.templateData.pageWizard[0];<br>
<br> // routed pages only<br> pageID_array = new Array();<br> for (i = 0; i < rootIcon.pages.length; i++){<br> pageID_array.push(rootIcon.pages[i].extXML.firstChild.childNodes[0].attributes.pageID);<br>
}<br> <br>} else { // Toolkits <br> myXML = new XML(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[rootIcon.getPageIndex() - pgOffset]);<br> pageIcon.templateData = myXML.toObject();<br> rootIcon.setTitleText(templateData.learningObject[0].name);<br>
<br> // routed pages only<br> pageID_array = new Array(); <br> for (i = 0; i < extXML.firstChild.childNodes.length; i++){<br> pageID_array.push(extXML.firstChild.childNodes[i].attributes.pageID);<br> } <br>
}<br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>This makes available to the routed page an array of every page in the project with a value for pageID where it has been defined. <br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div>
<div><font>Navigation to a page can then be handled in a manner such as<br><br> // navigate to destination page<br> for (i = 0; i < pageID_array.length; i++){<br> if (pageID_array[i] == destPageName){<br> pageFound = "true";<br>
destinationIndex = i;<br> rootIcon.gotoPage(destinationIndex); <br> break;<br> } else {<br> pageFound = "false";<br> }<br> }</font><font><br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>This will open up the potential to create a variety of "routed" pages which all use a standard method of page identification.<br>
</font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Kind regards<br></font></div><div><font><br></font></div><div><font>Johnathan<br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
On 14 February 2012 09:50, Julian Tenney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk">Julian.Tenney@nottingham.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ah, the other gotcha is that those asfunc calls need the full path to the object.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ron Mitchell<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 February 2012 08:24<br><b>To:</b> 'For Xerte technical developers'</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: navigating to page name</div></div></div></div><div><div class="h5">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">:-)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">sleep worked!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Got it working with _level0.engine.navToPage(pagetitletogoto);</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 February 2012 00:43<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: navigating to page name</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"> </p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">So much for in vino veritas.</span></p>
<div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><hr size="3" width="100%" align="center"></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From: <a href="mailto:ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk" target="_blank">ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:31:28 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: navigating to page name</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks for the suggestion Dave</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">but I've pretty much tried that but it's not working e.g. if I debug(myPageIndex); it's coming up undefined.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Time to shut down and have another look in the morning.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Cheers</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Ron</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [<a href="mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">mailto:xerte-dev-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Burnett<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 14 February 2012 00:22<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte-dev] Re: navigating to page name</span></p>
</div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><br>
<a href="http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2010-April/004972.html" target="_blank">http://lists.nottingham.ac.uk/pipermail/xerte/2010-April/004972.html</a> </span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">??</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
</div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I've had a couple pints, so I may be missing the point.</span></p></div><div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">:-)</span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><div><div class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""><hr size="3" width="100%" align="center">
</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From: <a href="mailto:ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk" target="_blank">ronm@mitchellmedia.co.uk</a><br>
To: <a href="mailto:xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-dev@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:10:31 +0000<br>Subject: [Xerte-dev] navigating to page name</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt">
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Hi</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I think I'm missing something silly here :-(</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">In a script icon in a page templates project I want to dynamically pass a page title to navigate to that page.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">I know <a href="asfunction:_level0.engine.navToPage,yourpagetitle">Click here or some other wording</a> works in xot as a hyperlink but haven't managed to call the same function in a script icon?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Or is there another/easier way of doing this e.g. navigating to a page title in a page templates project?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Cheers</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">Ron</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> </span></p>
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