[Xerte] Editing products of templates?

[jventola at verizon.net]

Thanks, Pat.

That helps a lot.  It sounds like merging is pretty tough at the moment--cutting and pasting 
xml sounds daunting since you have to keep the proper structure.  

My new problem is that the unit I prepared with the pages template and published as scorm 
will not load into WebCT.  That could be a problem at the college, although I was able to 
load scorms that I made without using a wizard.

Over the weekend I looked up xmlx and sawmill--Xerte has some intersting innards.

Jim


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Subject:        	RE: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
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> Hello,
> 
> Sorry for the delay on this one as it's more advanced than I'm used to
> :)
> 
> The RLT - Holds all the code and complicated actions to allow the xml to
> work when ran in the player.
> The XWD is a Xerte Wizard - this configures the page types of the wizard
> The XML is the data made by using the template and wizard
> 
> If you open the RLT, it will use the XML file to populate itself -
> changes are saved then saved to the XML.
> 
> The XML needs the other two parts to make sense of it. Xerte normally
> opens and saves RLOs - but this is when you've not set up a template.
> 
> If you want to do two different things (features wise) make two
> templates (a basic file set is one RLT, one xwd and one initial XML -
> only the XML will change as the user develops it).
> 
> Merging across templates would involve cuting and pasting XML at the
> moment.
> 
> I'm not sure on the file types - an XTP is all the files a template
> would need (it's a zip file renamed).
> 
> Hope this helps (Julian will be back next week with no doubt a better
> answer).
> 
> Pat
> 
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> Subject: [Xerte] Editing products of templates?
> 
> Executive Summary: After I make a lesson with a wizard (template?) how
> do I edit it in full Xerte and merge it with another lesson?
> 
> I finally got around to exploring the Xerte install folder and
> discovered Wizard/pageTemplates.xtp.  Wow. Wonderful.  Where has this
> been all week?  With this wizard, I can do just about everything I need
> including a quiz with individual feedback.  
> Brilliant. 
> 
> But I do not understand templates in Xerte.  I need an overview.
> Usually, you load a template and use it to make and save a new document
> (as in Word) and the resulting doc is editable in the application
> software.  So  I would have expected to end up with an rlo file that I
> could then open in Xerte.  But the template interface can only save
> another template. 
> (That's bearable since I can just publish it or package it.)  But, say I
> want to change a propety like streaming or loop or play on the sound.  I
> cannot load the file into Xerte except as a template and that template
> may not offer the option.  If I close the template, I see Xerte, but I
> do not have my lesson to edit--only the logic of the wizard.
> 
> I haven't gotten around to models yet.  Maybe that is how you do it?
> And is that how you merge stuff created with one template into a
> presentation begun with another?  Suppose I had two templates, each of
> which makes doing something I want in one lesson easy.  How do I manage
> that?  
> 
> Similarly, what are all the filetypes of Xerte?  In the Xerte folder I
> see ico files for rlo, rla, rlm, and rlt--not to mention xlm and xwd.
> And the pageTemplate is an xtp file.  Is this explained anywhere?  
> 
> Thanks again for the help.
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