[Xerte] Re: xerte setup

Wed Mar 23 16:21:23 GMT 2011

I said that yesterday :), but not to worry, we got there in the end :)
From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Drury
Sent: 23 March 2011 16:03
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Cc: Barrie Miles; David Starkey; Rachel Short
Subject: [Xerte] xerte setup

Hi
Hold every thing.
I seem to of ironed out the error. Page 1 reported I was using server020.iso.port.ac.uk and that info was filled in from then on automatically. When I tried to use that info in a php script to connect to the database and show a list of databases it failed. When I changed everything to localhost it worked.
The xerte database has been populated and I can access information from management.php.
I still need to sort out mail and LDAP but we have things working so far

Regards
John Drury MBE
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   3. Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:01:41 +0000
From: "John Drury" <John.Drury at port.ac.uk>
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Subject: [Xerte] xerte setup
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Hi
Have rechecked all my php and mysql settings, all appears to be OK.
On setup/page1.php I have tried both mysql root and mysql user
xerteadmin, both pages produce the same error:
Sorry the attempt to connect to the host has failed. MySQL reports the
following error - -
All the attempts to enter data therefor fail.
I have tried clearing Firefox's cache.
Firefox is running from the local host.

Regards
John Drury MBE
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Portsmouth
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:27:10 +0000
From: Patrick Lockley <Patrick.Lockley at nottingham.ac.uk>
To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: xerte setup
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Hi John,
I'm working on some new code for you to try.
Should be available later today (3 ish).
Pat

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of John Drury
Sent: 23 March 2011 12:02
To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
Subject: [Xerte] xerte setup

Hi
Have rechecked all my php and mysql settings, all appears to be OK.
On setup/page1.php I have tried both mysql root and mysql user xerteadmin, both pages produce the same error:
Sorry the attempt to connect to the host has failed. MySQL reports the following error - -
All the attempts to enter data therefor fail.
I have tried clearing Firefox's cache.
Firefox is running from the local host.

Regards
John Drury MBE
IS Service Delivery Team
Lion Gate Building
Lion Gate
Portsmouth
PO1 3DJ

023 9284 2235
07540 783291
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Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:50:26 +0000
From: Peter Rainger <Peter.Rainger at geneticseducation.nhs.uk>
To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
Subject: [Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions
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Hi,

I'm using the JK page wizards and importing them as I mentioned in attempt (2) below.... but to no success.

I can't get the data to load into the published object only the holding page for the interaction, the interactions themselves won't appear?

Any ideas?
Pete

From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Tom Reijnders
Sent: 23 March 2011 11:59
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Help getting started using / editing interactions

It seems that what you're looking for is Jonathan Kemps' excellent Page Wizards. They allow template based creation of pages (page by page ) and Xerte level tweeking afterwards.

See http://wiki.xerte.net/index.php5?title=Page_wizards

Op 23-3-2011 12:48, Peter Rainger schreef:
I've used Xerte templates before to create some really good materials. However, I'm trying to move onto creating some bespoke materials and I seem to be coming unstuck.... I've tried two approachs as follows....

1) Once I've created a Learning Object using the templates I'm unable to open the final learning object XML in Xerte editor (as opposed to the template wizard), doing this would allow me to make small tweaks to the layout and presentation of page and additional media etc. Is this supposed to be possible - or is it too tied in with the templates?

2) Taking the other approach I create a very simple page-based learning object in the Xerte editor (manually so to speak). Then I think I'd like to add one of the interactions that the templates already do so well.

- Taking a very simple example like "orientation = orient" I try importing a Model to the object.
- The model imports and I'm able to launch a wizard specifically interaction by double-clicking the top-icon for the interaction
- I add some data and save the wizard, close the wizard and I am returned to the Xerte interface
- The data seems to been saved as a separate XML file _orient rather than in the XML of the object I'm working on
- When I preview / publish the object a page is created for the "model" bu not content is loaded into the final output !!!

This means I'm stuck moving beyond the template prescribed content OR forced to code very simple object and manually re-create all the interactions I need which were in the templates... which isn't worth me doing...

Any help, tips or suggestions or pointing out my misconceptions would be very helpful :-)

Kind Regards,
Pete

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