[Xerte] Re: Hyperlinks, Navigation & Menus

Tue Apr 3 21:27:28 BST 2012

Hello Stephanie -

The menu I used is a SWF file embedded in xerte. 

The flowline is setup using a specific coding for 'parts' (eg 'p1id', 'p2id'
etc.) and modules ('p1m1id', 'pim2id' etc.). The menu parses all of these
into parts and menus and builds the menu structure, turning the buttons
on/off as needed. It is still in development but seems to work well. I am
hoping to be able to do something like this in the future html5 toolkits. My
users need to 'see' what they have done, so checkmarks are added when a
part/module is completed.

RonM2

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[mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Kemp Johnathan
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:45 AM
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Subject: [Xerte] Re: Hyperlinks, Navigation & Menus

All the connector pages will be available in Xerte 2.18, this includes the
menu connector page.

Are you currently using the page Wizards?

How urgent is your need for the menu page?

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 3 April 2012 17:39, Panke, Stefanie <panke at sog.unc.edu> wrote:

Hello!

First of all: Thank you for the many informative responses.  As usual, it
took me some time to process everything. Here is what I have learned:

1.Creating menus for large/complex learning objects (Xerte 2.18):

The Menu Connector page by default lists all the pages in a project. However
it has as optional properties a First Entry Page ID and a Last Entry Page
ID. If you specify the first entry property then the menu Connector starts
its menu from that page. If you specify the Last Entry Page ID then the menu
ends with the specified last page.Thus you can break your learning object up
into chapters with each chapter starting with its own menu page. 

The menu connector has been modified to accept a list of page Ids. Thus, it
is possible to provide at the start of the project ( but not as the first
page in a desktop project, as the list of pages is not built by xerte until
after the first page has loaded ) a menu that lists just the first page of
each chapter or section in a project. If you want to then each first page in
a chapter could then be a menu of the pages in that chapter. By ending your
chapter with a redirector connector page you can then take the user back to
the start menu that listed all the chapter / section start pages.

Currently, there is no such think as a menu connector page, is there? All of
the above will be possible in Xerte 2.18, right? Is there a tentative
release date for the 2.18 version scheduled yet?

2.Creating menus for large learning objects (Xerte 2.17) / alternatives:

- I found that Ron's suggestion describes exactly what I was looking
for:"'Parts' (chapters?) are listed on the left, and when clicked on,
'Modules' (basically groupings of pages) appear in a sub menu on the right."
Ron, did you develop this with Xerte 2.17? How did you do this? You
mentioned you are using nested pages? 

- Also, the example from edina.ac.uk
(http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support/digimapelearning/map.html) looks great.
Actually, this is exactly how I would envision the final display for the
book. Is this whole page developed in Xerte or just the modules on the right
hand side?

3.Cross-references between Xerte learning objects: The way I envisioned this
to work was simply to open another learning object at a specific page in a
new window or tab, just like an external hyperlink. Since this seems to be
impossible, I decided to either have one long and complex learning object or
just link to the start page of the respective chapter - this should be
simply the index html file of the respective Xerte directory, shouldn't it?

4. Relative hyperlinks: Special thanks to notifying me to my error regarding
the relative hyperlinks. I somehow had this idea that the rlo is its own
container.

5. CSS link types and glossary: I will just wait and see how this turns out
in Xerte 2.18.

Best,

Stefanie

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