[Xerte] Re: sandport export

Pat Lockley patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 11 17:47:32 GMT 2012


oh good point

is the error you see on edit, or on preview?

On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:30 PM, Ron Mitchell <ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk> wrote:
> If you view index.html in your local copy of the LO do you see all your
> content?
> Did you perhaps export the LO from the sandpit without having clicked
> publish?
> If that's the problem then try the following:
>
> Make a backup copy e.g. copy the whole folder from the extracted zip
> delete template.xml
> copy preview.xml and rename the copy template.xml
> view index.htm doe that now show all your content?
>
> If so zip up the contents of the folder (not including the original zip if
> that's in the folder) and then try importing that
>
> Regarding Dave's comment/question about identical templates - there are one
> or two page types in the main template which you probably don't have in your
> local install but I doubt you've used those page types and even so this
> would only stop you editing those specific pages not the LO as a whole.
>
> Finally how big is the zip - if not too big send to the list or send us a
> link
>
> HTH
> Ron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Outterside,
> Gillian
> Sent: 11 January 2012 17:11
> To: <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
> Subject: [Xerte] Re: sandport export
>
> Yes the sandport export IS a zip (my mistake then) but when I import, I
> can't edit as it says it may have been deleted (which it hasn't) Gill On 11
> Jan 2012, at 17:05, <xerte-request at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>  <xerte-request at lists.nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 12:03:10 -0500
>> From: Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>
>> To: Xerte list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Ximporting unpublished content
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>>
>> The sandpit export is not a zip?
>>
>>
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:47:41 +0000
>>> From: patrick.lockley at googlemail.com
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Ximporting unpublished content
>>>
>>> ok
>>>
>>> somewhere in the folder structure is data.xml?
>>>
>>> Can you highlight all the files and folders and then zip them?
>>>
>>> Then try that
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 4:28 PM, Outterside, Gillian
>>> <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> I have tried importing in the way suggested but the sandpit export
>>>> is a folder not a zip file so when I click import it just opens all
>>>> the folders and sub-folders
>>>>
>>>> Gill
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>>>>  1. Importing unpublished content (Outterside, Gillian)  2. Re:
>>>> Importing unpublished content (Pat Lockley)  3. Re: youtube movie
>>>> dimensions (EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna)
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>>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:33:08 +0000
>>>> From: "Outterside, Gillian" <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk>
>>>> To: "xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Importing unpublished content
>>>> Message-ID:
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>>>>
>>>> I created a LO in Xerte techdis Sandpit and exported the content (but
> never published it as a Learning Object). I am now trying to import the
> content into a local installation of Xertes Online Toolkit. Are there any
> instructions for importing content (so I can continue to edit/ work on it) ?
> The content I exported is made up of multiple folders and files and I'm not
> sure which of these to import or how to import all of them if need be.
>>>>
>>>> Gill Outterside
>>>> Senior Lecturer,  Distance Learning Co-ordinator School of Law,
>>>> Social Sciences and Communications Millennium City Building
>>>> University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton
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>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:43:07 +0000
>>>> From: Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
>>>> To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing unpublished content
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>>>>
>>>> click on the workspace folder
>>>> then click on properties
>>>> click on the import tab
>>>> choose the zip file you exported from the sandbox click on the
>>>> import button
>>>>
>>>> that should do it
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Outterside, Gillian
>>>> <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> ****
>>>>>
>>>>> I created a LO in Xerte techdis Sandpit and exported the content
>>>>> (but never published it as a Learning Object). I am now trying to
>>>>> import the content into a local installation of Xertes Online
>>>>> Toolkit. Are there any instructions for importing content (so I can
>>>>> continue to edit/ work on it) ? The content I exported is made up
>>>>> of multiple folders and files and I?m not sure which of these to import
> or how to import all of them if need be.
>>>>> **
>>>>>
>>>>> * *
>>>>>
>>>>> *Gill Outterside*****
>>>>>
>>>>> *Senior Lecturer,  Distance Learning Co-ordinator*****
>>>>>
>>>>> *School of Law**, Social Sciences and Communications*
>>>>>
>>>>> *Millennium City Building** *
>>>>>
>>>>> *University of Wolverhampton***
>>>>>
>>>>> *Wulfruna Street***
>>>>>
>>>>> *Wolverhampton***
>>>>>
>>>>> *WV1 1LY*
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>>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:10:06 +0000
>>>> From: EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna <Cuna.Ekmekcioglu at ed.ac.uk>
>>>> To: "xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
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>>>> David,
>>>>
>>>> We haven't replaced youtube.swf. Where can we get the new .swf file.
> I've looked at http://code.google.com/p/xerte/source/checkout but it gives
> error at the moment..
>>>>
>>>> Cuna
>>>> ____________________________________________________
>>>>
>>>> Dave Burnett d_b_burnett at hotmail.com Wed Jan 11 12:17:40 GMT 2012
>>>>
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>>>> Doesn't youtube.swf need replacing as well?
>>>> ________________________________________
>>>> From: EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna
>>>> Sent: 11 January 2012 12:05
>>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>>> Cc: RICE Robin
>>>> Subject: Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>>
>>>> Happy New Year to everyone!
>>>>
>>>> Here at Edinburgh we are still having problems with the YouTube movie
> dimensions. As per Julian's suggestion we have replaced youtube.rlm with the
> new one Julian sent and clear the cashe, tried to use iframe embed code but
> none of them has worked. Are we missing out something?
>>>>
>>>> Tom mentions in a pevious email that "this is (probably) caused by the
> fact that the default video size that youtube sends has been changed from
> 320x240 to something larger. SetSize is never called after initialisation,
> and Xerte assumes that the size should be 320x240. If you use one of the
> newer model where you can set the size, this works." In the version we are
> using there is no option to set the size. We have XOT version 1.5 installed
> on our server. Do you think installing the new version will sort this
> problem out?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks
>>>> Cuna
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>> Message: 2
>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:05:14 +0000
>> From: Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
>> To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing Published Content
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>> what folders are in xertetoolkits/USER-FILES/ ?
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Outterside, Gillian
>> <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> Regarding importing unpublished content that was previously in
>>> Sandpit, in my last entry I said that the sandpit export wasn't a zip
> file - sorry I was looking at the wrong file! I located the correct file and
> it seemed to import it as it appears in the folders list but when I try to
> edit it, I get the message 'Cannot find that template; perhaps it has been
> deleted?'
>>>
>>> (I am a newbie)
>>> gill
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>>> ? 1. FW: ?Re: youtube movie dimensions (Dave Burnett) ? 2. Re:
>>> Ximporting unpublished content (Outterside, Gillian) ? 3. Re: FW:
>>> ?Re: youtube movie dimensions (EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:20:48 -0500
>>> From: Dave Burnett <d_b_burnett at hotmail.com>
>>> To: Xerte list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] FW: ?Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>> Message-ID: <BLU156-W61AF76A3F286C349247B29A79E0 at phx.gbl>
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>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> From: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:42:56 +0000
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>> you probably need to replace
>>> \modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\common\youtube.swf too.
>>> Copy attached.
>>> HTH
>>> Ron
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
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>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Wood
>>> Sent: 10 January 2012 16:03
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We're piloting Xerte at Cardiff. We've managed to get it up and running
> and integrated with our LDAP and have a few users building LOs with it.
>>>
>>> We've hit the same youtube movie dimensions problem that have
>>> affected others on the list. I've grabbed to youtube.rlm and
>>> youtuberss.rlm with the fixes; unfortunately the problem has
>>> persisted. (There are now some extra options for video size,
>>> auto-start etc. on the Youtube page but even if I set these youtube
>>> videos still sprawl off the page in the same way, eg slide
>>> 3 here https://xerte.cardiff.ac.uk/play.php?template_id=5).
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I ought to have done to resolve this issue?
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:28:12 +0000
>>> From: "Outterside, Gillian" <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk>
>>> To: "xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Ximporting unpublished content
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>>> I have tried importing in the way suggested but the sandpit export is
>>> a folder not a zip file so when I click import it just opens all the
>>> folders and sub-folders
>>>
>>> Gill
>>>
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>>> Importing unpublished content (Pat Lockley) ? 3. Re: youtube movie
>>> dimensions (EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna)
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>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:33:08 +0000
>>> From: "Outterside, Gillian" <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk>
>>> To: "xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Importing unpublished content
>>> Message-ID:
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>>>
>>> I created a LO in Xerte techdis Sandpit and exported the content (but
> never published it as a Learning Object). I am now trying to import the
> content into a local installation of Xertes Online Toolkit. Are there any
> instructions for importing content (so I can continue to edit/ work on it) ?
> The content I exported is made up of multiple folders and files and I'm not
> sure which of these to import or how to import all of them if need be.
>>>
>>> Gill Outterside
>>> Senior Lecturer, ?Distance Learning Co-ordinator School of Law,
>>> Social Sciences and Communications Millennium City Building
>>> University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street Wolverhampton
>>> WV1 1LY
>>>
>>> Tel: +44 (0) 1902 322 354
>>> Fax: +44 (0) 1902 322 739
>>>
>>>
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>>> Message: 2
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:43:07 +0000
>>> From: Pat Lockley <patrick.lockley at googlemail.com>
>>> To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: Importing unpublished content
>>> Message-ID:
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>>>
>>> click on the workspace folder
>>> then click on properties
>>> click on the import tab
>>> choose the zip file you exported from the sandbox click on the import
>>> button
>>>
>>> that should do it
>>>
>>> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Outterside, Gillian
>>> <G.Outterside at wlv.ac.uk
>>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> ****
>>>>
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>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:10:06 +0000
>>> From: EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna <Cuna.Ekmekcioglu at ed.ac.uk>
>>> To: "xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk" <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
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>>> David,
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>>> We haven't replaced youtube.swf. Where can we get the new .swf file. I've
> looked at http://code.google.com/p/xerte/source/checkout but it gives error
> at the moment..
>>>
>>> Cuna
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>>> Dave Burnett d_b_burnett at hotmail.com Wed Jan 11 12:17:40 GMT 2012
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>>> Doesn't youtube.swf need replacing as well?
>>> ________________________________________
>>> From: EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna
>>> Sent: 11 January 2012 12:05
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Cc: RICE Robin
>>> Subject: Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>> Happy New Year to everyone!
>>>
>>> Here at Edinburgh we are still having problems with the YouTube movie
> dimensions. As per Julian's suggestion we have replaced youtube.rlm with the
> new one Julian sent and clear the cashe, tried to use iframe embed code but
> none of them has worked. Are we missing out something?
>>>
>>> Tom mentions in a pevious email that "this is (probably) caused by the
> fact that the default video size that youtube sends has been changed from
> 320x240 to something larger. SetSize is never called after initialisation,
> and Xerte assumes that the size should be 320x240. If you use one of the
> newer model where you can set the size, this works." In the version we are
> using there is no option to set the size. We have XOT version 1.5 installed
> on our server. Do you think installing the new version will sort this
> problem out?
>>>
>>> Many thanks
>>> Cuna
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>>> Message: 3
>>> Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:31:27 +0000
>>> From: EKMEKCIOGLU Cuna <Cuna.Ekmekcioglu at ed.ac.uk>
>>> To: Xerte discussion list <xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: FW: ?Re: youtube movie dimensions
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>>> Thanks Ron, will try that...
>>>
>>> Cuna
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>>> From: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> [xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Dave Burnett
>>> [d_b_burnett at hotmail.com]
>>> Sent: 11 January 2012 16:20
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>>> Subject: [Xerte] FW: ?Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>> From: ronm at mitchellmedia.co.uk
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:42:56 +0000
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>>
>>> you probably need to replace
>>> \modules\xerte\parent_templates\Nottingham\common\youtube.swf too.
>>> Copy attached.
>>> HTH
>>> Ron
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>>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Simon Wood
>>> Sent: 10 January 2012 16:03
>>> To: xerte at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>>> Subject: [Xerte] Re: youtube movie dimensions
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> We're piloting Xerte at Cardiff. We've managed to get it up and
>>> running and integrated with our LDAP and have a few users building LOs
> with it.
>>>
>>> We've hit the same youtube movie dimensions problem that have
>>> affected others on the list. I've grabbed to youtube.rlm and
>>> youtuberss.rlm with the fixes; unfortunately the problem has
>>> persisted. (There are now some extra options for video size,
>>> auto-start etc. on the Youtube page but even if I set these youtube
>>> videos still sprawl off the page in the same way, eg slide
>>> 3 here https://xerte.cardiff.ac.uk/play.php?template_id=5).
>>>
>>> Is there anything else I ought to have done to resolve this issue?
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
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