[Xerte] Re: Xerte 2.17 Glossary / relative links / css classes

[Kemp Johnathan]

The connector pages are what were in page wizards known as "routed pages".

They will be available in both desktop and toolkits.

Every page will now have a new optional property called "Page ID". This
will be used as a unique identifier for that page for use by Connector
pages.

The Connector pages provide "exit points" from the page, each of which can
have assigned to it a destination page ID. When the learner selects that
exit point they are taken to the page identified by the destination page ID
for that exit point.

The seven connector pages are


   1. Multiple Choice Question Connector - the exit points are alternative
   answer options to the question.
   2. Hot spot image Connector - the exit points are the hot spots (These
   hot spots can also be used for other actions such as displaying a video or
   playing a sound.
   3. Tab Navigator Connector - which works similar to the standard tab
   navigator page but includes the ability to add options like in an MCQ page,
   which again have destination IDs associated with them
   4. Menu Connector - this is slightly different from the other connectors
   in that it builds a list of links to pages automatically, you can have all
   the pages in a project or you can specify a start page ID and an end page
   "page ID" and it will then just list those pages that fall between those to
   page IDs inclusive. It displays similar to the current menu option in
   Toolkits.
   5. Plain text Connector in which you can add hyperlinks to text that
   will link to other pages in the project based on their Page ID
   6. Redirector Connector - this is intended as an end of section page
   e.g. You might use an MCQ connector to direct the learner to a sequence of
   standard pages. At the end of the sequence you would use a Redirector
   Connector page that displays text and an image if required with a button.
   Click on the button and the learner is taken to the specified destination
   Page ID, thus enabling the author to return the learner back to the main
   flow of the project.
   7. Scenario Connector - this is a bit of a monster of a page. It is
   designed to allow the creation of complex scenarios, by building a project
   with many Scenario pages, each page representing one scene or situation in
   the scenario. Each scene can have props in it. Both props and scene can
   have actions associated with them. Actions can have conditions that define
   when they are available and have outcomes that define what happens when an
   action is taken. Outcomes range from incrementing or decrementing one of
   three available scores, to changing the state of props (Carried, hidden,
   dropped etc), to being taken to a different scenario page. Scores have
   maximum and minimum values each of which if required can trigger an "end of
   scenario" situation with display of the appropriate messaging.

The connector pages open up a tremendous amount of potential.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 21 March 2012 00:30, KnowledgeWare <knowledgeware at kccsoft.com> wrote:

Hello Jonathan:
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> Re your post: “There will also be available seven new connector pages
> which will allow authors to design non-linear projects.”
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> Sorry, I haven’t been able to follow the list closely for the past several
> weeks…by ‘connector pages’ do you mean basically a ‘menu’? In desktop or
> toolkits or both?
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> If this is the case I’m very interested in trying them. Do the connector
> pages work ‘within’ a single xerte file or branch to other files? And….any
> way of checkmarking or otherwise indicating which sections are completed?
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> TIA
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> Ronm2
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