[Xerte] Re: installing Xerte

Thu Mar 7 12:34:15 GMT 2013

With respect to the Connector pages, there have been improvements in how
they are implemented since my demonstration last year. This includes
support for posting a connection to another page from within any text
element on a page. These improvements unfortunately are based on a feature
of XOT that does not exist in a standard Xerte project, so only apply to
XOT and Xerte Page Templates projects.

As a result of this you will see that in XOT and in Page Templates projects
the following connector pages are no longer offered

Tab Navigator Connector
Redirector Connector
Plain Text Connector

as the ability to define a connection from within a text element on a page
has rendered these pages redundant.

The above pages are still available in Xerte "pages" type projects as the
text element link creation feature is not available.

Full details of the changes are covered in the help files that are
available to support the use of the Connector pages.

Kind regards

Johnathan

On 7 March 2013 09:00, Alistair McNaught
<Alistair.McNaught at heacademy.ac.uk>wrote:

>  > If the sandpit isn’t up to date it probably doesn’t have the Connector
> pages
>
>
>
> This is true. We are in the process of updating the sandpit at the moment
> and hope to have it ready for just after Easter.
>
>
>
> Alistair
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:
> xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] *On Behalf Of *Fay Cross
> *Sent:* 06 March 2013 15:17
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: installing Xerte
>
>
>
> The Navigator pages aren’t the same as the Connector pages.  If the
> sandpit isn’t up to date it probably doesn’t have the Connector pages on it
> (they would appear in a separate category called Connectors beneath the
> Navigators category)
>
>
>
> The navigator pages generally allow you to put several layers of
> information on a page, for example in a series of tabs or sub pages.
>
> The connector pages generally allow you to create different routes through
> content based on a user’s choices/answers, rather than the traditional
> linear format (page 1, page 2, page 3... etc.)
>
>
>
> If you use the most up to date files on a local install you should be able
> to access these extra pages.
>
>
>
> *From:* xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk [
> mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk<xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk>]
> *On Behalf Of *Pat @ Pgogy
> *Sent:* 06 March 2013 14:26
> *To:* Xerte discussion list
> *Subject:* [Xerte] Re: installing Xerte
>
>
>
> Hi Sarah,
>
>
>
> I think the techdis sandpit is version 1.7, whereas the most up to date
> version is 1.9. The main difference is that 1.9 has support for html5
> playback and a few bug fixes.
>
>
>
> If you run XOT locally then it depends on how local it is. If you run
> using Maxos or via localhost / xampp then the install tends to be for one
> user - and so the sharing features are available, but you've no one to
> share with so they are somewhat spurious.
>
>
>
> On some networks a local pc install can be accessed from other pcs so
> sharing might work
>
>
>
> Hope the helps
>
>
>
> Pat
>
>
> On 6 Mar 2013, at 13:48, <Sarah-Louise.Hall at roehampton.ac.uk> wrote:
>
>  Hello all
>
> We (Learning Services, University of Roehampton) are at the stage of
> thinking about installing Xerte, having had a go at creating content in the
> sandpit. I have some questions:
>
> ·         If we do a web server install, will the functionality
> essentially be the same as the sandpit version?
>
> ·         I want a few other people to try it before we install it fully,
> so I was thinking of doing a local install first, but it says that there
> would be some unavailable features. Does anyone know what would be
> unavailable with this version?
>
> ·         I was at the community day back in October and Jonathan Kemp
> gave a presentation about “connector” pages, are these the pages that are
> called “Navigators” in the sandpit version?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated and help me to feed back to the rest
> of the team here.
>
> Many thanks
>
> Sarah
>
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