[Xerte] Re: language

Pat Lockley (Pgogy) info at pgogywebstuff.com
Wed Jan 13 15:04:29 GMT 2016


Hello,

A late 2p / 2 cents on the matter - but could that feedback not be set 
in a textfield in the editor?

I remember trying to get rid of it completely once

Pat

On 2016-01-13 09:51, Elly Langewis wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> It could well be that I have set the language to NL after creating the
> MC-question.
> I just created a new question and there the last sentence in English
> does not appear, so that is fine.
> 
> Thank you all!
> 
> Elly
> 
> Elly Langewis, CPIO
> _ELEARNING, ELECTURES & EASSESSMENT_
> Department of Biology
> Utrecht University
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 12:41 PM, Julian Tenney
> <Julian.Tenney at nottingham.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Ah, OK. cheers!
>> 
>> Elly let us know if that doesn’t work
>> 
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Fay Cross
>> SENT: 13 January 2016 11:40
>> 
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] Re: language
>> 
>> If Elly creates the page again like Inge suggests then the strings
>> should all be in Dutch (and appear in the editor’s language
>> options so they can be edited anyway if needed)
>> 
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Julian
>> Tenney
>> SENT: 13 January 2016 11:38
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] Re: language
>> 
>> What needs to happen in Elly’s case then Fay?
>> 
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Fay Cross
>> SENT: 13 January 2016 11:37
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] Re: language
>> 
>> They’re not completely hard coded. It looks for the strings in the
>> xwd but if it doesn’t find them then uses strings hard coded in
>> the page model as a fall back. I guess this project must have been
>> made before those language strings were in the xwd but I’m not
>> sure of the best way to do this to avoid ever having fall backs in
>> the model files.
>> 
>> There are probably quite a lot of pages with similar issues as if
>> new features have been added then there are often strings associated
>> with them. If you then add the new feature to an older page then it
>> will always use the hard coded string. The only way around this I
>> can think of is that where people notice this is a problem they need
>> to create the page from scratch again.
>> 
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Julian
>> Tenney
>> SENT: 13 January 2016 11:26
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] Re: language
>> 
>> The feedback strings are hardcoded in the mcq.html file: must have
>> missed those:
>> 
>> Two options: either use the Language Options checkbox and change the
>> values, but you’ll have to do it each time; or if you have access
>> to the server change mcq.html lines 108 – 123 to the strings you
>> want.
>> 
>> I’ll log it as a bug and we’ll fix it at some point,
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> FROM: xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] ON BEHALF OF Elly
>> Langewis
>> SENT: 13 January 2016 11:15
>> TO: Xerte discussion list
>> SUBJECT: [Xerte] language
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> Is it true that no matter what the language is set on the learning
>> object level, feedback to MC questions will always end with an
>> English sentence, like "Your answer was incorrect."?
>> 
>> Even in the example in Dutch which was given by Inge Donkervoort
>> this is the case (see attachment).
>> 
>> I hope this is not true...
>> 
>> Elly
>> 
>> Elly Langewis, CPIO
>> 
>> _ELEARNING, ELECTURES & EASSESSMENT_
>> Department of Biology
>> Utrecht University
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