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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Hello Stephanie –<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The menu I used is a SWF file embedded in xerte. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>RonM2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk [mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Kemp Johnathan<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 03, 2012 11:45 AM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Hyperlinks, Navigation & Menus<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>All the connector pages will be available in Xerte 2.18, this includes the menu connector page.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Are you currently using the page Wizards?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>How urgent is your need for the menu page?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>Johnathan<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 3 April 2012 17:39, Panke, Stefanie <<a href="mailto:panke@sog.unc.edu">panke@sog.unc.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Hello!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>1.Creating menus for large/complex learning objects (Xerte 2.18):<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>2.Creating menus for large learning objects (Xerte 2.17) / alternatives:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>- 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? <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>- Also, the example from <a href="http://edina.ac.uk" target="_blank">edina.ac.uk</a> (<a href="http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support/digimapelearning/map.html" target="_blank">http://edina.ac.uk/digimap/support/digimapelearning/map.html</a>) 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?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>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.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>5. CSS link types and glossary: I will just wait and see how this turns out in Xerte 2.18.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>Stefanie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. 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