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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Sorry, getURL doesn’rt return data. You need to use ExtnerlaInterface.call – but for some reason that calss isn;’t available to Xerte script, so I wrapped it in callJS(func, params);<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'>Try <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'>result = callJS(‘myFunction’, ‘Hi’);<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>debug(result);<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><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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> 05 April 2012 15:35<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Reading POST parameters from web page in RLO<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I am trying to do something very similar to Ron - I want to pass a pageID in the url and trap it in xerte so that a url can be used to not just open a Xerte project but also to go to a specific page in that project.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I have the function sorted to trap the parameters from the url, but I can't get the passing of data back to Xerte to work.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I tried your suggestion and also found a suggested form from Julian, posted in August 2007<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>in rloObject.js I have<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>function myFunction(arg){<br>alert('I am a function and my argument is ' + arg); <br>return arg.toUpperCase();<br>}<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>simple enough function as a test.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Then in my Xerte script on the test title page I have<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><br>mydata = getURL("javascript:myFunction('a test');","");<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>if (mydata != undefined){<br>titleStr = mydata;<br>} else {<br>titleStr = "data not received";<br>}<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>I publish the project and then test it in Firefox and Opera<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In both Opera and Firefox the alert displays.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In Opera the title of the page displays as "data not received".<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>In Firefox the xerte display is displayed without anything in the page title whilst the alert is displayed. When the alert is clicked, very briefly the Xerte page displays with the title as "data not received" then the whole screen is replaced with a white screen with the text "A TEST" displayed. So this shows the function is returning something, but Xerte is not capturing it.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>What am I doing wrong here?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Kind regards<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Johnathan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On 3 April 2012 21:50, Dave Burnett <<a href="mailto:d_b_burnett@hotmail.com">d_b_burnett@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Launch index.htm with your parameters:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><a href="http://www.server.com/dir/index.htm?courseid=224&sname=fred" target="_blank">www.server.com/dir/index.htm?courseid=224&sname=fred</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>add a javascript function to rloObject.js to get the querystring values:</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>function getdata() {</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>//code to get value pairs from URL querystring<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>//and return them<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>}</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Call from within your Xerte piece:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>mydata = getURL('javascript:getdata("");', '');</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>From: <a href="mailto:knowledgeware@kccsoft.com" target="_blank">knowledgeware@kccsoft.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:31:16 -0700<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Reading POST parameters from web page in RLO<o:p></o:p></p><div><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Hello Julian – if I use object/embed I’ll be using flashvars, correct?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure how I could use js to get/set values. I need to pass some critical info in like courseID, LoginID, etc that is specific to each user, so I don’t see how I can ‘read’ a URL from xerte. Is there a way with js I can pass these specific values to the RLO when launched?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>RonM2</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Julian Tenney<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:12 AM<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Re: Reading POST parameters from web page in RLO</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'>Either pass them inot the piece from the web page via the object / embed stuff, or (better) write some javascript functions you can call from Xerte to get / set values.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'><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"'> <a href="mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk" target="_blank">xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a> <a href="mailto:[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]" target="_blank">[mailto:xerte-bounces@lists.nottingham.ac.uk]</a> <b>On Behalf Of </b>KnowledgeWare<br><b>Sent:</b> 02 April 2012 22:10<br><b>To:</b> Xerte discussion list<br><b>Subject:</b> [Xerte] Reading POST parameters from web page in RLO</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>Anyone have an example of reading ‘POST’ parameters in xerte desktop? <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>I’d like to launch an RLO from a webpage and pass in several parameters like courseID, LoginID, etc., but not clear on how I can ‘read’ them in when the xerte flowline starts. Do I need a JS wrapper for this?<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:72.0pt'>RonM2<o:p></o:p></p><p style='margin-left:36.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the addressee and may contain confidential information. If you have received this message in error, please send it back to me, and immediately delete it. Please do not use, copy or disclose the information contained in this message or in any attachment. Any views or opinions expressed by the author of this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the University of Nottingham. <br>This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment may still contain software viruses which could damage your computer system: you are advised to perform your own checks. 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