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Hi Jonathan.<div>Thanks for looking in to that.</div><div><br></div><div>The issue is that in Authorware, which Julian based the flow structure of Xerte on, setting a decision icons repeat property meant it would loop through that decision icon and all attached icons that specified number of times.</div><div><br></div><div>It would essentially repeat the entire attached sequence of icons x times.</div><div><br></div><div>I know I had this issue a couple years back, and the solution was a bit obtuse, but I can't remember it or track it down in the archives.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div><div><br></div><div><div><div id="SkyDrivePlaceholder"></div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2012 14:05:23 +0000<br>From: johnathan.kemp@ntlworld.com<br>To: xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk<br>Subject: [Xerte] Re: Decision icon repeat<br><br><div>Further to my earlier post the Branch property will also affect what happens.<br></div><div><br></div><div>The help file reads</div><div><br></div><div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">A setting of
<i>'sequence', 'randomUnused', 'randomAny', or 'calculate'.
</i></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div><font color="#010101">
</font><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>'sequence' </i>loops through the children of the
decision icon in order. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div><font color="#010101">
</font><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>'randomUnused' </i>loops through the children in a
random order, until all the paths are used, or until the repeat property is
satisfied. </span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div><font color="#010101">
</font><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><i>'randomAny'</i> loops through the children until the
repeat property is satisfied, and may visit the same child more than once.
</span></font></div>
<div align="left"><br></div><font color="#010101">
</font><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">'<i>calculate</i>' allows you to route the flow into a
particular page of the decision icon using the path property, which is zero
based - to flow into the third page, set branch to calculate, and the path
property to 2.</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The following models use the decision icon and may give further insight into its use.<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">annotatedDiagram.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">bullets.rlm<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">buttonSequence.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">categories.rlm<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">columnPage.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">connectorMenu.rlm<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">customHotspots.rlm</span></font><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">dialog.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">dragDropLabel.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">inventory.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">links.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">list.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">memory.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">menu.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">perspectives.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">quiz.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">table.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">text.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">textMatch.rlm<br></span></font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">thumbnailViewer.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">timeline.rlm<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">transcriptReader.rlm<br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">The only one that does not set repeat-"all" in the model code is text.rlm which has repeat="1" and branch="calculate"<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">I don't know if this will help you to resolve your issue.<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Hope it does :-)<br>
</span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt"><br></span></font></div><div align="left"><font color="#010101" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:10pt">Johnathan<br>
</span></font></div></div><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote">On 3 December 2012 13:56, Kemp Johnathan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnathan.kemp@ntlworld.com">johnathan.kemp@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="ecxgmail_quote" style="border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div>I have taken a look at the model files to see which pages use the decision icon.<br></div><div><br></div><div>After finding that the bullets page uses the decision icon I then ran some tests</div>
<div><br></div><div>By default the decision icon in the bullets page is set to </div>
<div><br></div><div>all</div><div><br></div><div>This results in the page listing every bullet.</div><div><br></div><div>If however you replace the repeat value in the property page with a number e.g.</div><div><br></div>
<div>3</div><div><br></div><div>Then only the first three bullets gets listed.</div><div><br></div><div>So I guess the answer is you put a number in (without any quotes) and the decision icon will run that many times.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Hope that helps.</div><div><br></div><div>You may find that taking a look at the bullets.rlm file in your xerte installs \pages\models\ folder will cast some light on its use.</div><div><br></div><div>
Kind regards</div><div><br></div><div>Johnathan</div><div><br></div><div>PS sorry for the delay in replying - very busy on the Connector page documentation at the moment.</div><br><div class="ecxgmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">
On 3 December 2012 11:55, Dave Burnett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:d_b_burnett@hotmail.com">d_b_burnett@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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No takers?<div><br></div><div>Help says the Repeat property will take All or a number.</div><div>If I use a number, nothing happens.</div><div><br></div><div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div><div>
<div><hr>From: <a href="mailto:d_b_burnett@hotmail.com">d_b_burnett@hotmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="mailto:xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk">xerte@lists.nottingham.ac.uk</a><br>
Subject: Decision icon repeat<br>Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2012 08:08:22 -0500</div><div><br><br>
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What goes in the property sheet of a decision icon to have it repeat a set number of times?<div><div><div><br></div></div></div> </div></div></div></div> </div>
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